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Poem by Henry Newbolt


Outward Bound


Dear Earth, near Earth, the clay that made us men,
  The land we sowed,
  The hearth that glowed—-
   O Mother, must we bid farewell to thee?
Fast dawns the last dawn, and what shall comfort then
  The lonely hearts that roam the outer sea?

Gray wakes the daybreak, the shivering sails are set,
  To misty deeps
  The channel sweeps—-
   O Mother, think on us who think on thee!
Earth-home, birth-home, with love remember yet
  The sons in exile on the eternal sea.



Henry Newbolt


Henry Newbolt's other poems:
  1. Waggon Hill
  2. On Spion Kop
  3. Northumberland
  4. The Best School of All
  5. Hawke


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Thomas Aldrich Outward Bound ("I leave behind me the elm-shadowed square")

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