The Grail

Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)

I am Merlin
Who follow the Gleam.

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

(Merlin and the Gleam; 1889)


Follow, follow, follow, the gleam,
Banners unfurled o'er the world.

Follow, follow, follow the gleam
Of the chalice that is the Grail.

Sallie Hume Douglas
Follow the Gleam(1923)