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THESE three grey walls are still stout and strong	A
Though the fourth wide wall has crumbled away	B
Where the sea swept by when the land was young	C
And the great waves thundered along the bay	B
Under the sailing seagull's feather	D
Wildly white in the stormy weather	D
And murmuring ever a restless song	A
Shone crumpled green on a sunny day	B
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Through eighteen hundred years of our time	E
With their storms and sieges these walls have stood	F
Till the cliff that the waves once strove to climb	E
Is left in a meadow solitude	G
And now no sea gulls' nests are there	H
But ash trees and thorns make the cliff side fair	H
And the green of the leaves and the white of the lime	E
And the red of the berries is sweet and good	F
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Over the walls whence eagle eyed	I
The Romans looked for the coming foes	J
Swift keen tongued snakes now curl and glide	I
Where the heavy weight of the ivy grows	J
Oh hand that builded oh scheming brain	K
So long made one with the dust again	L
Your old cement and your walls abide	I
But stronger than they are the ivy and rose	J
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How the whole dear world is golden and green	M
With the marshy meadows the dimpled wheat	N
The hot strong sunshine the ivy's sheen	M
And the high white lights on the shiny beet	N
See the far blue line the retreating sea	O
It is good to be here it is good to be	O
Whatever life is or whatever has been	P
To be now to be here is nothing but sweet	N
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There's an underground passage here they say	B
Here is the entrance with green set round	Q
You must stoop your head in this low roofed way	B
Leave day light candles pass underground	Q
Here under the fields it is damp and cold	R
And whatever secret the place may hold	R
It has held it closely for many a day	B
And will hold it for more in its hush profound	Q
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Down here last year so the gossips tell	S
Some arch ological learned bore	T
Went chipping with hammer and chisel as well	S
To chip his way to the secret's core	T
Shut away from the sun and the browning wheat	N
The whitening barley the purple beet	N
In the dark with the damp the earthy smell	S
While the days burned through that return no more	T
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Oh fool not to see that the green of the trees	U
The blue of the sky and the blue of the sea	O
The placid pasture the baby breeze	U
And the outspread meadows' tranquillity	N
With eyes to see them are more than worth	V
The whole of the secrets of musty earth	V
What secret outweighs such delights as these	U
Or pays one lost moment's felicity	N
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Are we wise we two when we try to pierce	W
To the heart of things to our own hearts' heart	N
To learn the secret springs of the years	X
And what that is of which we are part	N
Free will the Absolute matter mind	N
Ah we came like the wind and we go like the wind	N
Would solving life's mysteries dry our tears	Y
Or absolute knowledge heal souls that smart	N
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And meantime one might lose what I'd die to keep	Z
The power to delight in a day like this	A2
In the brown wings' whir and the faint bell'd sheep	Z
In the million things that the millions miss	A2
And think had it happened one's in turned eyes	B2
Had missed the gateway of Paradise	C2
Had one questioned of dreams till one fell asleep	Z
Having never dreamed oh my Dream of your kiss	A2

Edith Nesbit

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