Gaily bedight,

   A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,   

   Had journeyed long,   

   Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

   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 Eldorado.

   And, as his strength   

   Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—   

   ‘Shadow,’ said he,   

   ‘Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?’

   ‘Over the Mountains

   Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,   

   Ride, boldly ride,’

   The shade replied,—

‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

“Eldorado”, the poem, brings a message of life after death where happiness can be reached. It suggests that it can be the very happiness we seek for throughout our life.

The knight in the poem spent his life searching for a city of gold but the expectation that gold is of great worth in the next life and will be found seems in conflict that the object of our search is what is achieved in the next life but rather the happiness we assume it will give us?