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ENGLAND	A
We lead the blind by voice and hand	B
And not by light they cannot see	C
We are not framed to understand	B
The How and Why of such as He	C
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But natured only to rejoice	D
At every sound or sign of hope	E
And guided by the still small voice	D
In patience through the darkness grope	E
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Until our finer sense expands	F
And we exchange for holier sight	G
The earthly help of voice and hands	F
And in His light behold the Light	G
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I	-
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Let there be Light The self same Power	H
That out of formless dark and void	I
Endued with life's mysterious dower	J
Planet and star and asteroid	I
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That moved upon the waters' face	K
And breathing on them His intent	L
Divided and assigned their place	K
To ocean air and firmament	L
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That bade the land appear and bring	M
Forth herb and leaf both fruit and flower	H
Cattle that graze and birds that sing	M
Ordained the sunshine and the shower	H
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That moulding man and woman breathed	L
In them an active soul at birth	N
In His own image and bequeathed	L
To them dominion over Earth	N
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That by whatever is decreed	L
His Will and Word shall be obeyed	L
From loftiest star to lowliest seed	L
The worm and me He also made	L
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And when for nuptials of the Spring	M
With Summer on the vestal thorn	O
The bridal veil hung flowering	M
A cry was heard and I was born	O
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II	-
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To be by blood and long descent	L
A member of a mighty State	L
Whose greatness sea girt but unpent	L
By ocean makes the world more great	L
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That ranging limitless hath won	P
A Rule more wide than that of Rome	Q
And journeying onward with the sun	P
In every zone hath found a home	Q
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That keeping old traditions fast	L
Still hails the things that are to be	C
And firmly rooted in the Past	L
On Law hath grafted Liberty	C
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That is a birthright nobler far	R
Than princely claim or Right Divine	S
From far off rapine wanton war	T
And I could feel this birthright mine	S
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And not the lowliest hand that drives	U
Or share or loom if so it be	C
Of British strain but thence derives	U
A patent of nobility	C
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III	-
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The guiding of the infant years	V
Onward to good away from guile	W
A mother's humanising tears	X
A father's philosophic smile	W
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Refining beauty gentle ways	Y
The admonitions of the wise	Z
The love that watches helps and prays	Y
And pities but doth ne'er despise	Z
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An ancient Faith abiding hope	E
The charity that suffers long	A2
But flames with sacred zeal to cope	E
With man's injustice nature's wrong	A2
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Melodious leisure learn d shelf	B2
Discourse of earnest temperate mind	L
The playful wit that of itself	B2
Flashes but leaves no wound behind	L
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The knowledge gleaned from Greece and Rome	Q
From studious Teuton sprightly Gaul	C2
The lettered page the mellow tome	Q
And poets' wisdom more than all	C2
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These when no lips severe upbraid	L
But counsel rather than control	D2
In budding boyhood lend their aid	L
To sensibility of soul	D2
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IV	B2
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But more than mentor mother sire	H
Can lend to shape the future man	E2
With help of learning or of lyre	F2
Of ancient rule or modern plan	E2
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Is that which with our breath we bring	M
Into the world we know not whence	G2
That needs nor care nor fostering	M
Because an instinct and a sense	G2
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And days and years are all forgot	L
When Nature's aspect growth and grace	K
And veering moods to me were not	L
The features of the Loved One's face	K
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The cloud whose shadow skims the lake	H2
The shimmering haze of summer noon	I2
The voice of April in the brake	H2
The silence of the mounting moon	I2
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Swaying of bracken on the hill	J2
The murmur of the vagrant stream	K2
These motions of some unseen Will	J2
These babblings of some heavenly dream	K2
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Seemed tokens of divine desire	H
To hold discourse with me and so	L2
To touch my lips with hallowed fire	H
And tell me things I ought to know	L2
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I gazed and listened all intent	L
As to the face and voice of Fate	L
But what they said or what they meant	L
I could surmise not nor translate	L
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They did but lure me to unrest	L
Unanswered questioning longings vain	M2
As when one scans some palimpsest	L
No erudition can explain	M2
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But left me with a deep distaste	L
For common speech that still did seem	K2
More meaningless than mountain waste	L
Less human than the far off stream	K2
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So that a stranger in the land	L
Wherein I moved where'er I went	L
I dwelt whom none could understand	L
Or exorcise my discontent	L
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And I to them and they to me	C
Seemed from two different planets come	N2
And save to flower and wild bird's glee	C
My heart was deaf my soul was dumb	N2
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V	C
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But slowly dawned a happier time	O2
When I began to apprehend	L
And catch as in some poet's rhyme	O2
The intimations of a friend	L
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When Nature spake no unknown tongue	P2
But language kindred to my thought	L
Till everything She said I sung	P2
In notes unforced in words unsought	L
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And I to Her so closely drew	Q2
The seasons round in mind and mood	L
I felt at length as if we knew	Q2
Self same affection self same feud	L
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That both alike scorned worldly aim	R2
Profit applause parade and pride	L
Whereby the love of generous fame	R2
And worthy deeds grows petrified	L
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I did as yet not understand	L
Nature is far more vast than I	-
Deep as the ocean wide as land	L
And overarching as the sky	-
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And but responded to my call	C2
And only felt and fed my need	L
Because She doth the same for all	C2
Who to her pity turn and plead	L
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VI	-
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Shall man have mind and Nature none	P
Shall I not she have soul and heart	L
Nay rather if we be not one	P
Each is of each the counterpart	L
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She too may have within her breast	L
A conscience if not like to yours	S2
A sense of rightness ill at rest	L
Long as her waywardness endures	S2
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And hence her thunder earthquakes hail	T2
Her levin bolts her clouds' discharge	U2
She sins upon a larger scale	T2
Because She is herself more large	U2
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Hence too when She hath pierced with pain	M2
The heart of man and wrecked his years	V
The pity of the April rain	M2
And late repentance of her tears	X
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She is no better worse than we	C
We can but say she seems more great	L
That half her will like ours is free	C
And half of it is locked in Fate	L
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Nor need we fear that we should err	V2
Beyond our scope in reasoning thus	W2
That there must be a God for Her	H
If that there be a God for us	W2
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VII	-
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The chiming of the Sabbath bell	X2
The silence of the Sabbath fields	Y2
Over the hamlet cast a spell	X2
To which the gracious spirit yields	Y2
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Sound is there none of wheel or wain	M2
Husht stands the anvil husht the forge	Z2
No shout is heard in rustic lane	M2
No axe resounds in timbered gorge	Z2
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No flail beats time on granary floor	T
The windmill's rushing wings are stayed	L
And children's glee rings out no more	T
From hedgerow bank or primrose glade	L
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The big boned team that firm and slow	L2
Draw yoked are free to couch or stray	A3
The basking covey seem to know	L2
None will invade their peace to day	A3
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And speckless swains and maidens neat	L
Through rustic porch down cottage stair	V2
Demurely up the village street	L
Stream onward to the House of Prayer	V2
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They kneel as they were taught to kneel	B3
In childhood and demand not why	-
But as they chant or answer feel	B3
A vague communion with the sky	-
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VIII	-
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But when the impetuous mind is spurred	L
To range through epochs great but gone	C3
And heedless of dogmatic word	L
With fearless ardour presses on	D3
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Confronting pulpit sceptre shrine	S
With point by Logic beaten out	L
And questioning tenets deemed divine	S
With human challenge human doubt	L
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Hoists Reason's sail and for the haze	Y
Of ocean quits Tradition's shore	T
Awhile he comes and kneels and prays	Y
Then comes and kneels but prays no more	T
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And only for the love he bears	X
To those who love him and who reared	L
His frame to genuflexion shares	X
In ritual vain if still revered	L
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His Gods are many or are none	P
Saturn and Mithra Christ and Jove	-
Consorting as the Ages run	P
With Vestal choir or Pagan drove	-
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Abiding still by Northern shores	E3
He sees far off on Grecian coast	L
Veiled Aphrodite but ad	L