I stand on a sandy shore overlooking a mighty ocean Dreaming of the goings one of the foreign Shores And the far away places across the open seas
There may be lands with new creatures Creatures more beautiful than any other Creatures even more wonderful than the angels of the heavens
These foreign Shores of far away lands might be deceiving From beautiful shores to pits, canyons, and dark places of the lands The possibility that what lies across this ocean might be the very pit of hell
Then I remember something beautiful A memory like that of one from a dream But as quickly as the beautiful thing comes into my mind, it passes
So we set sail on our mighty sheepish ship And we set out to find these lands of which we’ve only dreamed These wonderful, terrible, heavenly lands of our dreams
Leaving behind the land that we called home To find these new lands that we might call our own We land on a shore and find the very object of our intent
We, in leaving our home;and, we found something much much greater The great land of which we had only dreamt Was the very land which we had found
A few away shore so familiar to the land of our minds The great object of our very best dreams The Far Country for which we had sailed
And found we, the Land of Our Fathers The old way which we had so long ago abandoned The history that we had left behind in the dust
The Land of Orthodoxy, the great land of our fathers A new adventure in a familiar land The great land of our fathers, our true earthly home
Based, loosely, off of a quote from G.K. Chesterton's book 'Orthodoxy'