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Quotation from Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
Ulysses, Lines 55-57 (Poems (1842), ed. Collins 1900)
The slow, heavy stresses of dusk give way to the summons to sail.
Citation: "The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses, Lines 55-57 (Poems (1842), ed. Collins 1900). (id tennyson-ulysses-q6)
Portrait: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, George Frederic Watts, Public domain.
