“Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
"Love will find out the way."”

—  Alfred Noyes

Song, Book VIII, p. 146
Drake, an English Epic (1908)

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