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I	A
Is it you that preach'd in the chapel there looking over the sand	B
Follow'd us too that night and dogg'd us and drew me to land	B
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II	A
What did I feel that night You are curious How should I tell	C
Does it matter so much what I felt You rescued me yet was it well	C
That you came unwish'd for uncall'd between me and the deep and my doom	D
Three days since three more dark days of the Godless gloom	D
Of a life without sun without health with out hope without any delight	E
In anything here upon earth but ah God that night that night	E
When the rolling eyes of the lighthouse there on the fatal neck	F
Of land running out into rock they had saved many hundreds from wreck	F
Glared on our way toward death I remember I thought as we past	G
Does it matter how many they saved we are all of us wreck'd at last	G
'Do you fear ' and there came thro' the roar of the breaker a whisper a breath	H
'Fear am I not with you I am frighted at life not death '	-
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III	A
And the suns of the limitless Universe sparkled and shone in the sky	A
Flashing with fires as of God but we knew that their light was a lie	A
Bright as with deathless hope but however they sparkled and shone	I
The dark little worlds running round them were worlds of woe like our own	I
No soul in the heaven above no soul on the earth below	J
A fiery scroll written over with lamentation and woe	J
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IV	K
See we were nursed in the drear night fold of your fatalist creed	L
And we turn'd to the growing dawn we had hoped for a dawn indeed	L
When the light of a Sun that was coming would scatter the ghosts of the Past	G
And the cramping creeds that had madden'd the peoples would vanish at last	G
And we broke away from the Christ our human brother and friend	M
For He spoke or it seem'd that He spoke of a Hell without help without end	M
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V	K
Hoped for a dawn and it came but the promise had faded away	N
We had past from a cheerless night to the glare of a drearier day	N
He is only a cloud and a smoke who was once a pillar of fire	O
The guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire	O
Of a worm as it writhes in a world of the weak trodden down by the strong	P
Of a dying worm in a world all massacre murder and wrong	P
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VI	K
O we poor orphans of nothing alone on that lonely shore	Q
Born of the brainless Nature who knew not that which she bore	Q
Trusting no longer that earthly flower would be heavenly fruit	R
Come from the brute poor souls no souls and to die with the brute	R
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VII	K
Nay but I am not claiming your pity I know you of old	S
Small pity for those that have ranged from the narrow warmth of your fold	S
Where you bawl'd the dark side of your faith and a God of eternal rage	T
Till you flung us back on ourselves and the human heart and the Age	T
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VIII	K
But pity the Pagan held it a vice was in her and in me	K
Helpless taking the place of the pitying God that should be	K
Pity for all that aches in the grasp of an idiot power	O
And pity for our own selves on an earth that bore not a flower	O
Pity for all that suffers on land or in air or the deep	U
And pity for our own selves till we long'd for eternal sleep	U
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IX	V
'Lightly step over the sands the waters you hear them call	W
Life with its anguish and horrors and errors away with it all '	-
And she laid her hand in my own she was always loyal and sweet	X
Till the points of the foam in the dusk came playing about our feet	X
There was a strong sea current would sweep us out to the main	Y
'Ah God' tho' I felt as I spoke I was taking the name in vain	Y
'Ah God' and we turn'd to each other we kiss'd we embraced she and I	K
Knowing the Love we were used to believe everlasting would die	K
We had read their know nothing books and we lean'd to the darker side	Z
Ah God should we find Him perhaps perhaps if we died if we died	Z
We never had found Him on earth this earth is a fatherless Hell	C
'Dear Love for ever and ever for ever and ever farewell '	-
Never a cry so desolate not since the world began	A2
Never a kiss so sad no not since the coming of man	A2
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X	V
But the blind wave cast me ashore and you saved me a valueless life	K
Not a grain of gratitude mine You have parted the man from the wife	K
I am left alone on the land she is all alone in the sea	V
If a curse meant ought I would curse you for not having let me be	V
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XI	V
Visions of youth for my brain was drunk with the water it seems	V
I had past into perfect quiet at length out of pleasant dreams	V
And the transient trouble of drowning what was it when match'd with the pains	V
Of the hellish heat of a wretched life rushing back thro' the veins	V
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XII	V
Why should I live one son had forged on his father and fled	B2
And if I believed in a God I would thank him the other is dead	B2
And there was a baby girl that had never look'd on the light	E
Happiest she of us all for she past from the night to the night	E
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XIII	V
But the crime if a crime of her eldest born her glory her boast	C2
Struck hard at the tender heart of the mother and broke it almost	C2
Tho' glory and shame dying out for ever in endless time	D2
Does it matter so much whether crown'd for a virtue or hang'd for a crime	D2
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XIV	K
And ruin'd by him by him I stood there naked amazed	E2
In a world of arrogant opulence fear'd myself turning crazed	E2
And I would not be mock'd in a madhouse and she the delicate wife	K
With a grief that could only be cured if cured by the surgeon's knife	K
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XV	K
Why should we bear with an hour of torture a moment of pain	Y
If every man die for ever if all his griefs are in vain	Y
And the homeless planet at length will be wheel'd thro' the silence of space	V
Motherless evermore of an ever vanishing race	V
When the worm shall have writhed its last and its last brother worm will have fled	B2
From the dead fossil skull that is left in the rocks of an earth that is dead	B2
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XVI	K
Have I crazed myself over their horrible infidel writings O yes	V
For these are the new dark ages you see of the popular press	V
When the bat comes out of his cave and the owls are whooping at noon	F2
And Doubt is the lord of this dunghill and crows to the sun and the moon	F2
Till the Sun and the Moon of our science are both of them turn'd into blood	G2
And Hope will have broken her heart running after a shadow of good	H2
For their knowing and know nothing books are scatter'd from hand to hand	B
We have knelt in your know all chapel too looking over the sand	B
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XVII	K
What I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well	C
Infinite cruelty rather that made everlasting Hell	C
Made us foreknew us foredoom'd us and does what he will with his own	I
Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan	I
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XVIII	K
Hell if the souls of men were immortal as men have been told	S
The lecher would cleave to his lusts and the miser would yearn for his gold	S
And so there were Hell for ever but were there a God as you say	V
His Love would have power over Hell till it utterly vanish'd away	V
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XIX	V
All yet I have had some glimmer at times in my gloomiest woe	J
Of a God behind all after all the great God for aught that I know	J
But the God of Love and of Hell together they cannot be thought	I2
If there be such a God may the Great God curse him and bring him to nought	I2
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XX	V
Blasphemy whose is the fault is it mine for why would you save	K
A madman to vex you with wretched words who is best in his grave	K
Blasphemy ay why not being damn'd beyond hope of grace	V
O would I were yonder with her and away from your faith and your face	V
Blasphemy true I have scared you pale with my scandalous talk	J2
But the blasphemy to my mind lies all in the way that you walk	J2
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XXI	V
Hence she is gone can I stay can I breathe divorced from the Past	I2
You needs must have good lynx eyes if I do not escape you at last	I2
Our orthodox coroner doubtless will find it a felo de se	V
And the stake and the cross road fool if you will does it matter to me	V

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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