Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 42 1834/Attraction of the East
The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 42, Page 18
XVI.
Attraction of the East.
What secret current of man's nature turns
Unto the golden East, with ceaseless flow?
Still, where the sunbeam at its fountain burns,
The pilgrim-spirit would adore and glow.
Rapt in high thought, though weary, faint, and slow,
Still doth the traveller through the deserts wind,
Led by those old Chaldean stars, which know
Where passed the shepherd-fathers of mankind.
Is it some quenchless instinct, which from far
Still points to where our alienated home
Lay in bright peace? O thou, true Eastern Star!
Saviour, atoning Lord! where'er we roam,
Draw still our hearts to thee; else, else how vain
Their hope the fair lost birthright to regain!