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30652|The great dawn wakes, and in the heaven of it
30652|The sunrise rings; the morning wakes and too late;
30652|And I am grown a fool, that I may be a man.
30652|Mighty is the earth! I know the purple hills
30652|Above me, and the dark blue waves of the sea
30652|That break upon the mountains, and the sand
30652|That winds the world in mystic conflict.
30652|But mighty is the air, and I have grown
30652|Weary of loving them; and the air is hollow,
30652|And the face of the sea grows hollow to me,
30652|And the wind, howling in its gulfs, is empty.
30652|The earth, the air, the sea, the heaven, the sea,
30652|Are hollow to me, and I am weary of them,
30652|And the air, and the earth, and the sea, and me,
30652|And the wind, howling in its gulfs, is empty.
30652|Mighty are the stars and the hills of the sky,
30652|And mighty is the sea and the sky's green glow,
30652|And mighty are the ancient and the unborn,
30652|And the far star-clusters in the heaven.
30652|But the face of the sea grows hollow to me,
30652|And the face of the sea grows hollow to me,
30652|And I can no more see the pale face of the sea
30652|But it stands where the sea-mist shall sweep it over
30652|And I know that the dawn is not yet.
30652|"The sea is full of death, and the sea is full
30652|Of the dead life that is dead and that was dead,
30652|And the sea is full of the dead hope dead
30652|That was born at the end of the sea's dark face,
30652|And the eyes that are blind, and the lips that will
30652|Speak no word, and the limbs that cannot move.
30652|"The sea is full of death, and the sea is full
30652|Of the dead life of the dead and the dead dead,
30652|And the sea is full
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30652|For I have heard the croon of a child that sang
30652|A song of gladness: 'Light up my Christmas-tree;
30652|Light up my Christmas-tree for ever and ever;
30652|Light up my Christmas-tree for ever and ever,
30652|And it shall be a beacon in the dark;
30652|Light up my Christmas-tree for ever and ever,
30652|And the stars shall watch it grow great and bright.'
30652|Oh, God, thou knowest
30652|The song that I have heard;
30652|It is a man that walks with a bear
30652|And the voice is near by.
30652|Light up my Christmas-tree for ever and ever,
30652|And it shall be a beacon in the dark;
30652|Light up my Christmas-tree for ever and ever,
30652|And it shall be a light in the dark.
30652|The voice is near by;
30652|It is the time of night and the night is long,
30652|And the stars are shining like stars in a dream.
30652|The sky is not filled with stars,
30652|And the child is not there,
30652|And the light is not made bright,
30652|And the night is not hid.
30652|There's a noise in the world,
30652|And the voice is near by,
30652|It is the noise of a bugle calling,
30652|And the day is not filled with sun.
30652|There's a cry in the world,
30652|And the voice is near by,
30652|And it is the voice of a man calling,
30652|And the night is not filled with rain.
30652|There's a sound in the world,
30652|And the voice is near by,
30652|And it is the sound of the breaking
30652|of a world-wide heart.
30652|Oh, it is the end of the world,
30652|And the voice is near by;
30652|It is the sound of a voice calling
30652|'Fore God and the world be one.
30652|The voice is near by,
30652|And the voice is
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30652|I know that somewhere in the world of dreams
30652|There is a land of lots of sun and moon,
30652|Where the green grass waves in the wind and the moon
30652|Is a new sun. There are stone roads in the moon,
30652|And the sheep bleat from far away; and the wild goat
30652|Bounds on the hillside in the sun, and the wild deer
30652|Snorts in the bramble bush, and the foxes
30652|Weary of the night are wailing in the moon.
30652|There is a sea that nods and nods and laughs;
30652|And the winds are soft in the moon. There is a land
30652|That is ever young with the rich-tinted sea-mew
30652|And the squirrels. There is a sea that is ever young
30652|With the wandering fowls. There is a land of the wild sheep
30652|And the bird-folk. There is a sea that is ever young
30652|With the flight-worn wild deer. There is a sea of the wild
30652|And the sea-bird. There is a sea of the sea-fowl
30652|And the sea-mews. There is a sea of the sea-deer
30652|And the sea-bird. There is a sea of the boughs
30652|And the sea-birds.
30652|There is a sea that is ever fresh with the bee;
30652|And the honeysuckle and the chaffinch,
30652|And the palm-tree in the boughs of the sea-mew
30652|Are ever glad in the moon. There is a sea
30652|That is ever black with the deep-sea gulls. There is a sea
30652|That is ever silent. There is a sea-gull
30652|That flaps aloft on the dark water.
30652|There is a sea-gull
30652|That flaps aloft on the dark water.
30652|There is a sea that is ever full of the bee;
30652|And the wild-fowl call to it from the windy boughs,
30652|And the quails follow it from the
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30652|I think it is a little black stone
30652|On the edge of the desert,
30652|That one night thro' the grey-green billow
30652|Is rocking like a cradle.
30652|I think it is the little cradle
30652|Of the lily-plain,
30652|That one night thro' the grey-green billow
30652|Is rocking like a cradle.
30652|O the little black stone of the sand
30652|Is rocking like a cradle!
30652|O the little black stone of the sand
30652|Is rocking like a cradle!
30652|And now I know that the Third Coming
30652|Will be born in the desert
30652|In a silence and in tears
30652|By the rocking of the sand
30652|In the grey-green billow.
30652|And I know that the fourth coming
30652|Will be born in the sand,
30652|And that the birth will be of the lily-plain
30652|And the little black stone of the sand
30652|Is rocking like a cradle.
30652|I know that the Fifth Coming
30652|Will be born in the lily-plain,
30652|With a face like a child's, and a body like a man,
30652|With the eyes of a star,
30652|And the hair of the snow, and the feet of the sea,
30652|And the hair of the snow.
30652|And the birth will be of the lily-plain,
30652|With the lily-plain of the sea,
30652|And the little black stone of the sand
30652|Is rocking like a cradle.
30652|O the little black stone of the sand
30652|Is rocking like a cradle!
30652|O the little black stone of the sand
30652|Is rocking like a cradle!
30652|And the lily-plight, and the dawn-shine,
30652|And the hoof-flick of the cloud,
30652|Are rocking like a cradle, and the rocking stone
30652|Is rocking like a cradle.
30652|O the little black stone of the sand
30652|Is rocking like a cradle!
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30652|O, young, but fearless, with the fear of a secret
30652|Aborlanded in the heart of the world from the
30652|Out of the snows of my heart,
30652|I have heard the wild winds of the world
30652|Trampling on the wild snow,
30652|The long-forgotten music of the woods,
30652|The wind on the wild snow.
30652|The old man's voice at midnight broke
30652|In words of wonder and fear,
30652|And I heard from the old man's house
30652|The old man's footsteps fall.
30652|O, young but fearless, in the heart of the world,
30652|O, young but fearless, how should I fear
30652|To walk with the old man on his world of death
30652|And the wind of the world of dreams?
30652|But now the old man's great heart and his old
30652|White hands are cold;
30652|And the past is dead, and the memory
30652|Of what was and shall be.
30652|The old man's mouth is drawn to his breast,
30652|And the pain of it is long;
30652|And the old man's eyes are fixed on the sky
30652|With a still disdain.
30652|"I am not dead!" he says, "I am not dead!"
30652|And he turns to his feet
30652|And the years rush in his face like the years of death
30652|And the years in his eyes.
30652|_A wolf-pelt broke against the door,
30652|And there the poor man lay:
30652|The moon was an angry skull
30652|By the side of a grave.
30652|And the sun shone on the grave,
30652|And the man was dead.
30652|Then the wolf-pelt arose and cried
30652|And the man was dead.
30652|Then the moon was an angry head
30652|By the side of a grave.
30652|And the sun shone on the grave,
30652|And the man was dead.
30652|The man at his death-bed heard
30652|The wolf-p
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30652|And this is a rocking cradle, as I know.
30652|And so I see these sands of the desert, whereon
30652|The little feet of my companions glide;
30652|I see the stars like fingers on the sand,
30652|And, as I gaze, the darkness drops again.
30652|And then there is a rocking cradle, as I know;
30652|But even this I know, that even with the cradle
30652|There is a place for a rocking-chair in Heaven;
30652|And I have sat at that rocking-seat, and slept,
30652|And found there a place for a rocking-chair in Hell.
30652|For there is a place in Heaven; there is a place
30652|Where no man sleeps, and no beast slouches, and no star
30652|Of the white star-lit sea, and the starry sea-maiden
30652|Laughing, and the swift sea-hawk flying, and the
30652|silver-winged night-fowl, and the red-crested deer;
30652|And I have had the rocking-chair in Hell.
30652|But in the great world of God, the wide world of God,
30652|The deep world of God, there is a rocking-chair,
30652|A rocking-chair, as I know, in the heavenly chair;
30652|And I have sat at that rocking-chair, and slept,
30652|And found there in the chair a place for a rocking-chair.
30652|For there is a chair in Heaven; there is a chair
30652|For any man, and it is filled with God's name,
30652|And I have had the rocking-chair in the heavenly chair.
30652|And I have sat there, and slept, and found there a place
30652|For a rocking-chair in the heavenly chair,
30652|And the demons and the devils have had the chair
30652|For their part; and I have had the rocking-chair in Hell.
30652|And the stars are blazing in Heaven, and Hell is wide,
30652|And the wind is wild in the desert, and the sea,
30652|And the stars are tossing in the dark,
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30652|I know that the Vision which I see is not
30652|A man, but a sky-built building: yet I know
30652|That he who is the loftiest of his days
30652|Is a man who did not laugh at God's stars,
30652|Nor flaunt the yellow for a world of his.
30652|I know that the people who are overthrown
30652|By the tide of the next tide of humanity
30652|Are God's people, and that their feet will go
30652|Down into the graves of a million years
30652|As the waves of the tide of human destiny
30652|Dissipate and slip and fade away.
30652|I know that the people who are overthrown
30652|By the tide of the next tide of human destiny
30652|Will be as clouds and winds, and will be cast
30652|Into the sea of God's affairs, and will be mixed
30652|With the sand and dust of the great sea-tides.
30652|And you that are overthrown shall be stronger
30652|Than these that are overthrown; for they shall hear
30652|The voice of the Lord in the wind, and know
30652|What way He must go; for they shall see Him stand
30652|With the fifty men of his covenant, and hold
30652|His hands out for the people; and the sea
30652|Shall leap as it leapt on Sodom and Gomorrah,
30652|And the ravin shall be red as the blood of lambs
30652|And the storm of the sky shall be like the sea
30652|That rolls in the tide of Israel.
30652|I know that the people who are overthrown
30652|By the tide of the next tide of human destiny
30652|Will be as the sands of the sea, and will be cast
30652|Into the furnace of wrath that shall be hurled
30652|From the mouth of Jordan unto the sea,
30652|And will be rolled down like a scroll of brass
30652|That's lying in the dust of the face of the earth
30652|And be transformed into ashes and shall burn,
30652|And the dust of the earth shall be like their dust.
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30652|The darkness drops again; but I know
30652|That in the endless and mysterious room
30652|They wait for the red-eyed Son of Man to come
30652|To put in service for the Master's house.
30652|The darkness drops again; but I know
30652|The grasshoppers that the passion of the grass
30652|Can smell and see and touch and harm and love.
30652|The grasshoppers that the passion of the grass
30652|Can smell and see and touch and harm and love.
30652|The darkness drops again; but I know
30652|That in the caverns of the heart of the sky
30652|The silence of the sea is pained and sick.
30652|The silence of the sea is pained and sick.
30652|And then I know the birds that the winds of the sea
30652|Can find and hurl together in the sea
30652|At the sound of the dying wind. The darkness
30652|Drops and the darkness drops again. But I know
30652|That in the sky of the sea the little birds
30652|Have little hearts of fire.
30652|The darkness drops again; but I know
30652|The far-off hills of the earth that the earth
30652|Can call and call about with the voice
30652|Of the deep-sea birds. The hills are full of heaven,
30652|And the hills have no heart of fire.
30652|The darkness drops again; but I know
30652|The great and little hearts of the sky;
30652|And I know the wings of the sea-bird.
30652|The darkness drops again; but I know
30652|That the stars have a heart of fire.
30652|And so, I stand and gaze, and in and out
30652|The many-tinted eyes of the vast night
30652|Are filled with light. The darkness drops again.
30652|And so I stand and gaze, and I can see
30652|The whispering water and the wistful stars;
30652|And the deep-sea rivers, and the wind;
30652|And all the things that the dark shapes bring
30652|Into the night.
30652|The
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30652|But never a dawn, never a star,
30652|Never the whisper of a child
30652|Nor the sound of God's voice as He walked
30652|The mountain-steeps with the lilies white
30652|Against the night.
30652|I shall sleep no more to hear the doleful sound
30652|Of the rocking cradle of a child,
30652|Nor the sound of God's voice as He walked
30652|The mountain-steeps with the lilies white
30652|Against the night.
30652|The grotto is closed; no light comes there;
30652|No voice of the child that is no more;
30652|No wind of the world that is not there;
30652|No cloud-topped sky that is not there;
30652|Only the sky that shall never be
30652|Because it is full of all the pain
30652|That never was made by a child.
30652|Only the sky that shall never be,
30652|Because it is full of all the pain
30652|That never was made by a child.
30652|There is no dawn of the day I knew,
30652|Only the sound of the sky,
30652|A dream that is broken and overgrown
30652|By a score of weeping clouds.
30652|And the doleful voice of the child is gone
30652|With the sunrise and the sun,
30652|And a thousand voices cry, "Here is home;
30652|Here is hope;
30652|"For the day is long, and there is pain
30652|And sorrow, and long days;
30652|But when you have done with pain and sorrow
30652|You shall sleep well.
30652|And the doleful voice of the child is gone
30652|With the sunrise and the sun.
30652|And the grotto is closed; the day is done;
30652|Only the sea, and the white sea-wave
30652|That is yawning between the sand and sand
30652|And lapping it in.
30652|And I am alone with the world of night
30652|And the world of light,
30652|In the mist and the darkness and the sea,
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30652|I have seen a great wall. I have been king;
30652|King of cities, and of armies, and of all
30652|The lordliest lords of the earth.
30652|In this I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|In this I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|I have been king.
30652|King, king, king, king, king, king.
30652|That was the name I had for myself.
30652|King, king, king, king, king, king.
30652|It was my birth name, and so it stood
30652|For all time, and I was King of kings,
30652|And I was most fair; and I was bold,
30652|And I was strong; and I was very wise,
30652|And I was very noble; and I was very wise,
30652|And I was very noble; and I was very strong,
30652|And I was very strong; and I was very wise,
30652|And I was very noble; and I was very strong,
30652|And I was very strong; and I was very wise,
30652|And I was very noble; and I was very strong,
30652|And I was great; and I was very strong,
30652|And I was very noble; and I was very strong,
30652|And I was very noble; and I was very strong,
30652|And I was very great; and I was very good,
30652|And I was very good; and I was very good,
30652|And I was very good; and I was very good,
30652|And I was very good; and I was very good,
30652|And I was very good; and I was very good,
30652|And I was great; and I was very great,
30652|And I was very great, and I was very great,
30652|And I was very great; and I was very great,
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30652|I do not know
30652|If it be in the night, or in the night,
30652|When the whole world is waking, and I am alone,
30652|But I know that the dark has gone away
30652|That I must pray
30652|In a strange manger; and the Lord hath said it
30652|That I must pray.
30652|I do not know
30652|If it be in the day, or in the day,
30652|When the whole world is praying, and I am alone,
30652|And I know that the dark hath gone away
30652|That I must wait
30652|In a sorrowful waiting-room; and the Lord hath said it
30652|That I must wait.
30652|I do not know
30652|If it be in the night, or in the night,
30652|When the whole world is sleeping; and I am alone,
30652|And I know that the dark hath gone away
30652|That I must wait
30652|In a sleepless waiting-cell; and the Lord hath said it
30652|That I must wait.
30652|I do not know
30652|If it be in the day, or in the day,
30652|When the world is waiting for the coming of spring;
30652|And I am not sure if it be in the night,
30652|Or the night when it is sure, for I do not know
30652|If I wait in a room or a night; and the Lord hath said it
30652|That I must wait.
30652|I do not know
30652|If it be in the night, or in the night,
30652|When the world is praying; and the Lord hath said it
30652|That I must pray.
30652|I do not know
30652|If it be in the night, or in the night,
30652|When the world is praying; and I know the words
30652|That He hath spoken; and when I am in doubt,
30652|I know that He hath spoken.
30652|I do not know
30652|If it be in the night, or in the night,
30652|When the world is praying; and
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30652|I think, for all my grief, that what is most dark
30652|Is not that all is dark to the heart;
30652|But that the heart is not wholly dark,
30652|And I have sorrow, and I have faith,
30652|And I have hope; and yet my heart is white.
30652|And it is white as a little child,
30652|And it is white as a little child;
30652|And it is white as a little child.
30652|I have no hope, I have no faith,
30652|I have no hope, I have no faith;
30652|But the white hand of my God is warm
30652|To nurse my soul to the light.
30652|The white hand of my God is warm
30652|To nurse my soul to the light.
30652|It is a time to forget
30652|The troubles that assail,
30652|When life is a storm-cloud, and when the stars are loud,
30652|And the dark night rolls in from the sea.
30652|But I, through all this storm of pain,
30652|When I am but a little child,
30652|Have a heart in my breast that is white as snow,
30652|And a God above me that is white.
30652|I am like a little white snowdrop
30652|In the white winter of my heart,
30652|I know not what wind blows, I know not how,
30652|I am cold and my hands are white.
30652|My little hands are white, my white hands
30652|Are cold as the hands of the cold wind;
30652|I know not the words that I would say,
30652|But I am thankful that God is good.
30652|Then I laugh, I dance, I sing, I run,
30652|I play with the flowers; but my God is cold,
30652|And He will never come again.
30652|The snow is white, and the stars are bright,
30652|And the long white night rolls in from the sea;
30652|The storm-cloud is white, and the stars are bright;
30652|And the white night rolls in from the sea.
30652|
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30652|The dawn is grey; I wake; and lo! the image
30652|Still clasps its child: and lo! the Man is gone
30652|To the black hills and the rising sands; and I
30652|Hold in my hand the kraken, and in my heart
30652|I hear the psalms of the winds and rain.
30652|The darkening day is dying; and I pray
30652|That something may be heard in me that is still
30652|In the dark sky: and lo! I see it in flight
30652|On wings of fire, that break, like the wings of the white
30652|The clouds are crumbling; and the sea is rippling
30652|With the feet of the wind and the line of the sun.
30652|But out of the dawn, from the bound of the sun,
30652|A voice comes, from the depths of the darkness of night,
30652|Loud as the thunders that dash on Galilee's rock,
30652|Calling, crying, crying, crying,
30652|"Shall this vast city crumble like a withered grape
30652|Ashes to ashes?"
30652|The murmur of the world is drowned in a wind-driven cry,
30652|And a small voice whispers, "Christ is risen!"
30652|I have rung the bells, and I will rung the knell,
30652|I will hang the banners of the sun on the town wall,
30652|And the bells shall ring for thee!
30652|I am going
30652|To the sea to-morrow,
30652|For the sea is a great grey owl,
30652|And the owl will not let me in.
30652|I am going
30652|To the sea to-morrow,
30652|For the sea is a great grey owl.
30652|I have hung the banners of the sun on the town wall,
30652|And the bells shall ring for thee!
30652|I am going
30652|To the sea to-morrow,
30652|For the sea is a great grey owl.
30652|I will not say by what strange change
30652|Thou comest; and I will say
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30652|_Ichabod_ (Alexander), ch. v, par. 4.
30652|My sister and I together,
30652|The night we are together,
30652|To-night we are together,
30652|In the land of the phantom flowers.
30652|The moon was a flame, the wind was a soul,
30652|The world was a soul that sang with toil,
30652|And a soul that lived with some one.
30652|As the soul of the soul is a soul that is dreaming,
30652|As the soul of the soul is a soul that is waking,
30652|So the soul of the soul is the soul of the being.
30652|The world was a soul with a song of pain
30652|To the soul of the soul it went along
30652|And was glad to leave the soul behind
30652|And the soul of the soul was a soul that died,
30652|And a soul that is waking,
30652|For the soul of the soul was a soul that is flying,
30652|And the soul of the soul was a soul that is sick.
30652|It was a soul of love that went and came
30652|And the soul that was in the soul was dead,
30652|But the soul that was in the soul is a soul that is coming
30652|For the soul of the soul is a soul that is coming
30652|For the soul of the soul is a soul that is dead.
30652|I see the soul of a soul that is taking,
30652|I see the soul of a soul that is leaving,
30652|And I see the soul that is in the soul's covering
30652|Sprung from the soul that was in the soul's covering.
30652|There's a soul in the soul of a soul
30652|That's out of its body and into its body,
30652|That's finding its way, and is travelling in it,
30652|And that's the soul that's in the soul's covering.
30652|For the soul that was in the soul's covering
30652|Is the soul that was in the soul's covering.
30652|_Ahoy_ (_to_ Nelly)
30652|Ahoy
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30652|Couchantoun is a great plain, with a great river,
30652|And many houses, and a great plain beside it;
30652|There are many mountains, and many plains,
30652|And Clybourn with its many towers is there;
30652|But the plain behind, the plain before,
30652|Is a great valley, and the valley before
30652|Is a land of a thousand drowned souls.
30652|The hills are all over couchant, and round it
30652|The red fox runs; and in the valley below
30652|The moose comes stalking, and the bear comes stalking
30652|Down the slope to the wide river, in a ring
30652|Of shaggy majesty; and the red deer toil
30652|Their legs up and down, by the far-off light,
30652|And watch the long river for ever glide
30652|Out of the deep, and out of the dark.
30652|There are many little waterfalls,
30652|And many little falls;
30652|And a little further on
30652|There is a great deep pool;
30652|And on the other side
30652|There is a little meadow;
30652|And here in couchant Dunbar
30652|The clouds are yellow and warm,
30652|And the water, brooding over all,
30652|Is a little sad and sweet;
30652|And far away,
30652|In the light of the firelight,
30652|Is the singing of a little brooding bird.
30652|And I know that somewhere
30652|The white moon waits to meet him,
30652|And the first star
30652|Shines on the water,
30652|And the wild bird sings;
30652|And I know that somewhere
30652|Are the peace and the glory and the joy
30652|Of all the bright world to come,
30652|And the singing and the water and the bird,
30652|And the little white brooding bird.
30652|Down the winding road,
30652|I have come on a road
30652|To the end of the road,
30652|And the darkness is filling the highway,
30652
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30652|Pray, have the stars in their courses
30652|Leapt with the dawn of this strange woman,
30652|Where is her true name, and what the story
30652|That made them so far away from Galilee?
30652|Ah, when I see those stars I feel the years
30652|Are only in a dream, and the dawn is only
30652|A wind of night.
30652|The sun was darkness,
30652|The night was silence,
30652|And the wind was silence.
30652|I slept and dreamt
30652|That there was a man
30652|Afar in the land
30652|Where the stars are.
30652|I slept and dreamt
30652|That the stars were darkness
30652|And the night was silence,
30652|And the wind was silence.
30652|I slept and dreamt
30652|That the silence was God,
30652|And the silence was darkness.
30652|I slept and dreamt
30652|That the silence was I,
30652|And the silence was darkness,
30652|And the wind was silence.
30652|I slept and dreamt
30652|That the silence was He,
30652|And the silence was silence,
30652|And the wind was silence.
30652|I sleep and dreamt
30652|That there was a star
30652|Above the sky;
30652|And the wind was silence,
30652|And the silence was silence,
30652|And the silence was silence.
30652|And the stars were silence,
30652|And the wind was silence,
30652|And the silence was silence,
30652|And the silence was silence.
30652|In the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
30652|And the silence,
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30652|The darkness drops again; but I know
30652|That some far autumnal country far away,
30652|With lonely hills, a single river, and a sky
30652|Like an old moon set under a green sea-line,
30652|And the wind like a mother o'er her children sleeping,
30652|And the hills and rivers and the sky
30652|And the wind, and the hills and rivers and the sky.
30652|The darkness drops again. But I know
30652|That in the Spring of some far country far away,
30652|There will be flowers in a garden of blue flowers,
30652|And the deep Autumn will be crowned with her showers,
30652|And the high moons will be crownèd with her tears,
30652|And the old earth will lie rolling in mirth
30652|With many golden fruit of rare fruits.
30652|For I have seen the happy Autumn fields of blue,
30652|And the dear Spring will lie rolling in ripples
30652|Of purple light, like a human face
30652|Making music, while still the warm earth and sky
30652|Grow ever brighter and deeper.
30652|The darkness drops again. But I know
30652|That in the Winter, a great wonder to me,
30652|Will be a wood, of many trunks,
30652|With snowflakes turning all the leaves and boughs
30652|Into a misty tremor, like a voice
30652|Of the Great Spirit, in the Winter voice,
30652|Crying, "I am Winter; and I make the snow
30652|White as the snowflakes on the heads of men."
30652|And the cold wind will answer him: "What! Are you mad?"
30652|And the snowflakes will answer him: "Yes, I am,
30652|I make the snow white as the snowflakes on men."
30652|And the great forests and the great fields of snow
30652|Will answer him: "What! Are you mad? Are you mad?"
30652|And the elves and fairies will answer him: "Yes, we are,
30652|We make the white snow, as white as the snowflakes on
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30652|O strange! O strange!
30652|I know not what it is, but I know
30652|There is a time of birth in every child.
30652|It is the hour of beauty that is come;
30652|It is the hour of birth in every soul;
30652|The star-like eyes are near, and the long hair
30652|Flows round the cradle's sleeping form, and hark
30652|The moon's pale whisper from the desert birds!
30652|The dark is gone
30652|From all the hills, and the night is gone,
30652|And the lamp lingers on the caliph's throne;
30652|And the King's slave is come to the King's house.
30652|O strange! O strange!
30652|The ancient forms are dead and fled away,
30652|The ancient faces, so white and so old,
30652|In the shadow of the pomegranate tree,
30652|And the dark is gone from all the hills.
30652|I know not what it is, but I know
30652|It is the dawn of Beauty that is come;
30652|And the King's slave is come to the King's house.
30652|O strange! O strange!
30652|I know not what it is, but I know
30652|There is a time of birth in every child.
30652|And it is the time of birth the old man said,
30652|And the King's slave is come to the King's house.
30652|O strange! O strange!
30652|I know not what it is, but I know
30652|It is the time of birth that the old man said;
30652|And the King's slave is come to the King's house.
30652|O strange! O strange!
30652|I know not what it is, but I know
30652|There is a time of birth in every child.
30652|It is the time of birth that the old man said,
30652|And the King's slave is come to the King's house.
30652|O strange! O strange!
30652|I know not what it is, but I know
30652|There is a time of birth in
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30652|I have been going on and on,
30652|But the men have learned they are not men;
30652|I could not save them.
30652|I am going on and on
30652|And the women have grown strong as I;
30652|So we go on together
30652|Till the sun's going down;
30652|Till the world's night is done,
30652|And the stars are gone like a lost child.
30652|For the mountains that stood up so high
30652|Have been killed by the rocking cradle
30652|And the stars are going to leave you.
30652|O he's a fine boy, and he's good,
30652|And the milk he drank is sweet;
30652|But there's a fine boy up the hill
30652|And a fine boy down the hill.
30652|There's a fine boy down the hill
30652|Who knows all the little tricks
30652|That the tins have been playing on.
30652|He's a fine boy, and he's good,
30652|And the milk he drank is sweet;
30652|But there's a fine boy up the hill
30652|And a fine boy down the hill.
30652|There's a fine boy down the hill
30652|Who goes to the mill to drink.
30652|But he's gone away to the mill
30652|To get him a new tup.
30652|He's a fine boy, and he's good,
30652|And the milk he drank is sweet;
30652|But there's a fine boy up the hill
30652|And a fine boy down the hill.
30652|There's a fine boy up the hill
30652|Who will make you something new;
30652|He's a fine boy, and he's good,
30652|And the milk he drank is sweet;
30652|But there's a fine boy down the hill
30652|And a fine boy down the hill.
30652|There's a fine boy down the hill
30652|Who knows all the ways of men;
30652|He's a fine boy, and he's good,
30652|And the milk he drank is sweet;
30652|
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30652|Alas! too late for that most blessed of things!
30652|For in the great churchyard of a thousand years
30652|The whitewashed mouldering body of a king
30652|Is still unspoil'd. O, might we dream of something
30652|To crown this work! Nay, even though we dream,
30652|The moon shall be a face in a manger,
30652|And the vast heaven a giant's hump;
30652|And in the day and night we shall be living
30652|In the shadow of the King's inmost heart.
30652|He lay like some great rock in a beryl sea,
30652|And the nymphs around him dreamingly did move
30652|To the music of his voice,
30652|And the peaks of Henna
30652|Had a dream to bind them,
30652|That the Tragic Woe
30652|Had come up in the night,
30652|Like a thing that's too large to be borne on the sea
30652|Or the earth, with the wandering of the moon,
30652|But a thing that cannot sleep.
30652|And the sea-maids still
30652|Were trying to tell him
30652|The words to say
30652|That they thought he might understand.
30652|And the man at his side
30652|Dreamed of the years gone,
30652|Of the days that are past,
30652|And the nights that are near;
30652|And he said to her:
30652|"What is the meaning of the moon?
30652|She seems to be gazing at the earth,
30652|And the moon is looking at the sea."
30652|And she answered him:
30652|"She is gazing at the moon."
30652|And the man said:
30652|"I wish that she were my wife."
30652|And the sea-maid answered him:
30652|"Why, what do you mean,
30652|Why do you wish for the moon?"
30652|And the man said:
30652|"I do not wish for the moon,
30652|I wish for her presence
30652|To take me on a path
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30652|O, I am old. I am weary of the world.
30652|I am glad of the dawn, and the wild bird's wings
30652|Are fain to stir me; but I would not be
30652|A child in Bethlehem.
30652|_"Hear'st thou the city, that was Bethlehem
30652|When the Land was good?
30652|Hear'st thou the city that was Bethlehem
30652|When the Lord was with her?
30652|And the seed of the seed-bank of the Lord
30652|Was scattered among her ways?
30652|And the stones of her path were cast in the dust
30652|To meet her in the street?
30652|And the blossoms of her trees were thrown out
30652|To meet her in the street?
30652|And the lilies of her pathways were cast out
30652|To meet her in the street?
30652|And the lamps of her lamps were cast out
30652|To meet her in the street?
30652|And the wax-stars of her windows were cast out
30652|To meet her in the street?
30652|And the chimes were thrown out
30652|To meet her in the street?
30652|And the people were scattered abroad
30652|To meet her in the street?
30652|And the Lord was met in Galilee,
30652|And the Lord was in Jordan.
30652|And the Lord was drunk in Canaaneer
30652|And the Lord was sober.
30652|And she was weary of her weary,
30652|And she bore a little child,
30652|And the children were two by twins,
30652|And the mother was weary of her child,
30652|And the child was two by twins.
30652|But the Lord went before and followed
30652|The feet of the child and the mother
30652|To meet the people in the streets
30652|That were weary of their children.
30652|A great host of the world's dead
30652|Have gathered together in one place
30652|In the great cemetery of the earth.
30652|They are the fairies, and they look down
30652|On all the
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30652|And now I know that a ship must have had seven decks
30652|Before Galileo could have dared to sail
30652|Out of the shadow of the grave to the shining sun
30652|On his great voyage over the sea.
30652|What other things have I to see?
30652|Not the old empty hall, the night wind,
30652|The old empty tower, the still sea,
30652|The old grey church, the old wind, the sea,
30652|The cracked church-spire, the desolate sea,
30652|The ruined churchyard, and the sea.
30652|I only know that the sea has been,
30652|As it is here, a little while.
30652|It is as mute as it was mute then;
30652|The old church is white as the sea then;
30652|The old wind is howling in the sand,
30652|The old sea-bird sings on the mast.
30652|Now the rising sun has been a-standin'
30652|Above the little chapel tall,
30652|I am watching the eyes of the new moon
30652|Upon the old church's old ruins rise,
30652|As I sit here in the twilight there
30652|And look down the long empty aisle.
30652|I am watching the eyes of the wind
30652|Upon the white and ruined walls,
30652|And the eyes of the world, as it is now,
30652|As it will ever be when it is done.
30652|And I am at peace with all these things,
30652|For the whole world's at peace with me.
30652|It is as quiet as it ever was,
30652|For the winds are silent and still,
30652|And the sea is silent and still.
30652|And it's the same when I sit here in the twilight
30652|And look down the long empty aisle.
30652|And I only know that the sea has been,
30652|As it is here, a little while.
30652|I only hear the old falling voice
30652|Of the wind, in the wind, that goes.
30652|And I only feel as it was then
30652|When I watched the
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30652|There's something in the distance beckoning me
30652|With the long wind-blown, ghostly embrace
30652|Of the old days, the old sights, the old days;
30652|They call me to the places I know
30652|For which I struggle, but I do not dare
30652|To answer, or my answer is to call
30652|The roaring of the mountain with a pang
30652|Like that of a starved bird into the pine.
30652|I have forgotten the little things
30652|And the evil things and the evil dreams;
30652|They do not stir my sleep, and I am safe;
30652|I am safe and anxious in this deep sleep
30652|And in the night. I have forgotten them all,
30652|And there's no evil about, and the world
30652|Is calm as a pond.
30652|But a child will cry
30652|For something to eat, and his mother will sigh
30652|And wonder why her child should cry.
30652|And then,
30652|He will come home from the mountains and see her
30652|And wonder why her child should cry.
30652|The world will laugh;
30652|She will be glad and happy and laugh,
30652|For she has nothing to give, and yet
30652|She has nothing to give.
30652|The child will kiss
30652|Her little hands and she will smile; she will lie
30652|Face down and smile, and so she will.
30652|And then,
30652|He will cry, and then she will remember
30652|And laugh at him what he has said.
30652|And then,
30652|There will come to him a new wonder
30652|Of the old days, the old sights, the old days;
30652|He will see her lips, and the old grace
30652|Of her face will come to him.
30652|And then,
30652|He will cry, and then she will remember
30652|And sigh for what he has not known.
30652|And so she will come home to the little stone
30652|And kiss him, and she will make him glad
30652|And look
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30652|A child it was, who, stepping from out the mist
30652|With eyes that looked on the darkness as a dream
30652|And feeble hands, and lips and matted hair
30652|Made as of moonlight a lily's hair,
30652|Stood in the mist and gazed upon the world.
30652|He was the child of the silence and the desert,
30652|He was the child of the wind and the dust and the mist,
30652|And he passed out of the world into the darkness.
30652|His body was stiff with the shape of a monstrous lion,
30652|And the soul of him was the shadow of a lion,
30652|And his soul was the terror of darkness.
30652|He passed out of the world into the darkness,
30652|And the darkness followed him,
30652|And the life-lightning of the scorpion
30652|Flashed about him and the sand;
30652|And the man of the cloud and the cloud that follows
30652|The little feet, when he had passed,
30652|Heard the voice of his words as he was passing;
30652|And the man of the cloud that was the white of the moon
30652|Heard them as the light of the sea;
30652|And the man of the cloud, with the white of the moon,
30652|Saw them as they were a child
30652|Of the sea and the sea-fog and the white of the moon.
30652|He passed out of the world into the darkness,
30652|And the darkness followed him,
30652|And the life-lightening of the scorpion
30652|Flashed about him and the sand;
30652|And the man of the cloud and the scorpion
30652|Saw them as they were a child.
30652|He passed out of the world into the darkness,
30652|And the darkness followed him,
30652|And the life-lightening of the scorpion
30652|Flashed about him and the sand;
30652|And the man of the cloud and the scorpion
30652|Saw them as they were a child.
30652|He passed out of the world into the darkness,
30652
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30652|O people of the hills, with the great deep in your breasts,
30652|The roar of the winds, the rippling river of the sun,
30652|Breathe on me your soul in a breath, your heart in my blood;
30652|You who are no more, and yet are enough,
30652|And whom the slumber of the world has left,
30652|Who have lived as you live, yet are not quite awake,
30652|Who have heard the voice of the world, and dared to sing.
30652|The dream is ended, the great doors flung open,
30652|The great gates of the night;
30652|The great old faces with golden eyes
30652|Look through the windows wide.
30652|They lift their heads and look at me,
30652|They seem to hear the prayer
30652|That I have fain had for them with heart sincere
30652|In the old life.
30652|The great old faces smile at me,
30652|Their eyes are young with glee;
30652|The things that once they heard and saw
30652|Are heard of them again.
30652|And they are happy, they are glad, they are free,
30652|With the old friends of their own,
30652|With the old friends of their own
30652|In the old life.
30652|And they say, as they lean over the casement,
30652|"The good days are come,
30652|The good days are come,
30652|The days of the old fellowship."
30652|They lean over the casement, and they say:
30652|"The good days are come,
30652|The good days are come;
30652|For the old fellowship of our life
30652|Hath lost its touch of fear,
30652|And we may pass our days in the old friendship
30652|In the old life.
30652|"And the old friends of our old friendship
30652|Are at rest with the old friends
30652|In the old life.
30652|And a bird sings from the sky,
30652|And a bud blows over the tree,
30652|And the old friends of our old friendship
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30652|Thou hast gone from me, dear, thou I might have known
30652|Before thou camest; in the night thou camest,
30652|And in the night I heard the pebbles rattle,
30652|And the winds with babble drowned the distant waters,
30652|And the door of the infernal room was open.
30652|Thou hast gone from me; but now the Land of Dreams
30652|Is over me like a mist, and I am weary
30652|Of this numbness of the body, and I know
30652|That thou art coming.
30652|Thou shalt return to me; and when thou comest,
30652|Thou shalt return as thou hadst never left.
30652|I shall sit in the shadows and I shall hear
30652|The springs of thy soul, and I shall sit and dream
30652|Of thee, with a trembling spirit in my heart.
30652|I shall be waked by some great bird, that sings
30652|To me in the dark, and then again I shall
30652|The song of the one that loves me, and again
30652|A voice that was like thine that is crying.
30652|I shall hear it, and I shall cry and shout
30652|To thee, with a love that was born to awake
30652|In me the dull lethargy of earth; and then
30652|I shall be waked by the old flame of thine eyes,
30652|And for one hour be strong again to sing.
30652|I shall be wakened, and I shall rise and go
30652|Away from thee, and I shall see the light
30652|That in my heart shall be a light of life,
30652|And the old night be a new night of love.
30652|Thou wilt come back to me. I shall rise and go
30652|Away from the world, and I shall walk with thee
30652|Along the infinite white paths of the stars.
30652|Thou wilt love me yet. I shall dream and wait
30652|On thy embrace, and then again I shall wait
30652|For thee to come a little nearer, a little closer.
30652|
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30652|What is it that the blind man dreams of?
30652|What is it that the blind man hears?
30652|The sound of a river,
30652|The clatter of a swarm of bees,
30652|The sound of the rain on the clover,
30652|The clatter of the rain on the sward,
30652|The whisper of a lady's voice,
30652|The whisper of a lady's voice,
30652|The sound of the fall of the rain,
30652|The sound of the fall of the rain,
30652|The sound of the rain on the clover,
30652|The whisper of a lady's voice,
30652|The sound of the fall of the rain,
30652|The sound of the rain on the sward,
30652|The clatter of a flock of fleeces,
30652|The clatter of a flock of fleeces,
30652|The clatter of rain on the clover,
30652|The whisper of a lady's voice,
30652|The whisper of a lady's voice,
30652|The fall of the rain, the fall of the rain,
30652|The clatter of a lady's voice,
30652|The whisper of a lady's voice,
30652|The fall of the rain, the fall of the rain,
30652|The whisper of a lady's voice,
30652|The clatter of a lady's voice.
30652|The sound of the wind is a reed in the reed
30652|Of the great wood that is not wood:
30652|The sound of the wind is a reed in the reed
30652|Of the great wood that is not wood.
30652|The sound of the leaves is a voice in the wood
30652|That is not the sound of a voice:
30652|The sound of the leaves is a voice in the wood
30652|That is not the sound of a voice.
30652|The sound of the sun is a breath in the wood
30652|That is not the sound of a breath:
30652|The sound of the sun is a breath in the wood
30652|That is not the sound of a breath.
30652|The sound of the moon
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30652|I know that many a time a face was moved
30652|To talk of darkness and of hell,
30652|That oft, with mighty frowns and wailing,
30652|The dark was stirred and the moon sat
30652|Closing in mists of moonshine;
30652|And that, in the hollow of a bird's breast,
30652|The birds would call each other
30652|Over the hills and far away.
30652|And I know that, often, a dark child
30652|In the corners of the house would moan;
30652|The little moon would peep, and then
30652|The awful-circling moon would cry,
30652|And the wind in the crow's-feet would call,
30652|And the trees would shout, "The dark is dead,
30652|The dark is dead, the dark is dead."
30652|And I know that, often, the dark one
30652|Would turn to the shadows and cry,
30652|And whisper, "I know you, shadow,
30652|And I know you, you earth, you grave,
30652|And if I call on your name,
30652|"I will come to you, I will come,
30652|Come to you, and hold you close,
30652|Come to your knees, and be at rest,
30652|Come to your own again, come to me."
30652|The children, crying, go, and now
30652|I am a grief, and my dear friend
30652|Is a black shadow, a gray stone,
30652|And the black shadow is the night.
30652|And the gray stone, in his rocking chair,
30652|Is a ghost of the old red stone
30652|That with the other stones of the church
30652|Stands in the road. The way to him
30652|Is a path between the stones, and one
30652|Comes home with him every day.
30652|He does not say "How did you come, father?"
30652|But looks and whispers, and he asks
30652|No questions. He is black as night,
30652|But he seems to say: "I am a man."
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30652|And what the grave-yard that holds the body
30652|Is like that waits the dead to be buried,
30652|And all their dreams of death and doom and gloom
30652|That kept their old souls from waking up
30652|At the first wakening of the moon?
30652|The dead are not dead by any means,
30652|Yet in a most determined kind of way
30652|They are not dead; they live in their graves,
30652|They take their sweet time being buried,
30652|They are not changed in any greatwise way,
30652|But some one after another must rise
30652|And be the grave-digger.
30652|The dead are not dead by any means;
30652|They are not changed in any greatwise way,
30652|Yet in a most determined kind of way
30652|They are not dead; they live in their graves,
30652|And it is the funeral of their fathers,
30652|The good dead who are not changed in any greatwise way,
30652|The good dead who live in their graves;
30652|And they have wives, and children, and friends,
30652|And all that, at the last, men must have.
30652|And some one after another must rise
30652|And be the grave-digger.
30652|It is the funeral of their fathers
30652|That's not dead by any means,
30652|It is the funeral of their fathers,
30652|It is the funeral of their fathers,
30652|That is not changed in any greatwise way,
30652|But some one after another must rise
30652|And be the grave-digger.
30652|The grave-digger sees the old
30652|Old trunks as they lie,
30652|And on the old trees, with hands that are strong
30652|As they are, and feet that are strong,
30652|He lifts his head, as one that is not sleeping,
30652|And at the last as he is old.
30652|And all the old trees in the valley grow tall
30652|And all the old trees on the hill stand straight,
30652|And the old tree that is in the
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30652|I know a story, when I was young,
30652|And I have heard it often in my time;
30652|It is of a city, and of a king
30652|Whose name was Hannibal, and whose deeds
30652|Were awful, and whose head was lifted high.
30652|And once, when I was but as a child,
30652|I saw the mighty hulk of a great ship,
30652|With the great sails a-droop to the light,
30652|And a red flag above it, and a red crew
30652|Of mariners and sailors; and a voice
30652|Spoke in the yellow heat, "For that is my ship
30652|Whose name was Hannibal, and whom I slew."
30652|I know a story, when I was young,
30652|Of a woman with a wordless tongue,
30652|Who stood before a stranger and spoke,
30652|And many swam, and many struggled, and stood
30652|And gazed in wonder on the wondrous stranger
30652|Who, when he saw her, groped his hand
30652|And looked, and with a flourish of his hand
30652|Spoke words of power and love and loveliness.
30652|I know a story when I was young,
30652|And I have heard it oft in many a tune,
30652|That in the road of many a strange city
30652|There came a car and the stranger gave a key
30652|To the lady of the city. And she opened
30652|The door, and she stood at gaze upon the road,
30652|And the stranger came with his ship upon the sea.
30652|_I know a story, when I was young,
30652|And I have heard it oft in many a song;
30652|A great king, and his people, and a woman
30652|Who was loved as the stars are loved by man;
30652|And on a time a thing of beauty fell,
30652|And the stars took pity on her and gave her food
30652|To keep her soul in her body. And she sat
30652|In a garden where the stars were happy,
30652|And the stars took her
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30652|A miracle at last; for it is I
30652|That pass, and not the world's great king.
30652|So now, with a faint impulse, I go
30652|To seek a lily-pale mariner,
30652|Who sits upon the deck with arms akimbo,
30652|And huddles his head in his hands.
30652|And with a strong and almost angry cry
30652|I run to the sea-shore and draw near;
30652|And in the red dawn I start forth and find
30652|The mariner awake and ready for action,
30652|With eyes that are like stars, and a little hand
30652|Heaving up the helm and the wind, that wakes
30652|The waves and lifts the mast and the ship
30652|Towards the red dawn.
30652|But the mast-head has heard my call,
30652|And from his deck the mast-masters gather
30652|To hear my voice, and then I rise up,
30652|And look in their eyes and in their hands
30652|And in their eyes the eyes of a child,
30652|Who in his heart is the vision of things,
30652|And in his heart the dream of the night.
30652|And they look at me, and then, aghast,
30652|They grasp their swords and the swords they bear
30652|Flash suddenly, and then again are stiff.
30652|And a great light fills the sky and the sea,
30652|And the waves leap hard and the winds blow
30652|As with a sword that flashes in his hands.
30652|Ah! but what art thou, and what art thou,
30652|That hast the world in thy hands, and at last
30652|Hast found me in my place?
30652|And what art thou, dead years ago
30652|When at the war we two were kin,
30652|And as a kinsman in a world where many
30652|Are kin to death, and as a kinsman still
30652|I trusted thee to a man?
30652|I have no voice now, and the sea has none,
30652|And nothing to do, and nothing to say
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30652|Was it the rocking cradle?
30652|Or the rearing lion?
30652|It was rocking in the dawn, and the lion
30652|Grinn'd, and leaped at the cradle;
30652|And the man's heart beat with a sudden pain,
30652|And the lion stalk'd in, with its long red tongue,
30652|And smote the cradle;
30652|And the man awoke from a terrible dream,
30652|And looked towards Bethlehem, and saw the cradle,
30652|And the lion lying dead.
30652|The dawn was sweet with a strange sweet smell
30652|Upon the roof of the very cradle
30652|That had rocked him to death.
30652|And I look'd at the man's face, and I saw
30652|How he had smiled at the cradle with long white fingers,
30652|And he had crouched and rocked it.
30652|The cradle was a broken golden shell,
30652|And the man was a broken golden hen;
30652|And the lion, a broken green wild-goose,
30652|Had eat the lion-heart.
30652|They looked at each other, and they said:
30652|"The wind is a blessing.
30652|The sun is a blessing.
30652|The moon is a blessing.
30652|The stars are a blessing."
30652|They looked at each other, and they said:
30652|"The stars are a blessing.
30652|The wind is a blessing.
30652|The sun is a blessing.
30652|The moon is a blessing.
30652|The stars are a blessing."
30652|"The stars are a blessing,
30652|The wind is a blessing,
30652|The moon is a blessing,
30652|The sun is a blessing;
30652|And we are a blessing,
30652|And we are a blessing."
30652|"The stars are a blessing,
30652|The wind is a blessing,
30652|The moon is a blessing,
30652|The stars are a blessing."
30652|"The stars are a blessing,
30652|The wind is a blessing,
30652|The moon is a blessing
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30652|The land lies in a land of the silver sands
30652|Wherein the white-skinned sons of men arise,
30652|And, gathering their clans together, unbind
30652|The green belts and the royal purple,
30652|And wear the crowns in a proud fashion
30652|When the hour of the morn, and the coming of day.
30652|The moon rises up, and all the stars are bright;
30652|The night is silent as a stone, and the wind
30652|Is as the night's last victim; the stars pass
30652|In a crown of gold from the great globe of night,
30652|And the wind and the moon are like lips upon
30652|The sea; and I know I shall never wake up
30652|To see again the bright and awful sun.
30652|A wind is in the garden
30652|Where the daisies are,
30652|And the long night-winds blow
30652|Over the earth and the sea,
30652|Till, like a flower outspread,
30652|The night-past in my heart
30652|Leaves it all bare of aisles and dusks
30652|And of all sun-bright flowers.
30652|There is no wind to waken the daisies,
30652|For the stars are pale and red;
30652|And no wind to wake them from their graves
30652|For a dream that is dead.
30652|The stars are like cheeks that are worn and dry,
30652|And the sea is as a corpse that lies
30652|Under the sands, as one might be
30652|In the grave of a corpseless mould.
30652|The night-dust is as cold as the graves,
30652|And the moon is like a stone
30652|That is drunk with the tears of the stars
30652|And blood of the sea.
30652|The stars are like cheeks that are pale and wet
30652|And the sea is as a stone
30652|That lies in the peace of a tearless eye
30652|And lies in a murmurless sea.
30652|There is no star, no sea, to open the eyes
30652|Of
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30652|The darkness drops again; but now I know
30652|That twenty centuries of stony sleep
30652|Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
30652|And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
30652|Slouishish by the time, is slouching back
30652|To sleep again.
30652|The darkness drops again; but now I know
30652|That twenty centuries of stony sleep
30652|Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
30652|And what rough beast its hour come round at last,
30652|Slouish by the time, is slouching back
30652|To sleep again.
30652|The darkness drops again; but now I know
30652|That twenty centuries of stony sleep
30652|Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
30652|And what rough beast its hour come round at last,
30652|Slouish by the time, is slouching back
30652|To sleep again.
30652|The darkness drops again; but now I know
30652|That twenty centuries of stony sleep
30652|Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
30652|And what rough beast its hour come round at last,
30652|Slouish by the time, is slouching back
30652|To sleep again.
30652|The darkness drops again; but now I know
30652|That twenty centuries of stony sleep
30652|Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
30652|And what rough beast its hour come round at last,
30652|Slouish by the time, is slouching back
30652|To sleep again.
30652|The darkness drops again; but now I know
30652|That twenty centuries of stony sleep
30652|Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
30652|And what rough beast its hour come round at last,
30652|Slouish by the time, is slouching back
30652|To sleep again.
30652|The darkness drops again; but now I know
30652|That twenty centuries of stony sleep
30652|Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
30652|And what rough beast its hour come
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30652|And what the child? What but a rocking cradle,
30652|A rocking man, a rocking child of God?
30652|The cradle stirs, and there is a moan;
30652|And over the earth and the sea and the sky
30652|A great black wheel is whirled like a funeral train
30652|That passes from one grave to another.
30652|And the great wheel passes, and a voice cries out,
30652|"For ever and for ever the sky is red,
30652|And the red earth hath no soul, and the red earth
30652|Hath never a soul.
30652|"For ever and for ever the sky is red;
30652|The red earth hath no soul, and the red earth
30652|Hath never a soul.
30652|"And all the world of men shall be as black
30652|As is the bed where the dead child sleeps;
30652|And the red earth shall die, and the red earth
30652|Hath never a soul.
30652|"And over the red earth the wind of death
30652|Shall howl, and the red earth shall be choked
30652|With dust and blood, and the red earth shall be bruised
30652|In the midst of death."
30652|It is the last cry, the cry of the dead
30652|That thrills me the worst. It is the cry
30652|Of the child who goes alone,
30652|And the great rocking cradle's gasp
30652|Of a man with an empty tomb.
30652|The screaming night is loud and hark!
30652|The screaming night is long!
30652|And there is one who shall be seen
30652|In the window where the stars are dark,
30652|With a shadow on the bed,
30652|With the white hand of an old woman
30652|At the window, holding a candle,
30652|And the flame at her feet.
30652|I saw the white flame on the bed
30652|Of the empty tomb of a man
30652|A few moments ere it was dark
30652|When he stood there silent and alone,
30652|And I knew that in the world of men
30652
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30652|O cunning tyrant, you have not yet come;
30652|Though you shall not come, for me you sleep,
30652|And I will lay my head upon your breast,
30652|And think of you, I shall not weep or weep.
30652|My child, the morning was at worst a dreary
30652|And bitter day to you; and did you think
30652|How long it was since I had seen the sun?
30652|How long since I was labouring all alone
30652|In the great and busy world, and all the while
30652|I had no thought of you, my child, my little one?
30652|I have a little garden, and you know
30652|That I have tended it as nurse would care
30652|For a little flower, and planted it there
30652|As a delight and work of beauty; but now
30652|I think that it is time to plant the sun.
30652|The little sun-flower grows upon the earth
30652|But nowhere, like the little sun-flower, for you.
30652|And yet it is not empty, and I know
30652|That if you looked there, you would look in my face,
30652|And say: "My little sun-flower, what is this?"
30652|I have a house, and you know that I have
30652|A garden, and my life is very fair;
30652|And yet I think that it is time to take
30652|My little sun-flower from the great garden-bed,
30652|To plant it in the road, and keep it there
30652|Till morning, and then plant it in the sun.
30652|I have a little farm; you know that I have
30652|A house and a little farm; yet surely you
30652|Would think that I should leave them both to go
30652|To the great world, and put them back to me?
30652|You think that I would think it better to leave
30652|My little farm, and put it back in flower?
30652|O cruel, cruel, cruel little child,
30652|O little child that cannot speak for speech,
30652|O little child that is not good to
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30652|The deafening silence dies again
30652|And oaks are under the trampled grass.
30652|And the moons start on the dew, and the star
30652|Shines out as a face in a dark door
30652|That waits a footfall, and stops and speaks to a star.
30652|The moon is borne from far away
30652|On the wan wind through the midnight air,
30652|So pale, so cold, so mad, and so madly still,
30652|And still as a blind dog's head in a ditch
30652|That licks the sky and licks the stars.
30652|The moon is borne from far away
30652|On the wan wind through the midnight air.
30652|The stars all start and glimmer and gleam
30652|Till the earth is grown a dream in their eyes,
30652|And the earth is wan and hollow and numb.
30652|The moon is borne from far away
30652|On the wan wind through the midnight air.
30652|Then the dead dead moon goes down the sky,
30652|And the stars go up like dust in a ditch
30652|That a man has made of a puddle and a star.
30652|The stars are like dead birds in the dark,
30652|And I know the air will never be free
30652|Of a sound like a moaning wind that sings.
30652|The stars are like dead birds in the dark.
30652|The stars are like dead birds in the dark.
30652|The star that I love so well
30652|Is like a dead thing, blown away
30652|In a wind that never rest
30652|Will ever sweep away.
30652|The wind that never rest will never sing.
30652|I love the wind that never rest.
30652|The wind that never rest will never blow.
30652|There are no stars to see;
30652|It is like the death of a stone
30652|Whose breath is life.
30652|There are no stars to find;
30652|It is like the death of a word
30652|Whose sound is death.
30652|There are no years to die;
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30652|Not far off, in the palm-grove, a queer old man
30652|Pores over a manuscript that he has caught,
30652|In the mad swill of the race he was running,
30652|And the fluttering mist of the race he is running.
30652|The king's child, with a face like the sun,
30652|Drinks of the lees of the sun's last grace
30652|From a jar of wine, and the moon is lost
30652|Beneath the crimson of his face.
30652|A snow-white hand is pressed on a throat
30652|That holds a cup of wine, and the moon
30652|Stares at the hand, and the hand at the moon,
30652|And the moon at the hand, and the man's hand
30652|Is changed to a face of the rose.
30652|But the man's hand is lost in the foam
30652|And the moon is lost in the mist of the race.
30652|The queen's child, with a face like the sun,
30652|Pores over the manuscript that he has caught,
30652|In the madness of his race he has caught.
30652|He sings of a boy and a girl and a book,
30652|And the stars, like a band of the hand that is lost,
30652|And the wind, like a band of the face that is lost.
30652|It is all of the face that is lost,
30652|And the moon, and the hand, and the book,
30652|And the stars, and the band of the face that is lost,
30652|And the hand, and the face, and the book,
30652|And the wind, and the band of the face that is lost.
30652|But the queen's child sings, and the hands, and the face,
30652|And the moon, and the hands, and the face,
30652|And the hands, and the face, and the book,
30652|And the stars, and the band of the face that is lost.
30652|A wind-gust in the vast desert,
30652|A wild grey dusk in a vast grave.
30652|The moon is pale, and
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30652|'Mong ruins of old joy, where sorrowless
30652|Her dusky clouds huddle, and out of the gloom
30652|Of the grey temple, there, on the sand, I see
30652|A figure moving in a moonlight sea.
30652|It is not the figure of the priest; but a
30652|Glory of a thousand gods; and a far cry
30652|Of music, the voice of the sun at noon
30652|Sings to the feet of the deity.
30652|The lover, none knows whence, with the flame of the heart
30652|Reverberates in him. To the waters of heaven
30652|He has given the crown of his life, and he
30652|Has broken the waves of earth in his flight,
30652|And won the breast of a woman and the world.
30652|In a smoke-wrapt garden
30652|A dream took wing.
30652|The happy birds sung,
30652|The dewy grasses stirred,
30652|The silver sun shone
30652|Over the sea.
30652|On the slopes of the darksome hill
30652|The sleeping flowers stood,
30652|They seemed to whisper
30652|A word in praise.
30652|The birds were hidden
30652|Under the rocks,
30652|The flowers were silent
30652|And reverent.
30652|The wind came
30652|From the west, and a voice
30652|Came from the forest,
30652|And it said:
30652|"I am the wind, and I am the trees;
30652|I am the fragrance
30652|And the dream in a forest.
30652|I am the sunset
30652|That sings aloud.
30652|The white clouds
30652|Float in the sky
30652|And the birds sing
30652|In the heaven."
30652|And the love of the morning
30652|In the cedar-grove,
30652|Under the lindens,
30652|Chanted in praise
30652|Woke with the voice
30652|Of the wind and the bird.
30652|I am the sun that sets,
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30652|Through the still night the wind has blown
30652|The thunder's cry to my right,
30652|And I know that the storm is dead,
30652|And I hear the call of the dove.
30652|For the wind, a bard to his heart,
30652|Lit all his soul in the lark
30652|That alights at the midnight sky;
30652|And the sky, a bard to his soul,
30652|Sent the lark forth, with its high song.
30652|The clouds are red on the sky
30652|And the wind's mighty cry
30652|Calls back to the one thing clear
30652|In the land of darkness and snow.
30652|But I, who have walked in the dark,
30652|I, who have trudged to the wood,
30652|I, who have watched the starlit trees
30652|Sink in the sough of the rain,
30652|I, who have sat by the old mill,
30652|In the valley of silent trees,
30652|I, who have stood by the dark green river
30652|Swinging and leaping by me,
30652|I, who have borne in my heart the cry
30652|Of the wind on the hillside,
30652|I, who have seen the waves leap up
30652|And watch the lark fly away,
30652|I, who have heard the wind's cry,
30652|Through the still night and the rain,
30652|And the wind's voice said to me,
30652|"I am with you, O my heart!
30652|The red wind calls you, my dear!"
30652|I, who have laughed in the sun,
30652|And laughed with the bird on the tree,
30652|And laughed with the whispering stream
30652|In the warm morning, I turn
30652|To the red wind's cry,
30652|"O, my love, I am with you,
30652|The red wind calls you, my dear!"
30652|O, the cry that echoes there,
30652|The cry of the wind that blows,
30652|The moan of the rain,
30652|
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30652|The dark rolls like a billow on the sea;
30652|It is too late for tears. My heart is dead.
30652|Lifting a look of cold scorn from his grim face,
30652|The archangel said: "The man is born again.
30652|No more shall men be killed and given up to sin.
30652|The Child is born."
30652|I saw the face, and I was glad;
30652|I knew that I had never known death.
30652|I saw the voice, and I was glad;
30652|I knew that I had never known sin.
30652|I knew the hands, and I was glad;
30652|I knew that I had never known birth.
30652|I knew the feet, and I was glad;
30652|I knew that I had never known death.
30652|I knew the feet and hands, and I was glad.
30652|I knew the signs, and I was glad;
30652|I knew that I had never known birth.
30652|The great sun came; he was pale,
30652|And it was not because his breath
30652|Was unwelcome in the earth.
30652|He looked so longingly at the sea;
30652|But he did not seem to know
30652|That it was he himself.
30652|I saw the large green moon. It was
30652|A vision in a glass,
30652|That shone upon a sea of glass,
30652|Whose waves were stones and heaps of stone.
30652|The great green moon was staring back
30652|At me with silent fear.
30652|"Oh, is it real, or is it dream?"
30652|I said to him.
30652|"Is it real, or is it dream?" said
30652|The moon.
30652|"Is it real, or is it dream?" said
30652|The sea.
30652|"Is it real, or is it dream?" said
30652|The sky.
30652|"Is it real, or is it dream?" said
30652|The stars.
30652|"Is it real, or is it dream?" said
30652|I asked.
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30652|The old earth stands forlorn,
30652|With nothing to look on but the sky.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on, and all about it is night.
30652|Is now the time for love,
30652|For which the Past gave no long-enduring promise.
30652|A man's heart is a man's heart that beats against the sky,
30652|And a man's voice is a man's voice that cries aloud.
30652|The old earth stands forlorn;
30652|With nothing to look on but the sky.
30652|A man's love is a man's love that is full of strength,
30652|That makes a joy of life, a joy of the old earth,
30652|That never shall cease, that ne'er shall grow old.
30652|The old earth stands forlorn;
30652|With nothing to look on but the sky.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on, and all about it is night.
30652|A man's heart is a man's heart that beats against the sky,
30652|And a man's voice is a man's voice that cries aloud.
30652|The old earth stands forlorn;
30652|With nothing to look on but the sky.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on, and all about it is night.
30652|A man's pride is a man's pride that makes him mad,
30652|That turns to him a darkness that makes heaven blind.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on, and all about it is night.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on, and all about it is night.
30652|A man's shame is a man's shame that is passionate,
30652|That makes him mad for ever in a strange land.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on, and all about it is night.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on, and all about it is night.
30652|The old earth has no thing
30652|To look on,
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30652|Then, while the thunder is not less nor less
30652|The mighty thing that stirs the deep of the earth
30652|Rises up and is born: the wide sea sings
30652|With a stirring sound, the vast sea wakes again,
30652|And the great sea-mew flaps up at the high heaven.
30652|Sails of the great sea have knotted the land
30652|With drifting masts; and the stars have anointing
30652|Their brows, and sea-birds fly to the open sea.
30652|The sea is shaken, the mariners are seized
30652|With a sudden fear; the earth has been touched by a
30652|Immortal hand.
30652|They dare not draw near
30652|Into the darkness, they are afraid of the dark;
30652|The great sea leaps out like a castle-lock
30652|And flings the windings of its golden peaks
30652|Against the billows, and the waters break and break.
30652|The great sea goes mad, it is lifted on high
30652|And spreads and hangs and flings its banners of foam
30652|And ripples and blinds and flashes; and it is
30652|A strange unhappy thing to be in a sea.
30652|The great sea-maw makes a roaring noise, and the sea
30652|Closes round them, and the sky is one wide chasm
30652|Wherein the waves are like the clouds, and the sea
30652|Spouts hot coals over the rocks and the sea
30652|Crashes with the waves: the great sea-cave
30652|Grows wide and wide beneath the waves, and the shore
30652|Tops out of sight; and all the black world
30652|Moves about it, and the great sea-mew flies
30652|And flaps its pinions, and the great sea-bird
30652|Touches and buries him in the sand.
30652|And still it goes, and all the waves are black;
30652|A moment, and the great sea-mew rises
30652|And beats the cliffs, and the great sea-bird
30652|Is sunk to nothing under the waves
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30652|And in the darkness, still for evermore
30652|Pulse the deep pulse of life and death;
30652|And in the darkness, life is born, and death is past,
30652|And the Lord's first day is born.
30652|He comes from the hill of smoke
30652|Where the cloud-screens are falling.
30652|He holds his hand out to the men
30652|Who stand at his feet, in the gloom.
30652|"I am hungry, they say; I have come from the islands;
30652|It is a long way to the sea.
30652|"I must feed them; I shall have no meat
30652|Till I have found my tent.
30652|"I have heard the wind singing, and I will go with you
30652|And see the world pass by.
30652|"The little birds, they will sing louder and louder;
30652|I will go to my tent and rest."
30652|The men were all at their work, and each had a lantern;
30652|The labourers stood about in the desert and listened
30652|In the stillness of the night.
30652|He was young, and his work was to make it all right.
30652|He had to have his work, and he gave it his whole heart.
30652|The dark-grey clouds crept over the burning place,
30652|As the day wore on, and the night came on.
30652|The labourers were all at their work, and each one had a whip;
30652|And the white-faced women came and watched them work.
30652|The day wore on, and the night came on.
30652|The labourers were all at their work, and each one had a gun;
30652|And the white-faced women came and watched them work.
30652|The night wore on, and the night came on.
30652|And there was one, in the twilight, who turned away,
30652|And never saw the dawn of the day.
30652|"_I_ can hear the surf-beat on the coral-caves,
30652|And the sound of the seaweeds rolling.
30652|"There is no good to
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30652|The Three Kingdoms in the desert land
30652|Are rocking at their rest: the shining Throne
30652|Stands up like God; and I know the Second Coming
30652|Will be as wonderful as the First.
30652|There are three legions in the desert land,
30652|Two march on in iron armour, one in gold.
30652|Three legions are in iron armour, one in gold,
30652|And neither legion will pass by the other
30652|In the dark of the steppes.
30652|It is not on the flat of the shore
30652|Where the silver waves are whirled;
30652|But in the bitter windy places,
30652|And the dreary places of the sea.
30652|For the great sea-fog on the sea-lands
30652|Is the shapeless darkness of the shroud
30652|Of the grave of the dead.
30652|The tongues of the tongues of the legions
30652|Are the tongues of the tongues of God.
30652|They can only speak a language that is dead,
30652|And language of blood; and the tongues of the legions
30652|Are like the ghost of a broken language
30652|That lingers in the windy places.
30652|It is not on the flat of the shore
30652|Where the silver waves are whirled;
30652|But in the bitter windy places,
30652|And the dreary places of the sea.
30652|The tongues of the tongues of the legions
30652|Are the tongues of God.
30652|It is not on the flat of the shore
30652|Where the silver waves are whirled;
30652|But in the bitter windy places,
30652|And the dreary places of the sea.
30652|It is not on the rolling sand
30652|That the tongues of the legions rend;
30652|It is the empty places of the sea,
30652|Where the tongues of the legions are.
30652|It is not on the white sand that
30652|The legions grow in strength and bold;
30652|It is the spirit of the sea,
30652|And the salt of the sea-sand.
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30652|They speak: but I know that every tongue
30652|Is silenced with wonder:
30652|One that has travelled through a million years,
30652|Who knows what comes of all?
30652|It is a stranger's speech,
30652|A strange strange speech.
30652|They speak to each other,
30652|Their lips already,
30652|And when the rest have said
30652|The words they would utter
30652|To them it is the same;
30652|For they have heard the word
30652|Of the First Coming.
30652|They speak as children
30652|The word of the Second Coming:
30652|But if they speak to the men of the South
30652|That word will reach them,
30652|And no man will be the wiser.
30652|The thickening darkness swallows up
30652|The awful mystery
30652|Of the Second Coming.
30652|The day is gone; the morning is cold;
30652|The air is hard as iron;
30652|And then, there's a star in the sky,
30652|And on the hill the morning-star.
30652|The wind is gone; it came, it came
30652|And sent the foam of it,
30652|And the steep wood is slippery with foam,
30652|And cold as iron;
30652|The star-beam meets the rock in the wood,
30652|And over the hill it's fled.
30652|The night is gone; the moon is cold;
30652|The sky is dark and cold;
30652|And then the white winds of heaven
30652|Have gathered in the west.
30652|And all that was light is lost in the dark;
30652|And stars are lost in heaven;
30652|And in a little while
30652|The hill-side will be shrouded and silent,
30652|And the world will be asleep.
30652|At the dusk of day
30652|A blackbird sings in the cherry-trees,
30652|And the white owl hoots in the tower;
30652|And in the blind fields of the dim lake
30652|The little brook runs laughing.
30652
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30652|They were not angry or afraid:
30652|They knew the times were terrible
30652|When there was not the slightest hope
30652|That life could be anything but blind,
30652|Hollow, and bare, and hopeless.
30652|They were not frantic with affright
30652|Or terror of some utter loss,
30652|But only with the mad delight
30652|To have, and do, and have not.
30652|The phantoms came, and they came in haste,
30652|And one who came with speed was not the same;
30652|Their hair was flecked with foam and tears,
30652|The lips and brows were parted.
30652|They do not speak, they do not know,
30652|They do not know what they are,
30652|But they knew one other thing, and this
30652|Is the end of them.
30652|I saw a soldier pass by,
30652|He was not a very good one,
30652|A soldier I don't suppose
30652|But that's the way it is with us.
30652|He was the oldest soldier
30652|That ever I saw.
30652|And yet he wore his uniform
30652|And that's the way it is with us;
30652|For the old soldier's just a youngster,
30652|And the youngster's only twelve.
30652|He went by the same old road
30652|And the same old house;
30652|And I watched him at the end of the day
30652|And the same old face I knew.
30652|And then the aged man looked up
30652|And I saw his eyes lighten
30652|And then he lifted his old hand
30652|And gave me a big kiss.
30652|The little boys in the gardens
30652|Would often talk about the moon,
30652|And how it was a beautiful thing,
30652|And how it floated above them.
30652|And then I was born, and then I was sent
30652|To make them understand.
30652|There is no heaven and no earth
30652|But was created by God;
30652|And every bird on the trees
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30652|Or is it that my heart has a broken part?
30652|Or am I only a half-witted thing
30652|That could not keep the law?
30652|So I turn from the rocking cradle to the sun,
30652|And watch the eagle of the desert,
30652|That looks upon the tomb of a slave,
30652|And shakes its wings, and drops into the earth.
30652|In the wide desert is no rocking cradle,
30652|Nor rocking cradle is there in the wide desert,
30652|For the great winged ones are robed in white,
30652|And on their heads the star-lit dawn is brooding.
30652|The black thing is crouched on its iron rims;
30652|And the black thing is crouched on its iron rims;
30652|And the black thing is brooding on its iron rims,
30652|And the black thing is brooding on its iron rims,
30652|And on its iron rims the black thing lies,
30652|With its wings all iron, and with its wings all iron,
30652|And on its iron rims the black thing lies,
30652|And on its iron rims the black thing lies,
30652|And its wings all iron, and iron wings.
30652|"It is a long way to the holy land,"
30652|Said the white pilgrim.
30652|"It is a long way to the holy land,"
30652|Said the white pilgrim.
30652|"O you young son of the lily flower,
30652|Say to the white thing, 'I will be thy slave';
30652|Say to the black thing, 'I will be thy king,'
30652|Say to the iron thing, 'I will be thy lord.'"
30652|"I am the long way to the holy land,"
30652|Said the white pilgrim.
30652|"I am the long way to the holy land,"
30652|Said the white pilgrim.
30652|"I am the long way to the holy land,"
30652|Said the white pilgrim.
30652|"I am the long way to the holy land,"
30652|Said the white pilgrim
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30652|I know that I shall wake no more. I know
30652|That I shall think of the long-mourned dead;
30652|That I shall wake and see the angel come
30652|At the far end of the world, and say:
30652|"I am the one who, all at once, awoke
30652|With the dead in me, with the flesh in me;
30652|I carry in my heart the world's great passion,
30652|And I am broken with the world's great pain."
30652|That I shall wake no more. I know that I shall wake
30652|Out of the void and sorrow of this age,
30652|When the old gods of gods and dreams and thoughts
30652|Are broken and slain and cast to earth.
30652|I know that in the void and ruin of the past,
30652|Will come a spirit of night and of new birth,
30652|To weave the fabric of a mystery,
30652|To rend and re-arrange the great fabric of life,
30652|And make a greater life and a greater birth
30652|Than the great life of the gods of old.
30652|Shall come a spirit of darkness and of new-born night,
30652|To make a mystery of life and death,
30652|And make a greater mystery of death and birth
30652|Than the great death of the gods of old.
30652|Shall come a spirit of night and of a new-born birth,
30652|To make a mystery of life and death again,
30652|To re-arrange the great fabric of life again,
30652|And make a greater death than the old death death.
30652|Shall come a spirit of darkness and of a new-born birth,
30652|To make a mystery of life and death again,
30652|To re-arrange the great fabric of life again,
30652|And make a greater birth than the old birth birth.
30652|The spirit of darkness shall come again,
30652|A new and dark angel, to re-arrange
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