by Adela Florence Nicolson (1865 - 1904), as Laurence Hope

Language: English 
Somewhere, Oh, My Beloved One, the house is standing,
Waiting for thee and me; for our first caresses.
It may be a river-boat, or a wave-washed landing,
 ... 
   Some far-off mountain tent, ill-pitched and lonely,
   Or the naked vault of the purple heavens only.
But the Place is waiting there; till the Hour shall show it,
And our footsteps, following Fate, find it and know it.
 ...

Composition:

Text Authorship:

  • by Adela Florence Nicolson (1865 - 1904), as Laurence Hope, "Written in Cananore (II)", London: John Lane; New York : William Heinemann, first published 1905

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