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Title: Poems
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       1916-1918
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Release Date: July 26, 2012 {[}eBook \#40344{]}
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{\Large\strut{FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG}}
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{\normalsize{ LONDON: 48 PALL MALL
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{\normalsize{ BY THE SAME AUTHOR}}
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{\itshape{{\normalsize{ Novels:}}}}
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{\normalsize{   THE YOUNG PHYSICIAN
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  THE CRESCENT MOON
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  THE IRON AGE
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  THE DARK TOWER
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  DEEP SEA
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  UNDERGROWTH (with E. Brett Young)}}
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{\itshape{{\normalsize{ Poems:}}}}
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{\normalsize{   FIVE DEGREES SOUTH}}
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{\itshape{{\normalsize{ Belles Lettres:}}}}
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{\normalsize{   ROBERT BRIDGES: A Critical Study
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  MARCHING ON TANGA}}
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{\normalsize{ TO
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EDYTH GOODALL}}
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{\itshape{{\normalsize{ Remember thus our sweet conspiracy:
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That I, having dreamed a lovely thing, with dull
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Words marred it--and you gave it back to me
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A thousand, thousand times more beautiful.}}}}
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{\normalsize{ Page 26, line 17, }}{\itshape{{\normalsize{ for}}}}{\normalsize{  "Lybian" }}{\itshape{{\normalsize{ read}}}}{\normalsize{  "Libyan."
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Page 46, line  9, }}{\itshape{{\normalsize{ for}}}}{\normalsize{  "lythe" }}{\itshape{{\normalsize{ read}}}}{\normalsize{  "lithe."
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When the evening came my love said to me:\par}
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{\vl The garden of black hellebore and rosemary,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Where wild woodruff spills in a milky pool.\par}
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Low we passed in the twilight, for the wavering heat\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Of day had waned, and round that shaded plot\par}
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{\vl Of secret beauty the thickets clustered sweet:\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Here is heaven, our hearts whispered, but our lips spake not.\par}
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Between that old garden and seas of lazy foam\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Gloomy and beautiful alleys of trees arise\par}
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{\vl With spire of cypress and dreamy beechen dome,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl So dark that our enchanted sight knew nothing but the skies\par}
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Veiled with soft air, drench'd in the roses' musk\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Or the dusky, dark carnation's breath of clove;\par}
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{\vl No stars burned in their deeps, but through the dusk\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl I saw my love's eyes, and they were brimmed with love.\par}
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No star their secret ravished, no wasting moon\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Mocked the sad transience of those eternal hours:\par}
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{\vl Only the soft, unseeing heaven of June,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The ghosts of great trees, and the sleeping flowers.\par}
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{\vl {\noindent}
For doves that crooned in the leafy noonday now\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Were silent; the night-jar sought his secret covers,\par}
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{\vl Nor even a mild sea-whisper moved a creaking bough--\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Was ever a silence deeper made for lovers?\par}
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Was ever a moment meeter made for love?\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Beautiful are your closed lips beneath my kiss;\par}
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{\vl And all your yielding sweetness beautiful--\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Oh, never in all the world was such a night as this!\par}
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If I had died, and never seen the dawn\par}
{\vl For which I hardly hoped, lighting this lawn\par}
{\vl Of silvery grasses; if there had been no light,\par}
{\vl And last night merged into perpetual night;\par}
{\vl I doubt if I should ever have been content\par}
{\vl To have closed my eyes without some testament\par}
{\vl To the great benefits that marked my faring\par}
{\vl Through the sweet world; for all my joy was sharing\par}
{\vl And lonely pleasures were few.  Unto which end\par}
{\vl Three legacies I'll send,\par}
{\vl Three legacies, already half possess'd:\par}
{\vl One to a friend, of all good friends the best,\par}
{\vl Better than which is nothing; yet another\par}
{\vl Unto thy twin, dissimilar spirit, Brother;\par}
{\vl The third to you,\par}
{\vl Most beautiful, most true,\par}
{\vl Most perfect one, to whom they all are due.\par}
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Quick, quick ... while there is time....\par}
{\vl O best of friends, I leave you one sublime\par}
{\vl Summer, one fadeless summer.  'Twas begun\par}
{\vl Ere Cotswold hawthorn tarnished in the sun,\par}
{\vl When hedges were fledged with green, and early swallows\par}
{\vl Swift-darting, on curved wings, pillaged the fallows;\par}
{\vl When all our vale was dappled blossom and light,\par}
{\vl And oh, the scent of beanfields in the night!\par}
{\vl You shall remember that rich dust at even\par}
{\vl Which made old Evesham like a street in heaven,\par}
{\vl Gold-paved, and washed within a wave of golden\par}
{\vl Air all her dreamy towers and gables olden.\par}
{\vl You shall remember\par}
{\vl How arms sun-blistered, hot palms crack'd with rowing,\par}
{\vl Clove the cool water of Avon, sweetly flowing;\par}
{\vl And how our bodies, beautifully white,\par}
{\vl Stretch'd to a long stroke lengthened in green light,\par}
{\vl And we, emerging, laughed in childish wise,\par}
{\vl And pressed the kissing water from our eyes.\par}
{\vl Ah, was our laughter childish, or were we wise?\par}
{\vl And then, crown of the day, a tired returning\par}
{\vl With happy sunsets over Bredon burning,\par}
{\vl With music and with moonlight, and good ale,\par}
{\vl And no thought for the morrow....  Heavy phlox\par}
{\vl Our garden pathways bordered, and evening stocks,\par}
{\vl Those humble weeds, in sunlight withered and pale,\par}
{\vl With a night scent to match the nightingale,\par}
{\vl Gladdened with spicèd sweetness sweet night's shadows,\par}
{\vl Meeting the breath of hay from mowing meadows:\par}
{\vl As humble was our joy, and as intense\par}
{\vl Our rapture.  So, before I hurry hence,\par}
{\vl Yours be the memory.\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl One night again,\par}
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{\vl When we were men, and had striven, and known pain,\par}
{\vl By a dark canal debating, unresigned,\par}
{\vl On the blind fate that shadows humankind,\par}
{\vl On the blind sword that severs human love...\par}
{\vl Then did the hidden belfry from above\par}
{\vl On troubled minds in benediction shed\par}
{\vl The patience of the great anonymous dead\par}
{\vl Who reared those towers, those high cathedrals builded\par}
{\vl In solemn stone, and with clear fancy gilded\par}
{\vl A beauty beyond ours, trusting in God.\par}
{\vl Then dared we follow the dark way they trod,\par}
{\vl And bowing to the universal plan\par}
{\vl Trust in the true and fiery spirit of Man.\par}
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{\vl {\noindent}
And you, my Brother,\par}
{\vl You know, as knows one other,\par}
{\vl How my spirit revisiteth a room\par}
{\vl In a high wing, beneath pine-trees, where gloom\par}
{\vl Dwelleth, dispelled by resinous wood embers,\par}
{\vl Where, in half-darkness ... How the heart remembers...\par}
{\vl We talked of beauty, and those fiery things\par}
{\vl To which the divine desirous spirit clings,\par}
{\vl In a wing'd rapture to that heaven flinging,\par}
{\vl Where beauty is an easy thing, and singing\par}
{\vl The natural speech of man.  Like kissing swords\par}
{\vl Our wits clashed there; the brittle beauty of words\par}
{\vl Breaking, seemed to discover its secret heart\par}
{\vl And all the rapt elusiveness of Art.\par}
{\vl Now I have known sorrow, and now I sing\par}
{\vl That a lovely word is not an idle thing;\par}
{\vl For as with stars the cloth of night is spangled,\par}
{\vl With star-like words, most lovelily entangled,\par}
{\vl The woof of sombre thought is deckt....  Ah, bright\par}
{\vl And cold they glitter in the spirit's night!\par}
{\vl But neither distant nor dispassionate;\par}
{\vl For beauty is an armour against fate....\par}
{\vl I tell you, who have stood in the dark alone.\par}
{\vl Seeing the face that turneth all to stone,\par}
{\vl Medusa, blind with hate,\par}
{\vl While I was dying, Beauty sate with me\par}
{\vl Nor tortured any longer; gracious was she;\par}
{\vl To her soft words I listened, and was content\par}
{\vl To die, nor sorry that my light was spent.\par}
{\vl So, Brother, if I come not home,\par}
{\vl Go to that little room\par}
{\vl That my spirit revisiteth, and there,\par}
{\vl Somewhere in the blue air, you shall discover\par}
{\vl If that you be a lover\par}
{\vl Nor haughtily minded, all that once half-shaped\par}
{\vl Then fled us, and escaped:\par}
{\vl All that I found that day,\par}
{\vl Far, so far away.\par}
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{\vl {\noindent}
And you, my lovely one,\par}
{\vl What can I leave to you, who, you having left,\par}
{\vl Am utterly bereft?\par}
{\vl What in my store of visionary dowers\par}
{\vl Is not already yours?\par}
{\vl What silences, what hours\par}
{\vl Of peace passing all understanding; days\par}
{\vl Made lyric by your beauty and its praise;\par}
{\vl Years neither time can tarnish, nor death mar,\par}
{\vl Wherein you shined as steadfast as a star\par}
{\vl In my bleak night, heedless of the cloud-wrack\par}
{\vl Scudding in torn fleeces black\par}
{\vl Of my dark moods, as those who rule the far\par}
{\vl Star-haunted pleasaunces of heaven are?\par}
{\vl So think but lightly of that afternoon\par}
{\vl With white clouds climbing a blue sky in June\par}
{\vl When a boy worshipped under dreaming trees,\par}
{\vl Who touched your hand, and sought your eyes.\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl ... Ah, cease,\par}
}

{\vl Not these, not these...\par}
{\vl Nor yet those nights when icy Brathay thundered\par}
{\vl Under his bridges, and ghostly mountains wondered\par}
{\vl At the white blossoming of a Christmas rose\par}
{\vl More stainless than their snows;\par}
{\vl Nor even of those placid days together\par}
{\vl Mellow as early autumn's amber weather\par}
{\vl When beech is ankleted with fire, and old\par}
{\vl Elms wear their livery of yellow gold,\par}
{\vl When orchards all are laden with increase,\par}
{\vl And the quiet earth hath fruited, and knows peace\par}
{\vl Oh, think not overmuch on those sweet years\par}
{\vl Lest their last fruit be tears,--\par}
{\vl Your tears, beloved, that were my utmost pain,--\par}
{\vl But rather, dream again\par}
{\vl How that a lover, half poet and half child,\par}
{\vl An eager spirit of fragile fancies wild\par}
{\vl Compact, adored the beauty and truth in you:\par}
{\vl To your own truth be true;\par}
{\vl And when, not mournfully, you turn this page\par}
{\vl Consider still your starry heritage,\par}
{\vl Continue in your loveliness, a star\par}
{\vl To gladden me from afar\par}
{\vl Even where there is no light\par}
{\vl In my last night.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{lochanilaun}%
\hypertarget{lochanilaun}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{LOCHANILAUN}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
This is the image of my last content:\par}
{\vl My soul shall be a little lonely lake,\par}
{\vl So hidden that no shadow of man may break\par}
{\vl The folding of its mountain battlement;\par}
{\vl Only the beautiful and innocent\par}
{\vl Whiteness of sea-born cloud drooping to shake\par}
{\vl Cool rain upon the reed-beds, or the wake\par}
{\vl Of churn'd cloud in a howling wind's descent.\par}
{\vl For there shall be no terror in the night\par}
{\vl When stars that I have loved are born in me,\par}
{\vl And cloudy darkness I will hold most fair;\par}
{\vl But this shall be the end of my delight:\par}
{\vl That you, my lovely one, may stoop and see\par}
{\vl Your image in the mirrored beauty there.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{lettermore}%
\hypertarget{lettermore}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{LETTERMORE}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
These winter days on Lettermore\par}
{\vl The brown west wind it sweeps the bay,\par}
{\vl And icy rain beats on the bare\par}
{\vl Unhomely fields that perish there:\par}
{\vl The stony fields of Lettermore\par}
{\vl That drink the white Atlantic spray.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And men who starve on Lettermore,\par}
{\vl Cursing the haggard, hungry surf,\par}
{\vl Will souse the autumn's bruisèd grains\par}
{\vl To light dark fires within their brains\par}
{\vl And fight with stones on Lettermore\par}
{\vl Or sprawl beside the smoky turf.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
When spring blows over Lettermore\par}
{\vl To bloom the ragged furze with gold,\par}
{\vl The lovely south wind's living breath\par}
{\vl Is laden with the smell of death:\par}
{\vl For fever breeds on Lettermore\par}
{\vl To waste the eyes of young and old.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
A black van comes to Lettermore;\par}
{\vl The horses stumble on the stones,\par}
{\vl The drivers curse,--for it is hard\par}
{\vl To cross the hills from Oughterard\par}
{\vl And cart the sick from Lettermore:\par}
{\vl A stinking load of rags and bones.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
But you will go to Lettermore\par}
{\vl When white sea-trout are on the run,\par}
{\vl When purple glows between the rocks\par}
{\vl About Lord Dudley's fishing-box\par}
{\vl Adown the road to Lettermore,\par}
{\vl And wide seas tarnish in the sun.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And so you'll think of Lettermore\par}
{\vl As a lost island of the blest:\par}
{\vl With peasant lovers in a blue\par}
{\vl Dim dusk, with heather drench'd in dew,\par}
{\vl And the sweet peace of Lettermore\par}
{\vl Remote and dreaming in the West.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{lament}%
\hypertarget{lament}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{LAMENT}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Once, I think, a finer fire\par}
{\vl Touched my lips, and then I sang\par}
{\vl Half the songs of my desire:\par}
{\vl With their splendour the world rang.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And their sweetness made me free\par}
{\vl Of those starry ways whereby\par}
{\vl Planets make their minstrelsy\par}
{\vl In echoing, unending sky.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
So, before that spell was broken,\par}
{\vl Song of the wind, surge of the sea,--\par}
{\vl Beautiful passionate things unspoken\par}
{\vl Rose like a breaking wave in me:\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Rose like a wave with curled crest\par}
{\vl That green sunlight splinters through...\par}
{\vl But the wave broke within my breast:\par}
{\vl And now I am a man like you.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-lemon-tree}%
\hypertarget{the-lemon-tree}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE LEMON-TREE}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Last night, last night, a vision of you\par}
{\vl Sweetly troubled my waking dream:\par}
{\vl Beneath the clear Algerian blue\par}
{\vl You stood with lifted eyes: the beam\par}
{\vl Of a winter sun beat on the crown\par}
{\vl Of a lemon-tree, whose delicate fruit\par}
{\vl Like pale lamps hung airily down;\par}
{\vl And in your gazing eyes a mute\par}
{\vl And lovely wonder....  Have I sung\par}
{\vl Of slender things and naught beside?\par}
{\vl You were so beautifully young\par}
{\vl I must have kissed you or have died.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{phthonos}%
\hypertarget{phthonos}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}

{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{PHTHONOS}}
\endgraf}
\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}

{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{If, in high jealousy, God made me blind}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{And laughed to see me stumble in the night,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{Driving his many-splintered arrows of light}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{Into that lost dominion of my mind;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{Then, knowing me still unvext and unresigned,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{Stole from my ears all homely sounds that might}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{Temper the darkness, saying, in heaven's despite,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{I had not wholly left the world behind;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{So, sunless, soundless, if, to make an end,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{He smote the nerves that move, the nerves that feel:}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{Even then, O jealous one, I would not complain}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{If I were spared the wealth I cannot spend,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{If I were left the treasure none can steal:}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{The lovely words that wander through my brain.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
\end{verse}

\label{easter}%
\hypertarget{easter}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{EASTER}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Adown our lane at Eastertide\par}
{\vl Hosts of dancing bluebells lay\par}
{\vl In pools of light: and 'Oh,' you cried,\par}
{\vl 'Look, look at them: I think that they\par}
{\vl Are bluer than the laughing sea,'\par}
{\vl And 'Look!' you cried, 'a piece of the sky\par}
{\vl Has fallen down for you and me\par}
{\vl To gaze upon and love.' ... And I,\par}
{\vl Seeing in your eyes the dancing blue\par}
{\vl And in your heart the innocent birth\par}
{\vl Of a pure delight, I knew, I knew\par}
{\vl That heaven had fallen upon earth.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-leaning-elm}%
\hypertarget{the-leaning-elm}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE LEANING ELM}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Before my window, in days of winter hoar\par}
{\vl Huddled a mournful wood:\par}
{\vl Smooth pillars of beech, domed chestnut, sycamore,\par}
{\vl In stony sleep they stood:\par}
{\vl But you, unhappy elm, the angry west\par}
{\vl Had chosen from the rest,\par}
{\vl Flung broken on your brothers' branches bare,\par}
{\vl And left you leaning there\par}
{\vl So dead that when the breath of winter cast\par}
{\vl Wild snow upon the blast,\par}
{\vl The other living branches, downward bowed,\par}
{\vl Shook free their crystal shroud\par}
{\vl And shed upon your blackened trunk beneath,\par}
{\vl Their livery of death....\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
On windless nights between the beechen bars\par}
{\vl I watched cold stars\par}
{\vl Throb whitely in the sky, and dreamily\par}
{\vl Wondered if any life lay locked in thee:\par}
{\vl If still the hidden sap secretly moved,\par}
{\vl As water in the icy winterbourne\par}
{\vl Floweth unheard;\par}
{\vl And half I pitied you your trance forlorn:\par}
{\vl You could not hear, I thought, the voice of any bird,\par}
{\vl The shadowy cries of bats in dim twilight\par}
{\vl Or cool voices of owls crying by night....\par}
{\vl Hunting by night under the hornèd moon:\par}
{\vl Yet half I envied you your wintry swoon,\par}
{\vl Till, on this morning mild, the sun, new-risen\par}
{\vl Steals from his misty prison;\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The frozen fallows glow, the black trees shaken\par}
{\vl In a clear flood of sunlight vibrating awaken:\par}
{\vl And lo, your ravaged bole, beyond belief\par}
{\vl Slenderly fledged anew with tender leaf\par}
{\vl As pale as those twin vanes that break at last\par}
{\vl In a tiny fan above the black beech-mast\par}
{\vl Where no blade springeth green\par}
{\vl But pallid bells of the shy helleborine.\par}
{\vl What is this ecstasy that overwhelms\par}
{\vl The dreaming earth?  See, the embrownèd elms\par}
{\vl Crowding purple distances warm the depths of the wood;\par}
{\vl A new-born wind tosses their tassels brown,\par}
{\vl His white clouds dapple the down;\par}
{\vl Into a green flame bursting the hedgerows stand;\par}
{\vl Soon, with banners flying, Spring will walk the land....\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
There is no day for thee, my soul, like this,\par}
{\vl No spring of lovely words.  Nay, even the kiss\par}
{\vl Of mortal love that maketh man divine\par}
{\vl This light cannot outshine:\par}
{\vl Nay, even poets, they whose frail hands catch\par}
{\vl The shadow of vanishing beauty, may not match\par}
{\vl This leafy ecstasy.  Sweet words may cull\par}
{\vl Such magical beauty as time may not destroy;\par}
{\vl But we, alas, are not more beautiful:\par}
{\vl We cannot flower in beauty as in joy.\par}
{\vl We sing, our musèd words are sped, and then\par}
{\vl Poets are only men\par}
{\vl Who age, and toil, and sicken....  This maim'd tree\par}
{\vl May stand in leaf when I have ceased to be.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-joyous-lover}%
\hypertarget{the-joyous-lover}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE JOYOUS LOVER}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
O, now that I am free as the air\par}
{\vl And fleet as clouds above,\par}
{\vl I will wander everywhere\par}
{\vl Over the ways I love.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Lightly, lightly will I pass\par}
{\vl Nor scatter as I go\par}
{\vl A shadow on the blowing grass\par}
{\vl Or a footprint in the snow.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
All the wild things of the wood\par}
{\vl That once were timid and shy\par}
{\vl They shall not flee their solitude\par}
{\vl For fear, when I pass by;\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And beauty, beauty, the wide world over,\par}
{\vl Shall blush when I draw near:\par}
{\vl She knows her lover, the joyous lover,\par}
{\vl And greets him without fear.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
But if I come to the dark room\par}
{\vl From which our love hath fled\par}
{\vl And bend above you in the gloom\par}
{\vl Or kneel beside your bed,\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Smile soft in your sleep, my beautiful one,\par}
{\vl For if you should say 'Nay'\par}
{\vl To the dream which visiteth you alone,\par}
{\vl My joy would wither away.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{dead-poets}%
\hypertarget{dead-poets}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{DEAD POETS}}
\endgraf}
\par


\vs{3}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{ODE WRITTEN AT WILTON HOUSE}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Last night, amazed, I trod on holy ground\par}
{\vl Breathing an air that ancient poets knew,\par}
{\vl Where, in a valley compassed with sweet sound,\par}
{\vl Beneath a garden's alley'd shades of yew,\par}
{\vl With eager feet passèd that singer sweet\par}
{\vl Who Stella loved, whom bloody Zutphen slew\par}
{\vl In the starred zenith of his knightly fame.\par}
{\vl There too a dark-stoled figure I did meet:\par}
{\vl Herbert, whose faith burned true\par}
{\vl And steadfast as the altar candle's flame.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Under the Wilton cedars, pondering\par}
{\vl Upon the pains of Beauty and the wrong\par}
{\vl That sealeth lovely lips, fated to sing,\par}
{\vl Before they reach the cadence of their song,\par}
{\vl I mused upon dead poets: mighty ones\par}
{\vl Who sang and suffered: briefly heard were they\par}
{\vl As Libyan nightingales weary of wing\par}
{\vl Fleeing the temper of Saharan suns\par}
{\vl To gladden our moon'd May,\par}
{\vl And with the broken blossom vanishing.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
So to my eyes a sorrowful vision came\par}
{\vl Of one whose name was writ in water: bright\par}
{\vl His cheeks and eyes burned with a hectic flame;\par}
{\vl And one, alas!  I saw whose passionate might\par}
{\vl Was spent upon a fevered fen in Greece;\par}
{\vl One shade there was who, starving, choked with bread;\par}
{\vl One, a drown'd corpse, through stormy water slips;\par}
{\vl One in the numbing poppy-juice found peace;\par}
{\vl And one, a youth, lay dead\par}
{\vl With powdered arsenic upon his lips.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
O bitter were the sorrow that could dull\par}
{\vl The sombre music of slow evening\par}
{\vl Here, where the old world is so beautiful\par}
{\vl That even lesser lips are moved to sing\par}
{\vl How the wide heron sails into the light\par}
{\vl Black as the cedarn shadows on the lawns\par}
{\vl Or stricken woodlands patient in decay,\par}
{\vl And river water murmurs through the night\par}
{\vl Until autumnal dawns\par}
{\vl Burn in the glass of Nadder's watery way.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Nay, these were they by whom the world was lost,\par}
{\vl To whom the world most richly gave: forlorn\par}
{\vl Beauty they worshipp'd, counting not the cost\par}
{\vl If of their torment beauty might be born;\par}
{\vl And life, the splendid flower of their delight,\par}
{\vl Loving too eagerly, they broke, and spill'd\par}
{\vl The perfume that the folded petals close\par}
{\vl Before its prime; yet their frail fingers white\par}
{\vl From that bruised bloom distill'd\par}
{\vl Uttermost attar of the living rose.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Wherefore, O shining ones, I will not mourn\par}
{\vl You, who have ravish'd beauty's secret ways\par}
{\vl Beneath death's impotent shadow, suffering scorn,\par}
{\vl Hatred, and desolation in her praise....\par}
{\vl Thus as I spoke their phantom faces smiled,\par}
{\vl As brooding night with heavy downward wing\par}
{\vl Fell upon Wilton's elegiac stone,\par}
{\vl On the dark woodlands and the waters wild\par}
{\vl And every living thing--\par}
{\vl Leaving me there amazèd and alone.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{porton-water}%
\hypertarget{porton-water}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{PORTON WATER}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Through Porton village, under the bridge,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl A clear bourne floweth, with grasses trailing,\par}
{\vl Wherein are shadows of white clouds sailing,\par}
}

{\vl And elms that shelter under the ridge.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Through Porton village we passed one day,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Marching the plain for mile on mile,\par}
{\vl And crossed the bridge in single file,\par}
}

{\vl Happily singing, and marched away\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Over the bridge where the shallow races,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Under a clear and frosty sky:\par}
{\vl And the winterbourne, as we marched by,\par}
}

{\vl Mirrored a thousand laughing faces.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
O, do we trouble you, Porton river,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl We who laughing passed, and after\par}
{\vl Found a resting-place for laughter?\par}
}

{\vl Over here, where the poplars shiver\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
By stagnant waters, we lie rotten.\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl On windless nights, in the lonely places,\par}
{\vl There, where the winter water races,\par}
}

{\vl O, Porton river, are we forgotten?\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Through Porton village, under the bridge,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The clear bourne floweth with grasses trailing,\par}
{\vl Wherein are shadows of light cloud sailing,\par}
}

{\vl And elms that shelter under the ridge.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The pale moon she comes and looks;\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Over the lonely spire she climbs;\par}
{\vl For there she is lovelier many times\par}
}

{\vl Than in the little broken brooks.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{an-old-house}%
\hypertarget{an-old-house}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{AN OLD HOUSE}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
No one lives in the old house; long ago\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The voices of men and women left it lonely.\par}
}

{\vl They shuttered the sightless windows in a row,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Imprisoning empty darkness--darkness only.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Beyond the garden-closes, with sudden thunder\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The lumbering troop-train passing clanks and jangles;\par}
}

{\vl And I, a stranger, peer with careless wonder\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Into the thickets of the garden tangles.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Yet, as I pass, a transient vision dawns\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Ghostly upon my pondering spirit's gloom,\par}
}

{\vl Of grey lavender bushes and weedy lawns\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And a solitary cherry-tree in bloom....\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
No one lives in the old house: year by year\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The plaster crumbles on the lonely walls:\par}
}

{\vl The apple falls in the lush grass; the pear,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Pulpy with ripeness, on the pathway falls.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Yet this the garden was, where, on spring nights\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Under the cherry-blossom, lovers plighted\par}
}

{\vl Have wondered at the moony billows white,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Dreaming uncountable springs by love delighted;\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Whose ears have heard the blackbird's jolly whistle,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The shadowy cries of bats in twilight flitting\par}
}

{\vl Zigzag beneath the eaves; or, on the thistle,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The twitter of autumn birds swinging and sitting;\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Whose eyes, on winter evenings, slow returning\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Saw on the frosted paths pale lamplight fall\par}
}

{\vl Streaming, or, on the hearth, red embers burning,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And shadows of children playing in the hall.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Where have they gone, lovers of another day?\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl (No one lives in the old house; long ago\par}
}

{\vl They shuttered the sightless windows....)  Where are they,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Whose eyes delighted in this moony snow?\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I cannot tell ... and little enough they care,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Though April spray the cherry-boughs with light,\par}
}

{\vl And autumn pile her harvest unaware\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Under the walls that echoed their delight.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I cannot tell ... yet I am as those lovers;\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl For me, who pass on my predestinate way,\par}
}

{\vl The prodigal blossom billows and recovers\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl In ghostly gardens a hundred miles away.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Yet, in my heart, a melancholy rapture\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Tells me that eyes, which now an iron haste\par}
}

{\vl Hurries to iron days, may here recapture\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl A vision of ancient loveliness gone to waste.\par}
}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-dhows}%
\hypertarget{the-dhows}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE DHOWS}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
South of Guardafui with a dark tide flowing\par}
{\vl We hailed two ships with tattered canvas bent to the monsoon,\par}
{\vl Hung betwixt the outer sea and pale surf showing\par}
{\vl Where dead cities of Libya lay bleaching in the moon.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
'Oh whither be ye sailing with torn sails broken?'\par}
{\vl 'We sail, we sail for Sheba, at Suliman's behest,\par}
{\vl With carven silver phalli for the ebony maids of Ophir\par}
{\vl From brown-skinned baharias of Arabia the Blest.'\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
'Oh whither be ye sailing, with your dark flag flying?'\par}
{\vl 'We sail, with creaking cedar, towards the Northern Star.\par}
{\vl The helmsman singeth wearily, and in our hold are lying\par}
{\vl A hundred slaves in shackles from the marts of Zanzibar.'\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
'Oh whither be ye sailing...?'\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 'Alas, we sail no longer:\par}
}

{\vl Our hulls are wrack, our sails are dust, as any man might know.\par}
{\vl And why should you torment us? ... Your iron keels are stronger\par}
{\vl Than ghostly ships that sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago.'\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-gift}%
\hypertarget{the-gift}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE GIFT}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Marching on Tanga, marching the parch'd plain\par}
{\vl Of wavering spear-grass past Pangani River,\par}
{\vl England came to me--me who had always ta'en\par}
{\vl But never given before--England, the giver,\par}
{\vl In a vision of three poplar-trees that shiver\par}
{\vl On still evenings of summer, after rain,\par}
{\vl By Slapton Ley, where reed-beds start and quiver\par}
{\vl When scarce a ripple moves the upland grain.\par}
{\vl Then I thanked God that now I had suffered pain,\par}
{\vl And, as the parch'd plain, thirst, and lain awake\par}
{\vl Shivering all night through till cold daybreak:\par}
{\vl In that I count these sufferings my gain\par}
{\vl And her acknowledgment.  Nay, more, would fain\par}
{\vl Suffer as many more for her sweet sake.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{five-degrees-south}%
\hypertarget{five-degrees-south}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{FIVE DEGREES SOUTH}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I love all waves and lovely water in motion,\par}
{\vl That wavering iris in comb of the blown spray:\par}
{\vl Iris of tumbled nautilus in the wake's commotion,\par}
{\vl Their spread sails dipped in a marmoreal way\par}
{\vl Unquarried, wherein are greeny bubbles blowing\par}
{\vl Plumes of faint spray, cool in the deep\par}
{\vl And lucent seas, that pause not in their flowing\par}
{\vl To lap the southern starlight while they sleep.\par}
{\vl These I have seen, these I have loved and known:\par}
{\vl I have seen Jupiter, that great star, swinging\par}
{\vl Like a ship's lantern, silent and alone\par}
{\vl Within his sea of sky, and heard the singing\par}
{\vl Of the south trade, that siren of the air,\par}
{\vl Who shivers the taut shrouds, and singeth there.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{fahrenheit}%
\hypertarget{fahrenheit}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{104° FAHRENHEIT}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
To-night I lay with fever in my veins\par}
{\vl Consumed, tormented creature of fire and ice,\par}
{\vl And, weaving the enhavock'd brain's device,\par}
{\vl Dreamed that for evermore I must walk these plains\par}
{\vl Where sunlight slayeth life, and where no rains\par}
{\vl Abated the fierce air, nor slaked its fire:\par}
{\vl So that death seemed the end of all desire,\par}
{\vl To ease the distracted body of its pains.\par}
{\vl And so I died, and from my eyes the glare\par}
{\vl Faded, nor had I further need of breath;\par}
{\vl But when I reached my hand to find you there\par}
{\vl Beside me, I found nothing....  Lonely was death.\par}
{\vl And with a cry I wakened, but to hear\par}
{\vl Thin wings of fever singing in my ear.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{fever-trees}%
\hypertarget{fever-trees}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{FEVER-TREES}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The beautiful Acacia\par}
{\vl She sighs in desert lands:\par}
{\vl Over the burning waterways\par}
{\vl Of Africa she sways and sways,\par}
{\vl Even where no air glideth\par}
{\vl In cooling green she stands.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The beautiful Acacia\par}
{\vl She hath a yellow dress:\par}
{\vl A slender trunk of lemon sheen\par}
{\vl Gleameth through the tender green\par}
{\vl (Where the thorn hideth)\par}
{\vl Shielding her loveliness.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The beautiful Acacia\par}
{\vl Dwelleth in deadly lands:\par}
{\vl Over the brooding waterways\par}
{\vl Where death breedeth, she sways and sways,\par}
{\vl And no man long abideth\par}
{\vl In valleys where she stands.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-rain-bird}%
\hypertarget{the-rain-bird}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE RAIN-BIRD}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
High on the tufted baobab-tree\par}
{\vl To-night a rain-bird sang to me\par}
{\vl A simple song, of three notes only,\par}
{\vl That made the wilderness more lonely;\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
For in my brain it echoed nearly,\par}
{\vl Old village church bells chiming clearly:\par}
{\vl The sweet cracked bells, just out of tune,\par}
{\vl Over the mowing grass in June--\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Over the mowing grass, and meadows\par}
{\vl Where the low sun casts long shadows.\par}
{\vl And cuckoos call in the twilight\par}
{\vl From elm to elm, in level flight.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Now through the evening meadows move\par}
{\vl Slow couples of young folk in love,\par}
{\vl Who pause at every crooked stile\par}
{\vl And kiss in the hawthorn's shade the while:\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Like pale moths the summer frocks\par}
{\vl Hover between the beds of phlox,\par}
{\vl And old men, feeling it is late,\par}
{\vl Cease their gossip at the gate,\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Till deeper still the twilight grows,\par}
{\vl And night blossometh, like a rose\par}
{\vl Full of love and sweet perfume,\par}
{\vl Whose heart most tender stars illume.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Here the red sun sank like lead,\par}
{\vl And the sky blackened overhead;\par}
{\vl Only the locust chirped at me\par}
{\vl From the shadowy baobab-tree.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{moths}%
\hypertarget{moths}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{MOTHS}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
When I lay wakeful yesternight\par}
{\vl My fever's flame was a clear light,\par}
{\vl A taper, flaring in the wind,\par}
{\vl Whither, fluttering out of the dim\par}
{\vl Night, many dreams glimmered by.\par}
{\vl Like moths, out of the darkness, blind,\par}
{\vl Hurling at that taper's flame,\par}
{\vl From drinking honey of the night's flowers\par}
{\vl Into my circled light they came:\par}
{\vl So near I could see their soft colours,\par}
{\vl Grey of the dove, most soothely grey;\par}
{\vl But my heat singed their wings, and away\par}
{\vl Darting into the dark again,\par}
{\vl They escaped me....\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Others floated down\par}
}

{\vl Like those vaned seeds that fall\par}
{\vl In autumn from the sycamore's crown\par}
{\vl When no leaf trembleth nor branch is stirred,\par}
{\vl More silent in flight than any bird,\par}
{\vl Or bat's wings flitting in darkness, soft\par}
{\vl As lizards moving on a white wall\par}
{\vl They came quietly from aloft\par}
{\vl Down through my circle of light, and so\par}
{\vl Into unlighted gloom below.\par}
{\vl But one dream, strong-winged, daring\par}
{\vl Flew beating at the heart of the flame\par}
{\vl Till I feared it would have put out my light,\par}
{\vl My thin taper, fitfully flaring,\par}
{\vl And that I should be left alone in the night\par}
{\vl With no more dreams for my delight.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Can it be that from the dead\par}
{\vl Even their dreams, their dreams are fled?\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{bete-humaine}%
\hypertarget{bete-humaine}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{BÊTE HUMAINE}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Riding through Ruwu swamp, about sunrise,\par}
{\vl I saw the world awake; and as the ray\par}
{\vl Touched the tall grasses where they dream till day,\par}
{\vl Lo, the bright air alive with dragonflies,\par}
{\vl With brittle wings aquiver, and great eyes\par}
{\vl Piloting crimson bodies, slender and gay.\par}
{\vl I aimed at one, and struck it, and it lay\par}
{\vl Broken and lifeless, with fast-fading dyes...\par}
{\vl Then my soul sickened with a sudden pain\par}
{\vl And horror, at my own careless cruelty,\par}
{\vl That where all things are cruel I had slain\par}
{\vl A creature whose sweet life it is to fly:\par}
{\vl Like beasts that prey with bloody claw...\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Nay, they\par}
}

{\vl Must slay to live, but what excuse had I?\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{doves}%
\hypertarget{doves}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{DOVES}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
On the edge of the wild-wood\par}
{\vl Grey doves fluttering:\par}
{\vl Grey doves of Astarte\par}
{\vl To the woods at daybreak\par}
{\vl Lazily uttering\par}
{\vl Their murmured enchantment,\par}
{\vl Old as man's childhood;\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
While she, pale divinity\par}
{\vl Of hidden evil,\par}
{\vl Silvers the regions chaste\par}
{\vl Of cold sky, and broodeth\par}
{\vl Over forests primeval\par}
{\vl And all that thorny waste's\par}
{\vl Wooded infinity.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
'Lovely goddess of groves,'\par}
{\vl Cried I, 'what enchanted\par}
{\vl Sinister recesses\par}
{\vl Of these lone shades\par}
{\vl May still be haunted\par}
{\vl By thy demon caresses,\par}
{\vl Thy unholy loves?'\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
But clear day quelleth\par}
{\vl Her dominion lonely,\par}
{\vl And the soft ring-dove,\par}
{\vl Murmuring, telleth\par}
{\vl That dark sin only\par}
{\vl From man's lust springeth,\par}
{\vl In man's heart dwelleth.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{song-i}%
\hypertarget{song-i}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{SONG}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I made a song in my love's likeness\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl From colours of my quietude,\par}
}

{\vl From trees whose blossoms shine no less\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Than butterflies in the wild-wood.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I laid claim on all beauty\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Under the sun to praise her wonder,\par}
}

{\vl Till the noise of war swept over me,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Stopp'd my singing mouth with thunder.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The angel of death hath swift wings,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl I heard him strip the huddled trees\par}
}

{\vl Overhead, as a hornet sings,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And whip the grass about my knees.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Down we crouched in the parchèd dust,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Down beneath that deadly rain:\par}
}

{\vl Dead still I lay, as lie one must\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Who hath a bullet in his brain.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Dead they left me: but my soul, waking,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Quietly laughed at their distress\par}
}

{\vl Who guessed not that I still was making\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl That new song in my love's likeness.\par}
}
\end{verse}
}

\label{before-action}%
\hypertarget{before-action}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{BEFORE ACTION}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Now the wind of the dawn sighs,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Now red embers have burned white,\par}
}

{\vl Under the darkness faints and dies\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The slow-beating heart of night.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Into the darkness my eyes peer\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Seeing only faces steel'd,\par}
}

{\vl And level eyes that know not fear;\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Yet each heart is a battlefield\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Where phantom armies foin and feint\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And bloody victories are won\par}
}

{\vl From the time when stars are faint\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl To the rising of the sun.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
With banners broken, and the roll\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Of drums, at dawn the phantoms fly:\par}
}

{\vl A man must commune with his soul\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl When he marches out to die.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
O day of wrath and of desire!\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl For each may know upon this day\par}
}

{\vl Whether he be a thing of fire\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Or fettered to the traitor clay.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Such is the hazard that is thrown:\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl We know not how the dice may fall:\par}
}

{\vl All the secrets shall be known\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Or else we shall not know at all.\par}
}
\end{verse}
}

\label{on-a-subaltern-killed-in-action}%
\hypertarget{on-a-subaltern-killed-in-action}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{ON A SUBALTERN KILLED IN ACTION}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Into that dry and most desolate place\par}
{\vl With heavy gait they dragged the stretcher in\par}
{\vl And laid him on the bloody ground: the din\par}
{\vl Of Maxim fire ceased not.  I raised his head,\par}
{\vl And looked into his face,\par}
{\vl And saw that he was dead.\par}
{\vl Saw beneath matted curls the broken skin\par}
{\vl That let the bullet in;\par}
{\vl And saw the limp, lithe limbs, the smiling mouth...\par}
{\vl (Ah, may we smile at death\par}
{\vl As bravely....) the curv'd lips that no more drouth\par}
{\vl Should blacken, and no sweetly stirring breath\par}
{\vl Mildly displace.\par}
{\vl So I covered the calm face\par}
{\vl And stripped the shirt from his firm breast, and there,\par}
{\vl A zinc identity disc, a bracelet of elephant hair\par}
{\vl I found....  Ah, God, how deep it stings\par}
{\vl This unendurable pity of small things!\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
But more than this I saw,\par}
{\vl That dead stranger welcoming, more than the raw\par}
{\vl And brutal havoc of war.\par}
{\vl England I saw, the mother from whose side\par}
{\vl He came hither and died, she at whose hems he had play'd,\par}
{\vl In whose quiet womb his body and soul were made.\par}
{\vl That pale, estrangèd flesh that we bowed over\par}
{\vl Had breathed the scent in summer of white clover;\par}
{\vl Dreamed her cool fading nights, her twilights long,\par}
{\vl And days as careless as a blackbird's song\par}
{\vl Heard in the hush of eve, when midges' wings\par}
{\vl Make a thin music, and the night-jar spins.\par}
{\vl (For it is summer, I thought, in England now....)\par}
{\vl And once those forward gazing eyes had seen\par}
{\vl Her lovely living green: that blackened brow\par}
{\vl Cool airs, from those blue hills moving, had fann'd--\par}
{\vl Breath of that holy land\par}
{\vl Whither my soul aspireth without despair:\par}
{\vl In the broken brain had many a lovely word\par}
{\vl Awakened magical echoes of things heard,\par}
{\vl Telling of love and laughter and low voices,\par}
{\vl And tales in which the English heart rejoices\par}
{\vl In vanishing visions of childhood and its glories:\par}
{\vl Old-fashioned nursery rhymes and fairy stories:\par}
{\vl Words that only an English tongue could tell.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And the firing died away; and the night fell\par}
{\vl On our battle.  Only in the sullen sky\par}
{\vl A prairie fire, with huge fantastic flame\par}
{\vl Leapt, lighting dark clouds charged with thunder.\par}
{\vl And my heart was sick with shame\par}
{\vl That there, in death, he should lie,\par}
{\vl Crying: 'Oh, why am I alive, I wonder?'\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
In a dream I saw war riding the land:\par}
{\vl Stark rode she, with bowed eyes, against the glare\par}
{\vl Of sack'd cities smouldering in the dark,\par}
{\vl A tired horse, lean, with outreaching head,\par}
{\vl And hid her face of dread....\par}
{\vl Yet, in my passion would I look on her,\par}
{\vl Crying, O hark,\par}
{\vl Thou pale one, whom now men say bearest the scythe\par}
{\vl Of God, that iron scythe forged by his thunder\par}
{\vl For reaping of nations overripened, fashioned\par}
{\vl Upon the clanging anvil whose sparks, flying\par}
{\vl In a starry night, dying, fall hereunder....\par}
{\vl But she, she heeded not my cry impassioned\par}
{\vl Nor turned her face of dread,\par}
{\vl Urging the tired horse, with outreaching head,\par}
{\vl O thou, cried I, who choosest for thy going\par}
{\vl These bloomy meadows of youth, these flowery ways\par}
{\vl Whereby no influence strays\par}
{\vl Ruder than a cold wind blowing,\par}
{\vl Or beating needles of rain,\par}
{\vl Why must thou ride again\par}
{\vl Ruthless among the pastures yet unripened,\par}
{\vl Crushing their beauty in thine iron track\par}
{\vl Downtrodden, ravish'd in thy following flame,\par}
{\vl Parched and black?\par}
{\vl But she, she stayed not in her weary haste\par}
{\vl Nor turned her face; but fled:\par}
{\vl And where she passed the lands lay waste....\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And now I cannot tell whither she rideth:\par}
{\vl But tired, tired rides she.\par}
{\vl Yet know I well why her dread face she hideth:\par}
{\vl She is pale and faint to death.  Yea, her day faileth,\par}
{\vl Nor all her blood, nor all her frenzy burning,\par}
{\vl Nor all her hate availeth:\par}
{\vl For she passeth out of sight\par}
{\vl Into that night\par}
{\vl From which none, none returneth\par}
{\vl To waste the meadows of youth,\par}
{\vl Nor vex thine eyelids, Routhe,\par}
{\vl O sorrowful sister, soother of our sorrow.\par}
{\vl And a hope within me springs\par}
{\vl That fair will be the morrow,\par}
{\vl And that charred plain,\par}
{\vl Those flowery meadows, shall rejoice at last\par}
{\vl In a sweet, clean\par}
{\vl Freshness, as when the green\par}
{\vl Grass springeth, where the prairie fire hath passed.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{after-action}%
\hypertarget{after-action}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{AFTER ACTION}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
All through that day of battle the broken sound\par}
{\vl Of shattering Maxim fire made mad the wood;\par}
{\vl So that the low trees shuddered where they stood,\par}
{\vl And echoes bellowed in the bush around:\par}
{\vl But when, at last the light of day was drowned,\par}
{\vl That madness ceased....  Ah, God, but it was good!\par}
{\vl There, in the reek of iodine and blood,\par}
{\vl I flung me down upon the thorny ground.\par}
{\vl So quiet was it, I might well have been lying\par}
{\vl In a room I love, where the ivy cluster shakes\par}
{\vl Its dew upon the lattice panes at even:\par}
{\vl Where rusty ivory scatters from the dying\par}
{\vl Jessamine blossom, and the musk-rose breaks\par}
{\vl Her dusky bloom beneath a summer heaven.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{sonnet}%
\hypertarget{sonnet}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{SONNET}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Not only for remembered loveliness,\par}
{\vl England, my mother, my own, we hold thee rare\par}
{\vl Who toil, and fight, and sicken beneath the glare\par}
{\vl Of brazen skies that smile on our duress,\par}
{\vl Making us crave thy cloudy state no less\par}
{\vl Than the sweet clarity of thy rain-wash'd air,\par}
{\vl Meadows in moonlight cool, and every fair\par}
{\vl Slow-fading flower of thy summer dress:\par}
{\vl Not for thy flowers, but for the unfading crown\par}
{\vl Of sacrifice our happy brothers wove thee:\par}
{\vl The joyous ones who laid thy beauty down\par}
{\vl Nor stayed to see it shamed.  For these we love thee,\par}
{\vl For this (O love, O dread!) we hold thee more\par}
{\vl Divinely fair to-day than heretofore.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{a-farewell-to-africa}%
\hypertarget{a-farewell-to-africa}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{A FAREWELL TO AFRICA}}
\endgraf}
\par

,, vspace:: 2\par

{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Now once again, upon the pole-star's bearing,\par}
{\vl We plough these furrowed fields where no blade springeth;\par}
{\vl Again the busy trade in the halyards singeth\par}
{\vl Sun-whitened spindrift from the blown wave shearing;\par}
{\vl The uncomplaining sea suffers our faring;\par}
{\vl In a brazen glitter our little wake is lost,\par}
{\vl And the starry south rolls over until no ghost\par}
{\vl Remaineth of us and all our pitiful daring;\par}
{\vl For the sea beareth no trace of man's endeavour,\par}
{\vl His might enarmoured, his prosperous argosies,\par}
{\vl Soundless, within her unsounded caves, forever\par}
{\vl She broodeth, knowing neither war nor peace,\par}
{\vl And our grey cruisers holds in mind no more\par}
{\vl Than the cedarn fleets that Sheba's treasure bore.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{song-ii}%
\hypertarget{song-ii}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{SONG}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
What is the worth of war\par}
{\vl In a world that turneth, turneth\par}
{\vl About a tired star\par}
{\vl Whose flaming centre burneth\par}
{\vl No longer than the space\par}
{\vl Of the spent atom's race:\par}
{\vl Where conquered lands, soon, soon\par}
{\vl Lie waste as the pale moon?\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
What is the worth of art\par}
{\vl In a world that fast forgetteth\par}
{\vl Those who have wrung its heart\par}
{\vl With beauty that love begetteth,\par}
{\vl Whose faint flames vanish quite\par}
{\vl In that star-powdered night\par}
{\vl Where even the mighty ones\par}
{\vl Shine only as far suns?\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And what is beauty worth,\par}
{\vl Sweet beauty, that persuadeth\par}
{\vl Of her immortal birth,\par}
{\vl Then, as a flower, fadeth:\par}
{\vl Or love, whose tender years\par}
{\vl End with the mourner's tears,\par}
{\vl Die, when the mourner's breath\par}
{\vl Is quiet, at last, in death?\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Beauty and love are one,\par}
{\vl Even when fierce war clashes:\par}
{\vl Even when our fiery sun\par}
{\vl Hath burnt itself to ashes,\par}
{\vl And the dead planets race\par}
{\vl Unlighted through blind space,\par}
{\vl Beauty will still shine there:\par}
{\vl Wherefore, I worship her.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-hawthorn-spray}%
\hypertarget{the-hawthorn-spray}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE HAWTHORN SPRAY}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I saw a thrush light on a hawthorn spray,\par}
{\vl One moment only, spilling creamy blossom,\par}
{\vl While the bough bent beneath her speckled bosom,\par}
{\vl Bent, and recovered, and she fluttered away.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The branch was still; but, in my heart, a pain\par}
{\vl Than the thorn'd spray more cruel, stabbed me, only\par}
{\vl Remembering days in a far land and lonely\par}
{\vl When I had never hoped for summer again.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{the-pavement}%
\hypertarget{the-pavement}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THE PAVEMENT}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
In bitter London's heart of stone,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Under the lamplight's shielded glare.\par}
}

{\vl I saw a soldier's body thrown\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Unto the drabs that traffic there\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Pacing the pavements with slow feet:\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Those old pavements whose blown dust\par}
}

{\vl Throttles the hot air of the street,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And the darkness smells of lust.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The chaste moon, with equal glance,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Looked down on the mad world, astare\par}
}

{\vl At those who conquered in sad France\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And those who perished in Leicester Square.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And in her light his lips were pale:\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Lips that love had moulded well:\par}
}

{\vl Out of the jaws of Passchendaele\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl They had sent him to this nether hell.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I had no stone of scorn to fling,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl For I know not how the wrong began--\par}
}

{\vl But I had seen a hateful thing\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Masked in the dignity of man:\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And hate and sorrow and hopeless anger\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Swept my heart, as the winds that sweep\par}
}

{\vl Angrily through the leafless hanger\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl When winter rises from the deep....\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
*    *    *    *    *\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
I would that war were what men dream:\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl A crackling fire, a cleansing flame,\par}
}

{\vl That it might leap the space between\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And lap up London and its shame.\par}
}
\end{verse}
}

\label{to-lydia-lopokova-i}%
\hypertarget{to-lydia-lopokova-i}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{To LYDIA LOPOKOVA}}
\endgraf}
\par


\vs{2}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ HER GARLAND}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
O thou who comest to our wintry shade\par}
{\vl Gay and light-footed as the virgin Spring,\par}
{\vl Before whose shining feet the cherries fling\par}
{\vl Their moony tribute, when the sloe is sprayed\par}
{\vl With light, and all things musical are made:\par}
{\vl O thou who art Spring's daughter, who can bring\par}
{\vl Blossom, or song of bird, or anything\par}
{\vl To match the youth in which you stand arrayed?\par}
{\vl Not that rich garland Meleager twined\par}
{\vl In his sun-guarded glade above the blue\par}
{\vl That flashes from the burning Tyrian seas:\par}
{\vl No, you are cooler, sweeter than the wind\par}
{\vl That wakes our woodlands; so I bring to you\par}
{\vl These wind-blown blossoms of anemones.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{to-lydia-lopokova-ii}%
\hypertarget{to-lydia-lopokova-ii}{}%
{}

\vs{3}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ HER VARIETY}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Soft as a pale moth flitting in moonshine\par}
{\vl I saw thee flutter to the shadowy call\par}
{\vl That beckons from the strings of Carneval,\par}
{\vl O frail and fragrant image of Columbine:\par}
{\vl So, when the spectre of the rose was thine,\par}
{\vl A flower wert thou, and last I saw thee fall\par}
{\vl In Cleopatra's stormy bacchanal\par}
{\vl Flown with the red insurgence of the vine.\par}
{\vl O moth, O flower, O mænad, which art thou?\par}
{\vl Shadowy, beautiful, or leaping wild\par}
{\vl As stormlight over savage Tartar skies?\par}
{\vl Such were my ancient questionings; but now\par}
{\vl I know that you are nothing but a child\par}
{\vl With a red flower's mouth and hazel eyes.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{to-lydia-lopokova-iii}%
\hypertarget{to-lydia-lopokova-iii}{}%
{}

\vs{3}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ HER SWIFTNESS}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
You are too swift for poetry, too fleet\par}
{\vl For any musèd numbers to ensnare:\par}
{\vl Swifter than music dying on the air\par}
{\vl Or bloom upon rose-petals, fades the sweet\par}
{\vl Vanishing magic of your flying feet,\par}
{\vl Your poisèd finger, and your shining hair:\par}
{\vl Words cannot tell how wonderful you were,\par}
{\vl Or how one gesture made a joy complete.\par}
{\vl And since you know my pen may never capture\par}
{\vl The transient swift loveliness of you,\par}
{\vl Come, let us salve our sense of the world's loss\par}
{\vl Remembering, with a melancholy rapture,\par}
{\vl How many dancing-girls ... and poets too...\par}
{\vl Dream in the dust of Hecatompylos.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{ghostly-loves}%
\hypertarget{ghostly-loves}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{GHOSTLY LOVES}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
'Oh why,' my darling prayeth me, 'must you sing\par}
{\vl For ever of ghostly loves, phantasmal passion?\par}
{\vl Seeing that you never loved me after that fashion\par}
{\vl And the love I gave was not a phantom thing,\par}
{\vl But delight of eager lips and strong arms folding\par}
{\vl The beauty of yielding arms and of smooth shoulder,\par}
{\vl All fluent grace of which you were the moulder:\par}
{\vl And I....  Oh, I was happy for your holding.'\par}
{\vl 'Ah, do you not know, my dearest, have you not seen\par}
{\vl The shadow that broodeth over things that perish:\par}
{\vl How age may mock sweet moments that have been\par}
{\vl And death defile the beauty that we cherish?\par}
{\vl Wherefore, sweet spirit, I thank thee for thy giving:\par}
{\vl 'Tis my spirit that embraceth thee dead or living.'\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{february}%
\hypertarget{february}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{FEBRUARY}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The robin on my lawn,\par}
{\vl He was the first to tell\par}
{\vl How, in the frozen dawn,\par}
{\vl This miracle befell,\par}
{\vl Waking the meadows white\par}
{\vl With hoar, the iron road\par}
{\vl Agleam with splintered light,\par}
{\vl And ice where water flowed:\par}
{\vl Till, when the low sun drank\par}
{\vl Those milky mists that cloak\par}
{\vl Hanger and hollied bank,\par}
{\vl The winter world awoke\par}
{\vl To hear the feeble bleat\par}
{\vl Of lambs on downland farms:\par}
{\vl A blackbird whistled sweet;\par}
{\vl Old beeches moved their arms\par}
{\vl Into a mellow haze\par}
{\vl Aerial, newly-born:\par}
{\vl And I, alone, agaze,\par}
{\vl Stood waiting for the thorn\par}
{\vl To break in blossom white\par}
{\vl Or burst in a green flame...\par}
{\vl So, in a single night,\par}
{\vl Fair February came,\par}
{\vl Bidding my lips to sing\par}
{\vl Or whisper their surprise,\par}
{\vl With all the joy of spring\par}
{\vl And morning in her eyes.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{song-of-the-dark-ages}%
\hypertarget{song-of-the-dark-ages}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{SONG OF THE DARK AGES}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
We digged our trenches on the down\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Beside old barrows, and the wet\par}
}

{\vl White chalk we shovelled from below;\par}
{\vl It lay like drifts of thawing snow\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl On parados and parapet:\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Until a pick neither struck flint\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Nor split the yielding chalky soil,\par}
}

{\vl But only calcined human bone:\par}
{\vl Poor relic of that Age of Stone\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Whose ossuary was our spoil.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Home we marched singing in the rain,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And all the while, beneath our song,\par}
}

{\vl I mused how many springs should wane\par}
{\vl And still our trenches scar the plain:\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl The monument of an old wrong.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
But then, I thought, the fair green sod\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Will wholly cover that white stain,\par}
}

{\vl And soften, as it clothes the face\par}
{\vl Of those old barrows, every trace\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Of violence to the patient plain.\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
And careless people, passing by,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Will speak of both in casual tone:\par}
}

{\vl Saying: 'You see the toil they made:\par}
{\vl The age of iron, pick, and spade,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Here jostles with the Age of Stone.'\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Yet either from that happier race\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Will merit but a passing glance;\par}
}

{\vl And they will leave us both alone:\par}
{\vl Poor savages who wrought in stone--\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Poor savages who fought in France.\par}
}
\end{verse}
}

\label{winter-sunset}%
\hypertarget{winter-sunset}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{WINTER SUNSET}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Athwart the blackening bars of pines benighted,\par}
{\vl The sun, descending to the zones of denser\par}
{\vl Cloud that o'erhung the long horizon, lighted\par}
{\vl Upon the crown of earth a flaming censer\par}
{\vl From which white clouds of incense, overflowing,\par}
{\vl Filled the chill clarity from whence the swallows\par}
{\vl Had lately fled with wreathèd vapours, showing\par}
{\vl Like a fine bloom over the lonely fallows:\par}
{\vl Where, with the pungent breath of mist was blended\par}
{\vl A faint aroma of pine-needles sodden\par}
{\vl By autumn rains, and fainter still, ascended\par}
{\vl Beneath high woods the scent of leaves downtrodden.\par}
{\vl It was a moment when the earth, that sickened\par}
{\vl For Spring, as lover when the beloved lingers,\par}
{\vl Lay breathless, while the distant goddess quickened\par}
{\vl Some southern hill-side with her glowing fingers:\par}
{\vl And so, it seemed, the drowsy lands were shaken,\par}
{\vl Stirred in their sleep, and sighed, as though the pain\par}
{\vl Of a strange dream had bidden them awaken\par}
{\vl To frozen days and bitter nights again.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{song-iii}%
\hypertarget{song-iii}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{SONG}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Why have you stolen my delight\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl In all the golden shows of Spring\par}
}

{\vl When every cherry-tree is white\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And in the limes the thrushes sing,\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
O fickler than the April day,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl O brighter than the golden broom,\par}
}

{\vl O blyther than the thrushes' lay,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl O whiter than the cherry-bloom,\par}
}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
O sweeter than all things that blow ...\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Why have you only left for me\par}
}

{\vl The broom, the cherry's crown of snow,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl And thrushes in the linden-tree?\par}
}
\end{verse}
}

\label{england-april-1918}%
\hypertarget{england-april-1918}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{ENGLAND--APRIL, 1918}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Last night the North flew at the throat of Spring\par}
{\vl With spite to tear her greening banners down,\par}
{\vl Tossing the elm-tree's tender tassels brown,\par}
{\vl The virgin blossom of sloe burdening\par}
{\vl With colder snow; beneath his frosty sting\par}
{\vl Patient, the newly-wakened woods were bowed\par}
{\vl By drownèd fields where stormy waters flowed:\par}
{\vl Yet, on the thorn, I heard a blackbird sing....\par}
{\vl 'Too late, too late,' he sang, 'this wintry spite;\par}
{\vl For molten snow will feed the springing grass:\par}
{\vl The tide of life, it floweth with the year.'\par}
{\vl O England, England, thou that standest upright\par}
{\vl Against the tide of death, the bad days pass:\par}
{\vl Know, by this miracle, that summer is near.\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{slender-themes}%
\hypertarget{slender-themes}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{SLENDER THEMES}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
When, by a happier race, these leaves are turned,\par}
{\vl They'll wonder that such quiet themes engaged\par}
{\vl A soldier's mind when noisy wars were waged,\par}
{\vl And half the world in one red bonfire burned.\par}
{\vl 'When that fierce age,' they'll say, 'went up in flame\par}
{\vl He lived ... or died, seeing those bright deeds done\par}
{\vl Whereby our sweet and settled peace was won,\par}
{\vl Yet offereth slender dreams, not deeds, to Fame.'\par}
{\vl Then say: 'Out of the heart the mouth speaketh,\par}
{\vl And mine was as the hearts of other men\par}
{\vl Whom those dark days impassioned; yet it seeketh\par}
{\vl To paint the sombre woes that held us then,\par}
{\vl No more than the cloud-rending levin's light\par}
{\vl Seeks to illumine the sad skies of night.'\par}
\end{verse}
}

\label{invocation}%
\hypertarget{invocation}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{INVOCATION}}
\endgraf}
\par


{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}\advance\rightskip\parindentamount{}
\vs{2}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Whither, O, my sweet mistress, must I follow thee?\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl For when I hear thy distant footfall nearing,\par}
{\vl And wait on thy appearing,\par}
}

{\vl Lo! my lips are silent: no words come to me.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Once I waylaid thee in green forest covers,\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Hoping that spring might free my lips with gentle fingers;\par}
{\vl Alas! her presence lingers\par}
}

{\vl No longer than on the plain the shadow of brown kestrel hovers.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Through windless ways of the night my spirit followed after;--\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Cold and remote were they, and there, possessed\par}
{\vl By a strange unworldly rest,\par}
}

{\vl Awaiting thy still voice heard only starry laughter.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
The pillared halls of sleep echoed my ghostly tread.\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Yet when their secret chambers I essayed\par}
{\vl My spirit sank, dismayed,\par}
}

{\vl Waking in fear to find the new-born vision fled.\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Once indeed--but then my spirit bloomed in leafy rapture--\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl I loved; and once I looked death in the eyes:\par}
{\vl So, suddenly made wise,\par}
}

{\vl Spoke of such beauty as I may never recapture....\par}
\end{verse}

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}
Whither, O, divine mistress, must I then follow thee?\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl Is it only in love ... say, is it only in death\par}
{\vl That the spirit blossometh,\par}
}

{\vl And words that may match my vision shall come to me?\par}
\end{verse}
}


\label{thamar}%
\hypertarget{thamar}{}%
{}

\vs{4}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\Large\strut{THAMAR}}
\endgraf}
\par


\vs{2}
{\noindent}
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ (}}{\itshape{{\normalsize{ To Thamar Karsavina}}}}{\normalsize{ )}}
\endgraf}
\par

\vs{1}
\begin{verse}
{\vl {\noindent}

{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Once in the sombre light of the throng'd courts of night,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In a dream-haunted land only inhabited}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ By the unhappy dead, came one who, anxious eyed,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Clung to my idle hand with clenched fingers weak}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And gazed into my eyes as he had wrongs to speak.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Silent he stood and wan, more pallid than the leaves}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of an aspen blown under a wind that grieves.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Then I: 'O haggard one, say from what ghostly zone}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of thwarted destinies or torment hast thou come?}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Tell me thy race and name!'  And he, with veiled face:}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'I have neither name nor race, but I have travelled far,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ A timeless avatar of never-ending dooms,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Out of those tyrannous glooms where, like a tired star}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In stormy darkness, looms the castle of Thamar...}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Once in a lonely dawn my eager spirit fared}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ By ways that no men dared unto a desert land,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where, on a sullen strand, a mouldering city, vast}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As towered Babylon, stood in the dreamy sand--}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Older a million years: Babel was builded on}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ That broken city's tears; dust of her crumbled past}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Rose from the rapid wheels of Babel's charioteers}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In whorled clouds above those shining thoroughfares}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where Babel's millions tread on her unheeding dead.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Forth from an eastern gate where the lips of Asia wait}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Parch'd with an ancient thirst that no æons can abate,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Passed I, predestinate, to a thorn'd desert's drought,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where the rivers of the south, flowing in a cloudy spate,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Spend at last their splendid strength in a sea of molten glass}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Seething with the brazen might of a white sun dipped at length}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Like a baked stone, burning hot, plunged in a hissing pot.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Out of that solemn portal over the tawny waste,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Without stay, without haste, nor the joy of any mortal}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Glance of eye or clasp of hand, desolate, in a burning land,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Lonely days and nights I travelled and the changing seasons squandered}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Friendless, endlessly, I wandered nor my woven fate unravelled;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Drawn to a hidden goal, sore, forlorn with waiting,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Seeking I knew not what, yet unhesitating}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Struggled my hapless soul...}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ There, in a thousand springs,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Slow, beneath frozen snow, where the blind earth lay cringing,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Have I seen the steppe unfold uncounted blossomings,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where salty pools shone fair in a quivering blue air}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ That shivered every fringing reed-bed with cool delight,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And fanned the mazy flight of slow-wing'd egrets white}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Beating and wheeling bright against the sun astare;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ But I could not hear their wings for they were ghostly things}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Sent by the powers of night to mock my sufferings}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And rain upon the bitter waterpools their drops aglitter.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Yet, when these lakes accursed tortured my aching thirst,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ The green reeds fell to dust, the cool pools to a crust}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of frozen salt crystallised to taunt my broken lips,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ To cheat my staring eyes, as a vision of great ships}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ With moving towers of sail, poops throng'd with grinning crowds}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And a wind in their shrouds, bears down upon the pale}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Wasted castaway afloat with the salt in his throat}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And a feeble wild desire to be quenched of his fire}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In the green gloom beneath.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ So, again and again,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Hath a phantom city thrust to the visionary vault}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of inviolate cobalt, dome and dreaming minaret}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Mosque and gleaming water-tower hazy in a fountain's jet}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Or a market's rising dust; and my lips have cried aloud}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ To see them tremble there, though I knew within my heart}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ They were chiselled out of cloud or carven of thin air;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And my fingers clenched my hand, for I wondered if this land}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of my stony pilgrimage were a glimmering mirage,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And I myself no more than a phantom of the sand.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'But beyond these fading slender cities, many leagues away,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Strange brooding mountains lay heaped, crowding range on range}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In a changing cloudy splendour; and beyond, in lakes of light,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As eastward still I staggered, there swam into my sight,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ More vast and hoar and haggard, shoulders of ice and snow}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Bounding the heavens low of burnished brass, whereunder}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ The hot plains of Cathay perpetually slumber:}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where tawny millions breed in cities without number,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Whither, a hill-born thunder, rolling on Tartary}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ With torrents and barb'd lightning, swelleth the yellow river}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ To a tumult of whitening foam and confusèd might}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ That drowns in a single night many a mud-made city;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And cities of boats, and frail cities of lath and reed,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Are whirled away without pity or set afloat in a pale,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Swirling, shallow sea ... and their names seem lost for ever}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Till a stranger nomad race drive their herds to the sad place}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where old sorrows lie forgotten, and raise upon the rotten}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Level waste another brood to await another flood.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'But I never might attain to this melancholy plain}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ For the mountains rose between; stark in my path they lay}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Between me and Cathay, through moving mist half-seen.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And I knew that they were real, for their drooping folds of cloud}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Enwrapped me in a shroud, and the air that fell at night}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ From their frozen summits white slid like an ice-blue steel}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Into my living breast and stilled the heart within}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As the chill of an old sin that robs a man of rest,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Killing all delight in the silence of the night}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And brooding black above till the heart dare not move}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ But lieth cold and numb ... and the dawn will not come.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'Yet to me a dawn came, new-kindled in cold flame,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Flinging the imminence of those inviolate snows}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ On the forest lawns below in a shadow more immense}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Than their eternal vastness; and a new hope beyond reason,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Flamed in my heart's dark season, dazzled my pallid eyes,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Till, when the hot sun soared above the uttermost height,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ A draught of keen delight into my body was poured,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ For all that frozen fastness lay flowered with the spring:}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Her starry blossoms broke beneath my bruisèd feet,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And their beauty was so sweet to me I kissed them where they lay;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Yea, I bent my weary hips and kissed them with dry lips,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Tenderly, only dreading lest their petals delicate}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Should be broken by my treading, for I lived, I lived again,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And my heart would have been broken by a living creature's pain,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ So I kissed them for a token of my joy in their new birth,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And I kissed the gentle earth.  Slowly the shadows crept}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ To the bases of the crags, and I slept....}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'Once, in another life, had I remembered sleep,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ When tired children creep on to their mother's knees,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And there a dreamless peace more quietly descendeth}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Than gentle evening endeth or ring-doves fold their wings,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Before the nightjar spins or the nightingale begins;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ When the brooding hedgerow trees where they nest lie awake}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And breathe so soft they shake not a single shuddering leaf}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Lest the silence should break.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'Other sleep have I known,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Deeper, beyond belief, when straining limbs relax}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ After hot human toil in yellow harvest fields}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where the panting earth yields a smell of baked soil,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And the dust of dry stubbles blows over the whitening}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Shocks of lank grain and bundles of flax,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And men fling themselves down forgetting their troubles,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Unheedful of the song that the landrail weaves along}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Misty woodlands, or lightning that the pale sky laves}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Like phosphorescent waves washing summer seas:}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And, more beautiful than these, that sleep of dazèd wonder}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ When love has torn asunder the veils of the sky}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And raptured lovers lie faint in each other's arms}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Beneath a heaven strewn with myriad starry swarms,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where planets float like lonely gold-flowered nenuphars}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In pools of the sky; yet, when they wake, they turn}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ From those burning galaxies seeking heaven only}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In each other's eyes, and sigh, and sleep again;}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ For while they sleep they seem to forget the world's pain,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And when they wake, they dream....}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'But other sleep was mine}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As I had drunk of wine with bitter hemlock steep'd,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Or sousèd with the heapèd milky poppyheads}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ A drowsy Tartar treads where slow waters sweep}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Over red river beds, and the air is heavy with sleep.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ So, when I woke at last, the labouring earth had rolled}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Eastward under the vast dominion of night,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Funereal, forlorn as that unlighted chamber}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Wherein she first was born, bereft of all starlight,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Pale silver of the moon, or the low sun's amber.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'Then to my queen I prayed, grave Ashtoreth, whose shade}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Hallows the dim abyss of Heliopolis,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Where many an olive maid clashed kissing Syrian cymbals,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And silver-sounding timbrels shivered through the vale.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ O lovely, and O white, under the holy night}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Is their gleaming wonder, and their brows are pale}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As the new risen moon, dancing till they swoon}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In far forests under desolate Lebanon,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ While the flame of Moloch's pyre reddens the sea-born cloud}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ That overshadows Tyre; so, when I cried aloud,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Behold, a torch of fire leapt on the mountain-side!}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ 'O bright, O beautiful! for never kindlier light}}
\endgraf}
\par}
}

{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Fell on the darkened sight of mortal eyes and dull}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Since that devoted one, whom gloomy Caucasus}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In icy silence lonely bound to his cruel shoulders,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Brought to benighted men in a hollow fennel-stem}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Sparks of the torrid vapour that burned behind the bars}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of evening, broke dawn's rose, or smouldered in the stars,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Or lit the glowworm's taper, or wavered over the fen,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Or tipped the javelin of the far-ravening levin,}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Lash of the Lord of Heaven and bitter scourge of sin.}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ O beautiful, O bright! my tired sinews strained}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ To this torch that flared and waned as a watery planet gloweth}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And waneth in the night when a calm sea floweth}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Under a misty sky spread with the tattered veils}}
\endgraf}
\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of rapid cloud driven over the deeps of heaven}}
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{\normalsize{ By winds that range too high to sweep the languid sails.}}
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{\normalsize{ Knew not if I were dead, where cavernous crevasses,}}
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{\normalsize{ Rending of glacier ice or hoarse cataracts falling:}}
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{\normalsize{ That some demon gave me.  Thrice I fell, and thrice}}
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{\normalsize{ Harried by thin bufferings of wind}}
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{\normalsize{ Downward to Tartarus at daybreak,}}
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{\normalsize{ Downward to the regions of the lost....}}
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{\normalsize{ But the rushing waters ceased, and the bitter wind fell:}}
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{\normalsize{ How I cannot tell, unless that I had come}}
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{\normalsize{ To the hollow heart of the storm where the wind is dumb;}}
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{\normalsize{ And there my gelid blood thawed, glowed, and grew warm,}}
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{\normalsize{ While a black-hooded form caught at my arm, and stayed}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And held me as I swayed, until, at last, I saw}}
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{\normalsize{ In a strange unworldly awe, at the gate of light I stood:}}
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{\normalsize{ And I entered, alone....}}
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{\normalsize{ A brazier that hissed with tongued flames, leaping}}
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{\normalsize{ Over whitened embers of gummy frankincense,}}
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{\normalsize{ Into a fume of dense and fragrant vapour, creeping}}
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{\normalsize{ Over the roof to spread a milky coverlet}}
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{\normalsize{ Softer than the woof of webby spider's net.}}
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{\normalsize{ But never spider yet spun a more delicate wonder}}
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{\normalsize{ Than that which hung thereunder, drooping fold on fold,}}
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{\normalsize{ Silks that glowed with fire of tawny Oxus gold,}}
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{\normalsize{ Richer than ever flowed from the eager fancy of man}}
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{\normalsize{ In his vain desire for beauty that endures:}}
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{\normalsize{ And on the floor were spread by many a heaped daiwan}}
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{\normalsize{ Carpets of Kurdistan, cured skins, and water-ewers}}
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{\normalsize{ Encrusted with such gems as emperors of Hind}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ (Swart conquerors, long dead) sought for their diadems.}}
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{\normalsize{ No other light was there but one torch, flaring}}
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{\normalsize{ Against a square of sky possess'd by the wind,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And never another sound but the tongued flames creeping.}}
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{\advance\leftskip\parindentamount{}{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ 'At last, my eyes staring into the clouded gloom,}}
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{\normalsize{ Saw that the caverned room with shadowy forms was strewn}}
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{\normalsize{ In heavy sleep or swoon fallen, who did not move}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ But lay as mortals lie in the sweet release of love.}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And stark between them stood huge eunuchs of ebony,}}
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{\normalsize{ Mute, motionless, as they had been carven of black wood.}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ But these I scarcely saw, for, through the flame was seen}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Another, a queen, with heavy closèd eyes}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ White against the skies of that empurpled night}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ In her loveliness she lay, and leaned upon her hand:}}
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{\normalsize{ And my blood leapt at the sight, so that I could not stand}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ But fell upon my knees, pleading, and cried aloud}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ For her white loveliness as Ixion for his cloud:}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And my cry the silence broke, and the sleepers awoke}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ From their slumber, stirred, and rose every one,--save those}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Mute eunuchs of ebony, those frowning caryatides.}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Slowly she looked at me, and when I cried again}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ In yearning and in pain, she beckoned with her hand.}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Then from my knees rose I, and greatly daring,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Through the hazy air, past the brazier flaring}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And the hissing flame, crept, until I came}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Unto the carven seat, and kissed her white feet;}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And she smiled, but spake not.}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ When she smiled the sleepers wavered as the grass}}
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{\normalsize{ Of a cornfield wavers when the ears are swept}}
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{\normalsize{ By the breath of brown reapers singing as they pass,}}
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{\normalsize{ Or grass of woody glades when a wind that has slept}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Wakens, and invades their moonlit solitude,}}
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{\normalsize{ When the hazels shiver and the birch is blown}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ To a billow of silver, but oaks in the wood}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Stand firm nor quiver, stand firm as stone:}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ So, amid the sleepers, the black eunuchs stood.}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ When the sleepers stirred faintly in the heat}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Of that painted room a silken sound I heard,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And a thin music, sweet as the brown nightingale}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Sings in the jealous shade of a lonely spinney,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Stranger far than any music mortal made}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Fell softer than the dew falleth when stars are pale.}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Sweet it was, and clear as light, or as the tears}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ That sad Narcissus wears in the spring of the year}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ On barren mountain ranges where rain falls cool}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And every lonely pool is sprayed with broken light:}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ So cool, so beautiful, and so divinely strange}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ I doubted if it came from any marshy reed}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Or hollow fluting stem pluck'd by the hands of men,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Unless it were indeed that airy fugitive}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Syrinx, who cried and ran before the laughing eyes}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of goat-footed Pan, and must for ever live}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ A shadowy green reed by an Arcadian river--}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ But never music made of Ladon's reedy daughter}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Or singing river-water more sweet than that which stole,}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Slow as amber honey wells from the honeycomb,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Into my weary soul with solace and strange peace.}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ So, trembling as I lay in a dream more desolate}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Than is the darkened day of the mid-winter north,}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ I heard the voice of one who sang in a strange tongue,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And I know not what he sang save that he sang of love,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ The while they led me forth unheeding, till we came}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Unto a chamber lit with one slow-burning flame}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ That yellow horn bedims, and laid me down, and there}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ They soothed my bruised limbs, and combed my tangled hair,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And salved my limbs with rarely-mingled unguents pressed}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ By hands of holy ones who dream beneath the suns}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Of Araby the Blest, and so, when they had bathed}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ My burning eyes with milk of dreamy anodyne}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And cool'd my throat with wine,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In robings of cool silk my broken body they swathed,}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Sandals of gold they placed upon my feet, and round}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ My sad sun-blistered brows a silver fillet bound--}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Decking me with the pride of a bridegroom that goes}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ To the joy of his bride and is lovely in her eyes--}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And led me to her side.  Then, as a conquering prince,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ I, who long since had been battered and tost}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Like a dead leaf or ghost buffeted by wild storms,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Came to her white arms, conquering, and was lost,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Yet dared not gaze upon the beauty that I dreamed.}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ So, in my trance, it seemed that a shadowy soft dance}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Coiled slowly and unwound, swayed, beckoned, and recovered}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As hooded cobra bound by hollow spells of sound}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Unto the piper sways; so silently they hovered}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ I only heard the beat of their naked feet,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And then, another sound....}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ A dull throb thrumming, a noise of faint drumming,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Threatening, coming nearer, piercing deeper}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Than a dream lost in the heart of a sleeper}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Into those deeps where the dark fire gloweth,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ The secret flame that every man knoweth,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Embers that smoulder, fires that none can fan,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Terrible, older than the mind of man....}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Before he crawled from his swamp and spurned}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ The life of the beast that dark fire burned}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In the hidden deeps where no dream can come:}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Only the throbbing of a drum}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Can wake it from its smouldering--}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Sightless, soundless, senseless, dumb--}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Dumb as those blind seeds that lie}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Drown'd in mud, and shuddering,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ I knew that I was man no more,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ But a throbbing core of flesh, that knew}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Nor beauty, nor truth, nor anything}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ But the black sky and the slimy earth:}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Roots of trees, and fear, and pain,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ The blank of death, the pangs of birth,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ An inhuman thing possess'd}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ By the throbbing of a drum:}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ And my lips were strange and numb,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ But they kissed her white breast....}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Then, being drunk with pride and splendour of love, I cried:}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ '"O spring of all delight, O moonèd mystery,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ O living marvel, white as the dead queen of night,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ O flower, and O flame ... tell me at least thy name}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ That, from this desolate height, I may proclaim its wonder}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ To the lost lands hereunder before thy beauty dies}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As fades the fire of dawn upon a peak of snow!"'}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Then: "Look," she sighed, "into my eyes, and thou shalt know."}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ So, with her fingers frail, she pressed my brows, and so,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Slowly, at last, she raised my drooping eyelids pale,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And in her eyes I gazed.}}
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{\normalsize{ 'Then fear, than love more blind,}}
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{\normalsize{ Caught at my heart and fast in chains of horror bound--}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ As one who in profound and midnight forest ways}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Sees in the dark the burning eyes of a tiger barred}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Or stealthy footed pard blaze in a solemn hate}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And lust of human blood, yet cannot cry, nor turning}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Flee from the huddled wood, but stands and sees his fate,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Or one who in a black night, groping for his track,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Clings to the dizzy verge of a cragged precipice,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Shrinks from the dim abyss, yet dare not venture back,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And no sound hears but the hiss of empty air}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Swirling past his ears....  So, in a hideous}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Abandonment of hope, I waited for her kiss.}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Then the restless beat of the muttering drum}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Rose to a frenzied heat; the naked dancers leapt}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Insolent through the flame, laughing as they came}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ With parted lips; their cries deadened my ears, my eyes}}
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\par}
{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ Throbbed with the pattering of their rapid feet,}}
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{\vl 
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{\normalsize{ And the whirling dust of their dancing swept}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Into my throat unslaked, dry-parchèd with love's drought,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Until my mouth was pressed upon her burning mouth}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ In a kiss most terrible....  Oh, was it pride, or shame}}
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{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Unending, without name, or ecstasy, or pain}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Or desperate desire?  Alas!  I cannot tell,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Save that it pierced my trembling soul and body with fire.}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ For, while her soft lips clove to mine in love, she drove}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ A flaming blade of steel into my breast, and I,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Rent with a bitter cry, slid from her side and fell}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Clutching in dumb despair the dark unbraided hair}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ My passion had despoiled; while she, like serpent coiled,}}
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\par}
{\vl 
{\raggedright
{\normalsize{ Poised for another stroke, terribly, slowly, smiled,}}
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