Here you will find the Poem The Hearer of poet Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
'SING of the things we know and love.' But the singer made reply, 'There are greater lands to tell you of And stars to steer you by.' So he sang of worlds austere and strange, Of seas so wildly wide That only the journeying swan might range The marches of the tide. Men heard the thunder and the rain, The tempest in his song, They turned to their hearth fires again And thought the night too long. And only one man dared to hear The deeds that singer told; Against the stars he swung his spear And died ere he was old.
