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There is a power whose inspiration fills	A
Nature's fair fabric sun and star inwrought	B
Like airy dew ere any drop distils	A
Like perfume in the laden flower like aught	B
Unseen which interfused throughout the whole	C
Becomes its quickening pulse and principle and soul	C
Now when the drift of old desire renewing	D
Warm tides flow northward over valley and field	B
When half forgotten sound and scent are wooing	D
From their deep chambered recesses long sealed	B
Such memories as breathe once more	E
Of childhood and the happy hues it wore	E
Now with a fervor that has never been	F
In years gone by it stirs me to respond	B
Not as a force whose fountains are within	F
The faculties of the percipient mind	B
Subject with them to darkness and decay	G
But something absolute something beyond	B
Oft met like tender orbs that seem to peer	H
From pale horizons luminous behind	B
Some fringe of tinted cloud at close of day	G
And in this flood of the reviving year	H
When to the loiterer by sylvan streams	A
Deep in those cares that make Youth loveliest	G
Nature in every common aspect seems	A
To comment on the burden in his breast	G
The joys he covets and the dreams he dreams	A
One then with all beneath the radiant skies	A
That laughs with him or sighs	A
It courses through the lilac scented air	I
A blessing on the fields a wonder everywhere	I
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Spirit of Beauty whose sweet impulses	A
Flung like the rose of dawn across the sea	A
Alone can flush the exalted consciousness	A
With shafts of sensible divinity	A
Light of the World essential loveliness	A
Him whom the Muse hath made thy votary	I
Not from her paths and gentle precepture	I
Shall vulgar ends engage nor break the spell	J
That taught him first to feel thy secret charms	A
And o'er the earth obedient to their lure	I
Their sweet surprise and endless miracle	K
To follow ever with insatiate arms	A
On summer afternoons	A
When from the blue horizon to the shore	I
Casting faint silver pathways like the moon's	A
Across the Ocean's glassy mottled floor	I
Far clouds uprear their gleaming battlements	A
Drawn to the crest of some bleak eminence	A
When autumn twilight fades on the sere hill	L
And autumn winds are still	L
To watch the East for some emerging sign	M
Wintry Capella or the Pleiades	A
Or that great huntsman with the golden gear	I
Ravished in hours like these	A
Before thy universal shrine	M
To feel the invoked presence hovering near	I
He stands enthusiastic Star lit hours	A
Spent on the roads of wandering solitude	G
Have set their sober impress on his brow	I
And he with harmonies of wind and wood	G
And torrent and the tread of mountain showers	A
Has mingled many a dedicative vow	I
That holds him till thy last delight be known	N
Bound in thy service and in thine alone	N
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I too among the visionary throng	O
Who choose to follow where thy pathway leads	A
Have sold my patrimony for a song	O
And donned the simple lowly pilgrim's weeds	A
From that first image of beloved walls	A
Deep bowered in umbrage of ancestral trees	A
Where earliest thy sweet enchantment falls	A
Tingeing a child's fantastic reveries	A
With radiance so fair it seems to be	A
Of heavens just lost the lingering evidence	A
From that first dawn of roseate infancy	A
So long beneath thy tender influence	A
My breast has thrilled As oft for one brief second	G
The veil through which those infinite offers beckoned	G
Has seemed to tremble letting through	I
Some swift intolerable view	I
Of vistas past the sense of mortal seeing	D
So oft as one whose stricken eyes might see	A
In ferny dells the rustic deity	A
I stood like him possessed and all my being	D
Flooded an instant with unwonted light	G
Quivered with cosmic passion whether then	P
On woody pass or glistening mountain height	G
I walked in fellowship with winds and clouds	A
Whether in cities and the throngs of men	P
A curious saunterer through friendly crowds	A
Enamored of the glance in passing eyes	A
Unuttered salutations mute replies	A
In every character where light of thine	M
Has shed on earthly things the hue of things divine	M
I sought eternal Loveliness and seeking	D
If ever transport crossed my brow bespeaking	D
Such fire as a prophetic heart might feel	Q
Where simple worship blends in fervent zeal	Q
It was the faith that only love of thee	A
Needed in human hearts for Earth to see	A
Surpassed the vision poets have held dear	I
Of joy diffused in most communion here	I
That whomsoe'er thy visitations warmed	G
Lover of thee in all thy rays informed	G
Needed no difficulter discipline	R
To seek his right to happiness within	F
Than sensible of Nature's loveliness	A
To yield him to the generous impulses	A
By such a sentiment evoked The thought	G
Bright Spirit whose illuminings I sought	G
That thou unto thy worshipper might be	A
An all sufficient law abode with me	A
Importing something more than unsubstantial dreams	A
To vigils by lone shores and walks by murmuring streams	A
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Youth's flowers like childhood's fade and are forgot	G
Fame twines a tardy crown of yellowing leaves	A
How swift were disillusion were it not	G
That thou art steadfast where all else deceives	A
Solace and Inspiration Power divine	M
That by some mystic sympathy of thine	M
When least it waits and most hath need of thee	A
Can startle the dull spirit suddenly	A
With grandeur welled from unsuspected springs	A
Long as the light of fulgent evenings	A
When from warm showers the pearly shades disband	G
And sunset opens o'er the humid land	G
Shows thy veiled immanence in orient skies	A
Long as pale mist and opalescent dyes	A
Hung on far isle or vanishing mountain crest	G
Fields of remote enchantment can suggest	G
So sweet to wander in it matters nought	G
They hold no place but in impassioned thought	G
Long as one draught from a clear sky may be	A
A scented luxury	A
Be thou my worship thou my sole desire	I
Thy paths my pilgrimage my sense a lyre	I
Aeolian for thine every breath to stir	I
Oft when her full blown periods recur	I
To see the birth of day's transparent moon	S
Far from cramped walls may fading afternoon	S
Find me expectant on some rising lawn	T
Often depressed in dewy grass at dawn	T
Me from sweet slumber underneath green boughs	A
Ere the stars flee may forest matins rouse	A
Afoot when the great sun in amber floods	A
Pours horizontal through the steaming woods	A
And windless fumes from early chimneys start	G
And many a cock crow cheers the traveller's heart	G
Eager for aught the coming day afford	G
In hills untopped and valleys unexplored	G
Give me the white road into the world's ends	A
Lover of roadside hazard roadside friends	A
Loiterer oft by upland farms to gaze	A
On ample prospects lost in glimmering haze	A
At noon or where down odorous dales twilit	G
Filled with low thundering of the mountain stream	U
Over the plain where blue seas border it	G
The torrid coast towns gleam	U
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I have fared too far to turn back now my breast	G
Burns with the lust for splendors unrevealed	G
Stars of midsummer clouds out of the west	G
Pallid horizons winds that valley and field	G
Laden with joy be ye my refuge still	L
What though distress and poverty assail	V
Though other voices chide yours never will	L
The grace of a blue sky can never fail	V
Powers that my childhood with a spell so sweet	G
My youth with visions of such glory nursed	G
Ye have beheld nor ever seen my feet	G
On any venture set but 'twas the thirst	G
For Beauty willed them yea whatever be	A
The faults I wanted wings to rise above	W
I am cheered yet to think how steadfastly	A
I have been loyal to the love of Love	W

Alan Seeger

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