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'This is to be a mortal	A
And seek the things beyond mortality ' Manfred	B
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Thy voice prevails dear friend my gentle friend	C
This long shut heart for thee shall be unsealed	D
And though thy soft eye mournfully will bend	C
Over the troubled stream yet once revealed	D
Shall its freed waters flow then rocks must close	E
For evermore above their dark repose	F
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Come while the gorgeous mysteries of the sky	G
Fused in the crimson sea of sunset lie	G
Come to the woods where all strange wandering sound	H
Is mingled into harmony profound	H
Where the leaves thrill with spirit while the wind	I
Fills with a viewless being unconfined	I
The trembling reeds and fountains our own dwell	J
With its green dimness and AEolian breath	K
Shall suit the unveiling of dark records well	J
Hear me in tenderness and silent faith	L
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Thou knewest me not in life's fresh vernal morn	M
I would thou hadst for then my heart on thine	N
Had poured a worthier love now all o'erworn	N
By its deep thirst for something too divine	N
It hath but fitful music to bestow	O
Echoes of harp strings broken long ago	O
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Yet even in youth companionless I stood	P
As a lone forest bird 'midst ocean's foam	Q
For me the silver cords of brotherhood	P
Were early loosed the voice from my home	Q
Passed one by one and melody and mirth	R
Left me a dreamer by a silent hearth	S
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But with the fulness of a heart that burned	T
For the deep sympathies of mind I turned	T
From that unanswering spot and fondly sought	U
In all wild scenes with thrilling murmurs fraught	U
In every still small voice and sound of power	V
And flute note of the wind through cave and bower	V
A perilous delight for then first woke	W
My life's lone passion the mysterious quest	X
Of secret knowledge and each tone that broke	W
From the wood arches or the fountain's breast	X
Making my quick soul vibrate as a lyre	Y
But ministered to that strange inborn fire	V
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'Midst the bright silence of the mountain dells	F
In noontide hours or golden summer eves	F
My thoughts have burst forth as a gale that swells	F
Into a rushing blast and from the leaves	F
Shakes out response O thou rich world unseen	N
Thou curtained realm of spirits thus my cry	G
Hath troubled air and silence dost thou lie	G
Spread all around yet by some filmy screen	N
Shut from us ever The resounding woods	F
Do their depths teem with marvels and the floods	F
And the pure fountains leading secret veins	F
Of quenchless melody through rock and hill	Z
Have they bright dwellers are their lone domains	F
Peopled with beauty which may never still	Z
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Our	V
weary thirst of soul Cold weak and cold	A2
Is earth's vain language piercing not one fold	A2
Of our deep being Oh for gifts more high	G
For a seer's glance to rend mortality	B2
For a charmed rod to call from each dark shrine	N
The oracles divine	N
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I woke from those high fantasies to know	O
My kindred with the earth I woke to love	C2
O gentle friend to love in doubt and woe	O
Shutting the heart the worshipped name above	C2
Is to love deeply and	D2
my	G
spirit's dower	E2
Was a sad gift a melancholy power	V
Of so adoring with a buried care	F2
And with the o'erflowing of a voiceless prayer	F2
And with a deepening dream that day by day	G2
In the still shadow of the lonely sway	G2
Folded me closer till the world held nought	G2
Save the	H2
one	N
being to my centred thought	G2
There was no music but his voice to hear	I2
No joy but such as with	J2
his	F
step drew near	K2
Light was but where he looked life where he moved	G2
Silently fervently thus thus I loved	G2
Oh but such love is fearful and I knew	N
Its gathering doom the soul's prophetic sight	G2
Even then unfolded in my breast and threw	N
O'er all things round a full strong vivid light	G2
Too sorrowfully clear an under tone	N
Was given to Nature's harp for me alone	N
Whispering of grief Of grief be strong awake	L2
Hath not thy love been victory O my soul	M2
Hath not its conflict won a voice to shake	L2
Death's fastness a magic to control	M2
Worlds far removed from o'er the grave to thee	B2
Love hath made answer and	G2
thy	G
tale should be	B2
Sung like a lay of triumph Now return	N
And take thy treasure from its bosomed urn	N
And lift it once to light	G2
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In fear in pain	N
I said I loved but yet a heavenly strain	N
Of sweetness floated down the tearful stream	N2
A joy flashed through the trouble of my dream	N2
I knew myself beloved we breathed no vow	O2
No mingling visions might our fate allow	O2
As unto happy hearts but still and deep	P2
Like a rich jewel gleaming in a grave	Q2
Like golden sand in some dark river's wave	Q2
So did my soul that costly knowledge keep	P2
So jealousy a thing o'er which to shed	G2
When stars alone beheld the drooping head	G2
Lone tears yet ofttimes burdened with the excess	F
Of our strange nature's quivering happiness	F
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But oh sweet friend we dream not of love's might	G2
Till death has robed with soft and solemn light	G2
The image we enshrine Before	R2
that	G2
hour	V
We have but glimpses of the o'ermastering power	V
Within us laid	G2
then	N
doth the spirit flame	S2
With sword like lightning rend its mortal frame	S2
The wings of that which pants to follow fast	G2
Shake their clay bars as with a prisoned blast	G2
The sea is in our souls	F
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He died	G2
he	B2
died	G2
On whom my lone devotedness was cast	G2
I might not keep one vigil by his side	G2
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I	G
whose wrung heart watched with him to the last	G2
I might not once his fainting head sustain	N
Nor bathe his parched lips in the hour of pain	N
Nor say to him 'Farewell ' He passed away	G2
Oh had	G2
my	G
love been there its conquering sway	G2
Had won him back from death but thus removed	G2
Borne o'er the abyss no sounding line hath proved	G2
Joined with the unknown the viewless he became	S2
Unto my thoughts another yet the same	S2
Changed hallowed glorified and his low grave	Q2
Seemed a bright mournful altar mine all mine	N
Brother and friend soon left me	B2
that	G2
sole shrine	N
The birthright of the faithful	A
their	F2
world's wave	Q2
Soon swept them from its brink Oh deem thou not	G2
That on the sad and consecrated spot	G2
My soul grew weak I tell thee that a power	V
There kindled heart and lip a fiery shower	V
My words were made a might was given to prayer	F2
And a strong grasp to passionate despair	F2
And a dread triumph Knowest thou what I sought	G2
For what high boon my struggling spirit wrought	G2
Communion with the dead I sent a cry	G
Through the veiled empires of eternity	B2
A voice to cleave them By the mournful truth	T2
By the lost promise of my blighted youth	T2
By the strong chain a mighty love can bind	G2
On the beloved the spell of mind o'er mind	G2
By words which in themselves are magic high	G
Armed and inspired and winged with agony	B2
By tears which comfort not but burn and seem	N2
To bear the heart's blood in their passion stream	N2
I summoned I adjured with quickened sense	F
With the keen vigil of a life intense	F
I watched an answer from the winds to wring	U2
I listened if perchance the stream might bring	U2
Token from worlds afar I taught	G2
one	N
sound	G2
Unto a thousand echoes one profound	G2
Imploring accent to the tomb the sky	G
One prayer to night 'Awake appear reply '	-
Hast thou been told that from the viewless bourne	N
The dark way never hath allowed return	N
That all which tears can move with life is fled	G2
That earthly love is powerless on the dead	G2
Believe it not there is a large lone star	V2
Now burning o'er yon western hill afar	V2
And under its clear light there lies a spot	G2
Which well might utter forth Believe it not	G2
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I sat beneath that planet I had wept	G2
My woe to stillness every night wind slept	G2
A hush was on the hills the very streams	F
Went by like clouds or noiseless founts in dreams	F
And the dark tree o'ershadowing me that hour	V
Stood motionless even as the grey church tower	V
Whereon I gazed unconsciously there came	S2
A low sound like the tremor of a flame	S2
Or like the light quick shiver of a wing	U2
Flitting t	B2