no echo from the outer range

 where there's no echo from the outer range

of what was said before we turned for home

about the meanings both of choice and change

and what it means when we begin to roam

beyond the bounds of our accepted world

to those domains now hidden in the dark

where our free banners may at last unfurled

be flown above our heads as the great mark

of where we stand and what we mean to hold

upon the heights the point of what we do

when we have moved from warmth into the cold

and made our old place into something new

the truth of this is said without alarm

but your reply is what must give it charm