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By night we linger'd on the lawn	A
For underfoot the herb was dry	B
And genial warmth and o'er the sky	B
The silvery haze of summer drawn	A
And calm that let the tapers burn	C
Unwavering not a cricket chirr'd	D
The brook alone far off was heard	D
And on the board the fluttering urn	C
And bats went round in fragrant skies	E
And wheel'd or lit the filmy shapes	F
That haunt the dusk with ermine capes	F
And woolly breasts and beaded eyes	E
	-
While now we sang old songs that peal'd	D
From knoll to knoll where couch'd at ease	G
The white kine glimmer'd and the trees	G
Laid their dark arms about the field	D
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But when those others one by one	H
Withdrew themselves from me and night	D
And in the house light after light	D
Went out and I was all alone	I
	-
A hunger seized my heart I read	D
Of that glad year which once had been	J
In those fall'n leaves which kept their green	K
The noble letters of the dead	D
	-
And strangely on the silence broke	L
The silent speaking words and strange	M
Was love's dumb cry defying change	M
To test his worth and strangely spoke	L
	-
The faith the vigour bold to dwell	N
On doubts that drive the coward back	O
And keen thro' wordy snares to track	O
Suggestion to her inmost cell	N
	-
So word by word and line by line	P
The dead man touch'd me from the past	D
And all at once it seem'd at last	D
The living soul was flash'd on mine	P
	-
And mine in this was wound and whirl'd	D
About empyreal heights of thought	D
And came on that which is and caught	D
The deep pulsations of the world	D
	-
AElig onian music measuring out	D
The steps of Time the shocks of Chance	Q
The blows of Death At length my trance	Q
Was cancell'd stricken thro' with doubt	D
	-
Vague words but ah how hard to frame	R
In matter moulded forms of speech	S
Or ev'n for intellect to reach	S
Thro' memory that which I became	R
	-
Till now the doubtful dusk reveal'd	D
The knolls once more where couch'd at ease	G
The white kine glimmer'd and the trees	G
Laid their dark arms about the field	D
	-
And suck'd from out the distant gloom	T
A breeze began to tremble o'er	U
The large leaves of the sycamore	V
And fluctuate all the still perfume	T
	-
And gathering freshlier overhead	D
Rock'd the full foliaged elms and swung	W
The heavy folded rose and flung	W
The lilies to and fro and said	D
	-
The dawn the dawn and died away	X
And East and West without a breath	Y
Mixt their dim lights like life and death	Y
To broaden into boundless day	X

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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