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Onward led the road again	A
Through the sad uncoloured plain	B
Under twilight brooding dim	C
And along the utmost rim	C
Wall and rampart risen to sight	D
Cast a shadow not of night	D
And beyond them seemed to glow	E
Bonfires lighted long ago	E
And my dark conductor broke	F
Silence at my side and spoke	F
Saying You conjecture well	G
Yonder is the gate of hell	G
	-
Ill as yet the eye could see	H
The eternal masonry	H
But beneath it on the dark	I
To and fro there stirred a spark	I
And again the sombre guide	J
Knew my question and replied	J
At hell gate the damned in turn	K
Pace for sentinel and burn	K
	-
Dully at the leaden sky	L
Staring and with idle eye	L
Measuring the listless plain	B
I began to think again	A
Many things I thought of then	A
Battle and the loves of men	A
Cities entered oceans crossed	M
Knowledge gained and virtue lost	M
Cureless folly done and said	N
And the lovely way that led	N
To the slimepit and the mire	O
And the everlasting fire	P
And against a smoulder dun	Q
And a dawn without a sun	Q
Did the nearing bastion loom	R
And across the gate of gloom	R
Still one saw the sentry go	E
Trim and burning to and fro	E
One for women to admire	O
In his finery of fire	P
Something as I watched him pace	S
Minded me of time and place	S
Soldiers of another corps	T
And a sentry known before	T
	-
Ever darker hell on high	L
Reared its strength upon the sky	L
And our football on the track	U
Fetched the daunting echo back	U
But the soldier pacing still	V
The insuperable sill	V
Nursing his tormented pride	J
Turned his head to neither side	J
Sunk into himself apart	W
And the hell fire of his heart	W
But against our entering in	X
From the drawbridge Death and Sin	X
Rose to render key and sword	Y
To their father and their lord	Y
And the portress foul to see	H
Lifted up her eyes on me	H
Smiling and I made reply	L
Met again my lass said I	L
Then the sentry turned his head	N
Looked and knew me and was Ned	N
	-
Once he looked and halted straight	Z
Set his back against the gate	Z
Caught his musket to his chin	X
While the hive of hell within	X
Sent abroad a seething hum	A2
As of towns whose king is come	A2
Leading conquest home from far	B2
And the captives of his war	T
And the car of triumph waits	C2
And they open wide the gates	C2
But across the entry barred	D2
Straddled the revolted guard	D2
Weaponed and accoutred well	G
From the arsenals of hell	G
And beside him sick and white	D
Sin to left and Death to right	D
Turned a countenance of fear	E2
On the flaming mutineer	E2
Over us the darkness bowed	F2
And the anger in the cloud	F2
Clenched the lightning for the stroke	F
But the traitor musket spoke	F
	-
And the hollowness of hell	G
Sounded as its master fell	G
And the mourning echo rolled	G2
Ruin through his kingdom old	G2
Tyranny and terror flown	H2
Left a pair of friends alone	H2
And beneath the nether sky	L
All that stirred was he and I	L
	-
Silent nothing found to say	I2
We began the backward way	I2
And the ebbing luster died	J
From the soldier at my side	J
As in all his spruce attire	P
Failed the everlasting fire	P
Midmost of the homeward track	U
Once we listened and looked back	U
But the city dusk and mute	J2
Slept and there was no pursuit	J2

Alfred Edward Housman

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