SONG OF MAELDUIN

There are veils that lift, there are bars that fall, There are lights that beckon and winds that call — Goodbye! There are hurrying feet, and we dare not wait;

For the hour is on us, the hour of Fate, The circling hour of the flaming Gate — Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye! Fair, fair they shine through the burning zone,

Those rainbow gleams of a world unknown — Goodbye! And oh, to follow, to seek, to dare, When step by step in the evening air

Floats down to meet us the cloudy stair — Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye! The cloudy stair of the Brig o’ Dread Is the dizzy path that our feet must tread —

Goodbye! O all ye children of Nights and Days That gather and wonder and stand at gaze, And wheeling stars in your lonely ways —

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye! The music calls and the Gates unclose, Onward and upward the wild way goes — Goodbye!

We die in the bliss of a great new birth. O fading phantoms of pain and mirth, O fading loves of the old green Earth, Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!