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There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow	A
There were faces unregarded there were faces to forget	B
There were fires of grief and fear that are a few forgotten ashes	C
There were sparks of recognition that are not forgotten yet	B
For at first with an amazed and overwhelming indignation	D
At a measureless malfeasance that obscurely willed it thus	E
They were lost and unacquainted till they found themselves in others	F
Who had groped as they were groping where dim ways were perilous	E
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There were lives that were as dark as are the fears and intuitions	E
Of a child who knows himself and is alone with what he knows	E
There were pensioners of dreams and there were debtors of illusions	E
All to fail before the triumph of a weed that only grows	E
There were thirsting heirs of golden sieves that held not wine or water	G
And had no names in traffic or more value there than toys	E
There were blighted sons of wonder in the Valley of the Shadow	A
Where they suffered and still wondered why their wonder made no noise	E
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There were slaves who dragged the shackles of a precedent unbroken	D
Demonstrating the fulfilment of unalterable schemes	E
Which had been before the cradle Time's inexorable tenants	E
Of what were now the dusty ruins of their father's dreams	E
There were these and there were many who had stumbled up to manhood	H
Where they saw too late the road they should have taken long ago	A
There were thwarted clerks and fiddlers in the Valley of the Shadow	A
The commemorative wreckage of what others did not know	A
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And there were daughters older than the mothers who had borne them	I
Being older in their wisdom which is older than the earth	J
And they were going forward only farther into darkness	E
Unrelieved as were the blasting obligations of their birth	J
And among them giving always what was not for their possession	D
There were maidens very quiet with no quiet in their eyes	E
There were daughters of the silence in the Valley of the Shadow	A
Each an isolated item in the family sacrifice	E
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There were creepers among catacombs where dull regrets were torches	E
Giving light enough to show them what was there upon the shelves	E
Where there was more for them to see than pleasure would remember	G
Of something that had been alive and once had been themselves	E
There were some who stirred the ruins with a solid imprecation	D
While as many fled repentance for the promise of despair	K
There were drinkers of wrong waters in the Valley of the Shadow	A
And all the sparkling ways were dust that once had led them there	K
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There were some who knew the steps of Age incredibly beside them	I
And his fingers upon shoulders that had never felt the wheel	L
And their last of empty trophies was a gilded cup of nothing	M
Which a contemplating vagabond would not have come to steal	L
Long and often had they figured for a larger valuation	D
But the size of their addition was the balance of a doubt	N
There were gentlemen of leisure in the Valley of the Shadow	A
Not allured by retrospection disenchanted and played out	N
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And among the dark endurances of unavowed reprisals	E
There were silent eyes of envy that saw little but saw well	O
And over beauty's aftermath of hazardous ambitions	E
There were tears for what had vanished as they vanished where they fell	O
Not assured of what was theirs and always hungry for the nameless	E
There were some whose only passion was for Time who made them cold	P
There were numerous fair women in the Valley of the Shadow	A
Dreaming rather less of heaven than of hell when they were old	P
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Now and then as if to scorn the common touch of common sorrow	A
There were some who gave a few the distant pity of a smile	Q
And another cloaked a soul as with an ash of human embers	E
Having covered thus a treasure that would last him for a while	Q
There were many by the presence of the many disaffected	R
Whose exemption was included in the weight that others bore	S
There were seekers after darkness in the Valley of the Shadow	A
And they alone were there to find what they were looking for	S
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So they were and so they are and as they came are coming others	E
And among them are the fearless and the meek and the unborn	D
And a question that has held us heretofore without an answer	G
May abide without an answer until all have ceased to mourn	D
For the children of the dark are more to name than are the wretched	R
Or the broken or the weary or the baffled or the shamed	T
There are builders of new mansions in the Valley of the Shadow	A
And among them are the dying and the blinded and the maimed	T

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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