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I	A
Before those golden altar lights we stood	B
Each one of us remembering his own dead	C
A more than earthly beauty seemed to brood	D
On that hushed throng and bless each bending head	C
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Beautiful on that gold the deep sea blue	E
Of those young seamen ranked on either side	F
Blent with the khaki while the silence grew	E
Deep as for wings Oh deep as England's pride	F
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Beautiful on that gold two banners rose	G
Two flags that told how Freedom's realm was made	H
One fair with stars of hope and one that shows	G
The glorious cross of England's long crusade	H
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Two flags now joined till that high will be done	I
Which sent them forth to make the whole world one	I
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II	A
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There were no signs of joy that eyes could see	J
Our hearts were all three thousand miles away	K
There were no trumpets blown for victory	J
A million dead were calling us that day	K
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And eyes grew blind at times but grief was deep	L
Deeper than any foes or friends have known	M
For Oh my country's lips are locked to keep	L
Her bitterest loss her own and all her own	M
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Only the music told what else was dumb	N
The funeral march to which our pulses beat	O
For all our dead went by to a muffled drum	N
We heard the tread of all those phantom feet	O
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Yes There was victory Deep in every soul	P
We heard them marching to their unseen goal	P
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III	A
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There once again we saw the Cross go by	A
The Cross that fell with all those glorious towers	Q
Burnt black in France or mocked on Calvary	J
Till in one night the crosses rose like flowers	Q
Legions of small white crosses mile on mile	R
Pencilled with names that had outfought all pain	S
Where every shell torn acre seems to smile	R
Who shall destroy the cross that rose again	T
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Out of the world's Walpurgis where hope perished	U
Where all the forms of faith in ruin fell	V
Where every sign of heaven that earth had cherished	U
Shrivelled among the lava floods of hell	V
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The eternal Cross that conquers might with right	W
Rose like a star to lead us through the night	W
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IV	X
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How shall the world remember Men forget	Y
Our dead are all too many even for Fame	Z
Man's justice kneels to kings and pays no debt	Y
To those who never courted her acclaim	Z
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Cheat not your heart with promises to pay	K
For gifts beyond all price so freely given	I
Where is the heart so rich that it can say	K
To those who mourn 'I will restore your heaven'	I
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But these with their own hands laid up their treasure	A2
Where never an emperor can break in and steal	B2
Treasure for those that loved them past all measure	A2
In those high griefs that earth can never heal	B2
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Proud griefs that walk on earth yet gaze above	X
Knowing that sorrow is but remembered love	X
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V	X
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Love that still holds us with immortal power	A2
Yet cannot lift us to His realm of light	W
Love that still shows us heaven for one brief hour	A2
Only to daunt the heart with that sheer height	W
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Love that is made of loveliness entire	A2
In form and thought and act and still must shame us	C2
Because we ever acknowledge and aspire	D2
And yet let slip the shining hands that claim us	C2
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O if this Love might cloak with rags His glory	X
Laugh eat and drink and dwell with suffering men	I
Sit with us at our hearth and hear our story	X
This world we thought might be transfigured then	I
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'But Oh ' Love answered with swift human tears	E2
'All these things have I done these many years '	-
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VI	X
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'This day ' Love said 'if ye will hear my voice	F2
I mount and sing with birds in all your skies	G2
I am the soul that calls you to rejoice	F2
And every wayside flower is my disguise	G2
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'Look closely Are the wings too wide for pity	X
Look closely Do these tender hues betray	K
How often have I sought my Holy City	X
How often have ye turned your hearts away	K
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'Is there not healing in the beauty I bring you	E
Am I not whispering in green leaves and rain	I
Singing in all that woods and seas can sing you	E
Look once on Love and earth is heaven again	I
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'O did your Spring but once a century waken	I
The heaven of heavens for this would be forsaken '	-
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VII	X
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There's but one gift that all our dead desire	A2
One gift that men can give and that's a dream	H2
Unless we too can burn with that same fire	A2
Of sacrifice die to the things that seem	H2
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Die to the little hatreds die to greed	I2
Die to the old ignoble selves we knew	E
Die to the base contempts of sect and creed	I2
And rise again like these with souls as true	E
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Nay since these died before their task was finished	U
Attempt new heights bring even their dreams to birth	J2
Build us that better world Oh not diminished	U
By one true splendor that they planned on earth	J2
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And that's not done by sword or tongue or pen	I
There's but one way God make us better men	I

Alfred Noyes

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