“Where lies the land to which the ship would go?
Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know.
And where the land she travels from? Away,
Far, far behind, is all that they can say.”

—  Arthur Hugh Clough

Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go? http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/491.html, st. 1 (1852).

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