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At the chill high tide of the night	A
At the turn of the fluctuant hours	B
When the waters of time are at height	A
In a vision arose on my sight	A
The kingdoms of earth and the powers	B
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In a dream without lightening of eyes	C
I saw them children of earth	D
Nations and races arise	C
Each one after his wise	C
Signed with the sign of his birth	D
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Sound was none of their feet	E
Light was none of their faces	F
In their lips breath was not or heat	E
But a subtle murmur and sweet	E
As of water in wan waste places	F
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Pale as from passionate years	G
Years unassuaged of desire	H
Sang they soft in mine ears	G
Crowned with jewels of tears	I
Girt with girdles of fire	H
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A slow song beaten and broken	J
As it were from the dust and the dead	K
As of spirits athirst unsloken	J
As of things unspeakable spoken	J
As of tears unendurable shed	K
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In the manifold sound remote	L
In the molten murmur of song	M
There was but a sharp sole note	L
Alive on the night and afloat	L
The cry of the world's heart's wrong	M
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As the sea in the strait sea caves	N
The sound came straitened and strange	O
A noise of the rending of graves	N
A tidal thunder of waves	N
The music of death and of change	O
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We have waited so long they say	P
For a sound of the God for a breath	Q
For a ripple of the refluence of day	P
For the fresh bright wind of the fray	P
For the light of the sunrise of death	Q
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We have prayed not we to be strong	M
To fulfil the desire of our eyes	C
Howbeit they have watched for it long	M
Watched and the night did them wrong	M
Yet they say not of day shall it rise	C
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They are fearful and feeble with years	G
Yet they doubt not of day if it be	R
Yea blinded and beaten with tears	I
Yea sick with foresight of fears	G
Yet a little and hardly they see	R
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We pray not we for the palm	S
For the fruit ingraffed of the fight	A
For the blossom of peace and the balm	S
And the tender triumph and calm	S
Of crownless and weaponless right	A
	-
We pray not we to behold	T
The latter august new birth	D
The young day's purple and gold	T
And divine and rerisen as of old	T
The sun god Freedom on earth	D
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Peace and world's honour and fame	U
We have sought after none of these things	V
The light of a life like flame	U
Passing the storm of a name	U
Shaking the strongholds of kings	V
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Nor fashioned of fire and of air	W
The splendour that burns on his head	K
Who was chiefest in ages that were	H
Whose breath blew palaces bare	W
Whose eye shone tyrannies dead	K
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All these things in your day	P
Ye shall see O our sons and shall hold	T
Surely but we in the grey	P
Twilight for one thing we pray	P
In that day though our memories be cold	T
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To feel on our brows as we wait	X
An air of the morning a breath	Q
From the springs of the east from the gate	X
Whence freedom issues and fate	X
Sorrow and triumph and death	Q
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From a land whereon time hath not trod	Y
Where the spirit is bondless and bare	W
And the world's rein breaks and the rod	Y
And the soul of a man which is God	Y
He adores without altar or prayer	W
	-
For alone of herself and her right	A
She takes and alone gives grace	Z
And the colours of things lose light	A
And the forms in the limitless white	A
Splendour of space without space	Z
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And the blossom of man from his tomb	A2
Yearns open the flower that survives	B2
And the shadows of changes consume	A2
In the colourless passionate bloom	A2
Of the live light made of our lives	C2
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Seeing each life given is a leaf	D2
Of the manifold multiform flower	H
And the least among these and the chief	D2
As an ear in the red ripe sheaf	D2
Stored for the harvesting hour	H
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O spirit of man most holy	R
The measure of things and the root	E2
In our summers and winters a lowly	R
Seed putting forth of them slowly	R
Thy supreme blossom and fruit	E2
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In thy sacred and perfect year	F2
The souls that were parcel of thee	R
In the labour and life of us here	G2
Shall be rays of thy sovereign sphere	F2
Springs of thy motion shall be	R
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There is the fire that was man	J
The light that was love and the breath	Q
That was hope ere deliverance began	J
And the wind that was life for a span	J
And the birth of new things which is death	Q
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There whosoever had light	A
And having for men's sake gave	H2
All that warred against night	A
All that were found in the fight	A
Swift to be slain and to save	H2
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Undisbranched of the storms that disroot us	I2
Of the lures that enthrall unenticed	A
The names that exalt and transmute us	I2
The blood bright splendour of Brutus	I2
The snow bright splendour of Christ	A
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There all chains are undone	J
Day there seems but as night	A
Spirit and sense are as one	J
In the light not of star nor of sun	J
Liberty there is the light	A
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She sole mother and maker	H
Stronger than sorrow than strife	J2
Deathless though death overtake her	H
Faithful though faith should forsake her	H
Spirit and saviour and life	J2

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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