Day After Day

Day after day, northward I climb
Hoping to find a higher height
Day after day, eastward I sigh
Longing to see a lighter light
Day after day, westward I glance
For I know this day soon shall end
Day after day, southern romance
Tempts me back to where I have been

I stop to listen, I stop to look
To that land that is now below
That land I had fearfully forsook
When I heard the northward call to go
But now, day by day and breath by breath
It calls to me with fading worth
And warns me of impending death
If I ever seek the North

But day after day, I am deaf and blind
To the world that calls me from behind
And day after day, again I die
For he cannot live who wants to fly
Day after day I forsake it all
But that Voice Who calls from the northern way
Day after day I heed His call
And climb (and die) day after day