"El Dorado"

Gaily bedight,
A gallant night
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long, 
Singing a song,
In search of El Dorado.

But he grew old -
This knight so bold -
And - o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like El Dorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow -
"Shadow, said he,
"Where can it be -
This land of El Dorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied -
"If you seek for El Dorado."

by Edgar Allen Poe