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In silence and in darkness memory wakes	A
Her million sheath d buds and breaks	A
That day long winter when the light and noise	B
And hard bleak breath of the outward looking will	C
Made barren her tender soil when every voice	D
Of her million airy birds was muffled or still	C
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One bud sheath breaks	A
One sudden voice awakes	A
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What change grew in our hearts seeing one night	E
That moth winged ship drifting across the bay	F
Her broad sail dimly white	E
On cloudy waters and hills as vague as they	F
Some new thing touched our spirits with distant delight	E
Half seen half noticed as we loitered down	G
Talking in whispers to the little town	G
Down from the narrow hill	C
Talking in whispers for the air so still	C
Imposed its stillness on our lips and made	H
A quiet equal with the equal shade	H
That filled the slanting walk That phantom now	I
Slides with slack canvas and unwhispering prow	I
Through the dark sea that this dark room has made	H
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Or the night of the closed eyes will turn to day	F
And all day's colours start out of the gray	F
The sun burns on the water The tall hills	A
Push up their shady groves into the sky	J
And fail and cease where the intense light spills	A
Its parching torrent on the gaunt and dry	J
Rock of the further mountains whence the snow	K
That softened their harsh edges long is gone	L
And nothing tempers now	I
The hot flood falling on the barren stone	M
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O memory take and keep	N
All that my eyes your servants bring you home	O
Those other days beneath the low white dome	O
Of smooth spread clouds that creep	N
As slow and soft as sleep	N
When shade grows pale and the cypress stands upright	E
Distinct in the cool light	E
Rigid and solid as a dark hewn stone	M
And many another night	E
That melts in darkness on the narrow quays	A
And changes every colour and every tone	M
And soothes the waters to a softer ease	A
When under constellations coldly bright	E
The homeward sailors sing their way to bed	P
On ships that motionless in harbour float	Q
The circling harbour lights flash green and red	P
And out beyond a steady travelling boat	Q
Breaking the swell with slow industrious oars	A
At each stroke pours	A
Pale lighted water from the lifted blade	H
Now in the painted houses all around	R
Slow darkening windows call	S
The empty unwatched middle of the night	E
The tide's few inches rise without a sound	R
On the black promontory's windless head	P
The last awake the fireflies rise and fall	S
And tangle up their dithering skeins of light	E
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O memory take and keep	N
All that my eyes your servants bring you home	O
Thick through the changing year	T
The unexpected rich charged moments come	U
That you twixt wake and sleep	N
In the lids of the closed eyes shall make appear	T
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This is life's certain good	V
Though in the end it be not good at all	S
When the dark end arises	A
And the stripped startled spirit must let fall	S
The amulets that could	V
Prevail with life's but not death's sad devices	A
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Then like a child from whom an older child	W
Forces its gathered treasures	A
Its beads and shells and strings of withered flowers	A
Tokens of recent pleasures	A
The soul must lose in eyes weeping and wild	W
Those prints of vanished hours	A

Edward Shanks

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