Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Ebenezer Elliott (17811849)Plaint
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Unto the sea where no wind blows,
Seeking the land which no one knows.
The mingled wail of friends and foes,
Borne to the land which no one knows.
With millions, from a world of woes,
Unto the land which no one knows?
Alone he goes where no wind blows,
Unto the land which no one knows.
And none can go for him who goes;
None, none return whence no one knows.
With millions, from a world of woes,
Reunion seek with it or those?
And Death, his shadow—doomed, he goes:
That God is there the shadow shows.
And, thou, oh, Land which no one knows!
That God is All, His shadow shows.