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Travellers' Song

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Bands of dark and bands of light     Lie athwart the homeward way;     Now we cross a belt of Night,     Now a strip of shining Day!     Now it is a month of June,     Now December's shivering hour;     Now rides high loved memories' Moon,     Now the Dark is dense with power!     Summers, winters, days, and nights,     Moons, and clouds, they come and go;     Joys and sorrows, pains, delights,     Hope and fear, and yes and no.     All is well: come, girls and boys,     Not a weary mile is vain!     Hark--dim laughter's radiant noise!     See the windows through the rain!

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