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I was one so deeply drowned	A
That when the drag my body found	A
Twas void of motion void of breath	B
And to sensation dead as death	B
In a languid summer mood	C
I had plunged into a flood	D
That to the low sun s slanting beams	E
Gleamed with only quiet gleams	E
Each with a wide flicker sheeting	F
From its still floor fast and fleeting	F
E en such a flood as one would say	G
Could never or by night or day	G
Have drenched a man s warm life away	G
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But what are these down in its bed	H
That trail so long and look so red	H
Moving as in conscious sport	I
Are they weeds of curious sort	I
But I ll drive to them and see	J
Into all their mystery	J
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Down I dive A plentious crop	K
Some shall with me to the top	K
For here there is too dim a light	L
To show their character aright	L
I wind them in my arms intent	L
To root them up in my ascent	L
But they resist me and again	M
I tug them with a stronger strain	N
Full well I trow they hold their own	O
Gripping fast each bedded stone	O
With their tuby roots that go	P
Down through the stiff slime below	P
Well at last I find that I	Q
Must leave them But in vain I try	Q
Fierce as lightning on my brain	N
Smites the dread truth I try in vain	N
Yea more and more in coils and flakes	R
Like long blood red watersnakes	R
The deadly things around me clasp	S
The more I tug the more they grasp	S
My pent breath growing hot and thin	T
Explodes with a dull booming din	T
While through my unclenched teeth the wave	U
Comes drenching Is there none to save	U
None near to see to guess to trace	R
Under the water s gleaming face	R
The dread extremity of one	V
Thus fastened down Ah Is there none	V
Wild as vain my struggles grow	P
Horror horror life must go	P
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Hope gives up her ghost despair	W
I am dying round me here	X
The long weeds erst so deeply red	L
Look even where nearest grey as lead	L
As mid them settling down I sway	G
To and fro and fast away	G
Life keeps bubbling bubbling aye	Q
Through my cold lips wide agape	Y
White and stiffening to that shape	Y
They take at last when done with breath	B
In the rigid face of death	B
	-
And now while sullen drummings make	Z
My spirit through mine ears to ache	Z
Life long memories interwrought	L
With all I ever felt or thought	L
Sacred fancies hidden long	A2
Lest the world should do them wrong	A2
Pent back feelings that for years	R
Just below the source of tears	R
Folded close their glowing wings	R
With a million other things	R
All thick interthronging press	R
Through my drowning consciousness	R
Then comes the thought of how my doom	B2
Must wrap my mother in its gloom	B2
And give my sire to hold his breath	B
For anguish hearing of my death	B
And wound one fond heart to the core	C2
In the wide world evermore	C2
All in the same instant so	P
Do these quick thoughts come and go	P
Life within my failing brain	N
Full of pity full of pain	N
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Lastly a drear stupor blent	L
With a comfortless content	L
Into one mass of clammy clay	G
Kneads mind and body Drenched away	G
With one faint shudder one last throe	C2
Life stagnates and its shell lies low	P
Swaying weed bound to and fro	P
Void of feeling and of breath	B
How die we if this be not death	B
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Ah What thrilling thrilling pain	N
Kindles through my heart and brain	N
Ah What horrors o er me wave	U
Shadowing forth as from the grave	U
Ah Those sudden gleams of light	L
They fall like firebrands on my sight	L
Ah What vast and heavy world	L
Is all at once upon me hurled	L
Massing into one immense	R
Oppression every tortured sense	R
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Yes I now remember well	D2
How my sudden fate befell	D2
And are we then in death s grim thrall	E2
Thus consciousness of our funeral	F2
But where are they who most should mourn	G2
When by bier is graveward borne	G2
With her whose face I yearn to see	R
Where are they And where is she	R
Where the crape trimm d followers all	E2
Where the coffin and the pall	H2
Or do death and nature strive	I2
Within me Is the drowned alive	I2

Charles Harpur

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