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I	A
WHO hath known the ways of time	B
Or trodden behind his feet	C
There is no such man among men	D
For chance overcomes him or crime	B
Changes for all things sweet	C
In time wax bitter again	D
Who shall give sorrow enough	E
Or who the abundance of tears	F
Mine eyes are heavy with love	G
And a sword gone thorough mine ears	H
A sound like a sword and fire	I
For pity for great desire	I
Who shall ensure me thereof	G
Lest I die being full of my fears	H
	-
Who hath known the ways and the wrath	J
The sleepless spirit the root	K
And blossom of evil will	L
The divine device of a god	M
Who shall behold it or hath	J
The twice tongued prophets are mute	K
The many speakers are still	L
No foot has travelled or trod	M
No hand has meted his path	J
Man s fate is a blood red fruit	K
And the mighty gods have their fill	L
And relax not the rein or the rod	M
	-
Ye were mighty in heart from of old	N
Ye slew with the spear and are slain	O
Keen after heat is the cold	N
Sore after summer is rain	O
And melteth man to the bone	P
As water he weareth away	Q
As a flower as an hour in a day	Q
Fallen from laughter to moan	P
But my spirit is shaken with fear	R
Lest an evil thing begin	S
New born a spear for a spear	R
And one for another sin	S
Or ever our tears began	T
It was known from of old and said	U
One law for a living man	T
And another law for the dead	U
For these are fearful and sad	V
Vain and things without breath	W
While he lives let a man be glad	V
For none hath joy of his death	W
	-
II	A
Who hath known the pain the old pain of earth	X
Or all the travail of the sea	Y
The many ways and waves the birth	X
Fruitless the labour nothing worth	X
Who hath known who knoweth O gods not we	Y
There is none shall say he hath seen	Z
There is none he hath known	P
Though he saith Lo a lord have I been	S
I have reaped and sown	P
I have seen the desire of mine eyes	A2
The beginning of love	G
The season of kisses and sighs	A2
And the end thereof	G
I have known the ways of the sea	Y
All the perilous ways	B2
Strange winds have spoken with me	Y
And the tongues of strange days	B2
I have hewn the pine for ships	C2
Where steeds run arow	R
I have seen from their bridled lips	C2
Foam blown as the snow	D2
With snapping of chariot poles	E2
And with straining of oars	F2
I have grazed in the race the goals	E2
In the storm the shores	F2
As a greave is cleft with an arrow	D2
At the joint of the knee	Y
I have cleft through the sea straits narrow	D2
To the heart of the sea	Y
When air was smitten in sunder	R
I have watched on high	A
The ways of the stars and the thunder	R
In the night of the sky	A
Where the dark brings forth light as a flower	R
As from lips that dissever	R
One abideth the space of an hour	R
One endureth for ever	R
Lo what hath he seen or known	P
Of the way and the wave	G2
Unbeholden unsailed on unsown	P
From the breast to the grave	G2
	-
Or ever the stars were made or skies	A2
Grief was born and the kinless night	H2
Mother of gods without form or name	I2
And light is born out of heaven and dies	A2
And one day knows not another s light	H2
But night is one and her shape the same	I2
	-
But dumb the goddesses underground	J2
Wait and we hear not on earth if their feet	C
Rise and the night wax loud with their wings	K2
Dumb without word or shadow of sound	J2
And sift in scales and winnow as wheat	C
Men s souls and sorrow of manifold things	K2
	-
III	A
Nor less of grief than ours	L2
The gods wrought long ago	D2
To bruise men one by one	P
But with the incessant hours	L2
Fresh grief and greener woe	D2
Spring as the sudden sun	P
Year after year makes flowers	L2
And these die down and grow	D2
And the next year lacks none	P
	-
As these men sleep have slept	M2
The old heroes in time fled	U
No dream divided sleep	N2
And holier eyes have wept	M2
Than ours when on her dead	U
Gods have seen Thetis weep	N2
With heavenly hair far swept	M2
Back heavenly hands outspread	M2
Round what she could not keep	N2
	-
Could not one day withhold	M2
One night and like as these	O2
White ashes of no weight	M2
Held not his urn the cold	M2
Ashes of Heracles	O2
For all things born one gate	M2
Opens no gate of gold	M2
Opens and no man sees	O2
Beyond the gods and fate	M2

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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