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{{quote|''This glancing life is like a morning star''
''A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea''▼
''A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm''▼
''A dancing dream of all eternity''▼
''The sand was shimmering in the morning light''▼
''And dancing off the dunes so far away''▼
''The night held music so sweet, so long''▼
''And there we lay until the break of day''▼
''We woke that morning at the onward call''▼
''Our camels bridled up, our howdahs full''▼
''The sun was rising in the eastern sky''▼
''Just as we set out to the desert's cry''
''Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you''▼
''The tents grew smaller as we rode away''▼
''On earth that tells of many passing days''▼
''The months of peace and all the years of war''▼
''The lives of love and all the lives of fears''▼
''Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you''▼
''We crossed the river beds all etched in stone''▼
''And up the mighty mountains ever known''▼
''Beyond the valleys in the searing heat''▼
''Until we reached the caravanserai''▼
''Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you''▼
''Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you''▼
''What is that home where we cannot reside''▼
▲A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea
''What is that quest that pulls me onward''▼
▲A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm
''My heart is full when you are by my side''▼
▲A dancing dream of all eternity
''Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you''▼
▲The sand was shimmering in the morning light
▲And dancing off the dunes so far away
|Lorena McKennitt|"Caravanserai"}}
▲The night held music so sweet, so long
▲And there we lay until the break of day
{{quote|''When spring-time flushes the desert grass,''
▲We woke that morning at the onward call
''Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass.''
▲Our camels bridled up, our howdahs full
''Lean are the camels but fat the frails,''
▲The sun was rising in the eastern sky
''As the snowbound trade of the North comes down''
''To the market-square of Peshawur town.''
''In a turquoise twilight, crisp and chill,''
''A kafila camped at the foot of the hill.''
''Then blue smoke-haze of the cooking rose,''
''And tent-peg answered to hammer-nose;''
''And the picketed ponies, shag and wild,''
''Strained at their ropes as the feed was piled;''
''And the bubbling camels beside the load''
''Sprawled for a furlong adown the road;''
''And the Persian pussy-cats, brought for sale,''
''Spat at the dogs from the camel-bale;''
''And the tribesmen bellowed to hasten the food;''
''And the camp-fires twinkled by Fort Jumrood;''
''And there fled on the wings of the gathering dusk''
''A savour of camels and carpets and musk,''
''A murmur of voices, a reek of smoke,''
''To tell us the trade of the Khyber woke.''
|Rudyard Kipling|''The Ballad of the Kings Jest''}}
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▲Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you
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▲The tents grew smaller as we rode away
▲On earth that tells of many passing days
▲The months of peace and all the years of war
▲The lives of love and all the lives of fears
▲Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you
▲We crossed the river beds all etched in stone
▲And up the mighty mountains ever known
▲Beyond the valleys in the searing heat
▲Until we reached the caravanserai
▲Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you
▲Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you
▲What is that home where we cannot reside
▲What is that quest that pulls me onward
▲My heart is full when you are by my side
▲Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you
▲Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you
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