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I	A
We left the Church at Tamerton	B
In gloomy western air	C
To greet the day we gallop'd on	B
A merry minded pair	C
The hazy East hot noon did bode	D
Our horses sniff'd the dawn	B
We made ten Cornish miles of road	D
Before the dew was gone	B
We clomb the hill where Lanson's Keep	E
Fronts Dartmoor's distant ridge	F
Thence trotted South walk'd down the steep	E
That slants to Gresson Bridge	F
And paused awhile where Tamar waits	G
In many a shining coil	H
And teeming Devon separates	G
From Cornwall's sorry soil	H
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II	A
Our English skies contain'd that Spring	I
A Caribbean sun	B
The singing birds forgot to sing	I
The rivulets to run	B
For three noons past the skies had frown'd	J
Obscured with blighting shades	K
That only mock'd the thirsty ground	J
And unrejoicing glades	K
To day before the noon was nigh	A
Bright skirted vapours grew	L
And on the sky hung languidly	H
The sky was languid too	L
Our horses dropp'd their necks and nosed	M
The dusty wayside grass	N
Whilst we beneath still boughs reposed	M
And watch'd the water pass	N
We spoke of plighted Bertha Frank	O
Shot pebbles in the stream	P
And I lay by him on the bank	O
But dreamt no lover's dream	P
She was a blythe and bashful maid	M
Much blushing in her glee	H
Yet gracing all she did and said	M
With sweet sufficiency	H
Is Blanche as fair ask'd I who yearn'd	M
To feel my life complete	M
To taste unselfish pleasures earn'd	M
By service strict and sweet	M
Well some say fairer she'll surprise	Q
Your heart with crimson lips	R
Fat underlids that hold bright eyes	Q
In laughing half eclipse	R
Alluring locks done up with taste	M
Behind her dainty ears	S
And manners full of wayward haste	M
Tho' facile as the deer's	S
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III	A
You paint a leaflet here and there	C
And not the blossom tell	H
What mysteries of good and fair	C
These blazon'd letters spell	H
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IV	A
Her mouth and teeth by Cupid's bow	T
Are letters spelling 'kiss '	-
And witchingly withdrawn below	H
Twin worlds of baby bliss	S
Her waist so soft and small may mean	B
'O when will some one come	U
To make me catch my breath between	B
His finger and his thumb '	-
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V	A
My life 'twas like a land of dreams	S
Where nothing noble throve	A
Dull seem'd it as to maiden seems	S
The verse that's not of love	A
See where sigh'd I the water dim	V
Repeats with leaden hue	L
The fervid sun the cloud's hot rim	V
The gap of dazzling blue	L
Quoth Frank I do and hence foresee	A
And all too plainly scan	B
Some sentimental homily	A
On Duty Death or Man	B
'Tis this said I our senses mar	W
Ev'n so sweet Nature's face	S
Unless by love revived they are	W
Or lit by heavenly grace	S
Below the hazel talks the rill	H
My heart speaks not again	B
The solemn cloud the stately hill	H
I look on each in vain	B
Sure he for whom no Power shall strike	X
This darkness into day	M
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Is damn'd said Frank who morall'd like	X
The Fool in an old Play	M
That's true cried I yet as the worm	Y
That sickens ere it change	Z
Or as the pup that nears the term	Y
At which pups have the mange	Z
Pooh Come Man let us on he said	M
For now the storm is nigh	A
And whilst we rode quaint sense we read	M
Within the changing sky	A
Above us bent a prophet wild	M
Pointing to hidden harm	A2
Beyond a magic woman smiled	M
And wove some wondrous charm	A2
Past that a censer jetted smoke	B2
Black convolutions roll'd	M
Sunwards and caught the light and broke	B2
In crowns of shining gold	M
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VI	A
The gaps of blue shrank fast in span	B
The long forgotten breeze	S
By lazy starts and fits began	B
To stir the higher trees	S
At noon we came to Tavistock	B2
And sunshine still was there	C
But gloomy Dartmoor seem'd to mock	B2
Its weak and yellow glare	C
The swallows in the wrathful light	M
Were pitching up and down	B
A string of rooks made rapid flight	M
Due southward o'er the town	B
Where baiting at the Tiger Inn	B
We talk'd by windows wide	M
Of Blanche and all my unseen kin	B
Who did our coming bide	M
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VII	A
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The heavy sign board swung and shriek'd	M
In dark air whirl'd the vane	B
Blinds flapp'd dust rose and straining creak'd	M
The shaken window pane	B
And just o'erhead a huge cloud flung	B2
For earnest of its stores	S
A few calm drops that struck among	B2
The light leaved sycamores	S
Hot to be gone Frank rose and eyed	M
Dark cloud and swinging branch	C2
But less long'd he to greet his Bride	M
Than I to look on Blanche	C2
Her name pair'd still with praise at home	D2
Would make my pulses start	M
The hills between us were become	U
A weight upon my heart	M
Behold I cried the storm comes not	M
The northern heavens grow fair	C
Look South said Frank 'tis one wide blot	M
Of thunder threatening air	C
The string of rooks had travell'd on	B
Against the southern shroud	M
And like some snaky skeleton	B
Lay twisted in the cloud	M
No storm to day said I for see	S
Yon black thing travels south	E2
We follow'd soon our spirits free	S
Our bodies slaked from drouth	E2
I rode in silence Frank with tongue	B2
Made lax by too much port	M
Soliloquising said or sung	B2
After this tipsy sort	M
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Yea nerves they are the Devil's mesh	F2
And pups begin quite blind	M
And health is ofttimes in the flesh	F2
And measles in the mind	M
Foolish and fair was Joan without	M
Foolish and foul within	B
High as a hunted pig his snout	M
She carried a foolish chin	B
The Boy beheld and brisk rose he	S
At this badly painted fly	A
That boys less wise than fish will be	S
Makes many a man to sigh	A
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VIII	A
On on we toil'd amidst the blaze	S
From Dartmoor's ridges bare	C
Beneath the hush'd and scorching haze	S
And through the twinkling air	C
Along the endless mountain side	M
That seem'd with us to move	A
Past dreary mine mouths far and wide	M
Huge dross heap wheel and groove	A
Dark towns by disembowell'd hills	S
Where swarthy tribes abode	M
Who in hard rocks with harder wills	S
Pursued the crooked lode	M
Up heights that seem'd against us match'd	M
Until from table land	M
Before the teasing midge was hatch'd	M
We hail'd the southern strand	M
Then pleasantly on level ground	M
And through the lighter air	C
We paced along and breathed around	M
A merry minded pair	C
A western night of even cloud	M
Suck'd in the sultry disk	B2
Bright racks look'd on a fiery crowd	M
To seamen boding risk	B2
The late crow wing'd his silent way	M
Across the shadowy East	M
The gnat danced out his little day	M
His ceaseless singing ceased	M
Along the dim horizon round	M
Fled faint electric fires	S
Blue glow worms lit the fresher ground	M
By moisture harbouring briers	S
Far northward twinkled lonely lights	S
The peopled vales among	B2
In front between the gaping heights	S
The mystic ocean hung	B2
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IX	S
Our weary spirits flagg'd beneath	E2
The still and loaded air	C
We left behind the fre r heath	E2
A moody minded pair	C
With senses slack and sick of mirth	E2
Tho' near the happy goal	H
I murmur'd fearing nought on earth	E2
Could quite content the soul	H
Suppose your love prove such a light	M
As yonder glow worm's lamp	G2
That gleams at distance strong and bright	M
Approach'd burns weak and damp	G2
Perchance by much of bliss aroused	M
Your heart will pant for more	H2
And then the worm of want lies housed	M
Within the sweet fruit's core	H2
Far worse if led by fancy blind	M
But undeceiv'd by use	S
I dream yawn'd Frank and wake to find	M
My Goddess a green goose	S
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Vain vain said I is worldly weal	H
We faint within the heart	M
For good which all we see and feel	H
Foreshadows but in part	M
Frank answer'd What you faint for win	B
Faint not but forward press	S
Heav'n proffers all 'twere grievous sin	B
To live content in less	S
The Sun rolls by us every day	M
And it and all things speak	B2
To the sinking heart of man and say	M
'Tis wicked to be weak	B2
We would not hear the hated sound	M
But by the Lord we must	M
If not the heavy world goes round	M
And grinds us into dust	M
With each a moral in his mouth	E2
We rein'd our sweating nags	S
Where quiet Ocean on the South	E2
Kiss'd Edgecumb's ruddy crags	S
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II	A
I	A
So subtly love within me wrought	M
So excellent she seem'd	M
Daily of Blanche was all my thought	M
Nightly of Blanche I dream'd	M
And this was all my wish and all	H
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