When I Set Out For Lyonnesse Poem by Thomas Hardy

When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

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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,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
nikhila 29 January 2021

He met his wife Emma

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Nym Davis 04 February 2020

Foever a mystery, what was it that caused the traveller to return 'with magic in his eyes'?

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harivetrivel 17 March 2018

nice and understandable

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