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I	A
I stand in thought beside my father s grave	B
The grave of one who in his old age died	C
Too late perhaps since he endured so much	D
Of corporal anguish sweating bloody sweat	E
But not an hour too soon no not an hour	F
Even if through all his many years he ne er	F
Had known another ailment than decay	G
Or felt one bodily pang For his bruised heart	H
And wounded goodwill wounded through its once	I
Samsonian vigour and too credulous trust	J
In that great Delilah the harlot world	K
Had done with fortune nay his very tastes	L
Even the lowliest had by blast on blast	M
Of sorrow and mischance been blown like leaves	N
Deciduous when the year is withering out	O
From every living hold on what we here	P
Call nature he but followed in their wake	Q
Nor was there in the lives of those he loved	R
Even had he been susceptible of cheer	S
Enough of fortune to warm into peace	T
A little longer ere he passed away	G
The remnant of his chilled humanity	U
Wet are mine eyes and my heart aches to think	V
How much of evil ridged his course of time	W
And earthly pilgrimage Alas Enough	X
However bravely struggled with throughout	O
Or passively accepted to have slain	Y
In almost any other human heart	H
All comforting reliance on the sure	Z
Though still reserved supremecy of good	A2
For few are they who on this stormy ball	B2
Can live a long life full of loss and pain	Y
And yet through doubts dull clouds uplooking see	U
In that wide dome which roofs the apparent whole	C2
Without or seam or flaw a visible type	D2
Of heaven s intact infinitude of love	E2
Yet died he a believer in the truth	F2
And fatherhood of the Holy One a God	G2
Help mighty nor unmindful of mankind	H2
Yea in the heavenward reaching light of faith	I2
His soul went forth as in a sunbeam s track	J2
Some close caged bird from a long bondage freed	K2
Goes winging up up through the open sky	A
Rejoicing in the widening glow that paths	L2
The final victory of its native wings	M2
And whether all was triumph as it went	N2
Piercing eternity or whether clouds	O2
Of penal terror gathered in the way	G
Not less must death the great inductor be	U
To much that far transcends time s highest lore	P2
Must be at worst a grimly grateful thing	Q2
If only through deliverance from doubt	O
The clinging curse of mortals In the flesh	R2
What own we but the present with its scant	S2
Assurance of a secular permanence	I
Even in the fact of being While all that lies	T2
Beyond it lies or in the casual drifts	U2
Of embryon needs that lurking dark project	V2
To morrow s world or worse at the wild will	W2
Of a demoniac fortune But the dead	X2
Have this immunity at least a lot	Y2
Final and fixed as evermore within	Z2
The gates of the Eternal For the past	M
Is wholly God s and therefore like himself	A3
Knows no reverse no change but lies for eye	A
Stretched in the sabbath of its vast repose	B3
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II	A
My dear dear Charley Can it be that thou	C3
Art gone from us for ever Whilst I sit	D3
Amid these forest shadows that now fall	B2
In sombre masses mixed with sunny gleams	E3
Upon thy early grave and think of all	B2
The household love that was our mutual lot	Y2
So late and during all thy little life	F3
Thy thirteen years of sonhood it is hard	G3
So dreamlike wild it seems to realize	T2
The shuddering certainty that thou art now	C3
In the eternal world and reft away	G
In one dread moment from thy father s heart	H
Thy young intelligence from his lonely side	C
So reft for ever leaving him alas	H3
Thus sitting here forlorn here by thy grave	B
New made and bare as upon life s bleak brink	V
To stare out deathward through his blinding tears	I3
And they thy brothers and thy sisters Charley	U
They miss their vanished playmate so beloved	R
And so endeared by years of happy help	J3
And many a pleasant old faced memory	U
I see them often when thy name is breathed	K3
Look away askingly out into space	L3
As if they thought thy spirit might be there	M3
Still yearning towards them with a saddened love	E2
Like that in their own hearts And an To him	N3
Who at thy side when death came swift upon thee	U
Sent out through the wild forest such a shriek	O3
As never until then might break the peace	T
That nestles in its lairs ah When to him	N3
Shall the drear haggard memory of that day	G
Be other than a horror such as clothed	P3
In terrible mystery for ever keeps	Q3
Stalking beside us in some ghastly dream	R3
But most I pity her who bore thee Charley	U
Whose mother bosom was at once the next	S3
And fountain of thy infant life and who	T3
Through all thy after years was ever wont	U3
To shield thee with her love and doat the while	V3
Though with some fear upon those spirited ways	W3
And nascent self reliance that seemed	X3
The promise of a manhood strong and brave	B
Loving thee more perhaps than ever I	A
If that be possible and to whom tis plain	Y
All things are changed now through the loss of thee	U
All home consuetudes and household wonts	W3
And motherly providences which before	P2
Did fill the passing hour so pleasantly	U
Changed now and irksome as if life itself	A3
With all its motives suddenly had grown	Y3
Delusive as a dream Then will she come	Z3
And gaze out hitherward and up to heaven	A4
With eyes so asking that they seem to say	W3
Where is my darling and why was he torn	B4
Away so rudely from a love like mine	C4
In vain In vain Art thou so vacant then	D4
O thou wide heaven That no pitying star	E4
May seem to breathe down through the forest trees	W3
With mystical assurance that the past	M
Is living and not dead That no refrain	Y
Of lingering spirit sympathy may for once	W3
Intone the melancholy wind as thus	W3
Its waves surge overhead with what might seem	R3
Some imtimation from beyond the grave	B
That love can never cease	W3
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We ask in vain	Y
Voiceless is that dread gulf twixt life and death	F4
And is it wholly well it should be so	W3
That even love though in the morning glow	W3
Of human faith once visioned to have moved	G4
The inexorable profound of hell itself	A3
May stare tear blinded from its hither shore	P2
And shriek to it in vain That from beyond	H4
No quieting whisper may across it breathe	I4
Of peace from the immortals Not a glimpse	W3
Of that Elysian beauty which enrobes	W3
As with the garment of the Deity	U
Its heavenward coast e er reach us While we here	P
Sit groaning full of wild misgivings full	J4
Of mournful memories and embittered wonts	W3
And so engloomed so overcast by dark	K4
Disquieting doubts that we are often fain	Y
To leap from them at once though out of life	F3
Madly desirous to have done with time	W
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Ah Whither has emotion wild with loss	W3
Carried me doubtward Broken as I am	L4
Let me strive rather to believe that God	G2
Has ordered nothing otherwise than well	M4
And thereby strengthened let me teach my heart	H
That he who now in this bleak world to us	W3
Is lost for ever the bright boy we loved	R
The Charley of our memory whose death	F4
Came down amongst us in a guise so fierce	W3
Was taken yet in mercy and is now	C3
At home with Him	N3
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III	A
Since thou art dead since thou art dead	X2
Though to look up is still to see	W3
The blue heaven bending o er my head	X2
So big with good showered bounteously	M4
Though scenes of love he round me spread	X2
And o er the hills as once with thee	W3
My brother still with venturous tread	X2
I wander where broad rivers fret	E
And lighten onward to the sea	W3
As erst unchanged unchanging yet	E
How different is the world to me	W3
The light a with a living robe	N4
Doth clothe all nature as of yore	P2
The sun with his great golden globe	N4
Doth crown yon hill when night is o er	F
The moon and stars o erwatch the earth	O4
As I have seen them from my birth	O4
But O Thou light	P4

Charles Harpur

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