Song of the Silent LandFrom the German of SalisInto the Silent Land!Ah, who shall lead us thither?Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather,And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand.Who leads us with a gentle handThither, oh, thither,Into the Silent Land?Into the Silent Land!To you, ye boundless regionsOf all perfection! Tender morning-visionsOf beauteous souls! The future’s pledge and band!Who in life’s battle firm doth standShall bear hope’s tender blossomsInto the Silent Land!O Land! O Land!For all the broken-heartedThe mildest herald by our fate allottedBeckons, and with inverted torch doth standTo lead us with a gentle handInto the land of the great departed,Into the Silent Land!