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Why have you silent been so long ''	A
In tones of mild rebuke you ask	B
Know you not kindly friend that Song	C
Is the Gay Science '' not a task	B
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It is but when it pleaseth God	D
The blackthorn blows the acorns fall	E
The Muse ignores a mortal's nod	D
And will not come to beck and call	E
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If I to catch the ear of men	F
Should go on singing day by day	G
What other better were I then	F
Than screeching chough or scolding jay	G
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But save the unseen source be stirred	H
The happy numbers will not flow	I
Then one is like a songless bird	H
That crouches in the drifted snow	I
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Say did you ever sit and dream	J
When summer clouds are white and still	K
Beside a slow unsounding stream	J
That winds below some rustic mill	K
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The languid current scarcely moves	L
At times you almost doubt it flows	M
Loitering in shallow sandy grooves	L
It makes no music as it goes	M
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The sluice is down the mill race still	K
Nor in mid stream nor water's edge	N
Comes faintest ripple tiniest rill	K
To stir the flag or sway the sedge	N
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Beside the dozing stream you doze	M
For nothing wakes in air or sky	O
It feels as if Time's eyelids close	P
And 'tis the same to live or die	O
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To be a passive part of all	E
That rounds Heaven's universal plan	Q
Of things that soar of things that crawl	E
Of mindless matter as of man	Q
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When slowly through the noonday sleep	R
A phantom something seems to stir	S
Like waves of dewy light that creep	R
Along gray chords of gossamer	S
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At first it is nor sight nor sound	T
But feeling only inward sense	U
Of motion slowly rising round	T
You know not where you know not whence	U
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Then noiseless still but plain to see	V
The languid waters wake and wind	W
The wave before now fears to be	V
O'ertaken by the wave behind	W
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The race long pent from out the mill	K
Comes rushing rippling gleam on gleam	J
The runnels rise the shallows fill	K
And deep and happy flows the stream	J
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The lazy sedges sway and swerve	X
The reedmace rocks its heavy head	Y
Past many a bend and bay and curve	X
The river revels through its bed	Y
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And as it twists and curls and sweels	V
From out its leaping heart there come	Z
Sounds sweet as far off village bells	V
Or swarming bee hive's honeyed hum	Z
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Through quaking grass and waving weed	A2
Rises and falls the river theme	J
Vibrating rush and trembling reed	A2
Are but the harpstrings of the stream	J
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Once more the gold ribbed gravel trills	V
With quavering trebles clear and cool	B2
Blent with the deeper note that fills	V
The plunging weir and swirling pool	B2
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Bed bank and channel chant and chime	C2
And fall and freshet as they run	D2
Though ignorant of tune and time	C2
Sing in melodious unison	D2
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And so if I be shaped to sing	E2
What kindly hearts are pleased to hear	F2
And blissful were did Nature bring	E2
A rush of music all the year	G2
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Seasons there are it doth not flow	I
When Fancy's freshets will not come	Z
The springs of song seem shrunk and low	I
And all my being dry and dumb	Z
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When suddenly from far off source	V
Unseen unsounding deep immense	V
Something with swift resistless force	V
Flushes the heart and floods the sense	V
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And as though Heaven and Earth did drain	H2
Into that deep mysterious spring	E2
Brims all the windings of the brain	H2
Then like replenished stream I sing	E2
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The will can not the stream control	I2
Its currents are divinely sent	J2
And thought and feeling mind and soul	I2
Are rapt in rhythmic ravishment	J2
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And on they flow when once they start	J2
To some ordained but unguessed goal	I2
Through all the channels of the heart	J2
And all the reaches of the soul	I2
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Then come the wing d words that skim	K2
The surface of earth's discontent	J2
To soar up to the ether dim	K2
Faint heard from far off firmament	J2
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But till the music stirs and swells	V
Within my breast forbearing be	V
Nor lightly waken slumbering bells	V
Above a silent sanctuary	V

Alfred Austin

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