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I	A
Is it Midsummer here in the heavens that illumine October on earth	B
Can the year when his heart is fulfilled with desire of the days of his mirth	B
Redeem them recall or remember	C
For a memory recalling the rapture of earth and redeeming the sky	A
Shines down from the heights to the depths will the watchword of dawn be July	A
When to morrow acclaims November	C
The stern salutation of sorrow to death or repentance to shame	D
Was all that the season was wont to accord her of grace or acclaim	D
No lightnings of love and of laughter	C
But here in the laugh of the loud west wind from around and above	E
In the flash of the waters beneath him what sound or what light but of love	E
Rings round him or leaps forth after	C
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II	A
Wind beloved of earth and sky and sea beyond all winds that blow	F
Wind whose might in fight was England's on her mightiest warrior day	G
South west wind whose breath for her was life and fire to scourge her foe	F
Steel to smite and death to drive him down an unreturning way	G
Well beloved and welcome sounding all the clarions of the sky	A
Rolling all the marshalled waters toward the charge that storms the shore	H
We receive acclaim salute thee we who live and dream and die	A
As the mightiest mouth of song that ever spake acclaimed of yore	H
We that live as they that perish praise thee lord of cloud and wave	I
Wind of winds clothed on with darkness whence as lightning light comes forth	J
We that know thee strong to guard and smite to scatter and to save	I
We to whom the south west wind is dear as Athens held the north	J
He for her waged war as thou for us against all powers defiant	K
Fleets full fraught with storm from Persia laden deep with death from Spain	L
Thee the giant god of song and battle hailed as god and giant	K
Yet not his but ours the land is whence thy praise should ring and rain	L
Rain as rapture shed from song and ring as trumpets blown for battle	M
Sound and sing before thee loud and glad as leaps and sinks the sea	N
Yea the sea's white steeds are curbed and spurred of thee and pent as cattle	M
Yet they laugh with love and pride to live subdued not save of thee	N
Ears that hear thee hear in heaven the sound of widening wings gigantic	O
Eyes that see the cloud lift westward see thy darkening brows divine	P
Wings whose measure is the limit of the limitless Atlantic	O
Brows that bend and bid the sovereign sea submit her soul to thine	P
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III	A
Twelve days since is it twelve days gone	Q
Lord of storm that a storm bow shone	R
Higher than sweeps thy sublime dark wing	S
Fair as dawn is and sweet like spring	S
Never dawn in the deep wide east	T
Spread so splendid and strange a feast	T
Whence the soul as it drank and fed	U
Felt such rapture of wonder shed	U
Never spring in the wild wood's heart	V
Felt such flowers at her footfall start	V
Born of earth as arose on sight	W
Born of heaven and of storm and light	W
Stern and sullen the grey grim sea	N
Swelled and strove as in toils though free	N
Free as heaven and as heaven sublime	X
Clear as heaven of the toils of time	X
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IV	I
Suddenly sheer from the heights to the depths of the sky and the sea	N
Sprang from the darkness alive as a vision of life to be	N
Glory triune and transcendent of colour afar and afire	Y
Arching and darkening the darkness with light as of dream or desire	C
Heaven in the depth of its height shone wistful and wan from above	I
Earth from beneath and the sea shone stricken and breathless with love	I
As a shadow may shine so shone they as ghosts of the viewless blest	Z
That sleep hath sight of alive in a rapture of sunbright rest	Z
The green earth glowed and the grey sky gleamed for a wondrous while	A2
And the storm's full frown was crossed by the light of its own deep smile	A2
As the darkness of thought and of passion is touched by the light that gives	B2
Life deathless as love from the depth of a spirit that sees and lives	B2
From the soul of a seer and a singer wherein as a scroll unfurled	C2
Lies open the scripture of light and of darkness the word of the world	C2
So shapeless and measureless lurid as anguish and haggard as crime	X
Pale as the front of oblivion and dark as the heart of time	X
The wild wan heaven at its height was assailed and subdued and made	D2
More fair than the skies that know not of storm and endure not shade	D2
The grim sea swell grey sleepless and sad as a soul estranged	E2
Shone smiled took heart and was glad of its wrath and the world's face changed	E2
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V	N
Up from moorlands northward gleaming	S
Even to heaven's transcendent height	W
Clothed with massive cloud and seeming	S
All one fortress reared of night	W
Down to where the deep sea dreaming	S
Angry dreams lay dark and white	W
White as death and dark as fate	F2
Heaving with the strong wind's weight	F2
Sad with stormy pride of state	F2
One full rainbow shone elate	F2
Up from inmost memory's dwelling	S
Where the light of life abides	G2
Where the past finds tongue foretelling	S
Time that comes and grace that guides	G2
Power that saves and sways compelling	S
Souls that ebb and flow like tides	G2
Shone or seemed to shine and swim	H2
Through the cloud surf great and grim	H2
Thought's live surge the soul of him	H2
By whose light the sun looks dim	H2
In what synod were they sitting	S
All the gods and lords of time	X
Whence they watched as fen fires flitting	S
Years and names of men sublime	X
When their counsels found it fitting	S
One should stand where none might climb	X
None of man begotten none	I2
Born of men beneath the sun	I2
Till the race of time be run	I2
Save this heaven enfranchised one	I2
With what rapture of creation	I2
Was the soul supernal thrilled	J2
With what pride of adoration	I2
Was the world's heart fired and filled	J2
Heaved in heavenward exaltation	I2
Higher than hopes or dreams might build	J2
Grave with awe not known while he	N
Was not mad with glorious glee	N
As the sun saluted sea	N
When his hour bade Shakespeare be	N
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VI	I
There clear as night beholds her crowning seven	I2
The sea beheld his likeness set in heaven	I2
The shadow of his spirit full in sight	W
Shone for the shadow of that soul is light	W
Nor heaven alone bore witness earth avowed	K2
Him present and acclaimed of storm aloud	K2
From the arching sky to the ageless hills and sea	N
The whole world visible audible was he	N
Each part of all that wove that wondrous whole	L2
The raiment of the presence of his soul	L2
The sun that smote and kissed the dark to death	M2
Spake smiled and strove like song's triumphant breath	M2
The soundless cloud whose thunderous heart was dumb	N2
Swelled lowered and shrank to feel its conqueror come	N2
Yet high from heaven its empire vast and vain	I2
Frowned and renounced not night's reluctant reign	I2
The serpentine swift sounds and shapes wherein	I2
The stainless sea mocks earth and death and sin	I2
Crawls dark as craft or flashes keen as hate	F2
Subdued and insubmissive strong like fate	F2
And weak like man bore wrathful witness yet	O2
That storms and sins are more than suns that set	O2
That evil everlasting girt for strife	I
Eternal wars with hope as death with life	I
The dark sharp shifting wind that bade the waves	P2
Falter lose heart bow down like foes made slaves	P2
And waxed within more bitter as they bowed	K2
Baffling the sea swallowing the sun with cloud	K2
Devouring fast as fire on earth devours	Q2
And hungering hard as frost that feeds on flowers	Q2
Clothed round with fog that reeked as fume from hell	R2
And darkening with its miscreative spell	R2
Light glad and keen and splendid as the sword	S2
Whose heft had known Othello's hand its lord	S2
Spake all the soul that hell drew back to greet	T2
And felt its fire shrink shuddering from his feet	T2
Far off the darkness darkened and recoiled	U2
And neared again and triumphed and the coiled	U2
Colourless cloud and sea discoloured grew	V2
Conscious of horror huge as heaven and knew	V2
Where Goneril's soul made chill and foul the mist	W2
And all the leprous life in Regan hissed	W2
Fierce homeless ghosts rejected of the pit	X2
From hell to hell of storm fear watched them flit	X2
About them and before the dull grey gloom	Y2
Shuddered and heaven seemed hateful as the tomb	Y2
That shrinks from resurrection and from out	Z2
That sullen hell which girt their shades about	Z2
The nether soul that lurks and lowers within	I2
Man made of dust and fire and shame and sin	I2
Breathed all the cloud that felt it breathe and blight	W
Was blue as plague or black as thunderous night	W
Elect of hell the children of his hate	F2
Thronged as to storm sweet heaven's triumphal gate	F2
The terror of his giving rose and shone	I2
Imminent life had put its likeness on	I2
But higher than all its horrent height of shade	D2
Shone sovereign seen by light itself had made	D2
Above the woes of all the world above	I
Life sin and death his myriad minded love	I
From landward heights whereon the radiance leant	K
Full fraught from heaven intense and imminent	K
To depths wherein the seething strengths of cloud	K2
Scarce matched the wrath of waves whereon they bowed	K2
From homeborn pride and kindling love of home	A3
To the outer skies and seas of fire and foam	A3
From splendour soft as dew that sundawn thrills	B3
To gloom that shudders round the world it fills	B3
From midnights murmuring round Titania's ear	C3
To midnights maddening round the rage of Lear	D3
The wonder woven of storm and sun became	D
One with the light that lightens from his name	D
The music moving on the sea that felt	E3
The storm wind even as snows of springtide melt	E3
Was blithe as Ariel's hand or voice might make	F3
And bid all grief die gladly for its sake	F3
And there the soul alive in ear and eye	I
That watched the wonders of an hour pass by	I
Saw brighter than all stars that heaven inspheres	B3
The silent splendour of Cordelia's tears	B3
Felt in the whispers of the quickening wind	G3
The radiance of the laugh of Rosalind	H3
And heard in sounds that melt the souls of men	I2
With love of love the tune of Imogen	I2
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VII	I
For the strong north east is not strong to subdue and to slay the divine south west	Z
And the darkness is less than the light that it darkens and dies in reluctant rest	Z
It hovers and hangs on the labouring and trembling ascent of the dawn from the deep	I3
Till the sun's eye quicken the world and the waters and smite it again into sleep	I3
Night holy and starry the fostress of souls with the fragrance of heaven in her breath	M2
Subdues with the sense of her godhead the forces and mysteries of sorrow and death	M2
Eternal as dawn's is the comfort she gives but the mist that beleaguers and slays	B3
Comes passes and is not the strength of it withers appalled or assuaged by the day's	B3
Faith haggard as Fear that had borne her and dark as the sire that begat her Despair	J3
Held rule on the soul of the world and the song of it saddening through ages that were	C
Dim centuries that darkened and brightened and darkened again and the soul of their song	K3
Was great as their grief and sublime as their suffering and strong as their sorrows were strong	K3
It knew not it saw not but shadows triune and evoked by the strength of their spell	R2
Dark hell and the mountain of anguish and heaven that was hollower and harder than hell	R2
These are not the womb of the darkness that bare them rejects them and knows them no more	H
Thought fettered in misery and iron revives in the light that it lived in of yore	H
For the soul that is wisdom and freedom the spirit of England redeemed from her past	L3
Speaks life through the lips of the master and lord of her children the first and the last	L3
Thought touched by his hand and redeemed by his breath sees hears and accepts from above	I
The limitless lightnings of vision and passion the measureless music of love	I