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Weary was I of Earth My body lay	A
Its fires turned down and slaked to faintest heat	B
My soul went out into the night away	A
Where wing hath never beat	B
The green earth like a marble neath me spun	C
The shoreless ether and the island stars	D
Rose up before and sun and mightier sun	C
Flamed on their chariot bars	D
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Cleaving the blue abysmal without sound	E
Pressed on my soul I felt the awful seals	F
Of that vast Cosmos without depth or bound	E
Blazing with golden wheels	F
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I marked Orion s armour glitter cold	G
Where o er dark bars the milk white river runs	H
I marked great Sirius flood the heavens with gold	G
The sovran of the suns	H
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All stars grew dim all suns turned sullen red	I
Waned and went out in that victorious light	J
Heaven s mightiest star swung on a viewless thread	I
His mightiest satellite	J
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And like some storm tossed pilgrim of the sea	K
Who sights the loom of unknown shores afar	L
I felt the challenge and the mystery	K
Of that majestic star	L
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The giant planet in the golden stream	M
Turned all her massy bulk against the glow	N
I watched her storm blue mountain turrets gleam	M
Crowned with unconquered snow	N
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And all her table lands and wooded leas	O
And emerald plains through which clear rivers run	C
And all the foam crests of her plunging seas	O
That shout unto the sun	C
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And all her marble cities and her towers	P
That climb the hill or shine through deepmost brakes	Q
And all her velvet valleys rich with flowers	P
And all her silver lakes	Q
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And lastly with a strange new majesty	K
The face of man did pass before me there	R
King of the Earth and Victor of the Sea	K
And Lord of all the Air	R
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Whose fleets have lit the caverns of the deep	S
Whose wings have breasted all the winds that blow	N
And flashed his signal from his airy keep	S
To worlds above below	N
	-
On the faint limit of the air to north	T
On utmost marge of that gigantic girth	U
The grey haired Warden of the sky looked forth	T
And called What news of earth	U
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Ah woe is me I said that I should bring	V
To this fair orb the shadow of my pain	W
The earth is full of toil and suffering	V
And the fierce lust of gain	W
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The earth is full of travail and unrest	X
And hearts grown old and weary ere their time	Y
And shameful yokes upon men s necks are prest	X
That some may ride sublime	Y
	-
They love the foot that spurns them Let them be	K
Slaves to a conquering name or flattering breath	Z
Heroes have sought to teach them to be free	K
And their reward was death	Z
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The salt of earth the blood that loved them best	X
Out of the ground it cries that all may hear	A2
From the dark cross on sullen Calvary s crest	X
To Bruno s flaming bier	A2
	-
They gave to Socrates the poisoned bowl	B2
They closed Hypatia s noble eyes with fire	C2
They drove proud Dante forth an exiled soul	B2
Reft of his heart s desire	C2
	-
The Spaniard laid an Empire at their feet	B
And died despised In chains Italia s sage	D2
Great Galileo at their judgment seat	B
Knelt in his hoary age	D2
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The cell the cross the gibbet and the chain	W
Thus have ye crowned O World your mighty sons	H
The Earth is drunken with the blood and pain	W
Of all her noblest ones	H
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Then answered he and o er his face there shone	E2
A sudden rapture as the lightning breath	Z
Of some strong thought that quickens and is gone	F2
Yet bids us smile on death	Z
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By what strange guidance of the Central Powers	P
Thy soul draws near I know not but I know	N
All that has crowned with joy this world of ours	P
Was won through bitter woe	N
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Out of the hearts blood of the hero few	G2
Out of the lonely strength that scorned to flee	K
Out of the sorrow of the souls that knew	G2
We made the world you see	K
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We too have swung the mighty orbit round	E
Chained by the toils that hold ye bound to day	A
When all men s eyes were fixed upon the ground	E
And no man saw the way	A
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Yet was the germ within us and the power	C2
Of that great Unseen Truth to which we draw	H2
That from the seed may come the perfect flower	C2
To crown the perfect law	H2
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The white suns sail the waveless seas of Space	I2
Where once their bulk was but a starry flow	N
Down the long curves each System keeps its place	I2
Around some mightier glow	N
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From less to greater through the scale of change	J2
All things ascend in their appointed time	Y
Who shall adjudge to Man the utmost range	J2
His thoughts may climb	Y

George Essex Evans

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