Classic Poem

Romance , twin-child with Beauty, shall not die
While yet To-morrow smiles across To-night,
Or yet in sea, or land, or farthest sky,
One secret place lies hidden from the sight.

The new-born child that wonders at the moon
Floats into being on a sea of dreams;
And through phantasmal dawn to broad, bright noon,
The distant Eldorado glows and gleams.

The withered Past has left its flower behind;
Though time has swept the feudal world away,
Knights-errant, dreamers still, we ride to find
Our princess and our golden lands to-day.