Will there really be a "Morning"? 1
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like Water lilies? 5
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor! 9
Oh some Wise Men from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "Morning" lies!
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like Water lilies? 5
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor! 9
Oh some Wise Men from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "Morning" lies!
(F.148/J.101)
[1] morning:: morning-glory, a flower opens in the morning and begins to close at noon.
[2] Day:: something lived for a short time (a day or two) like day-fly or day-lily.
[5] Water lilies:: a hint on day-lily (OED 1597).
[6] feathers:: a hint on day-fly (OED 1601).
[12] morning:: morning-land, the East, the Orient (OED 1842).
In earliest times, the word Weltweisheit (Philosophy, World-wisdom) yet also another word, Morgenland (East, Morning-land),－was to me an open Heaven's-gate, through which I looked in over long, long gardens of joy. ─ Foreign Review, and Continental Miscellany (1830)