Foresight: Home

'Moonlight Coastal Scene', Robert Salmon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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'The Lights of Home' by Alfred Noyes

Pilot, how far from home?--
     Not far, not far to-night,
     A flight of spray, a sea-bird's flight,
A flight of tossing foam,
     And then the lights of home!--

And, yet again, how far?
     And seems the way so brief?
     Those lights beyond the roaring reef
Were lights of moon and star,
     Far, far, none knows how far!

Pilot, how far from home?--
     The great stars pass away
     Before Him as a flight of spray,
Moons as a flight of foam!
​     I see the lights of home.

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Robert Salmon (1775–1845) was an English and American maritime artist.

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) was an English poet.