Fun with words #2: BECKON

 BECKON

There's a land where the mountains are nameless,
and the rivers all run God knows where;
there are lives that are erring and aimless,
and deaths that just hang by a hair;
there are hardships that nobody reckons;
there are valleys unpeopled and still,
there's a land — oh, it beckons and beckons —
and I want to go back — and I will.

Robert W Service

from his book, The Spell of the Yukon

BECKON, defined by the Oxford Dictionary:
Make a gesture with the hand, arm, or head to encourage or instruct someone to approach or follow.

BECKON comes from the Old English bīecnan or bēcnan, a sign, related in the distant past to the Old High German bouhhan, also meaning a sign. And a quick look can tell you that it's a close cousin to BEACON