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FIRST PART	A
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Upon her plodding palfrey	B
With a heavy child at her breast	C
And Joseph holding the bridle	D
They mount to the last hill crest	C
	-
Dissatisfied and weary	B
She sees the blade of the sea	B
Dividing earth and heaven	E
In a glitter of ecstasy	B
	-
Sudden a dark faced stranger	F
With his back to the sun holds out	G
His arms so she lights from her palfrey	B
And turns her round about	G
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She has given the child to Joseph	H
Gone down to the flashing shore	I
And Joseph shading his eyes with his hand	J
Stands watching evermore	I
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SECOND PART	A
	-
THE sea in the stones is singing	K
A woman binds her hair	L
With yellow frail sea poppies	M
That shine as her fingers stir	F
	-
While a naked man comes swiftly	B
Like a spurt of white foam rent	N
From the crest of a falling breaker	F
Over the poppies sent	N
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He puts his surf wet fingers	O
Over her startled eyes	P
And asks if she sees the land the land	J
The land of her glad surmise	P
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THIRD PART	A
	-
AGAIN in her blue blue mantle	D
Riding at Joseph's side	Q
She says I went to Cythera	F
And woe betide	Q
	-
Her heart is a swinging cradle	D
That holds the perfect child	R
But the shade on her forehead ill becomes	S
A mother mild	R
	-
So on with the slow mean journey	B
In the pride of humility	B
Till they halt at a cliff on the edge of the land	J
Over a sullen sea	B
	-
While Joseph pitches the sleep tent	N
She goes far down to the shore	F
To where a man in a heaving boat	T
Waits with a lifted oar	F
	-
FOURTH PART	A
	-
THEY dwelt in a huge hoarse sea cave	U
And looked far down the dark	V
Where an archway torn and glittering	K
Shone like a huge sea spark	V
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He said Do you see the spirits	W
Crowding the bright doorway	X
He said Do you hear them whispering	K
He said Do you catch what they say	X
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FIFTH PART	A
	-
THEN Joseph grey with waiting	K
His dark eyes full of pain	Y
Heard I have been to Patmos	X
Give me the child again	Z
	-
Now on with the hopeless journey	B
Looking bleak ahead she rode	A2
And the man and the child of no more account	B2
Than the earth the palfrey trode	B2
	-
Till a beggar spoke to Joseph	H
But looked into her eyes	X
So she turned and said to her husband	B2
I give whoever denies	X
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SIXTH PART	B2
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SHE gave on the open heather	F
Beneath bare judgment stars	X
And she dreamed of her children and Joseph	H
And the isles and her men and her scars	X
	-
And she woke to distil the berries	X
The beggar had gathered at night	B2
Whence he drew the curious liquors	X
He held in delight	B2
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He gave her no crown of flowers	X
No child and no palfrey slow	C2
Only led her through harsh hard places	X
Where strange winds blow	C2
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She follows his restless wanderings	X
Till night when by the fire's red stain	Y
Her face is bent in the bitter steam	D2
That comes from the flowers of pain	Y
	-
Then merciless and ruthless	X
He takes the flame wild drops	X
To the town and tries to sell them	E2
With the market crops	X
	-
So she follows the cruel journey	B
That ends not anywhere	F
And dreams as she stirs the mixing pot	B2
She is brewing hope from despair	F
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TRIER	F

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