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It is a venerable place	A
An old ancestral ground	B
So broad the rainbow wholly stands	C
Within its lordly bound	B
And here the river waits and winds	D
By many a wooded mound	B
Upon a rise where single oaks	E
And clumps of beeches tall	F
Drop pleasantly their shade beneath	G
Half hid amidst them all	F
Stands in its quiet dignity	H
An ancient manor hall	F
About its many gable ends	I
The swallows wheel their flight	J
The huge fantastic weather vanes	K
Look happy in the light	J
The warm front through the foliage gleams	L
A comfortable sight	J
The ivied turrets seem to love	M
The low protected leas	N
And though this manor hall hath seen	O
The snow of centuries	N
How freshly still it stands amid	P
Its wealth of swelling trees	N
The leafy summer time is young	Q
The yearling lambs are strong	R
The sunlight glances merrily	H
The trees are full of song	R
The valley loving river flows	S
Contentedly along	R
Look where the merry weather vanes	K
Veer upon yonder tower	T
There amid starry jessamine	U
And clasping passion flower	T
The sweetest Maid of all the land	V
Is weeping in her bower	T
Alas the lowly Youth she loves	W
Loves her but fears to sue	X
He came this morning hurriedly	H
Then forth her blushes flew	X
But he talk'd of common things and so	Y
Her eyes are fill'd with dew	X
Time passes on the clouds are come	Z
The river late so bright	J
Rolls foul and black and gloomily	H
Makes known across the night	J
In far heard plash and weary drench	A2
The passage of its might	J
The noble Bridegroom counts the hours	B2
The guests are coming fast	C2
The vanes are creaking drearily	H
Within the dying blast	C2
The bashful Bride is at his side	D2
And night is here at last	C2
The guests are gay the minstrels play	H
'Tis liker noon than night	J
From side to side they toast the Bride	D2
Who blushes ruby light	J
For one and all within that hall	H
It is a cheerful sight	J
But unto one who stands alone	E2
Among the mists without	F2
Watching the windows bright with shapes	G2
Of king and saint devout	F2
Strangely across the muffled air	H2
Pierces the laughter shout	F2
No sound or sight this solemn night	J
But moves the soul to fear	I2
The faded saints stare through the gloom	J2
Askant and wan and blear	I2
And wither'd cheeks of watchful kings	K2
Start from their purple gear	I2
The burthen of the wedding song	R
Comes to him like a wail	H
The stream athwart the cedar grove	L2
Is shining ghastly pale	H
His cloudy brow clears suddenly	H
Dark soul what does thee ail	H
He turns him from the lighted hall	H
The pale stream curls and heaves	M2
And moans beyond the gloomy wood	N2
Through which he breaks and cleaves	M2
And now his footfall dies away	H
Upon the wither'd leaves	M2
The restless moon among the clouds	O2
Is loitering slowly by	P2
Now in a circle like the ring	Q2
About a weeping eye	P2
Now left quite bare and bright and now	R2
A pallor in the sky	P2
And now she's looking through the mist	S2
Cold lustreless and wan	T2
And wildly past her dreary form	U2
The watery clouds rush on	T2
A moment white beneath her light	J
And then like spirits gone	V2
Silent and fast they hurry past	C2
Their swiftness striketh dread	W2
For earth is hush'd and no breath sweeps	X2
The spider's rainy thread	W2
And everything but those pale clouds	O2
Is dark and still and dead	W2
The lonely stars are here and there	I2
But weak and wasting all	H
The winds are dead the cedars spread	W2
Their branches like a pall	H
The guests by laughing twos and threes	N
Have left the bridal hall	H
Beneath the mossy ivied bridge	Y2
The river slippeth past	C2
The current deep is still as sleep	Z2
And yet so very fast	C2
There's something in its quietness	A3
That makes the soul aghast	C2
No wind is in the willow tree	H
That droops above the bank	B3
The water passes quietly	H
Beneath the sedges dank	B3
Yet the willow trembles in the stream	C3
And the dry reeds talk and clank	B3
The weak stars swoon the jagged moon	D3
Is lost in the cloudy air	I2
No thought of light save where the wave	E3
Sports with a fitful glare	I2
The dumb and dreadful world is full	H
Of darkness and night mare	I2
The hall clocks clang the watch dog barks	F3
What are his dreams about	F2
Marsh lights leap and tho' fast asleep	Z2
The owlets shriek and shout	F2
The stars thro' chasms in utter black	G3
Race like a drunken rout	F2
Wake wake oh wake the Bridegroom now	R2
Calls to his sleeping Bride	D2
Alas I saw thee pale and dead	W2
Roll down a frightful tide	D2
He takes her hand How chill thou art	H3
What is it sweet my Bride	D2
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The Bride bethinks her now of him	I3
Who last night was no guest	J3
Sweet Heaven and for me I dream	C3
Be calm thou throbbing breast	J3
She says in thought a solemn prayer	I2
And sinks again to rest	J3
Along along swiftly and strong	R
The river slippeth past	C2
The current deep is still as sleep	Z2
And yet so very fast	C2
There's something in its quietness	A3
That makes the soul aghast	C2
The morn has risen wildly by	P2
The water glides to day	H
Outspread upon its eddying face	A
Long weeds and rushes play	H
And on the bank the fungus rots	K3
And the grass is foul'd with clay	H
Time passes on the park is bare	I2
The year is scant and lean	O
The river's banks are desolate	L3
The air is chill and keen	O
But now and then a sunny day	H
Comes with a thought of green	O
Amid blear February's flaw	H
Tremulous snowdrops peep	Z2
The crocus in the shrewd March morn	M3
Starts from its wintry sleep	Z2
The daisies sun themselves in hosts	N3
Among the pasturing sheep	Z2
The waters in their old content	O3
Between fresh margins run	P3
The pike as trackless as a sound	B
Shoots thro' the current dun	P3
And languid new born chestnut leaves	M2
Expand beneath the sun	P3
The summer's prime is come again	Q3
The lilies bloom anew	X
The current keeps the doubtful past	C2
Deep in its bosom blue	X
And babbles low thro' quiet fields	R3
Gray with the falling dew	X
The sheep bell tolls the curfew time	S3
The gnats a busy rout	F2
Fleck the warm air the distant owl	H
Shouteth a sleepy shout	F2
The voiceless bat more felt than seen	O
Is flitting round about	F2
The poplar's leaflet scarcely stirs	B2
The river seems to think	T3
Across the dusk the lily broad	U3
Looks coolly from the brink	T3
And knee deep in the freshet's fall	H
The meek eyed cattle drink	T3
The chafers boom the white moths rise	V3
Like spirits from the ground	B
The gray flies sing their weary tune	D3
A distant dream like sound	B
And far far off in the slumberous eve	W3
Bayeth a restless hound	B
At this sweet time the Lady walks	X3
Beside the gentle stream	C3
She marks the waters curl along	R
Beneath the sunset gleam	C3
And in her soul a sorrow moves	Y3
Like memory of a dream	C3
She passes on How still the earth	Z3
And all the air above	M
Here where of late the scritch owl shriek'd	A4
Whispers the happy dove	M
And the river through the ivied bridge	Y2
Flows calm as household love	M