For John Muir

What am I?

Stronger than you

That you don't think like I do

These days

More than in youth

I keep thinking about you

All of me feared the wild things in you

The truth is that I never forgot you

Long live the wilderness way

The high cloud

The long days

Long live perpetual light

Remember

Wherever

You wander

When you sail

Over the sea

Do you dream of the new world

Can you see

Clear mountain burns

The deer in the north woods

All of me feared the dark depths of the ocean

There's no coming back there is only going

Farewell to the high hills of snow

The green glens

The rivers

Farewell to the people I know

All gathered

And moving

Long live the wilderness way

The high cloud

The long days

Long live perpetual light

Remember

Wherever

You wander

Farewell to the high hills of snow

The green glens

The rivers

Farewell to the people I know

All gathered

And moving

Long live the wilderness way

The high cloud

The long days

Long live perpetual light

Remember

Wherever

You wander