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Auvergne Auvergne O wild and woful land	B
O glorious land and gracious white as gleam	C
The stairs of heaven black as a flameless brand	B
Strange even as life and stranger than a dream	C
Could earth remember man whose eyes made bright	D
The splendour of her beauty lit by day	E
Or soothed and softened and redeemed by night	D
Wouldst thou not know what light has passed away	E
Wouldst thou not know whom England whom the world	F
Mourns For the world whose wildest ways he trod	G
And smiled their dangers down that coiled and curled	F
Against him knows him now less man than god	G
Our demigod of daring keenest eyed	H
To read and deepest read in earth's dim things	I
A spirit now whose body of death has died	H
And left it mightier yet in eyes and wings	I
The sovereign seeker of the world who now	J
Hath sought what world the light of death may show	K
Hailed once with me the crowns that load thy brow	J
Crags dark as midnight columns bright as snow	K
Thy steep small Siena splendid and content	L
As shines the mightier city's Tuscan pride	H
Which here its face reflects in radiance pent	L
By narrower bounds from towering side to side	H
Set fast between the ridged and foamless waves	M
Of earth more fierce and fluctuant than the sea	N
The fearless town of towers that hails and braves	M
The heights that gird the sun that brands Le Puy	O
The huddled churches clinging on the cliffs	P
As birds alighting might for storm's sake cling	Q
Moored to the rocks as tempest harried skiffs	P
To perilous refuge from the loud wind's wing	Q
The stairs on stairs that wind and change and climb	R
Even up to the utmost crag's edge curved and curled	F
More bright than vision more than faith sublime	R
Strange as the light and darkness of the world	F
Strange as are night and morning stars and sun	S
And washed from west and east by day's deep tide	H
Shine yet less fair when all their heights are won	S
Than sundawn shows thy pillared mountain side	H
Even so the dawn of death whose light makes dim	T
The starry fires that life sees rise and set	U
Shows higher than here he shone before us him	T
Whom faith forgets not nor shall fame forget	U
Even so those else unfooted heights we clomb	T
Through scudding mist and eddying whirls of cloud	V
Blind as a pilot beaten blind with foam	T
And shrouded as a corpse with storm's grey shroud	V
Foot following foot along the sheer strait ledge	W
Where space was none to bear the wild goat's feet	X
Till blind we sat on the outer footless edge	W
Where darkling death seemed fain to share the seat	X
The abyss before us viewless even as time's	Y
The abyss to left of us the abyss to right	D
Bid thought now dream how high the freed soul climbs	Y
That death sets free from change of day and night	D
The might of raging mist and wind whose wrath	Z
Shut from our eyes the narrowing rock we trod	G
The wondrous world it darkened made our path	Z
Like theirs who take the shadow of death for God	G
Yet eastward veiled in vapour white as snow	K
The grim black herbless heights that scorn the sun	S
And mock the face of morning rose to show	K
The work of earth born fire and earthquake done	S
And half the world was haggard night wherein	A2
We strove our blind way through but far above	B2
Was light that watched the wild mists whirl and spin	A2
And far beneath a land worth light and love	B2
Deep down the Valley of the Curse undaunted	C2
By shadow and whisper of winds with sins for wings	I
And ghosts of crime wherethrough the heights live haunted	D2
By present sense of past and monstrous things	I
The glimmering water holds its gracious way	E
Full forth and keeps one happier hand's breadth green	E2
Of all that storm scathed world whereon the sway	E
Sits dark as death of deadlier things unseen	E2
But on the soundless and the viewless river	F2
That bears through night perchance again to day	E
The dead whom death and twin born fame deliver	F2
From life that dies and time's inveterate sway	E
No shadow save of falsehood and of fear	G2
That brands the future with the past and bids	H2
The spirit wither and the soul grow sere	G2
Hovers or hangs to cloud life's opening lids	H2
If life have eyes to lift again and see	N
Beyond the bounds of sensual sight or breath	I2
What life incognisable of ours may be	N
That turns our light to darkness deep as death	I2
Priests and the soulless serfs of priests may swarm	T
With vulturous acclamation loud in lies	J2
About his dust while yet his dust is warm	T
Who mocked as sunlight mocks their base blind eyes	J2
Their godless ghost of godhead false and foul	K2
As fear his dam or hell his throne but we	N
Scarce hearing heed no carrion church wolf's howl	K2
The corpse be theirs to mock the soul is free	N
Free as ere yet its earthly day was done	S
It lived above the coil about us curled	F
A soul whose eyes were keener than the sun	S
A soul whose wings were wider than the world	F
We sons of east and west ringed round with dreams	L2
Bound fast with visions girt about with fears	M2
Live trust and think by chance while shadow seems	L2
Light and the wind that wrecks a hand that steers	M2
He whose full soul held east and west in poise	N2
Weighed man with man and creed of man's with creed	O2
And age with age their triumphs and their toys	N2
And found what faith may read not and may read	P2
Scorn deep and strong as death and life that lit	Q2
With fire the smile at lies and dreams outworn	S
Wherewith he smote them showed sublime in it	Q2
The splendour and the steadfastness of scorn	S
What loftier heaven what lordlier air what space	R2
Illimitable insuperable infinite	S2
Now to that strong winged soul yields ampler place	R2
Than passing darkness yields to passing light	D
No dream no faith can tell us hope and fear	G2
Whose tongues were loud of old as children's now	S
From babbling fall to silence change is here	T2
And death dark furrows drawn by time's dark plough	S
Still sunward here on earth its flight was bent	L
Even since the man within the child began	S
To yearn and kindle with superb intent	L
And trust in time to magnify the man	S
Still toward the old garden of the Sun whose fruit	U2
The honey heavy lips of Sophocles	V2
Desired and sang wherein the unwithering root	U2
Sprang of all growths that thought brings forth and sees	V2
Incarnate bright with bloom or dense with leaf	W2
Far shadowing deep as depth of dawn or night	D
And all were parcel of the garnered sheaf	W2
His strenuous spirit bound and stored aright	D
And eastward now and ever toward the dawn	S
If death's deep veil by life's bright hand be rent	D
We see as through the shadow of death withdrawn	S
The imperious soul's indomitable ascent	D
But not the soul whose labour knew not end	D
But not the swordsman's hand the crested head	D
The royal heart we mourn the faultless friend	D
Burton a name that lives till fame be dead	D

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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