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I	A
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Through jewelled windows in the walls	B
The tender daylight smiles	C
Majestic music swells and falls	B
Adown the stately aisles	C
Shadows of carven roof and rood	D
Of stony saints and angels brood	D
Above the altar glow	E
They cannot dim the shining face	F
Of one conspicuous in his place	F
Amid the forms below	E
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He that was once my little boy	G
With merry voice and look	H
My babe that quarrelled with his toy	G
And tore his hated book	H
But yesterday a laughing lad	I
In his dear worldly garments clad	I
Talking of college wins	J
Wickets and bumping boats and goals	K
And not of shepherd and lost souls	K
His sermons and their sins	J
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The same he kneels there pale and awed	L
In cloud of prayer and hymn	M
And we are to behold our Lord	N
Made manifest in him	M
To sit his pupils and be taught	O
Who knows not what the years have brought	O
To mothers and to men	P
To take him for our heaven sent guide	Q
On seas he never voyaged wide	Q
And wild beyond his ken	P
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With all the lore of schools and none	R
Of stern and suffering life	S
A child with wooden sword and gun	R
Unarmed for vital strife	S
His mind a bud of spring unblown	R
Its flowering shape as yet unknown	R
Its fruit awaiting birth	T
A seedling of a thousand strains	U
A parasite of dead men's brains	U
Though sprung from living earth	T
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There in his proud belief he stands	V
This simple boy of mine	R
Transformed by necromantic hands	V
To something half divine	R
All in a moment in a breath	W
An oracle of life and death	W
A judge above us all	X
What spell is this that has him fast	Y
When age of miracle is past	Y
And past beyond recall	X
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O knight of dreams in fairy mail	Z
If for his sake I pray	A2
It is that fairy arms may fail	Z
And tough steel win the day	A2
Aye though his dear heart take the thrust	B2
And he be trampled in the dust	B2
But mother fears forbode	B2
May God have mercy and forefend	B2
A tamer journey and an end	B2
Upon an easier road	B2
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A long fulfilling of the vow	C2
Within the vow he spake	D2
To close the gates of knowledge now	C2
And no more dare to take	D2
The broad highways of marching thought	B2
By his unfettered brothers sought	B2
Who follow every clue	E2
On every line where'er it leads	F2
Heedless of heresies or creeds	F2
To find the Right and True	E2
The mother love so apt for woe	E
Visions the joyless track	G2
Where the belov d feet may go	E
And nevermore come back	G2
The boy become a thinking man	R
That has outgrown the changeless plan	R
Once fitted to his shape	H2
The traveller confident serene	R
Caught in an ambush unforeseen	R
Whence there is no escape	H2
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Struggling a little overborne	R
Perplexed persuaded spent	B2
With dim self pity and self scorn	R
Supine in discontent	B2
No no escape by any arts	I2
Save through a score of bleeding hearts	I2
A stair too steep to climb	J2
Wherefore be wise and hide the chains	U
Drug conscience with its pangs and pains	U
Give peace Lord in our time	J2
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O waste of precious force and fire	K2
The sacred passion pales	L2
The soaring pinions droop and tire	K2
Our standard bearer fails	L2
To keep his battle flag aloft	B2
The strong young arm is slack and soft	B2
The eager feet are slow	E
The shining mail is dulled with rust	B2
Of contact with mediaeval dust	B2
And will not bear a blow	E
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And under harness so decayed	B2
What ravage unrevealed	B2
What moral textures soiled and frayed	B2
And moral sores unhealed	B2
He must not know that dares not tell	M2
Hush It is nothing All is well	M2
Peace in our time O Lord	B2
And leave the fighting for the heirs	N2
The blood of sacrifice be theirs	N2
Who cannot shirk the sword	B2
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O boy of mine that played the game	O2
And never learned to cheat	B2
Nor knew such word or thought as shame	O2
In victory or defeat	B2
Will he be found when he grows old	B2
Passing off spurious coin for gold	B2
Selling dry husks for grain	R
The pottage of the Esau's bowl	P2
That bought the birthright of a soul	P2
His all sufficient gain	R
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The image and the robes of what	B2
He seems to serve and seek	Q2
But veils although he knows it not	B2
On Mammon's brazen cheek	Q2
His bishop's smile his patron's nod	B2
The homage of his flock his god	B2
His sensuous worship drest	B2
In forms and colours rich and rare	R2
The spirit's sanctuary bare	R2
Heart emptily at rest	B2
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Let organ music swell and peal	S2
And priests and people pray	A2
Let those who can at altar kneel	S2
I have no heart to stay	A2
I cannot bear to see it done	R
The hands whose work has scarce begun	R
Locked in these gyves of lead	B2
The living spirit gagged and bound	B2
And tethered to one plot of ground	B2
A prisoner of the dead	B2

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