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This is the valley where we sojourn now	A
Cut up by narrow brooks and rich and green	B
And shaded sweetly by the waving bough	A
About the trench where floats the soft serene	B
Arun with waters running low and low	C
Through banks where lately still the tide has been	D
Here is our resting place you walk with me	E
And watch the light die out in Amberley	C
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The light that dies is soft and flooding still	C
Shed from the broad expanse of all the skies	F
And brimming up the space from hill to hill	C
Where yet the sheep in their sweet exercise	F
Roaming the meadows crop and find their fill	C
And to each other speak with moaning cries	F
We on the hill side standing rest and see	E
The light die out in brook and grass and tree	E
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Lately we walked upon the lonely downs	G
And through the still heat of the heavy day	H
We heard the medley of low drifting sounds	I
And through the matted brambles found a way	H
Or lightly trod upon enchanted grounds	I
Musing or with rich blackberries made delay	H
Where feed such fruit on the rich air until	C
We struck like falling stars from Bignor Hill	C
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Down the vast slope by chalky roads and steep	J
With trees and bushes hidden here and there	K
By circling turns into the valley deep	J
We came and left behind the hill top air	K
For this cool village where to night we sleep	J
A country meal a country bed to share	K
With sleepy kisses and contented dreams	L
Over a land of still and narrow streams	L
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The light is ebbing in the dusky sky	M
The valley floor is in the shadow Hark	N
With rushing and mysterious noises fly	M
The bats already looking for the dark	N
With blinking still and unaccustomed eye	M
Now over Rackham Mount a steady spark	N
Burns rising slowly in the rising night	O
And pledges peace and promises delight	O
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Now from the east the wheeling shade appears	P
And softly night into the valley falls	Q
Soft on the meadows drop her dewy tears	R
Softly a darkness on the crumbled walls	Q
Now in the dusk the village disappears	P
Men's songs are hushed there and the children's calls	Q
While night in passage swallows up the land	S
And in the shadow your hand seeks my hand	S
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Only the glimmering stars in heaven lie	M
And unseen trees with rustling still betray	H
How all the valley lives invisibly	M
Where dim sweet odours remnants of the day	H
Float from the sleeping fields to please and die	M
Borne up by roaming airs that drift away	H
Beyond our hearing vagabond and light	O
To visit the cool meadows of the night	O

Edward Shanks

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