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Iron and granite and rust	A
In a crumbling garden old	B
Where the roses are paler than dust	A
And the lilies are green with gold	B
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Under the racing moon	C
Inconscious of war or crime	D
In a strange and ghostly noon	C
It marks the oblivion of time	D
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The shadow steals through its arc	E
Still as a frosted breath	F
Fitful gleaming and dark	E
As the cold frustration of death	F
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But where the shadow may fall	G
Whether to hurry or stay	H
It matters little at all	G
To those who come that way	H
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For this is the dial of them	I
That have forgotten the world	J
No more through the mad day dream	K
Of striving and reason hurled	J
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Their heart as a little child	L
Only remembers the worth	M
Of beauty and love and the wild	L
Dark peace of the elder earth	M
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It registers the morrows	N
Of lovers and winds and streams	N
And the face of a thousand sorrows	N
At the postern gate of dreams	N
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When the first low laughter smote	L
Through Lilith the mother of joy	O
And died and revived from the throat	L
Of Helen the harpstring of Troy	O
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And wandering on through the years	N
From the sobbing rain and the sea	N
Caught sound of the world's gray tears	N
Or sense of the sun's gold glee	N
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Whenever the wild control	P
Burned out to a mortal kiss	N
And the shuddering storm swept soul	P
Climbed to its acme of bliss	N
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The green gold light of the dead	L
Stood still in purple space	N
And a record blind and dread	L
Was graved on the dial's face	N
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And once in a thousand years	N
Some youth who loved so well	Q
The gods had loosed him from fears	N
In a vision of blameless hell	Q
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Has gone to the dial to read	L
Those signs in the outland tongue	R
Written beyond the need	L
Of the simple and the young	R
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For immortal life they say	N
Were his who loving so	N
Could explain the writing away	N
As a legend written in snow	N
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But always his innocent eyes	N
Were frozen into the stone	S
From that awful first surprise	N
His soul must return alone	S
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In the morning there he lay	N
Dead in the sun's warm gold	L
And no man knows to this day	N
What the dim moondial told	L

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