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Though for your sake I would not have you now	A
So near to me tonight as now you are	B
God knows how much a stranger to my heart	C
Was any cold word that I may have written	D
And you poor woman that I made my wife	E
You have had more of loneliness I fear	F
Than I though I have been the most alone	G
Even when the most attended So it was	H
God set the mark of his inscrutable	I
Necessity on one that was to grope	J
And serve and suffer and withal be glad	K
For what was his and is and is to be	L
When his old bones that are a burden now	A
Are saying what the man who carried them	M
Had not the power to say Bones in a grave	N
Cover them as they will with choking earth	O
May shout the truth to men who put them there	P
More than all orators And so my dear	F
Since you have cheated wisdom for the sake	Q
Of sorrow let your sorrow be for you	R
This last of nights before the last of days	S
The lying ghost of what there is of me	L
That is the most alive There is no death	T
For me in what they do Their death it is	U
They should heed most when the sun comes again	V
To make them solemn There are some I know	W
Whose eyes will hardly see their occupation	D
For tears in them and all for one old man	X
For some of them will pity this old man	X
Who took upon himself the work of God	Y
Because he pitied millions That will be	L
For them I fancy their compassionate	Z
Best way of saying what is best in them	M
To say for they can say no more than that	A2
And they can do no more than what the dawn	B2
Of one more day shall give them light enough	C2
To do But there are many days to be	L
And there are many men to give their blood	D2
As I gave mine for them May they come soon	E2
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May they come soon I say And when they come	F2
May all that I have said unheard be heard	G2
Proving at last or maybe not no matter	H2
What sort of madness was the part of me	L
That made me strike whether I found the mark	I2
Or missed it Meanwhile I've a strange content	J2
A patience and a vast indifference	K2
To what men say of me and what men fear	F
To say There was a work to be begun	D
And when the Voice that I have heard so long	L2
Announced as in a thousand silences	U
An end of preparation I began	X
The coming work of death which is to be	L
That life may be There is no other way	M2
Than the old way of war for a new land	N2
That will not know itself and is tonight	O2
A stranger to itself and to the world	P2
A more prodigious upstart among states	Q2
Than I was among men and so shall be	L
Till they are told and told and told again	V
For men are children waiting to be told	R2
And most of them are children all their lives	S2
The good God in his wisdom had them so	W
That now and then a madman or a seer	T2
May shake them out of their complacency	L
And shame them into deeds The major file	U2
See only what their fathers may have seen	V2
Or may have said they saw when they saw nothing	W2
I do not say it matters what they saw	X2
Now and again to some lone soul or other	H2
God speaks and there is hanging to be done	D
As once there was a burning of our bodies	Y2
Alive albeit our souls were sorry fuel	I
But now the fires are few and we are poised	Z2
Accordingly for the state's benefit	A3
A few still minutes between heaven and earth	O
The purpose is when they have seen enough	C2
Of what it is that they are not to see	L
To pluck me as an unripe fruit of treason	D
And then to fling me back to the same earth	O
Of which they are as I suppose the flower	H2
Not given to know the riper fruit that waits	Q2
For a more comprehensive harvesting	W2
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Yes may they come and soon Again I say	M2
May they come soon before too many of them	M
Shall be the bloody cost of our defection	D
When hell waits on the dawn of a new state	B3
Better it were that hell should not wait long	L2
Or so it is I see it who should see	L
As far or farther into time tonight	O2
Than they who talk and tremble for me now	A
Or wish me to those everlasting fires	C3
That are for me no fear Too many fires	C3
Have sought me out and seared me to the bone	G
Thereby for all I know to temper me	L
For what was mine to do If I did ill	D3
What I did well let men say I was mad	K
Or let my name for ever be a question	D
That will not sleep in history What men say	M2
I was will cool no cannon dull no sword	E3
Invalidate no truth Meanwhile I was	H
And the long train is lighted that shall burn	F3
Though floods of wrath may drench it and hot feet	G3
May stamp it for a slight time into smoke	H3
That shall blaze up again with growing speed	I3
Until at last a fiery crash will come	F2
To cleanse and shake a wounded hemisphere	F
And heal it of a long malignity	I3
That angry time discredits and disowns	H
Tonight there are men saying many things	H
And some who see life in the last of me	L
Will answer first the coming call to death	T
For death is what is coming and then life	E
I do not say again for the dull sake	Q
Of speech what you have heard me say before	J3
But rather for the sake of all I am	K3
And all God made of me A man to die	I3
As I do must have done some other work	L3
Than man's alone I was not after glory	L
But there was glory with me like a friend	I3
Throughout those crippling years when friends were few	R
And fearful to be known by their own names	H
When mine was vilified for their approval	I
Yet friends they are and they did what was given	D
Their will to do they could have done no more	J3
I was the one man mad enough it seems	H
To do my work and now my work is over	H2
And you my dear are not to mourn for me	L
Or for your sons more than a soul should mourn	M3
In Paradise done with evil and with earth	O
There is not much of earth in what remains	H
For you and what there may be left of it	I3
For your endurance you shall have at last	I3
In peace without the twinge of any fear	F
For my condition for I shall be done	D
With plans and actions that have heretofore	J3
Made your days long and your nights ominous	H
With darkness and the many distances	H
That were between us When the silence comes	H
I shall in faith be nearer to you then	V
Than I am now in fact What you see now	A
Is only the outside of an old man	X
Older than years have made him Let him die	I3
And let him be a thing for little grief	N3
There was a time for service and he served	I3
And there is no more time for anything	W2
But a short gratefulness to those who gave	N
Their scared allegiance to an enterprise	H
That has the name of treason which will serve	O3
As well as any other for the present	I3
There are some deeds of men that have no names	H
And mine may like as not be one of them	M
I am not looking far for names tonight	I3
The King of Glory was without a name	P3
Until men gave him one yet there He was	H
Before we found Him and affronted Him	Q3
With numerous ingenuities of evil	I
Of which one with His aid is to be swept	I3
And washed out of the world with fire and blood	I3
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Once I believed it might have come to pass	H
With a small cost of blood but I was dreaming	W2
Dreaming that I believed The Voice I heard	I3
When I left you behind me in the north	R3
To wait there and to wonder and grow old	I3
Of loneliness told only what was best	I3
And with a saving vagueness I should know	W
Till I knew more And had I known even then	V
After grim years of search and suffering	W2
So many of them to end as they began	X
After my sickening doubts and estimations	H
Of plans abandoned and of new plans vain	S3
After a weary delving everywhere	P
For men with every virtue but the Vision	D
Could I have known I say before I left you	R
That summer morning all there was to know	W
Even unto the last consuming word	I3
That would have blasted every mortal answer	H2
As lightning would annihilate a leaf	N3
I might have trembled on that summer morning	W2
I might have wavered and I might have failed	I3
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And there are many among men today	I3
To say of me that I had best have wavered	I3
So has it been so shall it always be	L
For those of us who give ourselves to die	I3
Before we are so parcelled and approved	I3
As to be slaughtered by authority	L
We do not make so much of what they say	I3
As they of what our folly says of us	H
They give us hardly time enough for that	I3
And thereby we gain much by losing little	I
Few are alive to day with less to lose	H
Than I who tell you this or more to gain	S3
And whether I speak as one to be destroyed	I3
For no good end outside his own destruction	D
Time shall have more to say than men shall hear	T2
Between now and the coming of that harvest	I3
Which is to come Before it comes I go	W
By the short road that mystery makes long	L2
For man's endurance of accomplishment	I3
I shall have more to say when I am dead	I3