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PROLOGUE	A
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O Lady Flora let me speak	B
A pleasant hour has passed away	C
While dreaming on your damask cheek	B
The dewy sister eyelids lay	C
As by the lattice you reclined	D
I went thro' many wayward moods	E
To see you dreaming and behind	D
A summer crisp with shining woods	F
And I too dream'd until at last	G
Across my fancy brooding warm	H
The reflex of a legend past	G
And loosely settled into form	H
And would you have the thought I had	I
And see the vision that I saw	J
Then take the broidery frame and add	I
A crimson to the quaint Macaw	J
And I will tell it Turn your face	K
Nor look with that too earnest eye	L
The rhymes are dazzled from their place	K
And order'd words asunder fly	L
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THE SLEEPING PALACE	M
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I	L
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The varying year with blade and sheaf	N
Clothes and reclothes the happy plains	O
Here rests the sap within the leaf	N
Here stays the blood along the veins	O
Faint shadows vapours lightly curl'd	P
Faint murmurs from the meadows come	Q
Like hints and echoes of the world	P
To spirits folded in the womb	R
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II	L
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Soft lustre bathes the range of urns	O
On every slanting terrace lawn	S
The fountain to his place returns	O
Deep in the garden lake withdrawn	S
Here droops the banner on the tower	T
On the hall hearths the festal fires	O
The peacock in his laurel bower	T
The parrot in his gilded wires	O
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III	L
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Roof haunting martins warm their eggs	O
In these in those the life is stay'd	U
The mantles from the golden pegs	O
Droop sleepily no sound is made	U
Not even of a gnat that sings	O
More like a picture seemeth all	V
Than those old portraits of old kings	O
That watch the sleepers from the wall	V
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IV	N
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Here sits the Butler with a flask	W
Between his knees half drain'd and there	X
The wrinkled steward at his task	W
The maid of honour blooming fair	X
The page has caught her hand in his	O
Her lips are sever'd as to speak	B
His own are pouted to a kiss	O
The blush is fix'd upon her cheek	B
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V	N
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Till all the hundred summers pass	O
The beams that thro' the Oriel shine	Y
Make prisms in every carven glass	O
And beaker brimm'd with noble wine	Y
Each baron at the banquet sleeps	O
Grave faces gather'd in a ring	Z
His state the king reposing keeps	O
He must have been a jovial king	Z
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VI	N
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All round a hedge upshoots and shows	O
At distance like a little wood	A2
Thorns ivies woodbine mistletoes	O
And grapes with bunches red as blood	B2
All creeping plants a wall of green	C2
Close matted bur and brake and briar	T
And glimpsing over these just seen	C2
High up the topmost palace spire	D2
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VII	N
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When will the hundred summers die	N
And thought and time be born again	E2
And newer knowledge drawing nigh	N
Bring truth that sways the soul of men	E2
Here all things in their place remain	F2
As all were order'd ages since	O
Come Care and Pleasure Hope and Pain	F2
And bring the fated fairy Prince	O
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY	N
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I	N
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Year after year unto her feet	G2
She lying on her couch alone	H2
Across the purple coverlet	G2
The maiden's jet black hair has grown	H2
On either side her tranced form	H
Forth streaming from a braid of pearl	I2
The slumbrous light is rich and warm	H
And moves not on the rounded curl	I2
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II	N
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The silk star broider'd coverlid	G2
Unto her limbs itself doth mould	G2
Languidly ever and amid	G2
Her full black ringlets downward roll'd	G2
Glows forth each softly shadow'd arm	J2
With bracelets of the diamond bright	G2
Her constant beauty doth inform	H
Stillness with love and day with light	G2
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III	N
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She sleeps her breathings are not heard	G2
In palace chambers far apart	G2
The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd	G2
That lie upon her charmed heart	G2
She sleeps on either hand upswells	O
The gold fringed pillow lightly prest	G2
She sleeps nor dreams but ever dwells	O
A perfect form in perfect rest	G2
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THE ARRIVAL	K2
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I	N
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All precious things discover'd late	G2
To those that seek them issue forth	L2
For love in sequel works with fate	G2
And draws the veil from hidden worth	M2
He travels far from other skies	O
His mantle glitters on the rocks	O
A fairy Prince with joyful eyes	O
And lighter footed than the fox	O
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II	N
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The bodies and the bones of those	O
That strove in other days to pass	O
Are wither'd in the thorny close	O
Or scatter'd blanching on the grass	O
He gazes on the silent dead	G2
'They perish'd in their daring deeds '	-
This proverb flashes thro' his head	G2
'The many fail the one succeeds '	-
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III	N
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He comes scarce knowing what he seeks	O
He breaks the hedge he enters there	X
The colour flies into his cheeks	O
He trusts to light on something fair	X
For all his life the charm did talk	N2
About his path and hover near	O2
With words of promise in his walk	N2
And whisper'd voices at his ear	P2
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IV	N
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More close and close his footsteps wind	G2
The Magic Music in his heart	G2
Beats quick and quicker till he find	G2
The quiet chamber far apart	G2
His spirit flutters like a lark	Q2
He stoops to kiss her on his knee	N
'Love if thy tresses be so dark	Q2
How dark those hidden eyes must be '	-
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THE REVIVAL	K2
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I	N
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A touch a kiss the charm was snapt	G2
There rose a noise of striking clocks	O
And feet that ran and doors that clapt	G2
And barking dogs and crowing cocks	O
A fuller light illumined all	V
A breeze thro' all the garden swept	G2
A sudden hubbub shook the hall	V
And sixty feet the fountain leapt	G2
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II	N
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The hedge broke in the banner blew	R2
The butler drank the steward scrawl'd	G2
The fire shot up the martin flew	R2
The parrot scream'd the peacock squall'd	G2
The maid and page renew'd their strife	N
The palace bang'd and buzz'd and clackt	G2
And all the long pent stream of life	N
Dash'd downward in a cataract	G2
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III	N
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And last with these the king awoke	S2
And in his chair himself uprear'd	G2
And yawn'd and rubb'd his face and spoke	S2
'By holy rood a royal beard	G2
How say you we have slept my lords	O
My beard has grown into my lap '	-
The barons swore with many words	O
'Twas but an after dinner's nap	T2
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IV	N
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'Pardy ' retnrn'd the king 'but still	U2
My joints are somewhat stiff or so	O
My lord and shall we pass the bill	U2
I mention'd half an hour ago '	-
The chancellor sedate and vain	F2
In courteous words return'd reply	N
But dallied with his golden chain	F2
And smiling put the question by	N
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THE DEPARTURE	T
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I	N
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And on her lover's arm she leant	G2
And round her waist she felt it fold	G2
And far across the hills they went	G2
In that new world which is the old	G2
Across the hills and far away	C
Beyond their utmost purple rim	V2
And deep into the dying day	C
The happy princess follow'd him	V2
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II	N
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'I'd sleep another hundred years	O
O love for such another kiss '	-
'O wake for ever love ' she hears	O
'O love 'twas such as this and this '	-
And o'er them many a sliding star	W2
And many a merry wind was borne	X2
And stream'd thro' many a golden bar	W2
The twilight melted into morn	X2
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III	N
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'O eyes long laid in happy sleep '	-
'O happy sleep that lightly fled '	-
'O happy kiss that woke thy sleep '	-
'O love thy kiss would wake the dead '	-
And o'er them many a flowing range	Y2
Of vapour buoy'd the crescent bark	Q2
And rapt thro' many a rosy change	Y2
The twilight died into the dark	Q2
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IV	N
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'A hundred summers can it be	N
And whither goest thou tell me where '	-
'O seek my father's court with me	N
For there are greater wonders there '	-
And o'er the hills and far away	C
Beyond their utmost purple rim	V2
Beyond the night across the day	C
Thro' all the world she follow'd him	V2
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MORAL	K2
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I	N
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So Lady Flora take my lay	C
And if you find no moral there	X
Go look in any glass and say	C
What moral is in being fair	X
Oh to what uses shall we put	G2
The wildweed flower that simply blows	O
And is there any moral shut	G2
Within the bosom of the rose	O
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II	N
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But any man that walks the mead	G2
In bud or blade or bloom may find	G2
According as his humours lead	G2
A meaning suited to his mind	G2
And liberal applications lie	N
In Art like Nature dearest friend	G2
So 'twere to cramp its use if I	N
Should hook it to some useful end	G2
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L'ENVOI	N
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I	N
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You shake your head A random string	Z
Your finer female sense offends	O
Well were it not a pleasant thing	Z
To fall asleep with all one's friends	O
To pass with all our social ties	O
To silence from the paths of men	E2
And every hundred years to rise	O
And learn the world and sleep again	E2
To sleep thro' terms of mighty wars	O
And wake on science grown to more	Z2
On secrets of the brain the stars	O
As wild as aught of fairy lore	Z2
And all that else the years will show	O
The Poet forms of stronger hours	O
The vast Republics that may grow	O
The Federations and the Powers	O
Titanic forces taking birth	M2
In divers seasons divers climes	O
For we are Ancients of the earth	M2
And in the morning of the times	O
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II	N
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So sleeping so aroused from sleep	A3
Thro' sunny decades new and strange	Y2
Or gay quinquenniads would we reap	A3
The flower and quintessence of change	Y2
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III	N
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Ah yet would I and would I might	G2
So much your eyes my fancy take	B3
Be still the first to leap to light	G2
That I might kiss those eyes awake	B3
For am I right or am I wrong	C3
To choose your own you did not care	X
You'd have my moral from the song	C3
And I will take my pleasure there	X
And am I right or am I wrong	C3
My fancy ranging thro' and thro'	X
To search a meaning for the song	C3
Perforce will still revert to you	R2
Nor finds a closer truth than this	O
All graceful head so richly curl'd	G2
And evermore a costly kiss	O
The prelude to some brighter world	G2
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IV	N
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For since the time when Adam first	G2
Embraced his Eve in happy hour	X
And every bird of Eden burst	G2
In carol every bud to flower	X
What eyes like thine have waken'd hopes	O
What lips like thine so sweetly join'd	G2
Where on the double rosebud droops	O
The fulness of the pensive mind	G2
Which all too dearly self involved	G2
Yet sleeps a dreamless sleep to me	N
A sleep by kisses undissolved	G2
That lets thee neither hear nor see	N
But break it In the name of wife	N
And in the rights that name may give	N
Are clasp'd the moral of thy life	N
And that for which I care to live	N
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EPILOGUE	D3
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So Lady Flora take my lay	C
And if you find a meaning there	X
O whisper to your glass and say	C
'What wonder if he thinks me fair '	-
What wonder I was all unwise	O
To shape the song for your delight	G2
Like long tail'd birds of Paradise	O
That float thro' Heaven and cannot light	G2
Or old world trains upheld at court	G2
By Cupid boys of blooming hue	R2
But take it earnest wed with sport	G2
And either sacred unto you	R2