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This morning is the morning of the day	A
When I and Eustace from the city went	B
To see the Gardener's Daughter I and he	C
Brothers in Art a friendship so complete	D
Portion'd in halves between us that we grew	E
The fable of the city where we dwelt	F
My Eustace might have sat for Hercules	G
So muscular he spread so broad of breast	H
He by some law that holds in love and draws	I
The greater to the lesser long desired	J
A certain miracle of symmetry	C
A miniature of loveliness all grace	K
Summ'd up and closed in little Juliet she	C
So light of foot so light of spirit oh she	C
To me myself for some three careless moons	L
The summer pilot of an empty heart	M
Unto the shores of nothing Know you not	N
Such touches are but embassies of love	O
To tamper with the feelings ere he found	P
Empire for life but Eustace painted her	Q
And said to me she sitting with us then	R
'When will you paint like this ' and I replied	S
My words were half in earnest half in jest	H
''Tis not your work but Love's Love unperceived	H
A more ideal Artist he than all	T
Came drew your pencil from you made those eyes	U
Darker than darkest pansies and that hair	V
More black than ashbuds in the front of March '	W
And Juliet answer'd laughing 'Go and see	C
The Gardener's daughter trust me after that	H
You scarce can fail to match his masterpiece '	W
And up we rose and on the spur we went	H
Not wholly in the busy world nor quite	H
Beyond it blooms the garden that I love	O
News from the humming city comes to it	H
In sound of funeral or of marriage bells	X
And sitting muffled in dark leaves you hear	Y
The windy clanging of the minster clock	Z
Although between it and the garden lies	U
A league of grass wash'd by a slow broad stream	A2
That stirr'd with languid pulses of the oar	B2
Waves all its lazy lilies and creeps on	C2
Barge laden to three arches of a bridge	D2
Crown'd with the minster towers	E2
The fields between	F2
Are dewy fresh browsed by deep udder'd kine	F2
And all about the large lime feathers low	G2
The lime a summer home of murmurous wings	H2
In that still place she hoarded in herself	I2
Grew seldom seen not less among us lived	H
Her fame from lip to lip Who had not heard	H
Of Rose the Gardener's daughter Where was he	C
So blunt in memory so old at heart	H
At such a distance from his youth in grief	J2
That having seen forgot The common mouth	K2
So gross to express delight in praise of her	Q
Grew oratory Such a lord is Love	O
And Beauty such a mistress of the world	H
And if I said that Fancy led by Love	O
Would play with flying forms and images	L2
Yet this is also true that long before	B2
I look'd upon her when I heard her name	M2
My heart was like a prophet to my heart	H
And told me I should love A crowd of hopes	N2
That sought to sow themselves like winged seeds	O2
Born out of everything I heard and saw	P2
Flutter'd about my senses and my soul	Q2
And vague desires like fitful blasts of balm	R2
To one that travels quickly made the air	V
Of Life delicious and all kinds of thought	H
That verged upon them sweeter than the dream	A2
Dream'd by a happy man when the dark East	H
Unseen is brightening to his bridal morn	F2
And sure this orbit of the memory folds	S2
For ever in itself the day we went	H
To see her All the land in flowery squares	T2
Beneath a broad and equal blowing wind	H
Smelt of the coming summer as one large cloud	H
Drew downward but all else of heaven was pure	U2
Up to the Sun and May from verge to verge	V2
And May with me from head to heel	W2
And now	F2
As tho' 'twere yesterday as tho' it were	Q
The hour just flown that morn with all its sound	H
For those old Mays had thrice the life of these	G
Rings in mine ears The steer forgot to graze	X2
And where the hedge row cuts the pathway stood	H
Leaning his horns into the neighbour field	H
And lowing to his fellows Froth the woods	Y2
Came voices of the well contented doves	Z2
The lark could scarce get out his notes for joy	A3
But shook his song together as he near'd	H
His happy home the ground To left and right	H
The cuckoo told his name to all the hills	B3
The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm	C3
The redcap whistled and the nightingale	D3
Sang loud as tho' he were the bird of day	H
And Eustace turn'd and smiling said to me	C
'Hear how the bushes echo by my life	E3
These birds have joyful thoughts Think you they sing	F3
Like poets from the vanity of song	G3
Or have they any sense of why they sing	F3
And would they praise the heavens for what they have '	W
And I made answer 'Were there nothing else	H3
For which to praise the heavens but only love	O
That only love were cause enough for praise '	W
Lightly he laugh'd as one that read my thought	H
And on we went but ere an hour had pass'd	H
We reach'd a meadow slanting to the North	I3
Down which a well worn pathway courted us	J3
To one green wicket in a privet hedge	K3
This yielding gave into a grassy walk	L3
Thro' crowded lilac ambush trimly pruned	H
And one warm gust full fed with perfume blew	E
Beyond us as we enter'd in the cool	M3
The garden stretches southward In the midst	H
A cedar spread his dark green layers of shade	H
The garden glasses glanced and momently	M3
The twinkling laurel scatter'd silver lights	N3
'Eustace ' I said 'this wonder keeps the house '	W
He nodded but a moment afterwards	O3
He cried 'Look look ' Before he ceased I turn'd	H
And ere a star can wink beheld her there	V
For up the porch there grew an Eastern rose	P3
That flowering high the last night's gale had caught	H
And blown across the walk One arm aloft	H
Gown'd in pure white that fitted to the shape	Q3
Holding the bush to fix it back she stood	H
A single stream of all her soft brown hair	V
Pour'd on one side the shadow of the flowers	E2
Stole all the golden gloss and wavering	F3
Lovingly lower trembled on her waist	H
Ah happy shade and still went wavering down	F2
But ere it touch'd a foot that might have danced	H
The greensward into greener circles dipt	H
And mix'd with shadows of the common ground	H
But the full day dwelt on her brows and sunn'd	H
Her violet eyes and all her Hebe bloom	R3
And doubled his own warmth against her lips	S3
And on the bounteous wave of such a breast	H
As never pencil drew Half light half shade	H
She stood a sight to make an old man young	T3
So rapt we near'd the house but she a Rose	P3
In roses mingled with her fragrant toil	M3
Nor heard us come nor from her tendance turn'd	H
Into the world without till close at hand	H
And almost ere I knew mine own intent	H
This murmur broke the stillness of that air	V
Which brooded round about her	Q
'Ah one rose	P3
One rose but one by those fair fingers cull'd	H
Were worth a hundred kisses press'd on lips	S3
Less exquisite than thine '	W
She look'd but all	M3
Suffused with blushes neither self possess'd	H
Nor startled but betwixt this mood and that	H
Divided in a graceful quiet paused	H
And dropt the branch she held and turning wound	H
Her looser hair in braid and stirr'd her lips	S3
For some sweet answer tho' no answer came	M2
Nor yet refused the rose but granted it	H
And moved away and left me statue like	U3
In act to render thanks	V3
I that whole day	H
Saw her no more altho' I linger'd there	V
Till every daisy slept and Love's white star	W3
Beam'd thro' the thicken'd cedar in the dusk	X3
So home we went and all the livelong way	H
With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me	C
'Now ' said he ' will you climb the top of Art	H
You cannot fail but work in hues to dim	Y3
The Titianic Flora Will you match	Z3
My Juliet you not you the Master Love	O
A more ideal Artist he than all '	W
So home I went but could not sleep for Joy	A3
Reading her perfect features in the gloom	R3
Kissing the rose she gave me o'er and o'er	Q
And shaping faithful record of the glance	A4
That graced the giving such a noise of life	E3
Swarm'd in the golden present such a voice	B4
Call'd to me from the years to come and such	C4
A length of bright horizon rimm'd the dark	D4
And all that night I heard the watchman peal	M3
The sliding season all that night I heard	H
The heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours	E2
The drowsy hours dispensers of all good	H
O'er the mute city stole with folded wings	H2
Distilling odours on me as they went	H
To greet their fairer sisters of the East	H
Love at first sight first born and heir to all	M3
Made this night thus Henceforward squall nor storm	E4
Could keep me from that Eden where she dwelt	H
Light pretexts drew me sometimes a Dutch love	O
For tulips then for roses moss or musk	X3
To grace my city rooms or fruits and cream	A2
Served in the weeping elm and more and more	B2
A word could bring the colour to my cheek	F4
A thought would fill my eyes with happy dew	H
Love trebled life within me and with each	G4
The year increased	H
The daughters of the year	H4
One after one thro' that still garden pass'd	H
Each garlanded with her peculiar flower	Q
Danced into light and died into the shade	H
And each in passing touch'd with some new grace	K
Or seem'd to touch her so that day by day	H
Like one that never can be wholly known	F2
Her beauty grew till Autumn brought an hour	Q
For Eustace when I heard his deep 'I will '	W
Breathed like the covenant of a God to hold	H
From thence thro' all the worlds but I rose up	I4
Full of his bliss and following her dark eyes	U
Felt earth as air beneath me till I reach'd	H
The wicket gate and found her standing there	V
There sat we down upon a garden mound	H
Two mutually enfolded Love the third	H
Between us in the circle of his arms	J4
Enwound us both and over many a range	K4
Of waning lime the gray cathedral towers	E2
Across a hazy glimmer of the west	H
Reveal'd their shining windows from them clash'd	H
The bells we listen'd with the time we play'd	H
We spoke of other things we coursed about	H
The subject most at heart more near and near	H4
Like doves about a dovecote wheeling round	H
The central wish until we settled there	V
Then in that time and place I spoke to her	Q
Requiring tho' I knew it was mine own	F2
Yet for the pleasure that I took to hear	Y
Requiring at her hand the greatest gift	H
A woman's heart the heart of her I loved	H
And in that time and place she answer'd me	C
And in the compass of three little words	O3
More musical than ever came in one	F2
The silver fragments of a broken voice	B4
Made me most happy faltering 'I am thine '	W
Shall I cease here Is this enough to say	H
That my desire like all strongest hopes	N2
By its own energy fulfill'd itself	I2
Merged in completion Would you learn at full	M3
How passion rose thro' circumstantial grades	L4
Beyond all grades develop'd and indeed	H
I had not staid so long to tell you all	M3
But while I mused came Memory with sad eyes	U
Holding the folded annals of my youth	M4
And while I nursed Love with knit brows went by	N4
And with a flying finger swept my lips	S3
And spake 'Be wise not easily forgiven	F2
Are those who setting wide the doors that bar	W3
The secret bridal chambers of the heart	H
Let in the day ' Here then my words have end	H
Yet might I tell of meetings of farewells	X
Of that which came between more sweet than each	G4
In whispers like the whispers of the leaves	O4
That tremble round a nightingale in sighs	U
Which perfect Joy perplex'd for utterance	P4
Stole from her sister Sorrow Might I not tell	M3
Of difference reconcilement pledges given	F2
And vows where there was never need of vows	Q4
And kisses where the heart on one wild leap	R4
Hung tranced from all pulsation as above	O
The heavens between their fairy fleeces pale	M3
Sow'd all their mystic gulfs with fleeting stars	S4
Or while the balmy glooming crescent lit	H
Spread the light haze along the river shores	T4
And in the hollows or as once we met	H
Unheedful tho' beneath a whispering rain	F2
Night slid down one long stream of sighing wind	H
And in her bosom bore the baby Sleep	R4
But this whole hour your eyes have been intent	H
On that veil'd picture veil'd for what it holds	S2
May not be dwelt on by the common day	H
This prelude has prepared thee Raise thy soul	M3
Make thine heart ready with thine eyes the time	U4
Is come to raise the veil	M3
Behold her there	V
As I beheld her ere she knew my heart	H
My first last love the idol of my youth	M4
The darling of my manhood and alas	V4
Now the most blessed memory of mine age	W4