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Bliss Carman (william)

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I cannot quite recall	A
When first he came	B
So reticent and tall	A
With his eyes of flame	B
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The neighbors used to say	C
They know so much	D
He looked to them half way	C
Spanish or Dutch	D
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Outlandish certainly	E
He is and queer	F
He has been lodged with me	E
This thirty year	F
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All the while it seems absurd	G
We hardly have	H
Exchanged a single word	G
Mum as the grave	I
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Minds only his own affairs	J
Goes out and in	K
And keeps himself upstairs	J
With his violin	K
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Mum did I say And yet	L
That talking smile	M
You never can forget	L
Is all the while	M
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Full of such sweet reproofs	J
The darkest day	C
Like morning on the roofs	J
In flush of May	C
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Like autumn on the hills	J
At four o'clock	N
The sun like a herdsman spills	J
For drove and flock	N
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Peace with their provender	F
And they are fed	O
The day without a stir	F
Lies warm and red	O
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Ah sir the summer land	P
For me That is	J
Like living in God's hand	P
Compared to this	J
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His smile so quiet and deep	Q
Reminds me of it	R
I see it in my sleep	Q
And so I love it	R
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An anarchist say some	S
But tush say I	T
When a man's heart is plumb	S
Can his life be awry	T
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Better than charity	E
And bigger too	U
That heart You've seen the sea	E
Of course To you	U
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'T is common enough no doubt	V
But here in town	W
With God's world all shut out	V
Save the leaden frown	W
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Of the sky a slant of rain	X
And a straggling star	F
Such memories remain	X
The wonders they are	F
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Once at the Isles of Shoals	J
And it was June	Y
Now hear me dote He strolls	J
Across my noon	Y
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Like the sun that day where sleeps	J
My soul his gaze	J
Goes glimmering down my deeps	J
Of yesterdays	J
	-
Searching and searching till	Z
Its light consumes	J
The reluctant shapes that fill	Z
Those purple glooms	J
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Let others applaud defame	B
And the noise die down	W
His voice saying your name	B
Is enough renown	W
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Too patient pitiful	A2
Too fierce at wrong	B2
To patronize the dull	A2
Or praise the strong	B2
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And yet he has a soul	C2
Of wrath though pent	D2
Even when that white ghoul	E2
Comes for his rent	D2
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The landlord Hush My God	F2
I think the walls	J
Take notes to help him prod	F2
Us up He galls	J
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My very soul to strife	G2
With his death's head face	J
He is foul too in his life	G2
Some hid disgrace	J
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Some secret thing he does	J
I warrant you	U
For all his cheek to us	J
Is shaved so blue	U
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He takes good care by the shade	H2
Of seven wives	J
That the undertaker's trade	H2
He lives by thrives	J
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Nor chick nor child has he	E
So servile smug	I2
With that cringe in his knee	E
God curse his lug	I2
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But him you should have seen	J2
Him yesterday	C
The landlord's smirk turned green	J2
At his smile The way	C
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He served that bloodless fish	K2
Were like to freeze him	L2
But meeting elsewhere pish	K2
He never sees him	L2
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Yet such a gentleman	M2
So sure and slow	N2
The vilest harridan	M2
Is not too low	N2
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If there is pity's need	O2
And no man born	M2
For cruelty or greed	O2
Escapes that scorn	M2
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Most of all things it seems	J
He loves the town	M2
Watching the bright faced streams	J
Go up and down	M2
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I have surprised him often	M2
On Tremont street	P2
And marked the grave face soften	M2
The mouth grow sweet	P2
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In a brown study over	F
The men and women	M2
An unsuspected rover	F
That for our Common	M2
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When the first jonquils come	S
And spring is sold	Q2
On the street corners some	S
Of the pretty gold	Q2
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Is sure to find its way	C
Home in his hand	P
And many a winter day	C
At some cab stand	P
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He'll watch the cabmen feed	O2
The pigeon flocks	J
Or bid some liner speed	O2
From the icy docks	J
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His rooms I much regret	L
You cannot see	E
His rooms but they were let	L
With guarantee	E
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Of his seclusion there	F
Except myself	R2
Each morning table chair	F
Lamp hearth and shelf	R2
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I rearrange refreshen	M2
Put all to rights	J
Then leave him in possession	M2
Ah but the nights	J
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The nights Sir if I dared	S2
But once set eye	T
To keyhole nor be scared	S2
From playing Paul Pry	T
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I doubt not I should learn	M2
A wondrous thing	T2
Or two and in return	M2
Go blind till spring	T2
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The light under his door	F
Is glory enough	U2
It outshines any star	F
That I know of	V2
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Wirrah my lad my lad	W2
'T is fearsome strange	X2
The hints we all have had	W2
Passing the range	X2
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Of science knowledge law	Y2
Or what you will	Z
Whose intangible touch of awe	Z2
Makes reason nil	Z
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Many a night I start	A3
Sudden awake	B3
Feeling my smothered heart	A3
Flutter and quake	B3
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Like an aspen at dead of noon	M2
When not a breath	C3
Is stirring to trouble the boon	M2
Valley A wraith	C3
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Or a fetch it must be shivers	J
The soul of the tree	E
Till every leaf of it quivers	J
And so with me	E
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Was it the shuffle of feet	P2
I heard go by	T
With muffled drums in the street	P2
Was it the cry	T
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Of a rider riding the night	D3
Into ashes and dawn	M2
With news in his nostrils and fright	D3
Where his hoof beats had gone	M2
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Did the pipes at Bonny Dundee	E
Bid regiments form	E3
Did a renegade's soul get free	E
On a wail of the storm	E3
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Did a flock of wild geese honk	F3
As they cleared the hill	Z
Or only a bittern cronk	F3
Then all was still	Z
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Was it a night stampede	O2
Of a thousand head	O
I know I shook like a reed	O2
There on my bed	O
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Nameless and void and wild	G3
Was the fear before me	E
Ere I bethought me and smiled	G3
As the truth flashed o'er me	E
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Of course it was only his hand	P
Freeing the bass	J
Of his old Amati grand	P
In the silence' face	J
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Rummaging up and down	M2
From string to string	T2
Bidding the discords drown	M2
The harmonies spring	T2
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Where tides and tide winds rove	H3
Far out from land	P
On the ocean of music a move	I3
At the will of his hand	P
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Sobbing and grieving now	M2
Now glad as a bird	G
Thou thou thou	M2
Of the joys unheard	G
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Luminous radiant sea	E
Of the sounds and time	J3
Surely surely by thee	E
Is eternal prime	J3
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Holy and beautiful deep	Q
Spread down before	F
The imperial coming of sleep	Q
Endure endure	F
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And sleep be thou the ranger	F
Over it wan	M2
And dream be thou no stranger	F
There with the dawn	M2
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Then wings of the sun go abroad	K3
As a scarlet desire	F
Unwearied unwaning unawed	K3
To quest and aspire	F
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Till the drench of the dusk you drink	L3
In the poppy field west	K3
Then veer and settle and sink	L3
As a gull to her nest	K3
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Wind	K3
Away away	C
And hurry your phantom kind	K3
Through the gates of day	C
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Or ever the king's dark cup	M3
With its studs and spars	E
Be inverted and earth look up	M3
To the shuddering stars	E
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Blaring and triumphing now	M2
Now quailing and lone	M2
Thou thou thou	M2
Of the joys unknown	M2
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Unknown and wild wild	K3
Where the merrymen be	E
Sink to sleep soul of a child	K3
Slumber thou sea	E
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All this his fiddle plays	E
And many a thing	T2
As strange when his mood so lays	E
The bow to the string	T2
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Sleepless He never sleeps	E
That I can find	K3
I marvel how he keeps	E
A bit of his mind	K3
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There is neither sight nor sound	K3
In the world of sense	E
But he has fathomed and found	K3
In the silvery tense	E
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Keen cords on the amber wood	K3
As he wrings them thence	E
Death smiles at his hardihood	K3
For recompense	E
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Oh fair they are so fair	F
No tongue can tell	N3
How he sets them chiming there	F
Clear as a bell	N3
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An orchard of birds in June	M2
The winds that stream	O3
The cold sea brooks that croon	M2
The storms that scream	O3
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The planets that float and swing	T2
Like buoys on the tide	K3
The north going legions in spring	T2
The hills that abide	K3
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The frigate bird clouds that range	X2
The vagabond moon	M2
That wilful lover of change	X2
And the workaday sun	M2
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Dying summer and fall	A
Seasons and men	M2
And herds he has them all	A
In his shadowy ken	M2
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He calls and they come leaving strife	G2
Leaving discord and death	C3
Out of oblivion to life	G2
Though its span be a breath	C3
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There they are all the beautiful things	E
I loved and lost sight of	V2
Long since in the far away springs	E
Come back for a night of	V2
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New being as good as their old	K3
Aye better in fact	K3
For somehow he gilds their fine gold	K3
Gives the one thing they lacked	K3
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The breath aspiration desire	F
Core kindle control	C2
Memory and rapture and fire	F
The touch of man's soul	C2
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How know the true master I know	M2
By my joys and my fears	E
For my heart crumbles down like the snow	M2
With spring rain into tears	E
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Now I am a precious one	M2
With nothing to do	K3
But idle here in the sun	M2
And gossip with you	K3
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Of a stranger you have not seen	M2
As like never will	Z
I would every soul had a screen	M2
When the wind sets ill	Z
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In the world's bleak house like this	E
Strange lodger of mine	M2
His presence is worse to miss	E
Than sun's best shine	M2
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I put no thought at all	A
Upon the end	K3
If only I may call	A
Such a man friend	K3
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And a friend he is heart light	K3
With love for heft	K3
Proud as silence whose right	K3
Hand ignores his left	K3
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Yes odd he gives his name	B
As Spiritus	E
But that is vague as a flame	B
In the wind to us	E
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And then but not a breath	C3
Of this you see	E
All his effects my faith	C3
Are marked D V	E
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His cape coat has a rip	P3
But for all that	K3
Folk smile suggest a dip	P3
In the dyer's vat	K3
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Those purple aldermen	M2
Who roll about	K3
In coaches drive till ten	M2
And die of gout	K3
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I think he finely shows	E
How learning's crumbs	E
At least can rival those	E
Of 'st here he comes	E