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My sons and ye the children of my sons	A
Jacob your father goes upon his way	B
His pilgrimage is being accomplished	C
Come near and hear him ere his words are o'er	D
Not as my father's or his father's days	E
As Isaac's days or Abraham's have been mine	F
Not as the days of those that in the field	G
Walked at the eventide to meditate	H
And haply to the tent returning found	I
Angels at nightfall waiting at their door	J
They communed Israel wrestled with the Lord	K
No not as Abraham's or as Isaac's days	E
My sons have been Jacob your father's days	E
Evil and few attaining not to theirs	L
In number and in worth inferior much	M
As a man with his friend walked they with God	N
In His abiding presence they abode	O
And all their acts were open to His face	P
But I have had to force mine eyes away	B
To lose almost to shun the thoughts I loved	Q
To bend down to the work to bare the breast	R
And struggle feet and hands with enemies	S
To buffet and to battle with hard men	T
With men of selfishness and violence	U
To watch by day and calculate by night	V
To plot and think of plots and through a land	W
Ambushed with guile and with strong foes beset	X
To win with art safe wisdom's peaceful way	B
Alas I know and from the onset knew	Y
The first born faith the singleness of soul	Z
The antique pure simplicity with which	A2
God and good angels communed undispleased	X
Is not it shall not any more be said	X
That of a blameless and a holy kind	X
The chosen race the seed of promise comes	B2
The royal high prerogatives the dower	C2
Of innocence and perfectness of life	D2
Pass not unto my children from their sire	D
As unto me they came of mine they fit	X
Neither to Jacob nor to Jacob's race	P
Think ye my sons in this extreme old age	E2
And in this failing breath that I forget	X
How on the day when from my father's door	J
In bitterness and ruefulness of heart	X
I from my parents set my face and felt	X
I never more again should look on theirs	L
How on that day I seemed unto myself	F2
Another Adam from his home cast out	X
And driven abroad unto a barren land	X
Cursed for his sake and mocking still with thorns	G2
And briers that labour and that sweat of brow	H2
He still must spend to live Sick of my days	E
I wished not life but cried out Let me die	X
But at Luz God came to me in my heart	X
He put a better mind and showed me how	H2
While we discern it not and least believe	I2
On stairs invisible betwixt His heaven	J2
And our unholy sinful toilsome earth	K2
Celestial messengers of loftiest good	X
Upward and downward pass continually	L2
Many since I upon the field of Luz	M2
Set up the stone I slept on unto God	X
Many have been the troubles of my life	D2
Sins in the field and sorrows in the tent	X
In mine own household anguish and despair	N2
And gall and wormwood mingled with my love	O2
The time would fail me should I seek to tell	P2
Of a child wronged and cruelly revenged	X
Accursed was that anger it was fierce	Q2
That wrath for it was cruel or of strife	D2
And jealousy and cowardice with lies	R2
Mocking a father's misery deeds of blood	X
Pollutions sicknesses and sudden deaths	S2
These many things against me many times	T2
The ploughers have ploughed deep upon my back	U2
And made deep furrows blessed be His name	V2
Who hath delivered Jacob out of all	W2
And left within his spirit hope of good	X
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Come near to me my sons your father goes	X2
The hour of his departure draweth nigh	X
Ah me this eager rivalry of life	D2
This cruel conflict for pre eminence	U
This keen supplanting of the dearest kin	Y2
Quick seizure and fast unrelaxing hold	X
Of vantage place the stony hard resolve	Z2
The chase the competition and the craft	X
Which seems to be the poison of our life	D2
And yet is the condition of our life	D2
To have done things on which the eye with shame	V2
Looks back the closed hand clutching still the prize	R2
Alas what of all these things shall I say	B
Take me away unto Thy sleep O God	X
I thank thee it is over yet I think	A3
It was a work appointed me of Thee	L2
How is it I have striven all my days	E
To do my duty to my house and hearth	B3
And to the purpose of my father's race	P
Yet is my heart therewith not satisfied	X

Arthur Hugh Clough

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