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Methought I journeyed along ways that led for ever	A
Throughout a happy land where strife and care were dead	B
And life went by me flowing like a placid river	A
Past sandy eyots where the shifting shoals make head	B
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A land where beauty dwelt supreme and right the donor	A
Of peaceful days a land of equal gifts and deeds	C
Of limitless fair fields and plenty had with honour	A
A land of kindly tillage and untroubled meads	C
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Of gardens and great fields and dreaming rose wreathed alleys	D
Wherein at dawn and dusk the vesper sparrows sang	E
Of cities set far off on hills down vista'd valleys	D
And floods so vast and old men wist not whence they sprang	E
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Of groves and forest depths and fountains softly welling	F
And roads that ran soft shadowed past the open doors	G
Of mighty palaces and many a lofty dwelling	F
Where all men entered and no master trod their floors	G
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A land of lovely speech where every tone was fashioned	H
By generations of emotion high and sweet	I
Of thought and deed and bearing lofty and impassioned	H
A land of golden calm grave forms and fretless feet	I
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And every mode and saying of that land gave token	J
Of limits where no death or evil fortune fell	K
And men lived out long lives in proud content unbroken	J
For there no man was rich none poor but all were well	K
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And all the earth was common and no base contriving	F
Of money of coined gold was needed there or known	L
But all men wrought together without greed or striving	F
And all the store of all to each man was his own	L
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From all that busy land grey town and peaceful village	M
Where never jar was heard nor wail nor cry of strife	N
From every laden stream and all the fields of tillage	M
Arose the murmur and the kindly hum of life	N
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At morning to the fields came forth the men each neighbour	A
Hand linked to other crowned with wreaths upon their hair	A
And all day long with joy they gave their hands to labour	A
Moving at will unhastened each man to his share	A
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At noon the women came the tall fair women bearing	F
Baskets of wicker in their ample hands for each	O
And learned the day's brief tale and how the fields were faring	F
And blessed them with their lofty beauty and blithe speech	O
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And when the great day's toil was over and the shadows	P
Grew with the flocking stars the sound of festival	Q
Rose in each city square and all the country meadows	P
Palace and paven court and every rustic hall	R
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Beside smooth streams where alleys and green gardens meeting	F
Ran downward to the flood with marble steps a throng	F
Came forth of all the folk at even gaily greeting	F
With echo of sweet converse jest and stately song	F
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In all their great fair cities there was neither seeking	F
For power of gold nor greed of lust nor desperate pain	S
Of multitudes that starve or in hoarse anger breaking	F
Beat at the doors of princes break and fall in vain	S
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But all the children of that peaceful land like brothers	T
Lofty of spirit wise and ever set to learn	U
The chart of neighbouring souls the bent and need of others	T
Thought only of good deeds sweet speech and just return	U
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And there there was no prison power of arms nor palace	V
Where prince or judge held sway for none was needed there	A
Long ages since the very names of fraud and malice	V
Had vanished from men's tongues and died from all men's care	A
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And there there were no bonds of contract deed or marriage	M
No oath nor any form to make the word more sure	A
For no man dreamed of hurt dishonour or miscarriage	M
Where every thought was truth and every heart was pure	A
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There were no castes of rich or poor of slave or master	A
Where all were brothers and the curse of gold was dead	B
But all that wise fair race to kindlier ends and vaster	A
Moved on together with the same majestic tread	B
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And all the men and women of that land were fairer	A
Than even the mightiest of our meaner race can be	W
The men like gentle children great of limb yet rarer	A
For wisdom and high thought like kings for majesty	W
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And all the women through great ages of bright living	F
Grown goodlier of stature strong and subtly wise	X
Stood equal with the men calm counsellors ever giving	F
The fire and succour of proud faith and dauntless eyes	X
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And as I journeyed in that land I reached a ruin	J
The gateway of a lonely and secluded waste	Y
A phantom of forgotten time and ancient doing	F
Eaten by age and violence crumbled and defaced	Y
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On its grim outer walls the ancient world's sad glories	D
Were recorded in fire upon its inner stone	L
Drawn by dead hands I saw in tales and tragic stories	D
The woe and sickness of an age of fear made known	L
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And lo in that grey storehouse fallen to dust and rotten	J
Lay piled the traps and engines of forgotten greed	Z
The tomes of codes and canons long disused forgotten	J
The robes and sacred books of many a vanished creed	Z
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An old grave man I found white haired and gently spoken	J
Who as I questioned answered with a smile benign	A2
'Long years have come and gone since these poor gauds were broken	J
Broken and banished from a life made more divine	A2
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'But still we keep them stored as once our sires deemed fitting	F
The symbol of dark days and lives remote and strange	M
Lest o'er the minds of any there should come unwitting	F
The thought of some new order and the lust of change	M
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'If any grow disturbed we bring them gently hither	A
To read the world's grim record and the sombre lore	A
Massed in these pitiless vaults and they returning thither	A
Bear with them quieter thoughts and make for change no more '	-
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And thence I journeyed on by one broad way that bore me	W
Out of that waste and as I passed by tower and town	B2
I saw amid the limitless plain far out before me	W
A long low mountain blue as beryl and its crown	B2
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Was capped by marble roofs that shone like snow for whiteness	V
Its foot was deep in gardens and that blossoming plain	S
Seemed in the radiant shower of its majestic brightness	V
A land for gods to dwell in free from care and pain	S
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And to and forth from that fair mountain like a river	A
Ran many a dim grey road and on them I could see	W
A multitude of stately forms that seemed for ever	A
Going and coming in bright bands and near to me	W
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Was one that in his journey seemed to dream and linger	A
Walking at whiles with kingly step then standing still	C2
And him I met and asked him pointing with my finger	A
The meaning of the palace and the lofty hill	C2
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Whereto the dreamer 'Art thou of this land my brother	A
And knowest not the mountain and its crest of walls	D2
Where dwells the priestless worship of the all wise mother	A
That is the hill of Pallas those her marble halls	D2
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'There dwell the lords of knowledge and of thought increasing	F
And they whom insight and the gleams of song uplift	E2
And thence as by a hundred conduits flows unceasing	F
The spring of power and beauty an eternal gift '	-
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Still I passed on until I reached at length not knowing	F
Whither the tangled and diverging paths might lead	B
A land of baser men whose coming and whose going	F
Were urged by fear and hunger and the curse of greed	Z
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I saw the proud and fortunate go by me faring	F
In fatness and fine robes the poor oppressed and slow	F2
The faces of bowed men and piteous women bearing	F
The burden of perpetual sorrow and the stamp of woe	F2
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And tides of deep solicitude and wondering pity	W
Possessed me and with eager and uplifted hands	G2
I drew the crowd about me in a mighty city	W
And taught the message of those other kindlier lands	G2
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I preached the rule of Faith and brotherly Communion	J
The law of Peace and Beauty and the death of Strife	N
And painted in great words the horror of disunion	J
The vainness of self worship and the waste of life	N
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I preached but fruitlessly the powerful from their stations	H2
Rebuked me as an anarch envious and bad	I2
And they that served them with lean hands and bitter patience	J2
Smiled only out of hollow orbs and deemed me mad	I2
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And still I preached and wrought and still I bore my message	M
For well I knew that on and upward without cease	K2
The spirit works for ever and by Faith and Presage	M
That some	L2

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