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A city clerk but gently born and bred	A
His wife an unknown artist's orphan child	B
One babe was theirs a Margaret three years old	C
They thinking that her clear germander eye	D
Droopt in the giant factoried city gloom	E
Came with a month's leave given them to the sea	F
For which his gains were dock'd however small	G
Small were his gains and hard his work besides	H
Their slender household fortunes for the man	I
Had risk'd his little like the little thrift	J
Trembled in perilous places o'er a deep	K
And oft when sitting all alone his face	L
Would darken as he cursed his credulousness	L
And that one unctuous mount which lured him rogue	M
To buy strange shares in some Peruvian mine	N
Now seaward bound for health they gain'd a coast	O
All sand and cliff and deep inrunning cave	P
At close of day slept woke and went the next	Q
The Sabbath pious variers from the church	R
To chapel where a heated pulpiteer	S
Not preaching simple Christ to simple men	T
Announced the coming doom and fulminated	Q
Against the scarlet woman and her creed	Q
For sideways up he swung his arms and shriek'd	Q
Thus thus with violence ' ev'n as if he held	Q
The Apocalyptic millstone and himself	U
Were that great Angel Thus with violence	L
Shall Babylon be cast into the sea	L
Then comes the close ' The gentle hearted wife	V
Sat shuddering at the ruin of a world	Q
He at his own but when the wordy storm	W
Had ended forth they came and paced the shore	S
Ran in and out the long sea framing caves	L
Drank the large air and saw but scarce believed	Q
The sootflake of so many a summer still	X
Clung to their fancies that they saw the sea	L
So now on sand they walk'd and now on cliff	Y
Lingering about the thymy promontories	L
Till all the sails were darken'd in the west	Q
And rosed in the east then homeward and to bed	Q
Where she who kept a tender Christian hope	Z
Haunting a holy text and still to that	Q
Returning as the bird returns at night	Q
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath '	A2
Said Love forgive him ' but he did not speak	B2
And silenced by that silence lay the wife	V
Remembering her dear Lord who died for all	G
And musing on the little lives of men	T
And how they mar this little by their feuds	L
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But while the two were sleeping a full tide	Q
Rose with ground swell which on the foremost rocks	L
Touching upjetted in spirts of wild sea smoke	C2
And scaled in sheets of wasteful foam and fell	D2
In vast sea cataracts ever and anon	T
Dead claps of thunder from within the cliffs	L
Heard thro' the living roar At this the babe	E2
Their Margaret cradled near them wail'd and woke	C2
The mother and the father suddenly cried	Q
A wreck a wreck ' then turn'd and groaning said	Q
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Forgive How many will say 'forgive ' and find	Q
A sort of absolution in the sound	Q
To hate a little longer No the sin	T
That neither God nor man can well forgive	F2
Hypocrisy I saw it in him at once	L
Is it so true that second thoughts are best	Q
Not first and third which are a riper first	Q
Too ripe too late they come too late for use	L
Ah love there surely lives in man and beast	Q
Something divine to warn them of their foes	L
And such a sense when first I fronted him	G2
Said 'trust him not ' but after when I came	H2
To know him more I lost it knew him less	L
Fought with what seem'd my own uncharity	Q
Sat at his table drank his costly wines	L
Made more and more allowance for his talk	I2
Went further fool and trusted him with all	G
All my poor scrapings from a dozen years	L
Of dust and deskwork there is no such mine	T
None but a gulf of ruin swallowing gold	Q
Not making Ruin'd ruin'd the sea roars	L
Ruin a fearful night '	-
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Not fearful fair '	-
Said the good wife if every star in heaven	T
Can make it fair you do but bear the tide	Q
Had you ill dreams '	-
	-
O yes ' he said I dream'd	Q
Of such a tide swelling toward the land	Q
And I from out the boundless outer deep	K
Swept with it to the shore and enter'd one	T
Of those dark caves that run beneath the cliffs	L
I thought the motion of the boundless deep	K
Bore through the cave and I was heaved upon it	Q
In darkness then I saw one lovely star	S
Larger and larger 'What a world ' I thought	Q
'To live in ' but in moving I found	Q
Only the landward exit of the cave	P
Bright with the sun upon the stream beyond	Q
And near the light a giant woman sat	Q
All over earthy like a piece of earth	J2
A pickaxe in her hand then out I slipt	Q
Into a land all of sun and blossom trees	L
As high as heaven and every bird that sings	L
And here the night light flickering in my eyes	L
Awoke me '	-
	-
That was then your dream ' she said	Q
Not sad but sweet '	-
	-
So sweet I lay ' said he	L
And mused upon it drifting up the stream	K2
In fancy till I slept again and pieced	Q
The broken vision for I dream'd that still	X
The motion of the great deep bore me on	T
And that the woman walk'd upon the brink	L2
I wonder'd at her strength and ask'd her of it	Q
'It came ' she said 'by working in the mines '	-
O then to ask her of my shares I thought	Q
And ask'd but not a word she shook her head	Q
And then the motion of the current ceased	Q
And there was rolling thunder and we reach'd	Q
A mountain like a wall of burs and thorns	L
But she with her strong feet up the steep hill	X
Trod out a path I follow'd and at top	M2
She pointed seaward there a fleet of glass	L
That seem'd a fleet of jewels under me	L
Sailing along before a gloomy cloud	Q
That not one moment ceased to thunder past	Q
In sunshine right across its track there lay	N2
Down in the water a long reef of gold	Q
Or what seem'd gold and I was glad at first	Q
To think that in our often ransack'd world	Q
Still so much gold was left and then I fear'd	Q
Lest the gay navy there should splinter on it	Q
And fearing waved my arm to warn them off	O2
An idle signal for the brittle fleet	Q
I thought I could have died to save it near'd	Q
Touch'd clink'd and clash'd and vanish'd and I woke	C2
I heard the clash so clearly Now I see	L
My dream was Life the woman honest Work	P2
And my poor venture but a fleet of glass	L
Wreck'd on a reef of visionary gold '	-
	-
Nay ' said the kindly wife to comfort him	G2
You raised your arm you tumbled down and broke	C2
The glass with little Margaret's medicine it it	Q
And breaking that you made and broke your dream	K2
A trifle makes a dream a trifle breaks '	-
	-
No trifle ' groan'd the husband yesterday	N2
I met him suddenly in the street and ask'd	Q
That which I ask'd the woman in my dream	K2
Like her he shook his head 'Show me the books '	-
He dodged me with a long and loose account	Q
'The books the books ' but he he could not wait	Q
Bound on a matter he of life and death	Q2
When the great Books see Daniel seven and ten	T
Were open'd I should find he meant me well	D2
And then began to bloat himself and ooze	L
All over with the fat affectionate smile	R2
That makes the widow lean 'My dearest friend	Q
Have faith have faith We live by faith ' said he	L
'And all things work together for the good	Q
Of those' it makes me sick to quote him last	Q
Gript my hand hard and with God bless you went	Q
I stood like one that had received a blow	S2
I found a hard friend in his loose accounts	L
A loose one in the hard grip of his hand	Q
A curse in his God bless you then my eyes	L
Pursued him down the street and far away	N2
Among the honest shoulders of the crowd	Q
Read rascal in the motions of his back	T2
And scoundrel in the supple sliding knee '	-
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Was he so bound poor soul ' said the good wife	V
So are we all but do not call him love	U2
Before you prove him rogue and proved forgive	F2
His gain is loss for he that wrongs his friend	Q
Wrongs himself more and ever bears about	Q
A silent court of justice in his breast	Q
Himself the judge and jury and himself	U
The prisoner at the bar ever condemn'd	Q
And that drags down his life then comes what comes	L
Hereafter and he meant he said he meant	Q
Perhaps he meant or partly meant you well '	-
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'With all his conscience and one eye askew'	T2
Love let me quote these lines that you may learn	T
A man is likewise counsel for himself	U
Too often in that silent	Q

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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