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Love thou thy land with love far brought	A
From out the storied past and used	B
Within the present but transfused	B
Thro' future time by power of thought	A
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True love turn'd round on fixed poles	C
Love that endures not sordid ends	D
For English natures freemen friends	D
Thy brothers and immortal souls	C
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But pamper not a hasty time	E
Nor feed with crude imaginings	C
The herd wild hearts and feeble wings	C
That every sophister can lime	E
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Deliver not the tasks of might	F
To weakness neither hide the ray	G
From those not blind who wait for day	G
Tho' sitting girt with doubtful light	F
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Make knowledge circle with the winds	C
But let her herald Reverence fly	H
Before her to whatever sky	H
Bear seed of men and growth of minds	C
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Watch what main currents draw the years	C
Cut Prejudice against the grain	I
But gentle words are always gain	I
Regard the weakness of thy peers	C
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Nor toil for title place or touch	J
Of pension neither count on praise	C
It grows to guerdon after days	C
Nor deal in watch words overmuch	J
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Not clinging to some ancient saw	C
Not master'd by some modern term	K
Not swift nor slow to change but firm	K
And in its season bring the law	C
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That from Discussion's lip may fall	L
With Life that working strongly binds	C
Set in all lights by many minds	C
To close the interests of all	L
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For Nature also cold and warm	M
And moist and dry devising long	N
Thro' many agents making strong	N
Matures the individual form	M
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Meet is it changes should control	O
Our being lest we rust in ease	C
We all are changed by still degrees	C
All but the basis of the soul	O
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So let the change which comes be free	P
To ingroove itself with that which flies	C
And work a joint of state that plies	C
Its office moved with sympathy	P
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A saying hard to shape in act	Q
For all the past of Time reveals	C
A bridal dawn of thunder peals	C
Wherever Thought hath wedded Fact	Q
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Even now we hear with inward strife	R
A motion toiling in the gloom	S
The Spirit of the years to come	T
Yearning to mix himself with Life	R
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A slow develop'd strength awaits	C
Completion in a painful school	U
Phantoms of other forms of rule	U
New Majesties of mighty States	C
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The warders of the growing hour	V
But vague in vapor hard to mark	W
And round them sea and air are dark	W
With great contrivances of Power	V
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Of many changes aptly join'd	X
Is bodied forth the second whole	O
Regard gradation lest the soul	O
Of Discord race the rising wind	Y
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A wind to puff your idol fires	C
And heap their ashes on the head	Z
To shame the boast so often made	A2
That we are wiser than our sires	C
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O yet if Nature's evil star	B2
Drive men in manhood as in youth	C2
To follow flying steps of Truth	C2
Across the brazen bridge of war	D2
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If New and Old disastrous feud	E2
Must ever shock like armed foes	C
And this be true till Time shall close	C
That Principles are rain'd in blood	F2
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Not yet the wise of heart would cease	C
To hold his hope thro' shame and guilt	G2
But with his hand against the hilt	G2
Would pace the troubled land like Peace	C
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Not less tho' dogs of Faction bay	G
Would serve his kind in deed and word	H2
Certain if knowledge bring the sword	I2
That knowledge takes the sword away	G
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Would love the gleams of good that broke	J2
From either side nor veil his eyes	C
And if some dreadful need should rise	C
Would strike and firmly and one stroke	J2
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To morrow yet would reap to day	G
As we bear blossom of the dead	Z
Earn well the thrifty months nor wed	Z
Raw Haste half sister to Delay	G

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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