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Somewhere I read in an old book whose name	A
Is gone from me I read that when the days	B
Of a man are counted and his business done	C
There comes up the shore at evening with the tide	D
To the place where he sits a boat	E
And in the boat from the place where he sits he sees	F
Dim in the dusk dim and yet so familiar	G
The faces of his friends long dead and knows	H
They come for him brought in upon the tide	D
To take him where men go at set of day	I
Then rising with his hands in theirs he goes	H
Between them his last steps that are the first	J
Of the new life and with the ebb they pass	K
Their shaken sail grown small upon the moon	L
Often I thought of this and pictured me	M
How many a man who lives with throngs about him	N
Yet straining through the twilight for that boat	E
Shall scarce make out one figure in the stern	O
And that so faint its features shall perplex him	N
With doubtful memories and his heart hang back	P
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But others rising as they see the sail	Q
Increase upon the sunset hasten down	R
Hands out and eyes elated for they see	M
Head over head crowding from bow to stern	O
Repeopling their long loneliness with smiles	S
The faces of their friends and such go forth	T
Content upon the ebb tide with safe hearts	U
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But never to worker summoned when his day was done	C
Did mounting tide bring in such freight of friends	V
As stole to you up the white wintry shingle	W
That night while they that watched you thought you slept	X
Softly they came and beached the boat and gathered	Y
In the still cove under the icy stars	Z
Your last born and the dear loves of your heart	A2
And all men that have loved right more than ease	F
And honor above honors all who gave	B2
Free handed of their best for other men	C2
And thought their giving taking they who knew	D2
Man's natural state is effort up and up	E2
All these were there so great a company	M
Perchance you marvelled wondering what great ship	F2
Had brought that throng unnumbered to the cove	G2
Where the boys used to beach their light canoe	D2
After old happy picnics	H2
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But these your friends and children to whose hands	I2
Committed in the silent night you rose	H
And took your last faint steps	J2
These led you down O great American	C
Down to the Winter night and the white beach	K2
And there you saw that the huge hull that waited	L2
Was not as are the boats of the other dead	M2
Frail craft for a brief passage no for this	N2
Was first of a long line of towering transports	O2
Storm worn and ocean weary every one	C
The ships you launched the ships you manned the ships	P2
That now returning from their sacred quest	Q2
With the thrice sacred burden of their dead	M2
Lay waiting there to take you forth with them	R2
Out with the ebb tide on some farther quest	Q2

Edith Wharton

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