Here you will find the Poem The Lemmings of poet John Masefield
Once in a hundred years the Lemmings come Westward, in search of food, over the snow; Westward until the salt sea drowns them dumb; Westward, till all are drowned, those Lemmings go. Once, it is thought, there was a westward land Now drowned where there was food for those starved things, And memory of the place has burnt its brand In the little brains of all the Lemming Kings. Perhaps, long since, there was a land beyond Westward from death, some city, some calm place Where one could taste God's quiet and be fond With the little beauty of a human face; But now the land is drowned. Yet we still press Westward, in search, to death, to nothingness.
