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By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept	A
Remembering thee	B
That for ages of agony hast endured and slept	A
And wouldst not see	B
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By the waters of Babylon we stood up and sang	C
Considering thee	B
That a blast of deliverance in the darkness rang	C
To set thee free	B
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And with trumpets and thunderings and with morning song	D
Came up the light	E
And thy spirit uplifted thee to forget thy wrong	D
As day doth night	E
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And thy sons were dejected not any more as then	F
When thou wast shamed	G
When thy lovers went heavily without heart as men	F
Whose life was maimed	G
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In the desolate distances with a great desire	H
For thy love's sake	I
With our hearts going back to thee they were filled with fire	H
Were nigh to break	I
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It was said to us Verily ye are great of heart	J
But ye shall bend	K
Ye are bondmen and bondwomen to be scourged and smart	J
To toil and tend	K
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And with harrows men harrowed us and subdued with spears	L
And crushed with shame	M
And the summer and winter was and the length of years	L
And no change came	M
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By the rivers of Italy by the sacred streams	N
By town by tower	H
There was feasting with revelling there was sleep with dreams	N
Until thine hour	H
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And they slept and they rioted on their rose hung beds	O
With mouths on flame	M
And with love locks vine chapleted and with rose crowned heads	O
And robes of shame	M
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And they knew not their forefathers nor the hills and streams	N
And words of power	H
Nor the gods that were good to them but with songs and dreams	N
Filled up their hour	H
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By the rivers of Italy by the dry streams' beds	O
When thy time came	M
There was casting of crowns from them from their young men's heads	O
The crowns of shame	M
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By the horn of Eridanus by the Tiber mouth	P
As thy day rose	Q
They arose up and girded them to the north and south	P
By seas by snows	Q
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As a water in January the frost confines	R
Thy kings bound thee	B
As a water in April is in the new blown vines	R
Thy sons made free	B
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And thy lovers that looked for thee and that mourned from far	S
For thy sake dead	T
We rejoiced in the light of thee in the signal star	S
Above thine head	T
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In thy grief had we followed thee in thy passion loved	U
Loved in thy loss	V
In thy shame we stood fast to thee with thy pangs were moved	W
Clung to thy cross	V
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By the hillside of Calvary we beheld thy blood	X
Thy bloodred tears	Y
As a mother's in bitterness an unebbing flood	X
Years upon years	L
	-
And the north was Gethsemane without leaf or bloom	Z
A garden sealed	A2
And the south was Aceldama for a sanguine fume	Z
Hid all the field	A2
	-
By the stone of the sepulchre we returned to weep	B2
From far from prison	C2
And the guards by it keeping it we beheld asleep	B2
But thou wast risen	C2
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And an angel's similitude by the unsealed grave	D2
And by the stone	E2
And the voice was angelical to whose words God gave	D2
Strength like his own	E2
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Lo the graveclothes of Italy that are folded up	F2
In the grave's gloom	Z
And the guards as men wrought upon with a charmed cup	F2
By the open tomb	Z
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And her body most beautiful and her shining head	T
These are not here	G2
For your mother for Italy is not surely dead	T
Have ye no fear	H2
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As of old time she spake to you and you hardly heard	I2
Hardly took heed	J2
So now also she saith to you yet another word	I2
Who is risen indeed	J2
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By my saying she saith to you in your ears she saith	B
Who hear these things	K2
Put no trust in men's royalties nor in great men's breath	B
Nor words of kings	K2
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For the life of them vanishes and is no more seen	L2
Nor no more known	E2
Nor shall any remember him if a crown hath been	M2
Or where a throne	E2
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Unto each man his handiwork unto each his crown	N2
The just Fate gives	O2
Whoso takes the world's life on him and his own lays down	N2
He dying so lives	O2
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Whoso bears the whole heaviness of the wronged world's weight	P2
And puts it by	Q2
It is well with him suffering though he face man's fate	P2
How should he die	Q2
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Seeing death has no part in him any more no power	H
Upon his head	T
He has bought his eternity with a little hour	H
And is not dead	T
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For an hour if ye look for him he is no more found	R2
For one hour's space	S2
Then ye lift up your eyes to him and behold him crowned	R2
A deathless face	S2
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On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings	S2
In all men's eyes	S2
Where the light of the life of him is on all past things	S2
Death only dies	S2
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Not the light that was quenched for us nor the deeds that were	H
Nor the ancient days	S2
Nor the sorrows not sorrowful nor the face most fair	T2
Of perfect praise	S2
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So the angel of Italy's resurrection said	T
So yet he saith	B
So the son of her suffering that from breasts nigh dead	T
Drew life not death	B
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That the pavement of Golgotha should be white as snow	U2
Not red but white	E
That the waters of Babylon should no longer flow	U2
And men see light	E

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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