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i	A
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Vouchsafe my Lady by the passion flower	B
And by the glamour of a moonlit hour	B
And by the cries and sighs of all the birds	C
That sing o'nights to heed again the words	C
Of my poor pleading For I swear to thee	D
My love is deeper than the bounding sea	D
And more conclusive than a wedding bell	E
And freer voiced than winds upon the lea	D
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Footnote This Litany was introduced in the Author's Gladys the Singer published by Messrs Reeves Turner London	F
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ii	A
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In all the world from east unto the west	G
There is no vantage ground and little rest	G
And no content for me from dawn to dark	H
From set of sun to song time of the lark	H
And yet withal there is no man alive	I
Who for a goodly cause to make it thrive	I
Would do such deeds as I would gird me to	J
Could I but win the pearl for which I dive	I
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iii	A
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It is thy love which downward in the deep	K
Of far off visions I behold in sleep	K
It is thy pearl of love which in the night	L
Doth tempt my soul to hopes I dare not write	L
It is this gem for which had I a crown	M
I'd barter peace and pomp and ermined gown	M
It is thy troth thou paragon of maids	N
For which I'd sell the joys of all renown	M
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iv	I
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I would attack a panther in its den	O
To do thee service as thy man of men	O
Or front the Fates or like a ghoul confer	B
With staring ghosts outside a sepulchre	B
I would forego a limb to give thee life	I
Or yield my soul itself in any strife	I
In any coil of doubt in any spot	P
When Death and Danger meet as man and wife	I
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v	I
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It is my solace all my nights and days	Q
To pray for thee and dote on thee always	Q
And evermore to count myself a king	R
Because I earn'd thy favour in the spring	R
Oh smile on me and call me to thy side	S
And I will kneel to thee as to a bride	S
And yet adore thee as a saint in Heaven	F
By God ordained by good men glorified	S
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vi	I
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I will acquaint thee with mine inmost thought	T
And teach thee all I know though unbesought	T
And make thee prouder of a poet's dream	U
Than wealthy men are proud of what they seem	U
If thou have trust therein if thou require	B
Service of me or song or penance dire	B
I will obey thee as thy belted knight	T
Or die to satisfy thy heart's desire	B
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vii	I
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Ah thou hast that in store which none can give	I
None but thyself and I am fain to live	I
To watch the outcome of so fair a gift	T
To see the bright good morrow loom and lift	T
And know that thou unpeer'd beneath the moon	V
Untamed of men untutor'd to the tune	V
Of lip with lip wilt cease thy coy disdain	W
And learn the languors of the loves of June	V
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viii	I
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All that I am and all I hope to be	I
Is thine till death and though I die for thee	I
Each day I live and though I throb and thrill	X
At thoughts that seem to burn me and to chill	X
In my dark hours I revel in the same	Y
Yet I am free of hope as thou of blame	Y
And all around me wakeful and in sleep	K
I weave a blessing for thy soul to claim	Y
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ix	Q
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Oh by thy radiant hair and by the glow	Z
Of thy full eyes and by thy breast of snow	Z
And by the buds thereof that have the flush	A2
Of infant roses when they strive to blush	A2
And by thy voice melodious as a bell	E
That rings for prayer in God's high citadel	E
By all these things and more than I can urge	B2
I charge thee Sweet to let me out of hell	E
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x	Q
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Is it not Hell to live so far away	C2
And not to touch thee not by night or day	C2
To be partaker of one smile of thine	D2
Or one commingling of thy breath and mine	D2
Or one encounter of thine amorous mouth	E2
I dwell apart from thee as north from south	E2
As east from western ways I dwell apart	T
And taste the tears that quench not any drouth	E2
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xi	Q
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Why wouldst thou take the memory of a wrong	F2
To be thy shadow all the summer long	F2
A thing to chide thee at the dead of night	T
A thing to wake thee with the morning light	T
For self upbraiding while the wanton bird	T
Invests the welkin Ah by joy deferr'd	T
By peace withheld from me do thou relent	T
And dower my life to day with one love word	T
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xii	Q
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Wouldst thou Cassandra wise oppress my soul	G2
With more unrest and Heb like the bowl	G2
Of festal comfort for a moment raise	Q
To my poor lips and then avert thy gaze	Q
Wouldst make me mad beyond the daily curse	Q
Of thy displeasure and in wrath disperse	Q
That halcyon draught that nectar of the mind	T
Which is the theme I yearn to in my verse	Q
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xiii	Q
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Oh by thy pity when so slight a thing	R
As some small bird is wounded in the wing	R
Avert thy scorn and grant me from afar	B
At least the right to love thee as a star	B
The right to turn to thee the right to bow	H2
To thy pure name and evermore as now	H2
To own thy thraldom and to sing thereon	I2
In proud allegiance to mine earliest vow	H2
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xiv	H2
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It were abuse of power to frown again	O
When all day long I gloat upon the pain	W
Of pent up hope my joy and my distress	Q
While the remembrance of a mute caress	Q
Given to a rose a rose I pluck'd for thee	Q
Seems as the withering of the world to me	Q
Because I am unlov'd of thee to day	C2
And undesired as sea weeds in the sea	Q
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xv	H2
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I'll not believe that eyes so bright as thine	D2
Were meant for malice in the summer shine	D2
Or that a glance thereof though changed to fire	B
Could injure one whose spirit like a lyre	B
Has throbb'd to music of remember'd joys	Q
The pride thereof and all the tender poise	Q
Of trust with trust the symphonies of grief	H2
Made all mine own and Faith which never cloys	Q
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xvi	H2
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How can it be that one so fair as thou	H2
Should wear contention on a whiter brow	H2
Than May day Dian's in her hunting gear	B
I'll not believe that eyes so holy clear	B
And mouth so constant to its morning prayer	B
Could mock the mischief of a man's despair	B
And all the misery of a moment's hope	J2
Seen far away as mists are seen in air	B
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xvii	H2
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How can a woman's heart be made of stone	K2
And she not know it Mine is overthrown	K2
I have no heart to day no perfect one	F
Only a thing that sighs at set of sun	F
And beats its cage as if the thrall thereof	H2
Were freedom's prison or the tomb of love	H2
As if God help me there were shame in truth	E2
And no salvation left in realms above	H2
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xviii	H2
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I once could laugh I once was deem'd a man	L2
Fit for the frenzies of the dead god Pan	L2
And now by Heaven the birds that sing so well	E
Move me to tears and all the leafy dell	E
And all the sun down glories of the West	T
And all the moorland which the moon has blest	T
Make me a dreamer aye a coward too	T
In all the weird expanse of mine unrest	T
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xix	Q
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It is my curse to see thee and to learn	M2
That I must shun thee though I blaze and burn	M2
With all this longing all this fierce delight	T
Fear fraught and famish'd for a suitor's right	T
A right conceded for a moment's space	Q
And then withdrawn as amorous face to face	Q
I dared to clasp thee and to urge a troth	E2
Too sovereign sweet for one of Adam's race	Q
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xx	Q
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I am a doom entangled mirthless soul	G2
Without the power to rid me of the dole	G2
Which day by day and nightly evermore	B
Corrodes my peace Oh smile as once before	B
At each wild thought and each discarded plea	Q
And let thy sentence let thy suffrance be	Q
That I be reckon'd till the day I die	T
The sad eyed Singer of thy fame and thee	Q