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Thread #9875   Message #1294169
Posted By: Jim Dixon
11-Oct-04 - 06:00 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Duna ^^^
Subject: Lyr Add: DUNA (Marjorie Pickthall)
Copied from http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/pickthall/pinions/pm-duna.html
Note "sailormen" instead of "islands" and that the second halves of the verses were switched in the Gordon Bok version above.

DUNA
Marjorie Pickthall, 1913.

When I was a little lad
With folly on my lips,
Fain was I for journeying
All the seas in ships.
But now across the southern swell,
Every dawn I hear
The little streams of Duna
Running clear.

When I was a young man,
Before my beard was gray,
All to ships and sailormen
I gave my heart away.
But I'm weary of the sea-wind,
I'm weary of the foam,
And the little stars of Duna
Call me home.