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He follows me no more I said nor stands	A
Beside me And I wake these later days	B
In an April mood a wonder light and free	C
The vision is gone but gone the constant pain	D
Of constant thought I see dawn from my hill	E
And watch the lights which fingers from the waters	F
Twine from the sun or moon Or look across	G
The waste of bays and marshes to the woods	H
Under the prism colors of the air	I
Held in a vacuum silence where the clouds	J
Like cyclop hoods are tossed against the sky	K
In terrible glory	C
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And earth charmed I lie	K
Before the staring sphinx whose musing face	L
Is this Egyptian heaven and whose eyes	M
Are separate clouds of gold whose pedestal	N
Is earth whose silken sheathed claws	O
No longer toy with me even while I stroke them	P
Since I have ceased to tease her	Q
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Then behold	R
A breeze is blown out of a world becalmed	S
And as I see the multitudinous leaves	T
Fluttered against the water and the light	U
And see this light unveil itself reveal	V
An inner light a Presence Secret splendor	Q
I clap hands over eyes for the earth reels	W
And I have fears of dieties shown or spun	X
From nothingness But when I look again	Y
The earth has stayed itself I see the lake	Z
The leaves the light of the sun the cyclop hoods	H
Of thunder heads yet feel upon my arm	A2
A hand I know and hear a voice I know	B2
He has returned and brought with him the thought	C2
And the old pain	D
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The voice says Leave the sphinx	D2
The garden waits your study fully grown	E2
And I arise and follow down a slope	F2
To a lawn by the lake and an ancient seat of stone	E2
And near it a fountain's shattered rim enclosing	G2
An Eros of light mood whose sculptured smile	H2
Consciously dimples for the unveiled pistil of love	I2
As he strokes with baby hand the slender arching	G2
Neck of a swan And here is a peristyle	H2
Whose carven columns are pink as the long updrawn	E2
Stalks of tulips bedded in April snow	E2
And sunk amid tiger lillies is the face	L
Of an Asian Aphrodite close to the seat	J2
With feet of a Babylonian lion amid	K2
This ruined garden of yellow daisies poppies	L2
And ruddy asphodel from Crete it seems	M2
Though here is our western moon as white and thin	E2
As an abalone shell hung under the boughs	N2
Of an oak that is mocked by the vastness of sky between	E2
His boughs and the moon in this sky of afternoon	E2
We walk to the water's edge and here he shows me	C
Green scum or stalks or sedges grasses shrubs	O2
That yield to trees beyond the levels where	I
The beech and oak have triumph for along	P2
This gradual growth from algae reeds and grasses	Q2
That builds the soil against the water's hands	A
All things are fierce for place and garner life	R2
From weaker things	S2
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And then he shows me root stocks	T2
And Alpine willow growths that sneak and crawl	U2
Beneath the soil Or as we leave the lake	Z
And walk the forest I behold lianas	T2
Smilax or woodbine climbing round the trunks	T2
Of giant trees that live and out of earth	V2
And out of air make strength and food and ask	W2
No other help And in this place I see	T2
Spiral bryony python of the vines	T2
That coils and crushes and that banyan tree	T2
Whose spreading branches drop new roots to earth	V2
And lives afar from where the parent trunk	X2
Has sunk its roots so that the healthful sun	E2
Is darkened as a people might be darkened	Y2
By ignorance or want or tyranny	T2
Or dogma of a jungle hidden faith	Z2
Why is it think I though I dare not speak	A3
That this should be to forests or to men	E2
That water fails and light decreases heat	J2
Of God's air lessens and the soil goes spent	B3
Till plants change leaves and stalks and seeds as well	C3
Or migrate from the olden places go	E2
In search of life or if they cannot move	D3
Die in the ruthless marches	T2
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That is life he said	E3
For even these the giants scatter life	R2
Into the maws of death That towering tree	T2
That for these hundred years has leafed itself	F3
And through its leaves out of the magic air	I
Drawn nutriment for annual girths took root	G3
Out of an acorn which good chance preserved	H3
While all its brother acorns cast to earth	V2
To make trees by a parent tree now gone	E2
Were crushed devoured or strangled as they sprouted	I3
Amid thick jealous growth wherein they fell	C3
All acorns but this one were lost	J3
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Then he reads	T2
My questioning thought and shows me yuccas cactus	T2
Whose thick leaves in the rainless places thrive	K3
And shows me leaves that must have rain and roots	T2
That must have water where the river flows	T2
And how the spirit of life though turned or driven	E2
This way or that beyond a course begun	E2
Cannot be stayed or quenched but moves conforms	T2
To soil and sun makes roots or thickens leaves	T2
Or thins or re adjusts them on the stem	P
To fashion forth itself produce its kind	L3
Nor dies not rests not nor surrenders not	M3
Is only changed or buried re appears	T2
As other forms of life	R2
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We had walked through	N3
A forest of sequoias beeches pines	T2
And ancient oaks where I could see the trace	T2
Of willows alders ruined or devoured	O3
By the great Titans	T2
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At last	P3
We reached my hill and sat and overlooked	Q3
The garden at our feet even to the place	T2
Of tiger lilies and of asphodel	C3
By now beneath the self same moon grown denser	Q
As where the wounded surface of the shell	C3
Thickens its shimmering stuff in spiral coigns	T2
Of the shell so was the moon above the seat	J2
Beside the Eros and the Aphrodite	T2
Sunk amid yellow daisies and deep grass	T2
And here we sat and looked And here my vision	E2
Was over all we saw but not a part	R3
Of what we saw for all we saw stood forth	S3
As foreign to myself as something touched	T3
To learn the thing it is	T2
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I might have asked	U3
Who owns this garden for the thought arose	T2
With my surprise who owns this garden who	N3
Planted this garden why and to what end	V3
And why this fight for place for soil and sun	E2
Water and air and why this enmity	T2
Between the things here planted and between	E2
Flying or crawling life and plants and whence	T2
The power that falls in one place but arises	T2
Some other place and why the unceasing growth	W3
Of all these forms that only come to seed	X3
Then disappear to enrich the insatiate soil	C3
Where the new seed falls But silence kept me there	I
For wonder of the beauty which I saw	T2
Even while the faculty of external vision	E2
Kept clear the garden separate from me	T2
Envisioned seen as grasses sedges alders	T2
As forestry as fields of wheat and corn	E2
As the vast theatre of unceasing life	R2
Moving to life and blind to all but life	R2
As places used tried out as if the gardener	Q
For his delight or use or for an end	V3
Of good or beauty made experiments	T2
With seed or soils or crossings of the seed	X3
Even as peoples epochs did the garden	E2
Lie to my vision or as races crowding	G2
Absorbing dispossessing killing races	T2
Not only for a place to grow but under	Q
A stimulus of doctrine as Mahomet	X3
Or Jesus like a vital change of air	I
Or artifice of culture made the garden	E2
Which mortals call the world grow in a way	Y3
And overgrow the world as neither dreamed	X3
Who is the Gardener then Or is there one	E2
Beside the life within the plant within	E2
The python climbers wandering sedges root stalks	T2
Thorn bushes night shade deadly saprophytes	T2
Goths Vandals Tartars striving for more life	R2
And praying to the urge within as God	X3
The Gardener who lays out the garden sprays	T2
For insects which devour keeps rich the soil	C3
For those who pray and know the Gardener	Q
As One who is without and over sees	T2
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But while in contemplation of the garden	E2
Whether from failing day or from departure	Q
Of my own vision in the things it saw	T2
Bereft of penetrating thought I sank	Z3
Became a part of what I saw and lost	X3
The great solution	E2
	-
As we sat in silence	T2
And coming night what seemed the sinking moon	E2
Amid the yellow sedges by the lake	Z
Began to twinkle as a fire were blown	E2
And it was fire the garden was afire	A4
As it were all the world had flamed with war	B4
And a wind came out of the bright heaven	E2
And blew the flames first through the ruined garden	E2
Then through the wood the fields of wheat at last	X3
Nothing was left but waste and wreaths of smoke	C4
Twisting toward the stars And there he sat	X3
Nor uttered aught save when I sighed he said	X3
If it be comforting I promise you	N3
Another spring shall come	D4
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And after that	X3
Another spring that's all I know myself	F3
There shall be springs and springs	T2