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WITH silent step behold her steal	A
Over those envious clouds that hid	B
Till now her face then stand a seal	A
Of silver on heaven s mighty lid	B
So round me would I have her light	C
In one broad burst of beauty play	D
And who whilst thus she rules the night	C
Would wish the day	D
Nor feel his yearning spirit fraught	E
With sweetly solemn strains of visionary thought	E
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Love of my childhood for but when	F
A child I loved thee of all things	G
Yea with what ecstacies I then	F
Did hail thee what dear visionings	G
And when between us up the sky	H
Obscuring glooms have wildly thronged	I
With shortened breath and searching eye	H
How have I longed	I
For wings that I away might flee	J
To kiss thy hidden face and dwell awhile with thee	J
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I sadden Ah why bringest thou	K
Yet later memories to my mind	L
I would but gaze upon thee now	K
As erst for wonder not to find	L
Dim phantoms of each faded dream	M
That fanned my heart with pinions dyed	N
In passion by old HAWKESBURY S stream	M
Before me glide	N
With shades of days all figured o er	O
By feelings lost and hopes that know their place no more	P
	-
Nor was it thus thy beauty shone	Q
Upon me fewer summers past	R
Thus hopeless world distrusting lone	Q
And withering in Misfortune s blast	R
Many that loved me then were nigh	H
Of whom now these I may not trust	S
And those forget are far or lie	H
Cold in the dust	S
And never may we meet again	F
Loving and loved as then neath thy nocturnal reign	T
	-
O Cynthia it would seem as though	U
A something from our spirits fell	V
Like scents from flowers Life s eras through	W
And by which web invisible	X
A gathered after scene of all	Y
Affection builded to our loss	G
Is drawn thus in dim funeral	X
The heart across	G
And which where stained the most with gloom	Z
Uncertain Thought is prone to map with spells of doom	Z
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But sober Reason sagelier sings	G
These visioned mysteries are but	A2
The semblances which former things	G
Imbued our being with as put	B2
In act by memory when is seen	C2
Again some marked associate sight	C
And thence it happens Orb serene	C2
Why thou to night	C
Look st on me from thy native sky	H
Like an old friend too fond to talk of things gone by	H
	-
Let me this night the Past forget	D2
For though its dying voices be	J
At times like tones from Eden yet	D2
It bosoms too much change for me	J
That when but now my thoughts were given	E2
To all I had suffered loved and lost	F2
Turning mine eyes again to heaven	E2
Tear quenched almost	G2
I started with a strange despair	H2
To find thee even thee smiling unaltered there	H2
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Hence vain regrets of secret pride	N
My human heart what irks thee so	U
What in the scale of Nature tried	N
Should weigh thy happiness or wo	U
Pale millions so by Fortune cursed	I2
Have loved for sorrow in the light	C
Of this yet youthful Moon since first	I2
She claimed the night	C
And thus mature even from her birth	J2
Chased with pale beam the glooms that swathed the infant Earth	J2
	-
And be it humbling too to know	U
That when this pile of haughty clay	D
For ages shall have ceased to glow	U
Shall be a heap of ashes grey	D
Which as the invading ploughshare drills	G
The unremembered burial ground	K2
The winds may o er a hundred hills	G
Scatter around	K2
That in the midnight heavens thou	K
Shalt hang thy unfaded lamp and smile serene as now	K
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Nay more than this could even those	G
The Edenites who sorrow d here	L2
Ere Noah s tilted ark arose	G
Or Nimrod chased the bounding deer	M2
Wherever sepulchered could they	D
Shake the cold bonds of death and doom	Z
But for a moment now away	D
Into each tomb	Z
Solemnly gazing thee they d find	L
Even as they dying left thee watchful Moon behind	L
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But shall my thoughts thus widely range	N2
And I no profit therein know	U
Seeing that wither waste and change	N2
Must all that lives thine Orb below	U
Shall I not turn with this sole aim	O2
In act to shun in heart control	P2
Whatever dims the heavenward flame	O2
The essential soul	P2
I feel within and which must be	J
A living thing when thou art quenched eternally	J

Charles Harpur

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