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Thou wert once the purest wave	A
Where the tempests roar	B
Thou art now a golden wave	A
On the golden shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Thou wert once the bluest wave	A
Shadows e'er hung o'er	C
Thou art now the brightest wave	A
On the brightest shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Thou wert once the gentlest wave	A
Ocean ever bore	B
Thou art now the fairest wave	A
On the fairest shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Whiter foam than thine O wave	A
Wavelet never wore	B
Stainless wave and now you lave	A
The far and stormless shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Who bade thee go O bluest wave	A
Beyond the tempest's roar	B
Who bade thee flow O fairest wave	A
Unto the golden shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Who waved a hand O purest wave	A
A hand that blessings bore	B
And wafted thee O whitest wave	A
Unto the fairest shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Who winged thy way O holy wave	A
In days and days of yore	B
And wept the words O winsome wave	A
This earth is not thy shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Who gave thee strength O snowy wave	A
The strength a great soul wore	B
And said Float up to God my wave	A
His heart shall be thy shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Who said to thee O poor weak wave	A
Thy wail shall soon be o'er	C
Float on to God and leave me wave	A
Upon this rugged shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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And thou hast reached His feet Glad wave	A
Dost dream of days of yore	B
Dost yearn that we shall meet pure wave	A
Upon the golden shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Thou sleepest in the calm calm wave	A
Beyond the wild storm's roar	B
I watch amid the storm bright wave	A
Like rock upon the shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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Sing at the feet of God white wave	A
Song sweet as one of yore	B
I would not bring thee back heart wave	A
To break upon this shore	B
Ever ever evermore	B
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No no he gently spoke You know me not	D
My mind is like a temple dim vast lone	E
Just like a temple when the priest has gone	F
And all the hymns that rolled along the vaults	G
Are buried deep in silence when the lights	H
That flashed on altars died away in dark	I
And when the flowers with all their perfumed breath	J
And beauteous bloom lie withered on the shrine	K
My mind is like a temple solemn still	L
Untenanted save by the ghosts of gloom	M
Which seem to linger in the holy place	N
The shadows of the sinners who passed there	O
And wept and spirit shriven left upon	P
The marble floor memorials of their tears	Q
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And while he spake his words sank low and low	R
Until they hid themselves in some still depth	S
He would not open and his face was sad	T
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When he spoke thus his very gentleness	U
Passed slowly from him and his look so mild	V
Grew marble cold a pallor as of death	J
Whitened his lips and clouds rose to his eyes	W
Dry rainless clouds where lightnings seemed to sleep	X
His words as tender as a rose's smile	Y
Slow hardened into thorns but seemed to sting	Z
Himself the most his brow at such times bent	A2
Most lowly down and wore such look of pain	B2
As though it bore an unseen crown of thorns	C2
Who knows perhaps it did	D2
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But he would pass	E2
His hand upon his brow or touch his eyes	W
And then the olden gentleness like light	F2
Which seems transfigured by the touch of dark	I
Would tremble on his face and he would look	G2
More gentle then than ever and his tone	E
Would sweeten like the winds when storms have passed	H2
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I saw him one day thus most deeply moved	I2
And darkened ah his face was like a tomb	M
That hid the dust of dead and buried smiles	J2
But suddenly his face flashed like a throne	E
And all the smiles arose as from the dead	K2
And wore the glory of an Easter morn	L2
And passed beneath the sceptre of a hope	M2
Which came from some far region of his heart	N2
Came up into his eyes and reigned a queen	O2
I marveled much he answered to my look	G2
With all his own and wafted me these words	P2
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There are transitions in the lives of all	Q2
There are transcendent moments when we stand	R2
In Thabor's glory with the chosen three	S2
And weak with very strength of human love	T2
We fain would build our tabernacles there	O
And Peter like for very human joy	U2
We cry aloud 'Tis good that we are here '	-
Swift are these moments like the smile of God	V2
Which glorifies a shadow and is gone	F
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And then we stand upon another mount	W2
Dark rugged Calvary and God keeps us there	O
For awful hours to make us there His own	E
In Crucifixion's tortures 'tis His way	X2
We wish to cling to Thabor He says No '	-
And what He says is best because most true	Y2
We fain would fly from Calvary He says No '	-
And it is true because it is the best	Z2
And yet my friend these two mounts are the same	A3
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They lie apart distinct and separate	B3
And yet strange mystery they are the same	A3
For Calvary is a Thabor in the dark	I
And Thabor is a Calvary in the light	F2
It is the mystery of Holy Christ	C3
It is the mystery of you and me	S2
Earth's shadows move as moves far heaven's sun	D3
And like the shadows of a dial we	S2
Tell darkly in the vale the very hours	E3
The sun tells brightly in the sinless skies	W
Dost understand I did not understand	R2
Or only half his face was very sad	T
Dost thou not understand me Then your life	F3
Is shallow as a brook that brawls along	G3
Between two narrow shores you never wept	H3
You never wore great clouds upon your brow	I3
As mountains wear them and you never wore	B
Strange glories in your eyes as sunset skies	W
Oft wear them and your lips they never sighed	J3
Grand sighs which bear the weight of all the soul	K3
You never reached your arms a broad a high	L3
To grasp far worlds or to enclasp the sky	L3
Life only life can understand a life	F3
Depth only depth can understand the deep	X
The dewdrop glist'ning on the lily's face	N
Can never learn the story of the sea	S2
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One day we strolled together to the sea	S2
Gray evening and the night had almost met	M3
We walked between them silent to the shore	B
The feet of weird faced waves ran up the beach	N3
Like children in mad play then back again	O3
As if the spirit of the land pursued	P3
Then up again and farther and they flung	Q3
White foamy arms around each other's neck	R3
Then back again with sudden rush and shout	S3
As if the sea their mother called them home	T3
Then leaned upon her breast as if so tired	U3
But swiftly tore themselves away and rushed	V3
Away and farther up the beach and fell	W3
For utter weariness and loudly sobbed	X3
For strength to rise and flow back to the deep	X
But all in vain for other waves swept on	P
And trampled them the sea cried out in grief	Y3
The gray beach laughed and clasped them to the sands	Z3
It was the flood tide and the even tide	J3
Between the evening and the night we walked	A4
We walked between the billows and the beach	N3
We walked between the future and the past	H2
Down to the sea we twain had strolled to part	N2
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The shore was low with just the faintest rise	W
Of many colored sands and shreds of shells	B4
Until about a stone's far throw they met	M3
A fringe of faded grass with here and there	O
A pale green shrub and farther into land	R2
Another stone's throw farther there were trees	C4
Tall dark wild trees with intertwining arms	D4
Each almost touching each as if they feared	E4
To stand alone and look upon the sea	S2
The night was in the trees the evening on the shore	B
We walked between the evening and the night	F2
Between the trees and tide we silent strolled	F4
There lies between man's silence and his speech	N3
A shadowy valley where thro' those who pass	E2
Are never silent tho' they may not speak	G4
And yet they more than breathe It is the vale	H4
Of wordless sighs half uttered and half heard	U3
It is the vale of the unutterable	H4
We walked between our silence and our speech	N3
And sighed between the sunset and the stars	I4
One hour beside the sea	S2
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There was a cloud	J4
Far o'er the reach of waters hanging low	H4
'Tween sea and sky the banner of the storm	K4
Its edges faintly bright as if the rays	L4
That fled far down the West had rested there	O
And slumbered and had left a dream of light	F2
Its inner folds were dark its central more	B
It did not flutter there it hung as calm	M4
As banner in a temple o'er a shrine	K
Its shadow only fell upon the sea	S2
Above the shore the heavens bended blue	H4
We walked between the cloudless and the cloud	J4
That hour beside the sea	S2
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But quick as thought	N4
There gleamed a sword of wild terrific light	F2
Its hilt in heaven its point hissed in the sea	S2
Its scabbard in the darkness and it tore	B
The bannered cloud into a thousand shreds	O4
Then quivered far away and bent and broke	P4
In flashing fragments	Q4
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And there came a peal	H4
That shook the mighty sea from shore to shore	B
But did not stir a sand grain on the beach	N3
Then silence fell and where the low cloud hung	Q3
Clouds darker gathered and they proudly waved	R4
Like flags before a battle	H4
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We twain walked	A4
We walked between the lightning's parted gleams	S4
We walked between the thunders of the skies	W
We walked between the wavings of the clouds	T4
We walked between the tremblings of the sea	S2
We walked between the stillnesses and roars	U4
Of frightened billows and we walked between	O2
The coming tempest and the dying calm	M4
Between the tranquil and the terrible	H4
That hour beside the sea	S2
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There was a rock	V4
Far up the winding beach that jutted in	W4
The sea and broke the heart of every wave	A
That struck its breast not steep enough nor high	L3
To be a cliff nor yet sufficient rough	X4
To be a crag a simple low lone rock	V4
Yet not so low as that its brow was laved	A4
By highest tide yet not sufficient high	L3
To rise beyond the reach of silver spray	X2
That rained up from the waves their tears that fell	H4
Upon its face when they died at its feet	A4
Around its sides damp seaweed hung in long	G3
Sad tresses dripping down into the sea	S2
A tuft or two of grass did green the rock	V4
A patch or so of moss the rest was bare	O
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Adown the shore we walked 'tween eve and night	A4
But when we reached the rock the eve and night	A4
Had met light died we sat down in the dark	I
Upon the rock	V4
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Meantime a thousand clouds	T4
Careered and clashed in air a thousand waves	Y4
Whirled wildly on in wrath a thousand winds	Z4
Howled hoarsely on the main and down the skies	W
Into the hollow seas the fierce rain rushed	A4
As if its ev'ry drop were hot with wrath
And like a thousand serpents intercoiled	A4
The lightnings glared and hissed and hissed and glared	A4
And all the horror shrank in horror back
Before the maddest peals that ever leaped	A4
Out from the thunder's throat	A4
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Within the dark	I
We silent sat No rain fell on the rock	V4
Nor in on land nor shore only on sea	S2
The upper and the lower waters met	A4
In wild delirium like a thousand hearts
Far parted parted long which meet to break
Which rush into each other's arms and break
In terror and in tempests wild of tears	Q
No rain fell on the rock but flakes of foam	T3
Swept cold against our faces where we sat	A4
Between the hush and howling of the winds	Z4
Between the swells and sinking of the waves	Y4
Between the stormy sea and stilly shore	B
Between the rushings of the maddened rains
Between the dark beneath and dark above	T2
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We sat within the dread heart of the night	A4
One pale with terror one as calm and still	H4
And stern and moveless as the lone low rock	V4