Religion
“when I Set Out for Lyonnesse”
From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
WHEN I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there
No prophet durst declare,
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there.
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
None managed to surmise
What meant my godlike gloriousness,
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes.
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MLA
Hardy, Thomas. ““when I Set Out for Lyonnesse”.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/6/.
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Hardy, Thomas. ““when I Set Out for Lyonnesse”.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/6/.
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