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O thou to whom athwart the perish'd days	B
And parted nights long sped we lift our gaze	B
Behold I greet thee with a modern rhyme	C
Love lit and reverent as befits the time	C
To solemnize the feast day of thy son	D
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II	A
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And who was he who flourish'd in the smiles	E
Of thy fair face 'Twas Shakespeare of the Isles	E
Shakespeare of England whom the world has known	F
As thine and ours and Glory's in the zone	F
Of all the seas and all the lands of earth	G
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III	A
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He was un famous when he came to thee	H
But sound and sweet and good for eyes to see	H
And born at Stratford on St George's Day	I
A week before the wondrous month of May	I
And God therein was gracious to us all	J
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IV	K
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He lov'd thee Lady and he lov'd the world	L
And like a flag his fealty was unfurl'd	L
And Kings who flourished ere thy son was born	M
Shall live through him from morn to furthest morn	M
In all the far off cycles yet to come	N
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V	K
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He gave us Falstaff and a hundred quips	O
A hundred mottoes from immortal lips	O
And year by year we smile to keep away	I
The generous tears that mind us of the sway	I
Of his great singing and the pomp thereof	K
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VI	K
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His was the nectar of the gods of Greece	P
The lute of Orpheus and the Golden Fleece	P
Of grand endeavour and the thunder roll	Q
Of words majestic which from pole to pole	Q
Have borne the tidings of our English tongue	R
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VII	K
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He gave us Hamlet and he taught us more	S
Than schools have taught us and his fairy lore	S
Was fraught with science and he called from death	T
Verona's Lovers with the burning breath	T
Of their great passion that has filled the spheres	U
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VIII	K
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He made us know Cordelia and the man	V
Who murder'd sleep and baleful Caliban	V
And one by one athwart the gloom appear'd	W
Maidens and men and myths who were revered	W
In olden days before the earth was sad	X
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IX	U
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Aye this is true It was ordain d so	U
He was thine own three hundred years ago	U
But ours to day and ours till earth be red	Y
With doom day splendour for the quick and dead	Y
And days and nights are scattered like the leaves	U
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X	U
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It was for this he lived for this he died	Z
To raise to Heaven the face that never lied	Z
To lean to earth the lips that should become	N
Fraught with conviction when the mouth was dumb	N
And all the firm fine body turn'd to clay	I
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XI	U
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He lived to seal and sanctify the lives	U
Of perish'd maids and uncreated wives	U
And gave them each a space wherein to dwell	A2
And for his mother's sake he loved them well	A2
And made them types undying of all truth	B2
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XII	U
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O fair and fond young mother of the boy	C2
Who wrought all this O Mary in thy joy	C2
Did'st thou perceive when fitful from his rest	D2
He turn'd to thee that his would be the best	D2
Of all men's chanting since the world began	V
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XIII	U
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Did'st thou O Mary with the eye of trust	E2
Perceive prophetic through the dark and dust	E2
Of things terrene the glory of thy son	V
And all the pride therein that should be won	V
By toilsome men content to be his slaves	U
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XIV	K
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Did'st thou good mother in the tender ways	U
That women find to fill the fleeting days	U
Behold afar the Giant who should rise	U
With foot on earth and forehead in the skies	U
To write his name and thine among the stars	U
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XV	K
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I love to think it and in dreams at night	F2
I see thee stand erect and all in white	F2
With hands out yearning to that mighty form	G2
As if to draw him back from out the storm	G2
A child again and thine to nurse withal	A2
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XVI	K
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I see thee pale and pure with flowing hair	H2
And big bright eyes far searching in the air	H2
For thy sweet babe and in a trice of time	C
I see the child advance to thee and climb	C
And call thee Mother in ecstatic tones	U
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XVII	K
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Yet if my thought be vain if by a touch	I2
Of this weak hand I vex thee overmuch	I2
Forbear the blame sweet Spirit and endow	J2
My heart with fervour while to thee I bow	J2
Athwart the threshold of my fading dream	K2
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XVIII	K
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For though so seeming bold in this my song	L2
I turn to thee with reverence in the throng	L2
Of words and thoughts as shepherds scann'd afar	M2
The famed effulgence of that eastern star	M2
Which usher'd in the Crown'd One of the heavens	U
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XIX	U
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In dreams of rapture I have seen thee pass	U
Along the banks of Avon by the grass	U
As fair as that fair Juliet whom thy son	V
Endow'd with life but with the look of one	V
Who knows the nearest way to some new grave	K
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XX	U
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And often too I've seen thee in the flush	I2
Of thy full beauty while the mother's Hush	I2
Hung on thy lip and all thy tangled hair	H2
Re clothed a bosom that in part was bare	H2
Because a tiny hand had toy'd therewith	B2
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XXI	U
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Oh by the June tide splendour of thy face	U
When eight weeks old the child in thine embrace	U
Did leap and laugh O Mary by the same	N2
I bow to thee subservient to thy fame	N2
And call thee England's Pride for evermore	S

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