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Beyond the Seas" is a poem by Sohrab Sepehri from The Green Volume (Hajm-e Sabz, 1967), one of the eight collections gathered in Eight Books (Hasht Ketab). The speaker resolves to build a boat and sail away from this strange soil toward a city beyond the seas, a place where windows open onto revelation and no one remembers that there was ever a stone in the road. It is among Sepehri's best known poems and a clear statement of his longing for a purer way of seeing. The full text is on Persian Wikisource, in the public domain in Iran.