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THROUGH jewelled windows in the walls	B
The tempered daylight smiles	C
And solemn music swells and falls	B
Adown these stately aisles	C
Beneath that carven chancel rood	D
Low murmurs hushed to silence brood	D
One voice in prayer appeals	E
For Holy Spirit's quickening grace	F
To light his now anointed face	F
Who at the altar kneels	F
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One hour ago like us he trod	G
Along these cloisters dim	H
Now we are bid to reverence God	G
Made manifest in him	H
To mock at our enlightened sense	F
And dearly won experience	F
So far beyond his own	I
To take him for our heaven sent guide	J
Upon these seas so wild and wide	J
To him as yet unknown	I
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Unconscious of the coming strife	K
Unformed in mind and thought	L
Without one ripe idea of life	K
Save what his school books taught	L
An ignorant boy he vows a vow	M
To think and feel as he does now	M
Till his gold locks are grey	N
Pledges his word to learn no more	O
To add no wisdom to the store	O
His young mind holds to day	N
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How shall he keep this senseless oath	P
When once a full grown man	Q
How shall he check his upward growth	P
To fit this meagre plan	Q
Only by ruthless pinching out	R
Of all the fairest shoots that sprout	R
As on a healthy tree	S
From his expanding brain and heart	T
Defrauding his diviner part	T
Of its virility	S
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And thus shall youthful passion pale	U
In native force and fire	V
And thus shall soaring pinions fail	U
Bedraggled in the mire	W
This tender conscience now so bright	X
Lose its fine sense of wrong and right	X
Dulled with a moral rust	Y
This ardent intellect be damped	Z
This eager spirit starved and cramped	Z
Choked in mediaeval dust	Y
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Thus shall the fettered arm grow numb	A2
And blind the bandaged eye	B2
Thus shall the silenced voice grow dumb	A2
As year by year goes by	B2
Until at last from long abuse	F
And lack of free and wholesome use	F
All manhood's powers decline	C2
And like a lamp unfed untrimmed	Y
Intelligence once bright is dimmed	Y
No more to burn and shine	C2
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Then may we see this sanguine youth	D2
Born for a nobler lot	Y
Turn traitor to the highest truth	D2
Because he knows it not	Y
Serving for Mammon veiled as God	Y
Cringing for high born patron's nod	Y
For social place and gain	E2
While he mechanically yields	F
The produce of his fallow fields	F
Husks of long garnered grain	E2
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No more a brave and honest man	Q
Whose conscience is his own	I
But worse than thief and courtesan	I
To degradation grown	I
A cheat and hypocrite content	Y
In shelter of base precedent	Y
The downward path to tread	Y
Lest he should lose his Esau's bowl	F2
That bought the birthright of his soul	F2
And have to earn his bread	Y
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Or if remorsefully aware	G2
Of his ignoble case	F
Owning himself too weak to dare	G2
A brother's hostile face	F
Too weak to stand alone and fight	Y
Against the strong world's might with right	Y
A leader's part to take	H2
Dying a daily death in life	K
At outward peace and inward strife	K
For poor convention's sake	H2
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Let organ music swell and peal	I2
And priests and people pray	N
Let those who can at altar kneel	I2
I have no heart to stay	N
I cannot bear to see it done	I
This fresh young life scarce yet begun	I
Closed by that iron door	O
A free born spirit gagged and bound	Y
Tethered to one small plot of ground	Y
While all the great world spreads around	Y
And doomed to fly no more	O

Ada Cambridge

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