| WHERE is the land of Luthany, | |
| Where is the tract of Elenore? | |
| I am bound therefor. | |
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| ‘Pierce thy heart to find the key; | |
| With thee take | 5 |
| Only what none else would keep; | |
| Learn to dream when thou dost wake, | |
| Learn to wake when thou dost sleep. | |
| Learn to water joy with tears, | |
| Learn from fears to vanquish fears; | 10 |
| To hope, for thou dar’st not despair, | |
| Exult, for that thou dar’st not grieve; | |
| Plough thou the rock until it bear; | |
| Know, for thou else couldst not believe; | |
| Lose, that the lost thou may’st receive; | 15 |
| Die, for none other way canst live. | |
| When earth and heaven lay down their veil, | |
| And that apocalypse turns thee pale; | |
| When thy seeing blindeth thee | |
| To what thy fellow-mortals see; | 20 |
| When their sight to thee is sightless; | |
| Their living, death; their light, most lightless; | |
| Search no more— | |
| Pass the gates of Luthany, tread the region Elenore.’ | |
| Where is the land of Luthany, | 25 |
| And where the region Elenore? | |
| I do faint therefor. | |
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| ‘When to the new eyes of thee | |
| All things by immortal power, | |
| Near or far, | 30 |
| Hiddenly | |
| To each other linkèd are, | |
| That thou canst not stir a flower | |
| Without troubling of a star; | |
| When thy song is shield and mirror | 35 |
| To the fair snake-curlèd Pain, | |
| Where thou dar’st affront her terror | |
| That on her thou may’st attain | |
| Perséan conquest; seek no more, | |
| O seek no more! | 40 |
| Pass the gates of Luthany, tread the region Elenore.’ | |
