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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''
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''We crossed the river beds all etched in stone''
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''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''
 
This''What glancingis this life isthat likepulls ame morningfar staraway''
''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
''Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you ''
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
Just''Light asare wethe setpurses outbut toheavy the desertbales,''s cry
''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 this life that pulls me far away
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
-Caravanserai by Lorena McKennitt