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Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed	A
Out of the wood and saw the sickle moon	B
Floating in daylight o'er the pale green sea	C
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It was the quiet hour before the sun	D
Gathers the clouds to prayer and silently	C
Utters his benediction on the waves	E
That whisper round the death bed of the day	F
The labourers were returning from the farms	G
And children danced to meet them From the doors	H
Of cottages there came a pleasant clink	I
Where busy hands laid out the evening meal	J
From smouldering elms around the village spire	K
There soared and sank the caw of gathering rooks	L
The faint flushed clouds were listening to the tale	M
The sea tells to the sunset with one sigh	N
The last white wistful sea bird sought for peace	O
And the last fishing boat stole o'er the bar	P
And fragrant grasses murmuring a prayer	Q
Bowed all together to the holy west	R
Bowed all together thro' the golden hush	S
The breathing hush the solemn scented hush	S
The holy holy hush of eventide	R
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And in among the ferns that crowned the hill	T
With waving green and whispers of the wind	R
A boy and girl carelessly linking hands	U
Into their golden dream drifted away	F
On that rich afternoon of scent and song	V
Old Michael Oaktree died It was not much	W
He wished for but indeed I think he longed	R
To see the light of summer once again	X
Blossoming o'er the far blue hills I know	Y
He used to like his rough hewn wooden bench	Z
Placed in the sun outside the cottage door	A2
Where in the listening stillness he could hear	B2
Across the waving gilly flowers that crowned	R
His crumbling garden wall the long low sigh	N
Of supreme peace that whispers to the hills	C2
The sacred consolation of the sea	C
He did not hope for much he longed to live	D2
Until the winter came again he said	R
But on the last sweet eve of May he died	R
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I wandered sadly through the dreaming lanes	E2
Down to the cottage on that afternoon	B
For I had known old Michael Oaktree now	F2
So many years so many happy years	G2
When I was little he had carried me	C
High on his back to see the harvest home	H2
And given me many a ride upon his wagon	D
Among the dusty scents of sun and hay	F
He showed me how to snare the bulky trout	R
That lurked under the bank of yonder brook	I2
Indeed he taught me many a country craft	R
For I was apt to learn and as I learnt	R
I loved the teacher of that homely lore	A2
Deep in my boyish heart he shared the glad	R
Influence of the suns and winds and waves	E
Giving my childhood what it hungered for	A2
The rude earth wisdom of the primal man	J2
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He had retained his childhood Death for him	K2
Had no more terror than his bed He walked	R
With wind and sunlight like a brother glad	R
Of their companionship and mutual aid	R
We toilers after truth are weaned too soon	B
From earth's dark arms and naked barbarous breast	R
Too soon too soon we leave the golden feast	R
Fetter the dancing limbs and pluck the crown	L2
Of roses from the dreaming brow We pass	M2
Our lives in most laborious idleness	N2
For we have lost the meaning of the world	R
We have gone out into the night too soon	B
We have mistaken all the means of grace	O2
And over rated our small power to learn	P2
And the years move so swiftly over us	N2
We have so little time to live in worlds	Q2
Unrealised and unknown realms of joy	R2
We are so old before we learn how vain	S2
Our effort was how fruitlessly we cast	R
Our Bread upon the waters and how weak	T2
Our hearts were but our chance desires how strong	V
Then in the dark our sense of light decays	U2
We cannot cry to God as once we cried	R
Lost in the gloom our faith perhaps our love	V2
Lies dead with years that never can return	P2
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But Michael Oaktree was a man whose love	V2
Had never waned through all his eighty years	G2
His faith was hardly faith He seemed a part	R
Of all that he believed in He had lived	R
In constant conversation with the sun	D
The wind the silence and the heart of peace	O
In absolute communion with the Power	W2
That rules all action and all tides of thought	R
And all the secret courses of the stars	X2
The Power that still establishes on earth	Y2
Desire and worship through the radiant laws	Z2
Of Duty Love and Beauty for through these	A3
As through three portals of the self same gate	R
The soul of man attains infinity	C
And enters into Godhead So he gained	R
On earth a fore taste of Nirvana not	R
The void of eastern dream but the desire	W2
And goal of all of us whether thro' lives	B3
Innumerable by slow degrees we near	C3
The death divine or from this breaking body	C
Of earthly death we flash at once to God	R
Through simple love and simple faith this man	J2
Attained a height above the hope of kings	D3
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Yet as I softly shut the little gate	R
And walked across the garden all the scents	E3
Of mingling blossom ached like inmost pain	S2
Deep in my heart I know not why They seemed	R
Distinct distinct as distant evening bells	F3
Tolling over the sea a secret chime	G3
That breaks and breaks and breaks upon the heart	R
In sorrow rather than in sound a chime	G3
Strange as a streak of sunset to the moon	B
Strange as a rose upon a starlit grave	H3
Strange as a smile upon a dead man's lips	I3
A chime of melancholy mute as death	J3
But strong as love uttered in plangent tones	K3
Of honeysuckle jasmine gilly flowers	L3
Jonquils and aromatic musky leaves	M3
Lilac and lilies to the rose wreathed porch	N3
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At last I tapped and entered and was drawn	O3
Into the bedroom of the dying man	J2
Who lay propped up with pillows quietly	C
Gazing for through his open casement far	P
Beyond the whispers of the gilly flowers	L3
He saw the mellow light of eventide	R
Hallow the west once more and as he gazed	R
I think I never saw so great a peace	O
On any human face There was no sound	R
Except the slumbrous pulsing of a clock	P3
The whisper of the garden and far off	Q3
The sacred consolation of the sea	C
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His wife sat at his bed side she had passed	R
Her eightieth year her only child was dead	R
She had been wedded more than sixty years	G2
And she sat gazing with the man she loved	R
Quietly out into that unknown Deep	R3
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A butterfly floated into the room	S3
And back again pausing awhile to bask	T3
And wink its painted fans on the warm sill	T
A bird piped in the roses and there came	U3
Into the childless mother's ears a sound	R
Of happy laughing children far away	F
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Then Michael Oaktree took his wife's thin hand	R
Between his big rough hands His eyes grew dark	V3
And as he turned to her and died he spoke	W3
Two words of perfect faith and love Come soon	B
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O then in all the world there was no sound	R
Except the slumbrous pulsing of a clock	P3
The whisper of the leaves and far away	F
The infinite compassion of the sea	C
But as I softly passed out of the porch	N3
And walked across the garden all the scents	E3
Of mingling blossoms ached like inmost joy	R2
Distinct no more but like one heavenly choir	W2
Pealing one mystic music still and strange	X3
As voices of the holy Seraphim	U3
One voice of adoration mute as love	V2
Stronger than death and pure with wedded tones	K3
Of honeysuckle jasmine gilly flowers	L3
Jonquils and aromatic musky leaves	M3
Lilac and lilies to the garden gate	R
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O then indeed I knew how closely knit	R
To stars and flowers we are how many means	Y3
Of grace there are for those that never lose	Z3
Their sense of membership in this divine	A4
Body of God for those that all their days	U2
Have walked in quiet communion with the Life	B4
That keeps the common secret of the sun	D
The wind the silence and the heart of man	J2
There is one God one Love one everlasting	C4
Mystery of Incarnation one creative	D4
Passion behind the many coloured veil	M
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We have obscured God's face with partial truths	E4
The cause of all our sorrow and sin our wars	H
Of force and thought in this unheavened world	R
Yet by the battle of our partial truths	E4
The past against the present and the swift	R
Moment of passing joy against the deep	R3
Eternal love ever the weaker truth	F4
Falls to the stronger till once more we near	C3
The enfolding splendour of the whole Our God	R
Has been too long a partial God We ar	P

Alfred Noyes

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