The Long Way

Witter Bynner

I have gone the long way round
With half the world between.
I have come the long way back again,
And things that I have seen
Ripple behind me, lost and lost,
And only this is clear:
I who have been away from you
Am home again, am here.

They have said that love is light—
Yes, everywhere I went;
And I was wiser than the rest,
And they were discontent.
But little you have to answer me,
And I no more to say
Till I shall be coming back to you
Again the long way.