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He faints with hope and fear It is the hour	A
Distant across the thundering organ swell	B
In sweet discord from the cathedral tower	A
Fall the faint chimes and the thrice sequent bell	B
Over the crowd his eye uneasy roves	C
He sees a plume a fur his heart dilates	C
Soars and then sinks again It is not hers he loves	C
She will not come the woman that he waits	C
	-
Braided with streams of silver incense rise	C
The antique prayers and ponderous antiphones	C
'Gloria Patri' echoes to the skies	C
'Nunc et in saecula' the choir intones	C
He marks not the monotonous refrain	D
The priest that serves nor him that celebrates	C
But ever scans the aisle for his blonde head In vain	D
She will not come the woman that he waits	C
	-
How like a flower seemed the perfumed place	C
Where the sweet flesh lay loveliest to kiss	C
And her white hands in what delicious ways	C
With what unfeigned caresses answered his	C
Each tender charm intolerable to lose	C
Each happy scene his fancy recreates	C
And he calls out her name and spreads his arms No use	C
She will not come the woman that he waits	C
	-
But the long vespers close The priest on high	E
Raises the thing that Christ's own flesh enforms	C
And down the Gothic nave the crowd flows by	E
And through the portal's carven entry swarms	C
Maddened he peers upon each passing face	C
Till the long drab procession terminates	C
No princess passes out with proud majestic pace	C
She has not come the woman that he waits	C
	-
Back in the empty silent church alone	F
He walks with aching heart A white robed boy	G
Puts out the altar candles one by one	H
Even as by inches darkens all his joy	G
He dreams of the sweet night their lips first met	I
And groans and turns to leave and hesitates	C
Poor stricken heart he will he can not fancy yet	I
She will not come the woman that he waits	C
	-
But in an arch where deepest shadows fall	J
He sits and studies the old storied panes	C
And the calm crucifix that from the wall	J
Looks on a world that quavers and complains	C
Hopeless abandoned desolate aghast	K
On modes of violent death he meditates	C
And the tower clock tolls five and he admits at last	K
She will not come the woman that he waits	C
	-
Through the stained rose the winter daylight dies	C
And all the tide of anguish unrepressed	K
Swells in his throat and gathers in his eyes	C
He kneels and bows his head upon his breast	K
And feigns a prayer to hide his burning tears	C
While the satanic voice reiterates	C
'Tonight tomorrow nay nor all the impending years	C
She will not come ' the woman that he waits	C
	-
Fond fervent heart of life's enamored spring	L
So true so confident so passing fair	M
That thought of Love as some sweet tender thing	L
And not as war red tooth and nail laid bare	M
How in that hour its innocence was slain	D
How from that hour our disillusion dates	C
When first we learned thy sense ironical refrain	D
She will not come the woman that he waits	C

Alan Seeger

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