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Though not for common praise of him	A
Nor yet for pride or charity	B
Still would I make to Vanderberg	C
One tribute for his memory	B
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One honest warrant of a friend	D
Who found with him that flesh was grass	E
Who neither blamed him in defect	F
Nor marveled how it came to pass	E
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Or why it ever was that he	B
That Vanderberg of all good men	G
Should lose himself to find himself	H
Straightway to lose himself again	G
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For we had buried Sainte Nitouche	I
And he had said to me that night	J
Yes we have laid her in the earth	K
But what of that And he was right	J
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And he had said We have a wife	L
We have a child we have a church	I
'T would be a scurrilous way out	M
If we should leave them in the lurch	I
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That's why I have you here with me	B
To night you know a talk may take	N
The place of bromide cyanide	O
Et cetera For heaven's sake	N
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Why do you look at me like that	P
What have I done to freeze you so	Q
Dear man you see where friendship means	R
A few things yet that you don't know	Q
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And you see partly why it is	S
That I am glad for what is gone	T
For Sainte Nitouche and for the world	U
In me that followed What lives on	V
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Well here you have it here at home	W
For even home will yet return	X
You know the truth is on my side	O
And that will make the embers burn	X
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I see them brighten while I speak	Y
I see them flash and they are mine	Z
You do not know them but I do	A2
I know the way they used to shine	Z
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And I know more than I have told	B2
Of other life that is to be	B
I shall have earned it when it comes	C2
And when it comes I shall be free	B
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Not as I was before she came	D2
But farther on for having been	E2
The servitor the slave of her	F2
The fool you think But there's your sin	E2
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Forgive me and your ignorance	G2
Could you but have the vision here	H2
That I have you would understand	I2
As I do that all ways are clear	J2
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For those who dare to follow them	K2
With earnest eyes and honest feet	L2
But Sainte Nitouche has made the way	M2
For me and I shall find it sweet	L2
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Sweet with a bitter sting left Yes	N2
Bitter enough God knows at first	O2
But there are more steep ways than one	P2
To make the best look like the worst	O2
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And here is mine the dark and hard	Q2
For me to follow trust and hold	B2
And worship so that I may leave	R2
No broken story to be told	B2
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Therefore I welcome what may come	S2
Glad for the days the nights the years	T2
An upward flash of ember flame	D2
Revealed the gladness in his tears	U2
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You see them but you know said he	B
Too much to be incredulous	V2
You know the day that makes us wise	W2
The moment that makes fools of us	V2
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So I shall follow from now on	V
The road that she has found for me	B
The dark and starry way that leads	X2
Right upward and eternally	B
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Stumble at first I may do that	P
And I may grope and hate the night	J
But there's a guidance for the man	Y2
Who stumbles upward for the light	J
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And I shall have it all from her	F2
The foam born child of innocence	G2
I feel you smiling while I speak	Y
But that's of little consequence	G2
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For when we learn that we may find	Z2
The truth where others miss the mark	A3
What is it worth for us to know	Q
That friends are smiling in the dark	A3
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Could we but share the lonely pride	O
Of knowing all would then be well	B3
But knowledge often writes itself	H
In flaming words we cannot spell	B3
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And I who have my work to do	A2
Look forward and I dare to see	B
Far stretching and all mountainous	V2
God's pathway through the gloom for me	B
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I found so little to say then	G
That I said nothing Say good night	J
Said Vanderberg and when we meet	L2
To morrow tell me I was right	J
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Forget the dozen other things	C3
That you have not the faith to say	M2
For now I know as well as you	A2
That you are glad to go away	M2
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I could have blessed the man for that	P
And he could read me with a smile	D3
You doubt said he but if we live	E3
You'll know me in a little while	D3
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He lived and all as he foretold	B2
I knew him better than he thought	F3
My fancy did not wholly dig	G3
The pit where I believed him caught	H3
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But yet he lived and laughed and preached	I3
And worked as only players can	Y2
He scoured the shrine that once was home	W
And kept himself a clergyman	P2
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The clockwork of his cold routine	J3
Put friends far off that once were near	J2
The five staccatos in his laugh	K3
Were too defensive and too clear	J2
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The glacial sermons that he preached	I3
Were longer than they should have been	E2
And like the man who fashioned them	K2
The best were too divinely thin	E2
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But still he lived and moved and had	L3
The sort of being that was his	S
Till on a day the shrine of home	W
For him was in the Mysteries	M3
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My friend there's one thing yet said he	B
And one that I have never shared	N3
With any man that I have met	O3
But you you know me And he stared	N3
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For a slow moment at me then	G
With conscious eyes that had the gleam	P3
The shine before the stroke You know	Q
The ways of us the way we dream	P3
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You know the glory we have won	P2
You know the glamour we have lost	Q3
You see me now you look at me	B
And yes you pity me almost	R3
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But never mind the pity no	Q
Confess the faith you can't conceal	S3
And if you frown be not like one	P2
Of those who frown before they feel	S3
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For there is truth and half truth yes	N2
And there's a quarter truth no doubt	M
But mine was more than half You smile	D3
You understand You bear me out	M
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You always knew that I was right	J
You are my friend and I have tried	O
Your faith your love The gleam grew small	T3
The stroke was easy and he died	O
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I saw the dim look change itself	H
To one that never will be dim	A
I saw the dead flesh to the grave	U3
But that was not the last of him	A
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For what was his to live lives yet	O3
Truth quarter truth death cannot reach	I
Nor is it always what we know	Q
That we are fittest here to teach	I
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The fight goes on when fields are still	V3
The triumph clings when arms are down	W3
The jewels of all coronets	X3
Are pebbles of the unseen crown	W3
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The specious weight of loud reproof	U3
Sinks where a still conviction floats	Y3
And on God's ocean after storm	Z3
Time's wreckage is half pilot boats	Y3
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And what wet faces wash to sight	J
Thereafter feed the common moan	A4
But Vanderberg no pilot had	L3
Nor could have he was all alone	A4
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Unchallenged by the larger light	J
The starry quest was his to make	N
And of all ways that are for men	G
The starry way was his to take	N
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We grant him idle names enough	U3
To day but even while we frown	W3
The fight goes on the triumph clings	C3
And there is yet the unseen crown	W3
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But was it his Did Vanderberg	C
Find half truth to be passion's thrall	T3
Or as we met him day by day	M2
Was love triumphant after all	T3
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I do not know so much as that	P
I only know that he died right	J
Saint Anthony nor Sainte Nitouche	I
Had ever smiled as he did quite	J