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Old Eben Flood climbing alone one night	A
Over the hill between the town below	B
And the forsaken upland hermitage	C
That held as much as he should ever know	B
On earth again of home paused warily	D
The road was his with not a native near	E
And Eben having leisure said aloud	F
For no man else in Tilbury Town to hear	G
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Well Mr Flood we have the harvest moon	H
Again and we may not have many more	I
The bird is on the wing the poet says	J
And you and I have said it here before	I
Drink to the bird He raised up to the light	A
The jug that he had gone so far to fill	K
And answered huskily Well Mr Flood	L
Since you propose it I believe I will	K
	-
Alone as if enduring to the end	M
A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn	H
He stood there in the middle of the road	N
Like Roland's ghost winding a silent horn	H
Below him in the town among the trees	O
Where friends of other days had honored him	P
A phantom salutation of the dead	Q
Rang thinly till old Eben's eyes were dim	P
	-
Then as a mother lays her sleeping child	R
Down tenderly fearing it may awake	S
He sat the jug down slowly at his feet	T
With trembling care knowing that most things break	S
And only when assured that on firm earth	U
It stood as the uncertain lives of men	H
Assuredly did not he paced away	V
And with his hand extended paused again	H
	-
Well Mr Flood we have not met like this	W
In a long time and many a change has come	X
To both of us I fear since last it was	Y
We had a drop together Welcome home	Z
Convivially returning with himself	A2
Again he raised the jug up to the light	A
And with an acquiescent quaver said	Q
Well Mr Flood if you insist I might	A
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Only a very little Mr Flood	L
For auld lang syne No more sir that will do	B2
So for the time apparently it did	C2
And Eben apparently thouht so too	B2
For soon among the silver loneliness	D2
Of night he lifted up his voice and sang	E2
Secure with only two moons listening	F2
Until the whole harmonious landscape rang	E2
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For auld lang syne The weary throat gave out	G2
The last word wavered and the song was done	H
He raised again the jug regretfully	D
And shook his head and was again alone	H
There was not much that was ahead of him	P
And there was nothing in the town below	B
Where strangers would have shut the many doors	H2
That many friends had opened long ago	B

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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