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Aye snows are rife in December	A
And sheaves are in August yet	B
And you would have me remember	A
And I would rather forget	B
In the bloom of the May day weather	A
In the blight of October chill	C
We were dreamers of old together	A
As of old are you dreaming still	C
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For nothing on earth is sadder	A
Than the dream that cheated the grasp	D
The flower that turned to the adder	A
The fruit that changed to the asp	D
When the day spring in darkness closes	E
As the sunset fades from the hills	F
With the fragrance of perish'd roses	E
With the music of parch'd up rills	E
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When the sands on the sea shore nourish	G
Red clover and yellow corn	H
When figs on the thistle flourish	G
And grapes grow thick on the thorn	H
When the dead branch blighted and blasted	I
Puts forth green leaves in the spring	J
Then the dream that life has outlasted	K
Dead comfort to life may bring	J
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I have changed the soil and the season	L
But whether skies freeze or flame	M
The soil they flame on or freeze on	N
Is changed in little save name	M
The loadstone points to the nor'ward	O
The river runs to the sea	E
And you would have me look forward	P
And backward I fain would flee	E
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I remember the bright spring garlands	E
The gold that spangled the green	Q
And the purple on fairy far lands	E
And the white and the red bloom seen	Q
From the spot where we last lay dreaming	J
Together yourself and I	R
The soft grass beneath us gleaming	J
Above us the great grave sky	R
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And we spoke thus Though we have trodden	L
Rough paths in our boyish years	E
And some with our sweat are sodden	L
And some are salt with our tears	E
Though we stumble still walking blindly	E
Our paths shall be made all straight	S
We are weak but the heavens are kindly	E
The skies are compassionate	T
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Is the clime of the old land younger	A
Where the young dreams longer are nursed	U
With the old insatiable hunger	A
With the old unquenchable thirst	U
Are you longing as in the old years	E
We have longed so often in vain	V
Fellow toilers still fellow soldiers	E
Though the seas have sundered us twain	V
	-
But the young dreams surely have faded	I
Young dreams old dreams of young days	E
Shall the new dream vex us as they did	K
Or as things worth censure or praise	E
Real toil is ours real trouble	W
Dim dreams of pleasure and pride	X
Let the dreams disperse like a bubble	W
So the toil like a dream subside	X
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Vain toil men better and braver	A
Rose early and rested late	S
Whose burdens than ours were graver	A
And sterner than ours their hate	S
What fair reward had Achilles	E
What rest could Alcides win	Y
Vain toil Consider the lilies	E
They toil not neither do spin	Y
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Nor for mortal toiling nor spinning	J
Will the matters of mortals mend	Z
As it was so in the beginning	J
It shall be so in the end	Z
The web that the weavers weave ill	C
Shall not be woven aright	Z
Till the good is brought forth from evil	W
As day is brought forth from night	Z
	-
Vain dreams for our fathers cherish'd	Z
High hopes in the days that were	A
And these men wonder'd and perish'd	Z
Nor better than these we fare	A2
And our due at last is their due	Z
They fought against odds and fell	B2
En avant les enfants perdus	E
We fight against odds as well	B2
	-
The skies Will the great skies care for	C2
Our footsteps straighten our path	D2
Or strengthen our weakness Wherefore	C2
We have rather incurr'd their wrath	D2
When against the Captain of Hazor	C2
The stars in their courses fought	Z
Did the skies shed merciful rays or	C2
With love was the sunshine fraught	Z
	-
Can they favour man Can they wrong man	E2
The unapproachable skies	E
Though these gave strength to the strong man	E2
And wisdom gave to the wise	E
When strength is turn'd to derision	L
And wisdom brought to dismay	F2
Shall we wake from a troubled vision	L
Or rest from a toilsome day	F2
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Nay I cannot tell Peradventure	C2
Our very toil is a dream	G2
And the works that we praise or censure	C2
It may be they only seem	G2
If so I would fain awaken	L
Or sleep more soundly than so	E
Or by dreamless sleep overtaken	L
The dream I would fain forego	E
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For the great things of earth are small things	E
The longest life is a span	E2
And there is an end to all things	E
A season to every man	E2
Whose glory is dust and ashes	E
Whose spirit is but a spark	H2
That out from the darkness flashes	E
And flickers out in the dark	H2
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We remember the pangs that wrung us	E
When some went down to the pit	Z
Who faded as leaves among us	E
Who flitted as shadows flit	Z
What visions under the stone lie	R
What dreams in the shroud sleep dwell	B2
For we saw the earth pit only	E
And we heard only the knell	B2
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We know not whether they slumber	C2
Who waken on earth no more	C2
As the stars of the heights in number	C2
As sands on the deep sea shore	C2
Shall stiffness bind them and starkness	E
Enthral them by field and flood	Z
Till the sun shall be turn'd to darkness	E
And the moon shall be turn'd to blood	Z
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We know not worse may enthral men	I2
The wages of sin are death	J2
And so death passed upon all men	I2
For sin was born with man's breath	J2
Then the labourer spent with sinning	J
His hire with his life shall spend	Z
For it was so in the beginning	J
And shall be so in the end	Z
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There is life in the blacken'd ember	C2
While a spark is smouldering yet	Z
In a dream e'en now I remember	C2
That dream I had lief forget	Z
I had lief forget I had e'en lief	K2
That dream with this doubt should die	R
If we did these things in the green leaf	K2
what shall be done in the dry	R

Adam Lindsay Gordon

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