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The body is no prison where we lie	A
Shut out from our true heritage of sun	B
It is the wings wherewith the soul may fly	A
Save through this flesh so scorned and spat upon	C
No ray of light had reached the caverned mind	D
No thrill of pleasure through the life had run	B
No love of nature or of humankind	D
Were it but love of self had stirred the heart	E
To its first deed Such freedom as we find	D
We find but through its service not apart	E
And as an eagle's wings upbear him higher	F
Than Andes or Himalaya and chart	E
Rivers and seas beneath so our desire	F
With more celestial members yet may soar	G
Into the space of empyrean fire	F
Still bodied but more richly than before	G
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The body is the man what lurks behind	D
Through it alone unveils itself Therefore	G
We are not wrong who seek to keep in mind	D
The form and feature of the mighty dead	H
So back of all the giving is divined	H
The giver back of all things done or said	H
The man himself in elemental speech	I
Of flesh and bone and sinew utter d	H
	-
This is thy language Sculpture Thine to reach	I
Beneath all thoughts all feelings all desires	J
To that which thinks and lives and loves and teach	I
The world the primal selfhood of its sires	K
Its heroes and its lovers and its gods	L
So shall Apollo flame in marble fires	J
The mien of Zeus suffice before he nods	L
So Gautama in ivory dream out	H
The calm of Time's untrammelled periods	M
So Sigurd's lips be in themselves a shout	H
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Mould us our Shakespeare sculptor in the form	N
His comrades knew rare Ben and all the rout	H
That found the taproom of the Mermaid warm	N
With wit and wine and fellowship the face	O
Wherein the men he chummed with found a charm	P
To make them love him carve for us the grace	O
That caught Anne Hathaway in Shottery side	H
The hand that clasped Southampton's in the days	Q
Ere that dark dame of passion and of pride	H
Burned in his heart the brand of her disdain	R
The eyes that wept when little Hamnet died	H
The lips that learned from Marlowe's and again	S
Taught riper lore to Fletcher and the rest	H
The presence and demeanor sovereign	B
At last at Stratford calm and manifest	H
That rested on the seventh day and scanned	H
His work and knew it good and left the quest	H
And like his own enchanter broke his wand	H
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No viewless mind The very shape no less	T
He used to speak and smile with move and stand	H
God is most God not in his loneliness	U
Unfellowed discreationed unrevealed	H
Nor thundering on Sinai pitiless	U
Nor when the seven vials are unsealed	H
But when his spirit companions with our thought	H
And in his fellowship our pain is healed	H
And we are likest God when we are brought	H
Most near to all men Bring us near to him	V
The gentle human soul whose calm might wrought	H
Imperious Lear and made our eyes grow dim	V
For Imogen who though he heard the spheres	W
Still choiring to the young eyed cherubim	V
Could laugh with Falstaff and his loose compeers	W
And love the rascal with the same big heart	H
That o'er Cordelia could not stay its tears	W
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For still the man is greater than his art	H
And though thy men and women Shakespeare rise	W
Like giants in our fancy and depart	H
Thyself art more than all their masteries	W
Thy wisdom more than Hamlet's questionings	W
Or the cold searching of Ulysses' eyes	W
Thy mirth more sweet than Benedick's flouts and flings	W
Thy smiling dearer than Mercutio's	W
Thy dignity past that of all thy kings	W
And thy enchantment more than Prospero's	W
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For thou couldst not have had Othello's flaw	X
Not erred with Brutus greater then than those	W
For all their nobleness Oh albeit with awe	Y
Leave we the mighty phantoms and draw near	Z
The man that fashioned them and gave them law	X
The Master Poet found with scarce a peer	Z
In all the ages his domain to share	A2
Yet of all singers gentlest and most dear	Z
Oh how shall words thy proper praise declare	A2
Divine in thy supreme humanity	H
And near as the inevitable air	A2
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So he that wrought this image deemed of thee	H
So I thy lover keep thee in my heart	H
So may this figure set for men to see	H
Where the world passes eager for the mart	H
Be as a sudden insight of the soul	B2
That makes a darkness into order start	H
And lift thee up for all men fair and whole	B2
Till scholar merchant farmer artisan	B
Seeing divine beneath the aureole	B2
The fellow heart and know thee for a man	C2

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