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Kind solace in a dying hour	A
Such father is not now my theme	B
I will not madly deem that power	A
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin	C
Unearthly pride hath revelled in	C
I have no time to dote or dream	B
You call it hope that fire of fire	A
It is but agony of desire	A
If I can hope O God I can	D
Its fount is holier more divine	E
I would not call thee fool old man	D
But such is not a gift of thine	E
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Know thou the secret of a spirit	F
Bowed from its wild pride into shame	G
O yearning heart I did inherit	F
Thy withering portion with the fame	G
The searing glory which hath shone	H
Amid the Jewels of my throne	H
Halo of Hell and with a pain	I
Not Hell shall make me fear again	J
O craving heart for the lost flowers	K
And sunshine of my summer hours	K
The undying voice of that dead time	L
With its interminable chime	L
Rings in the spirit of a spell	M
Upon thy emptiness a knell	M
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I have not always been as now	N
The fevered diadem on my brow	N
I claimed and won usurpingly	M
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given	O
Rome to the Caesar this to me	P
The heritage of a kingly mind	Q
And a proud spirit which hath striven	O
Triumphantly with human kind	Q
On mountain soil I first drew life	R
The mists of the Taglay have shed	S
Nightly their dews upon my head	S
And I believe the winged strife	R
And tumult of the headlong air	T
Have nestled in my very hair	T
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So late from Heaven that dew it fell	M
'Mid dreams of an unholy night	U
Upon me with the touch of Hell	M
While the red flashing of the light	U
From clouds that hung like banners o'er	A
Appeared to my half closing eye	V
The pageantry of monarchy	P
And the deep trumpet thunder's roar	W
Came hurriedly upon me telling	X
Of human battle where my voice	Y
My own voice silly child was swelling	X
O how my spirit would rejoice	Y
And leap within me at the cry	V
The battle cry of Victory	P
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The rain came down upon my head	S
Unsheltered and the heavy wind	Q
Rendered me mad and deaf and blind	Q
It was but man I thought who shed	S
Laurels upon me and the rush	Z
The torrent of the chilly air	T
Gurgled within my ear the crush	Z
Of empires with the captive's prayer	T
The hum of suitors and the tone	H
Of flattery 'round a sovereign's throne	H
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My passions from that hapless hour	A
Usurped a tyranny which men	J
Have deemed since I have reached to power	A
My innate nature be it so	A2
But father there lived one who then	J
Then in my boyhood when their fire	A
Burned with a still intenser glow	A2
For passion must with youth expire	B2
E'en then who knew this iron heart	C2
In woman's weakness had a part	C2
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I have no words alas to tell	M
The loveliness of loving well	M
Nor would I now attempt to trace	D2
The more than beauty of a face	D2
Whose lineaments upon my mind	Q
Are shadows on th' unstable wind	Q
Thus I remember having dwelt	E2
Some page of early lore upon	F2
With loitering eye till I have felt	E2
The letters with their meaning melt	E2
To fantasies with none	O
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O she was worthy of all love	G2
Love as in infancy was mine	E
'Twas such as angel minds above	G2
Might envy her young heart the shrine	E
On which my every hope and thought	H2
Were incense then a goodly gift	I2
For they were childish and upright	U
Pure as her young example taught	H2
Why did I leave it and adrift	I2
Trust to the fire within for light	U
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We grew in age and love together	A
Roaming the forest and the wild	J2
My breast her shield in wintry weather	A
And when the friendly sunshine smiled	J2
And she would mark the opening skies	K2
I saw no Heaven but in her eyes	K2
Young Love's first lesson is the heart	C2
For 'mid that sunshine and those smiles	L2
When from our little cares apart	C2
And laughing at her girlish wiles	L2
I'd throw me on her throbbing breast	M2
And pour my spirit out in tears	N2
There was no need to speak the rest	M2
No need to quiet any fears	O2
Of her who asked no reason why	V
But turned on me her quiet eye	V
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Yet more than worthy of the love	G2
My spirit struggled with and strove	P2
When on the mountain peak alone	H
Ambition lent it a new tone	H
I had no being but in thee	P
The world and all it did contain	I
In the earth the air the sea	P
Its joy its little lot of pain	I
That was new pleasure the ideal	M
Dim vanities of dreams by night	U
And dimmer nothings which were real	M
Shadows and a more shadowy light	U
Parted upon their misty wings	Q2
And so confusedly became	G
Thine image and a name a name	G
Two separate yet most intimate things	Q2
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I was ambitious have you known	H
The passion father You have not	R2
A cottager I marked a throne	H
Of half the world as all my own	H
And murmured at such lowly lot	R2
But just like any other dream	B
Upon the vapor of the dew	S2
My own had past did not the beam	B
Of beauty which did while it thro'	A
The minute the hour the day oppress	T2
My mind with double loveliness	T2
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We walked together on the crown	U2
Of a high mountain which looked down	U2
Afar from its proud natural towers	T2
Of rock and forest on the hills	T2
The dwindled hills begirt with bowers	T2
And shouting with a thousand rills	T2
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I spoke to her of power and pride	V2
But mystically in such guise	T2
That she might deem it nought beside	V2
The moment's converse in her eyes	T2
I read perhaps too carelessly	P
A mingled feeling with my own	H
The flush on her bright cheek to me	P
Seemed to become a queenly throne	H
Too well that I should let it be	P
Light in the wilderness alone	H
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I wrapped myself in grandeur then	J
And donned a visionary crown	U2
Yet it was not that Fantasy	P
Had thrown her mantle over me	P
But that among the rabble men	J
Lion ambition is chained down	U2
And crouches to a keeper's hand	W2
Not so in deserts where the grand	W2
The wild the terrible conspire	A
With their own breath to fan his fire	A
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Look 'round thee now on Samarcand	W2
Is she not queen of Earth her pride	W2
Above all cities in her hand	W2
Their destinies in all beside	W2
Of glory which the world hath known	H
Stands she not nobly and alone	H
Falling her veriest stepping stone	H
Shall form the pedestal of a throne	H
And who her sovereign Timour he	P
Whom the astonished people saw	T2
Striding o'er empires haughtily	P
A diademed outlaw	T2
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O human love thou spirit given	O
On Earth of all we hope in Heaven	O
Which fall'st into the soul like rain	I
Upon the Siroc withered plain	I
And failing in thy power to bless	T2
But leav'st the heart a wilderness	T2
Idea which bindest life around	W2
With music of so strange a sound	W2
And beauty of so wild a birth	X2
Farewell for I have won the Earth	X2
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When Hope the eagle that towered could see	P
No cliff beyond him in the sky	V
His pinions were bent droopingly	T2
And homeward turned his softened eye	V
'Twas sunset When the sun will part	W2
There comes a sullenness of heart	W2
To him who still would look upon	F2
The glory of the summer sun	O
That soul will hate the ev'ning mist	W2
So often lovely and will list	W2
To the sound of the coming darkness known	H
To those whose spirits hearken as one	O
Who in a dream of night would fly	V
But cannot from a danger nigh	V
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What tho' the moon tho' the white moon	Y2
Shed all the splendor of her noon	Y2
Her smile is chilly and her beam	B
In that time of dreariness will seem	B
So like you gather in your breath	Z2
A portrait taken after death	Z2
And boyhood is a summer sun	O
Whose waning is the dreariest one	O
For all we live to know is known	H
And all we seek to keep hath flown	H
Let life then as the day flower fall	T2
With the noon day beauty which is all	T2
I reached my home my home no more	A
For all had flown who made it so	T2
I passed from out its mossy door	A
And tho' my tread was soft and low	T2
A voice came from the threshold stone	H
Of one whom I had earlier known	H
O I defy thee Hell to show	T2
On beds of fire that burn below	T2
An humbler heart a deeper woe	T2
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Father I firmly do believe	A3
I know for Death who comes for me	P
From regions of the blest afar	A
Where there is nothing to deceive	A3
Hath left his iron gate ajar	A
And rays of truth you cannot see	P
Are flashing thro' Eternity	P
I do believe that Eblis hath	B3
A snare in every human path	B3
Else how when in the holy grove	P2
I wandered of the idol Love	G2
Who daily scents his snowy wings	T2
With incense of burnt offerings	T2
From the most unpolluted things	T2
Whose pleasant bowers are yet so riven	O
Above with trellised rays from Heaven	O
No mote may shun no tiniest fly	V
The light'ning of his eagle eye	V
How was it that Ambition crept	W2
Unseen amid the revels there	A
Till growing bold he laughed and leapt	W2
In the tangles of Love's very hair	A