by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973)

Warm are the still and lucky miles
 (Sung text for setting by R. Escher)
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Language: English 
Warm are the still and lucky miles,
White shores of longing stretch away,
A light of recognition fills
The whole great day, and bright
The tiny world of lover's arms.

Silence invades the breating wood
Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep,
Now greenly falls the learned shade
Across the sleeping brows
And stirs ther secret to a smile.

Restored! Returned! The lost are borne
On seas of shipwreck home at last:
See! In a fire of praising burns
The dry dumb past, and we
Our life-day long shall part no more.

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