NEW YEAR

(Foto: celine)

"(...)

THE PILGRIMS

We are the Pilgrims, master: we shall go

- Always a little further: it may be

Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow,

- Across that angry or that glimmering sea,

White on a throne or guarded in a cave

- There lives a prophet who can understand

Why men were born: but surely are brave,

- Who make The Golden Journey to Samarkand.

(...)"

(excerto do poema "The Golden Journey to Samarkand" de James Elroy Flecker)