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Years have risen and fallen in darkness or in twilight	A
Ages waxed and waned that knew not thee nor thine	B
While the world sought light by night and sought not thy light	A
Since the sad last pilgrim left thy dark mid shrine	B
Dark the shrine and dumb the fount of song thence welling	C
Save for words more sad than tears of blood that said	D
Tell the king on earth has fallen the glorious dwelling	C
And the watersprings that spake are quenched and dead	D
Not a cell is left the God no roof no cover	E
In his hand the prophet laurel flowers no more	F
And the great king's high sad heart thy true last lover	E
Felt thine answer pierce and cleave it to the core	F
And he bowed down his hopeless head	D
In the drift of the wild world's tide	G
And dying Thou hast conquered he said	D
Galilean he said it and died	G
And the world that was thine and was ours	H
When the Graces took hands with the Hours	H
Grew cold as a winter wave	I
In the wind from a wide mouthed grave	I
As a gulf wide open to swallow	J
The light that the world held dear	K
O father of all of us Paian Apollo	J
Destroyer and healer hear	L
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Age on age thy mouth was mute thy face was hidden	M
And the lips and eyes that loved thee blind and dumb	N
Song forsook their tongues that held thy name forbidden	M
Light their eyes that saw the strange God's kingdom come	N
Fire for light and hell for heaven and psalms for p ans	H
Filled the clearest eyes and lips most sweet of song	O
When for chant of Greeks the wail of Galileans	H
Made the whole world moan with hymns of wrath and wrong	O
Yea not yet we see thee father as they saw thee	P
They that worshipped when the world was theirs and thine	B
They whose words had power by thine own power to draw thee	P
Down from heaven till earth seemed more than heaven divine	B
For the shades are about us that hover	E
When darkness is half withdrawn	Q
And the skirts of the dead night cover	E
The face of the live new dawn	Q
For the past is not utterly past	R
Though the word on its lips be the last	R
And the time be gone by with its creed	S
When men were as beasts that bleed	S
As sheep or as swine that wallow	J
In the shambles of faith and of fear	K
O father of all of us Paian Apollo	J
Destroyer and healer hear	L
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Yet it may be lord and father could we know it	T
We that love thee for our darkness shall have light	A
More than ever prophet hailed of old or poet	U
Standing crowned and robed and sovereign in thy sight	A
To the likeness of one God their dreams enthralled thee	P
Who wast greater than all Gods that waned and grew	V
Son of God the shining son of Time they called thee	P
Who wast older O our father than they knew	V
For no thought of man made Gods to love or honour	V
Ere the song within the silent soul began	W
Nor might earth in dream or deed take heaven upon her	V
Till the word was clothed with speech by lips of man	W
And the word and the life wast thou	X
The spirit of man and the breath	Y
And before thee the Gods that bow	X
Take life at thine hands and death	Y
For these are as ghosts that wane	Z
That are gone in an age or twain	Z
Harsh merciful passionate pure	V
They perish but thou shalt endure	V
Be their flight with the swan or the swallow	J
They pass as the flight of a year	V
O father of all of us Paian Apollo	J
Destroyer and healer hear	V
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Thou the word the light the life the breath the glory	V
Strong to help and heal to lighten and to slay	A2
Thine is all the song of man the world's whole story	V
Not of morning and of evening is thy day	A2
Old and younger Gods are buried or begotten	B2
From uprising to downsetting of thy sun	M
Risen from eastward fallen to westward and forgotten	M
And their springs are many but their end is one	M
Divers births of godheads find one death appointed	C2
As the soul whence each was born makes room for each	D2
God by God goes out discrowned and disanointed	C2
But the soul stands fast that gave them shape and speech	D2
Is the sun yet cast out of heaven	M
Is the song yet cast out of man	W
Life that had song for its leaven	M
To quicken the blood that ran	W
Through the veins of the songless years	H
More bitter and cold than tears	H
Heaven that had thee for its one	M
Light life word witness O sun	M
Are they soundless and sightless and hollow	J
Without eye without speech without ear	V
O father of all of us Paian Apollo	J
Destroyer and healer hear	V
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Time arose and smote thee silent at his warning	C
Change and darkness fell on men that fell from thee	V
Dark thou satest veiled with light behind the morning	C
Till the soul of man should lift up eyes and see	V
Till the blind mute soul get speech again and eyesight	C2
Man may worship not the light of life within	B2
In his sight the stars whose fires grow dark in thy sight	C2
Shine as sunbeams on the night of death and sin	B2
Time again is risen with mightier word of warning	C
Change hath blown again a blast of louder breath	Y
Clothed with clouds and stars and dreams that melt in morning	C
Lo the Gods that ruled by grace of sin and death	Y
They are conquered they break they are stricken	M
Whose might made the whole world pale	E2
They are dust that shall rise not or quicken	M
Though the world for their death's sake wail	E2
As a hound on a wild beast's trace	H
So time has their godhead in chase	H
As wolves when the hunt makes head	C2
They are scattered they fly they are fled	C2
They are fled beyond hail beyond hollo	J
And the cry of the chase and the cheer	V
O father of all of us Paian Apollo	J
Destroyer and healer hear	V
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Day by day thy shadow shines in heaven beholden	M
Even the sun the shining shadow of thy face	H
King the ways of heaven before thy feet grow golden	M
God the soul of earth is kindled with thy grace	H
In thy lips the speech of man whence Gods were fashioned	C2
In thy soul the thought that makes them and unmakes	H
By thy light and heat incarnate and impassioned	C2
Soul to soul of man gives light for light and takes	H
As they knew thy name of old time could we know it	C2
Healer called of sickness slayer invoked of wrong	O
Light of eyes that saw thy light God king priest poet	C2
Song should bring thee back to heal us with thy song	O
For thy kingdom is past not away	A2
Nor thy power from the place thereof hurled	C2
Out of heaven they shall cast not the day	A2
They shall cast not out song from the world	C2
By the song and the light they give	F2
We know thy works that they live	G2
With the gift thou hast given us of speech	D2
We praise we adore we beseech	D2
We arise at thy bidding and follow	J
We cry to thee answer appear	V
O father of all of us Paian Apollo	J
Destroyer and healer hear	V

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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