Pleasure is beautiful—is it the best?
Highest and best that our nature can know?
Answer my heart—and my heart answers No.
And my heart answers, 'more beautiful yet
Life is for those who leave Home with regret,
And greet it again as the sailor greets shore,
Gaily returning to life gone before.'
Thus from the banquet two lovers depart,
Owning thy truth, lovely voice of my heart;
Seeking a home that, whatever befall,