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In the outer world that was before this earth	A
That was before all shape or space was born	B
Before the blind first hour of time had birth	A
Before night knew the moonlight or the morn	B
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Yea before any world had any light	C
Or anything called God or man drew breath	D
Slowly the strong sides of the heaving night	C
Moved and brought forth the strength of life and death	D
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And the sad shapeless horror increate	C
That was all things and one thing without fruit	C
Limit or law where love was none nor hate	C
Where no leaf came to blossom from no root	C
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The very darkness that time knew not of	E
Nor God laid hand on nor was man found there	F
Ceased and was cloven in several shapes above	E
Light and night under and fire earth water and air	F
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Sunbeams and starbeams and all coloured things	G
All forms and all similitudes began	H
And death the shadow cast by life's wide wings	G
And God the shade cast by the soul of man	H
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Then between shadow and substance night and light	C
Then between birth and death and deeds and days	I
The illimitable embrace and the amorous fight	C
That of itself begets bears rears and slays	I
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The immortal war of mortal things that is	I
Labour and life and growth and good and ill	J
The mild antiphonies that melt and kiss	I
The violent symphonies that meet and kill	J
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All nature of all things began to be	K
But chiefliest in the spirit beast or man	H
Planet of heaven or blossom of earth or sea	K
The divine contraries of life began	H
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For the great labour of growth being many is one	L
One thing the white death and the ruddy birth	A
The invisible air and the all beholden sun	L
And barren water and many childed earth	A
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And these things are made manifest in men	M
From the beginning forth unto this day	C
Time writes and life records them and again	M
Death seals them lest the record pass away	C
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For if death were not then should growth not be	K
Change nor the life of good nor evil things	I
Nor were there night at all nor light to see	K
Nor water of sweet nor water of bitter springs	I
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For in each man and each year that is born	B
Are sown the twin seeds of the strong twin powers	I
The white seed of the fruitful helpful morn	B
The black seed of the barren hurtful hours	I
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And he that of the black seed eateth fruit	C
To him the savour as honey shall be sweet	C
And he in whom the white seed hath struck root	C
He shall have sorrow and trouble and tears for meat	C
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And him whose lips the sweet fruit hath made red	C
In the end men loathe and make his name a rod	C
And him whose mouth on the unsweet fruit hath fed	C
In the end men follow and know for very God	C
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And of these twain the black seed and the white	C
All things come forth endured of men and done	L
And still the day is great with child of night	C
And still the black night labours with the sun	L
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And each man and each year that lives on earth	A
Turns hither or thither and hence or thence is fed	C
And as a man before was from his birth	A
So shall a man be after among the dead	C

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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