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Beyond the seas we know stretch seas unknown, / Blue and bright-colored for our dim and green; / Beyond the lands we see, stretch lands unseen / With many-tinted tangle overgrown; / And icebound seas there are like seas of stone, / Serenely stormless as death lies serene; / And lifeless tracks of sand, which intervene / Betwixt the lands where living flowers are blown. / This dead and living world befits our case / Who live and die: we live in wearied hope, / We die in hope not dead; we run a race / To-day, and find no present halting-place; / All things we see lie far within our scope, / And still we peer beyond with craving face.