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We mix from many lands	A
We march for very far	B
In hearts and lips and hands	A
Our staffs and weapons are	B
The light we walk in darkens sun and moon and star	B
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It doth not flame and wane	C
With years and spheres that roll	D
Storm cannot shake nor stain	C
The strength that makes it whole	D
The fire that moulds and moves it of the sovereign soul	D
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We are they that have to cope	E
With time till time retire	F
We live on hopeless hope	E
We feed on tears and fire	G
Time foot by foot gives back before our sheer desire	G
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From the edge of harsh derision	H
From discord and defeat	I
From doubt and lame division	H
We pluck the fruit and eat	I
And the mouth finds it bitter and the spirit sweet	I
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We strive with time at wrestling	J
Till time be on our side	K
And hope our plumeless nestling	J
A full fledged eaglet ride	K
Down the loud length of storm its windward wings divide	K
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We are girt with our belief	L
Clothed with our will and crowned	M
Hope fear delight and grief	L
Before our will give ground	M
Their calls are in our ears as shadows of dead sound	M
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All but the heart forsakes us	N
All fails us but the will	O
Keen treason tracks and takes us	N
In pits for blood to fill	O
Friend falls from friend and faith for faith lays wait to kill	O
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Out under moon and stars	P
And shafts of the urgent sun	H
Whose face on prison bars	P
And mountain heads is one	H
Our march is everlasting till time's march be done	H
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Whither we know and whence	Q
And dare not care wherethrough	G
Desires that urge the sense	Q
Fears changing old with new	R
Perils and pains beset the ways we press into	R
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Earth gives us thorns to tread	S
And all her thorns are trod	T
Through lands burnt black and red	S
We pass with feet unshod	S
Whence we would be man shall not keep us nor man's God	S
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Through the great desert beasts	U
Howl at our backs by night	S
And thunder forging priests	U
Blow their dead bale fires bright	S
And on their broken anvils beat out bolts for fight	S
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Inside their sacred smithies	U
Though hot the hammer rings	U
Their steel links snap like withies	U
Their chains like twisted strings	U
Their surest fetters are as plighted words of kings	U
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O nations undivided	S
O single people and free	G
We dreamers we derided	S
We mad blind men that see	G
We bear you witness ere ye come that ye shall be	G
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Ye sitting among tombs	U
Ye standing round the gate	S
Whom fire mouthed war consumes	U
Or cold lipped peace bids wait	S
All tombs and bars shall open every grave and grate	S
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The locks shall burst in sunder	G
The hinges shrieking spin	V
When time whose hand is thunder	G
Lays hand upon the pin	V
And shoots the bolts reluctant bidding all men in	V
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These eyeless times and earless	U
Shall these not see and hear	G
And all their hearts burn fearless	U
That were afrost for fear	G
Is day not hard upon us yea not our day near	G
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France from its grey dejection	V
Make manifest the red	S
Tempestuous resurrection	V
Of thy most sacred head	S
Break thou the covering cerecloths rise up from the dead	S
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And thou whom sea walls sever	G
From lands unwalled with seas	U
Wilt thou endure for ever	G
O Milton's England these	U
Thou that wast his Republic wilt thou clasp their knees	U
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These royalties rust eaten	V
These worm corroded lies	U
That keep thine head storm beaten	V
And sunlike strength of eyes	U
From the open heaven and air of intercepted skies	U
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These princelings with gauze winglets	U
That buzz in the air unfurled	S
These summer swarming kinglets	U
These thin worms crowned and curled	S
That bask and blink and warm themselves about the world	S
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These fanged meridian vermin	V
Shrill gnats that crowd the dusk	W
Night moths whose nestling ermine	V
Smells foul of mould and musk	W
Blind flesh flies hatched by dark and hampered in their husk	W
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These honours without honour	G
These ghost like gods of gold	S
This earth that wears upon her	G
To keep her heart from cold	S
No memory more of men that brought it fire of old	S
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These limbs supine unbuckled	S
In rottenness of rest	S
These sleepy lips blood suckled	S
And satiate of thy breast	S
These dull wide mouths that drain thee dry and call thee blest	S
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These masters of thee mindless	U
That wear thee out of mind	S
These children of thee kindless	U
That use thee out of kind	S
Whose hands strew gold before thee and contempt behind	S
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Who have turned thy name to laughter	G
Thy sea like sounded name	X
That now none hearkens after	G
For faith in its free fame	X
Who have robbed thee of thy trust and given thee of their shame	X
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These hours that mock each other	G
These years that kill and die	S
Are these thy gains our mother	G
For all thy gains thrown by	S
Is this that end whose promise made thine heart so high	S
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With empire and with treason	V
The first right hand made fast	S
But in man's nobler season	V
To put forth help the last	S
Love turns from thee and memory disavows thy past	S
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Lest thine own sea disclaim thee	G
Lest thine own sons despise	U
Lest lips shoot out that name thee	G
And seeing thee men shut eyes	U
Take thought with all thy people turn thine head and rise	U
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Turn thee lift up thy face	U
What ails thee to be dead	S
Ask of thyself for grace	U
Seek of thyself for bread	S
And who shall starve or shame thee blind or bruise thine head	S
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The same sun in thy sight	S
The same sea in thine ears	U
That saw thine hour at height	S
That sang thy song of years	U
Behold and hearken for thee knowing thy hopes and fears	U
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O people O perfect nation	V
O England that shall be	G
How long till thou take station	V
How long till thralls live free	G
How long till all thy soul be one with all thy sea	G
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Ye that from south to north	Y
Ye that from east to west	S
Stretch hands of longing forth	Y
And keep your eyes from rest	S
Lo when ye will we bring you gifts of what is best	S
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From the awful northland pines	U
That skirt their wan dim seas	U
To the ardent Apennines	U
And sun struck Pyrenees	U
One frost on all their frondage bites the blossoming trees	U
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The leaves look up for light	S
For heat of helpful air	G
The trees of oldest height	S
And thin storm shaken hair	G
Seek with gaunt hands up heavenward if the sun be there	G
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The woods where souls walk lonely	G
The forests girt with night	S
Desire the day star only	G
And firstlings of the light	S
Not seen of slaves nor shining in their masters' sight	S
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We have the morning star	G
O foolish people O kings	U
With us the day springs are	G
Even all the fresh day springs	U
For us and with us all the multitudes of things	U
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O sorrowing hearts of slaves	U
We heard you beat from far	G
We bring the light that saves	U
We bring the morning star	G
Freedom's good things we bring you whence all good things are	G
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With us the winds and fountains	U
And lightnings live in tune	V
The morning coloured mountains	U
That burn into the noon	V
The mist's mild veil on valleys muffled from the moon	V
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The thunder darkened highlands	U
And lowlands hot with fruit	S
Sea bays and shoals and islands	U
And cliffs that foil man's foot	S
And a	Z