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KNOW ye in ages past that tower	A
By human hands built strong and high	B
Arch over arch with magic power	A
Rose proudly each successive hour	A
To reach the happy sky	B
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It rose till human pride was crushed	C
Quick came the unexpected change	D
A moment every tone was hushed	C
And then again they freely gushed	C
But sounded wild and strange	D
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Loud quick and clear each voice was heard	E
Calling for lime and stone and wood	F
All uttered words but not one word	E
More than the carol of a bird	E
Their fellows understood	F
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Is there no Babel but that one	G
The storied tower of other days	H
Where round the giant pile of stone	I
Pausing they stood their labour done	G
To listen in amaze	H
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Fair springs the tower of hope and fame	J
When all our life is fairy land	K
Till scarcely knowing what to blame	J
Our fellows cease to feel the same	J
We cease to understand	K
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Then when they coldly smile to hear	L
The burning dreams of earlier days	H
The rapid fall from hope to fear	M
When eyes whose every glance was dear	M
Seem changing as they gaze	H
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Then when we feel 'twere vain to speak	N
Of fervent hopes aspirings high	B
Of thoughts for which all words are weak	N
Of wild far dreams wherein we seek	N
Knowledge of earth and sky	B
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Of communings with nature's God	O
When impulse deep the soul hath moved	P
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Of tears which sink within the sod	O
Where mingling with the valley clod	O
Lies something we have loved	O
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Then cometh ours and better theirs	Q
Of stranger tongues together brought	O
Than that in which we all have shares	Q
A Babel in a world of cares	Q
Of feeling and of thought	O

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

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