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2 occurrences of The Aerolite
[Clear Hits]

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2 occurrences of The Aerolite
[Clear Hits]

HIS COUNTRY

I journeyed from my native spot
Across the south sea shine,
And found that people in hall and cot
Laboured and suffered each his lot
Even as I did mine.

He travels southward, and looks around;


Thus noting them in meads and marts
It did not seem to me
That my dear country with its hearts,
Minds, yearnings, worse and better parts
Had ended with the sea.

and cannot discover the boundary


I further and further went anon,
As such I still surveyed,
And further yet—yea, on and on,
And all the men I looked upon
Had heart-strings fellow-made.

of his native country;


I traced the whole terrestrial round,
Homing the other side;
Then said I, “What is there to bound
My denizenship? It seems I have found
Its scope to be world-wide.”

or where his duties to his fellow-creatures end;



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I asked me: “Whom have I to fight,
And whom have I to dare,
And whom to weaken, crush, and blight?
My country seems to have kept in sight

nor who are his enemies.

On my way everywhere.”

1913.