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Faint as a climate changing bird that flies	A
All night across the darkness and at dawn	B
Falls on the threshold of her native land	C
And can no more thou camest O my child	D
Led upward by the God of ghosts and dreams	E
Who laid thee at Eleusis dazed and dumb	F
With passing thro' at once from state to state	G
Until I brought thee hither that the day	H
When here thy hands let fall the gather'd flower	I
Might break thro' clouded memories once again	J
On thy lost self A sudden nightingale	K
Saw thee and flash'd into a frolic of song	L
And welcome and a gleam as of the moon	M
When first she peers along the tremulous deep	N
Fled wavering o'er thy face and chased away	H
That shadow of a likeness to the king	O
Of shadows thy dark mate Persephone	M
Queen of the dead no more my child Thine eyes	A
Again were human godlike and the Sun	M
Burst from a swimming fleece of winter gray	H
And robed thee in his day from head to feet	P
Mother and I was folded in thine arms	Q
	-
Child those imperial disimpassion'd eyes	A
Awed even me at first thy mother eyes	A
That oft had seen the serpent wanded power	I
Draw downward into Hades with his drift	R
Of fickering spectres lighted from below	S
By the red race of fiery Phlegethon	M
But when before have Gods or men beheld	R
The Life that had descended re arise	A
And lighted from above him by the Sun	M
So mighty was the mother's childless cry	T
A cry that ran thro' Hades Earth and Heaven	M
	-
So in this pleasant vale we stand again	M
The field of Enna now once more ablaze	U
With flowers that brighten as thy footstep falls	V
All flowers but for one black blur of earth	W
Left by that closing chasm thro' which the car	X
Of dark Aidoneus rising rapt thee hence	Y
And here my child tho' folded in thine arms	Q
I feel the deathless heart of motherhood	R
Within me shudder lest the naked glebe	Z
Should yawn once more into the gulf and thence	Y
The shrilly whinnyings of the team of Hell	A2
Ascending pierce the glad and songful air	B2
And all at once their arch'd necks midnight maned	R
Jet upward thro' the mid day blossom No	M
For see thy foot has touch'd it all the space	C2
Of blank earth baldness clothes itself afresh	D2
And breaks into the crocus purple hour	I
That saw thee vanish	E2
	-
Child when thou wert gone	M
I envied human wives and nested birds	F2
Yea the cubb'd lioness went in search of thee	G2
Thro' many a palace many a cot and gave	H2
Thy breast to ailing infants in the night	R
And set the mother waking in amaze	U
To find her sick one whole and forth again	M
Among the wail of midnight winds and cried	R
Where is my loved one Wherefore do ye wail	K
And out from all the night an answer shrill'd	R
We know not and we know not why we wail	K
I climb'd on all the cliffs of all the seas	I2
And ask'd the waves that moan about the world	R
Where do ye make your moaning for my child	R
And round from all the world the voices came	J2
We know not and we know not why we moan	M
Where and I stared from every eagle peak	K2
I thridded the black heart of all the woods	L2
I peer'd thro' tomb and cave and in the storms	M2
Of Autumn swept across the city and heard	R
The murmur of their temples chanting me	G2
Me me the desolate Mother Where and turn'd	R
And fled by many a waste forlorn of man	M
And grieved for man thro' all my grief for thee	G2
The jungle rooted in his shatter'd hearth	N2
The serpent coil'd about his broken shaft	R
The scorpion crawling over naked skulls	O2
I saw the tiger in the ruin'd fane	M
Spring from his fallen God but trace of thee	G2
I saw not and far on and following out	R
A league of labyrinthine darkness came	J2
On three gray heads beneath a gleaming rift	R
Where and I heard one voice from all the three	G2
We know not for we spin the lives of men	M
And not of Gods and know not why we spin	M
There is a Fate beyond us Nothing knew	M
	-
Last as the likeness of a dying man	M
Without his knowledge from him flits to warn	M
A far off friendship that he comes no more	P2
So he the God of dreams who heard my cry	T
Drew from thyself the likeness of thyself	H2
Without thy knowledge and thy shadow past	R
Before me crying The Bright one in the highest	R
Is brother of the Dark one in the lowest	R
And Bright and Dark have sworn that I the child	R
Of thee the great Earth Mother thee the Power	I
That lifts her buried life from loom to bloom	Q2
Should be for ever and for evermore	P2
The Bride of Darkness	R2
	-
So the Shadow wail'd	R
Then I Earth Goddess cursed the Gods of Heaven	M
I would not mingle with their feasts to me	G2
Their nectar smack'd of hemlock on the lips	S2
Their rich ambrosia tasted aconite	R
The man that only lives and loves an hour	I
Seem'd nobler than their hard Eternities	S2
My quick tears kill'd the flower my ravings hush'd	R
The bird and lost in utter grief I fail'd	R
To send my life thro' olive yard and vine	M
And golden grain my gift to helpless man	M
Rain rotten died the wheat the barley spears	S2
Were hollow husk'd the leaf fell and the sun	M
Pale at my grief drew down before his time	T2
Sickening and Aetna kept her winter snow	M
Then He the brother of this Darkness He	G2
Who still is highest glancing from his height	R
On earth a fruitless fallow when he miss'd	R
The wonted steam of sacrifice the praise	S2
And prayer of men decreed that thou should'st dwell	A2
For nine white moons of each whole year with me	G2
Three dark ones in the shadow with thy King	O
	-
Once more the reaper in the gleam of dawn	M
Will see me by the landmark far away	H
Blessing his field or seated in the dusk	U2
Of even by the lonely threshing floor	P2
Rejoicing in the harvest and the grange	V2
Yet I Earth Goddess am but ill content	R
With them who still are highest Those gray heads	S2
What meant they by their Fate beyond the Fates	S2
But younger kindlier Gods to bear us down	M
As we bore down the Gods before us Gods	S2
To quench not hurl the thunderbolt to stay	H
Not spread the plague the famine Gods indeed	R
To send the noon into the night and break	W2
The sunless halls of Hades into Heaven	M
Till thy dark lord accept and love the Sun	M
And all the Shadow die into the Light	R
When thou shalt dwell the whole bright year with me	G2
And souls of men who grew beyond their race	S2
And made themselves as Gods against the fear	X2
Of Death and Hell and thou that hast from men	M
As Queen of Death that worship which is Fear	X2
Henceforth as having risen from out the dead	R
Shalt ever send thy life along with mine	M
From buried grain thro' springing blade and bless	S2
Their garner'd Autumn also reap with me	G2
Earth mother in the harvest hymns of Earth	W
The worship which is Love and see no more	P2
The Stone the Wheel the dimly glimmering lawns	S2
Of that Elysium all the hateful fires	S2
Of torment and the shadowy warrior glide	R
Along the silent field of Asphodel	A2

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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