Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
Why thus longing?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
Why thus longing?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
