Story from The Sea

We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time

through the unknown
remember gate
when the last of earth left to discover
is that which was the beginning

and the source of the longest river
the voice of the hidden waterfall
not known, because not looked for
but heard, half heard, in the stillness
between two wave of the sea

T.S Elliot
from 'little gidding' the four quarter