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You have become a forge of snow white fire	A
A crucible of molten steel O France	B
Your sons are stars who cluster to a dawn	C
And fade in light for you O glorious France	B
They pass through meteor changes with a song	D
Which to all islands and all continents	E
Says life is neither comfort wealth nor fame	F
Nor quiet hearthstones friendship wife nor child	G
Nor love nor youth's delight nor manhood's power	A
Nor many days spent in a chosen work	H
Nor honored merit nor the patterned theme	I
Of daily labor nor the crowns nor wreaths	J
Of seventy years	K
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These are not all of life	L
O France whose sons amid the rolling thunder	A
Of cannon stand in trenches where the dead	M
Clog the ensanguined ice But life to these	N
Prophetic and enraptured souls in vision	O
And the keen ecstasy of faded strife	L
And divination of the loss as gain	P
And reading mysteries with brightened eyes	Q
In fiery shock and dazzling pain before	R
The orient splendour of the face of Death	S
As a great light beside a shadowy sea	T
And in a high will's strenuous exercise	Q
Where the warmed spirit finds its fullest strength	U
And is no more afraid and in the stroke	V
Of azure lightning when the hidden essence	W
And shifting meaning of man's spiritual worth	X
And mystical significance in time	Y
Are instantly distilled to one clear drop	Z
Which mirrors earth and heaven	O
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This is life	L
Flaming to heaven in a minute's span	A2
When the breath of battle blows the smouldering spark	B2
And across these seas	N
We who cry Peace and treasure life and cling	C2
To cities happiness or daily toil	D2
For daily bread or trail the long routine	E2
Of seventy years taste not the terrible wine	F2
Whereof you drink who drain and toss the cup	G2
Empty and ringing by the finished feast	H2
Or have it shaken from your hand by sight	I2
Of God against the olive woods	J2
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As Joan of Arc amid the apple trees	N
With sacred joy first heard the voices then	K2
Obeying plunged at Orleans in a field	L2
Of spears and lived her dream and died in fire	A
Thou France hast heard the voices and hast lived	M2
The dream and known the meaning of the dream	I
And read its riddle how the soul of man	A2
May to one greatest purpose make itself	N2
A lens of clearness how it loves the cup	G2
Of deepest truth and how its bitterest gall	O2
Turns sweet to soul's surrender	A
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And you say	P2
Take days for repitition stretch your hands	Q2
For mocked renewal of familiar things	R2
The beaten path the chair beside the window	S2
The crowded street the task the accustomed sleep	T2
And waking to the task or many springs	R2
Of lifted cloud blue water flowering fields	U2
The prison house grows close no less the feast	H2
A place of memory sick for senses dulled	V2
Down to the dusty end where pitiful Time	Y
Grown weary cries Enough	W2

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