Jan Slauerhoff - The Discoverer lyrics

He held the land he had set sail for dear, Dear as a woman holds a being ere birth. Deep in the idea, dreaming he stood there On the forward deck and as the prow rose forth He had the feeling that it stirred already Beneath the expanse in which it slumbered away While the ship, foaming through the watershed Sped to that breakthrough birth and berthing day. But it seemed betrayal in discovery. No invisible cord had bound the two by sea. He wanted to re-cover it. Too late. It now lay bared to everyone. He sees No way save onward, aimless, desolate, Undriven and empty over empty seas.