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I dreamed a dream I dreamt that I espied	A
Upon a stone that was not rolled aside	A
A Shadow sit upon a grave a Shade	A
As thin as unsubstantial as of old	A
Came the Greek poet told	A
To lick the life blood in the trench Ulysses made	A
As pale as thin and said	A
'I am the Resurrection of the Dead	A
The night is past the morning is at hand	A
And I must in my proper semblance stand	A
Appear brief space and vanish listen this is true	B
I am that Jesus whom they slew '	C
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And shadows dim I dreamed the dead apostles came	D
And bent their heads for sorrow and for shame	D
Sorrow for their great loss and shame	D
For what they did in that vain name	D
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And in long ranges far behind there seemed	A
Pale vapoury angel forms or was it cloud that kept	A
Strange watch the women also stood beside and wept	A
And Peter spoke the word	A
'O my own Lord	A
What is it we must do	B
Is it then all untrue	B
Did we not see and hear and handle Thee	E
Yea for whole hours	F
Upon the Mount in Galilee	E
On the lake shore and here at Bethany	E
When Thou ascended to Thy God and ours '	-
And paler still became the distant cloud	A
And at the word the women wept aloud	A
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And the Shade answered 'What ye say I know not	A
But it is true	B
I am that Jesus whom they slew	B
Whom ye have preached but in what way I know not '	-
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And the great World it chanced came by that way	G
And stopped and looked and spoke to the police	H
And said the thing for order's sake and peace	H
Most certainly must be suppressed the nuisance cease	H
His wife and daughter must have where to pray	G
And whom to pray to at the least one day	G
In seven and something sensible to say	G
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Whether the fact so many years ago	I
Had or not happened how was he to know	I
Yet he had always heard that it was so	I
As for himself perhaps it was all one	J
And yet he found it not unpleasant too	B
On Sunday morning in the roomy pew	B
To see the thing with such decorum done	J
As for himself perhaps it was all one	J
Yet on one's death bed all men always said	A
It was a comfortable thing to think upon	K
The atonement and the resurrection of the dead	A
So the great World as having said his say	G
Unto his country house pursued his way	G
And on the grave the Shadow sat all day	G
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And the poor Pope was sure it must be so	I
Else wherefore did the people kiss his toe	I
The subtle Jesuit cardinal shook his head	A
And mildly looked and said	A
It mattered not a jot	A
Whether the thing indeed were so or not	A
Religion must be kept up and the Church preserved	A
And for the people this best served	A
And then he turned and added most demurely	E
'Whatever may befal	E
We Catholics need no evidence at all	E
The holy father is infallible surely '	-
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And English canons heard	A
And quietly demurred	A
Religion rests on evidence of course	L
And on inquiry we must put no force	L
Difficulties still upon whatever ground	A
Are likely almost certain to be found	A
The Theist scheme the Pantheist one and all	E
Must with or e'en before the Christian fall	E
And till the thing were plainer to our eyes	M
To disturb faith was surely most unwise	M
As for the Shade who trusted such narration	J
Except of course in ancient revelation	J
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And dignitaries of the Church came by	N
It had been worth to some of them they said	A
Some hundred thousand pounds a year a head	A
If it fetched so much in the market truly	E
'Twas not a thing to be given up unduly	E
It had been proved by Butler in one way	G
By Paley better in a later day	G
It had been proved in twenty ways at once	O
By many a doctor plain to many a dunce	O
There was no question but it must be so	O
And the Shade answered that He did not know	O
He had no reading and might be deceived	A
But still He was the Christ as He believed	A
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And women mild and pure	P
Forth from still homes and village schools did pass	O
And asked if this indeed were thus alas	O
What should they teach their children and the poor	Q
The Shade replied He could not know	O
But it was truth the fact was so	O
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Who had kept all commandments from his youth	R
Yet still found one thing lacking even Truth	R
And the Shade only answered 'Go make haste	A
Enjoy thy great possessions as thou may'st '	-

Arthur Hugh Clough

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