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All sights and sounds of day and year	A
All groups and forms each leaf and gem	B
Are thine O God nor will I fear	A
To talk to thee of them	B
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Too great thy heart is to despise	C
Whose day girds centuries about	D
From things which we name small thine eyes	C
See great things looking out	D
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Therefore the prayerful song I sing	E
May come to thee in ordered words	F
Though lowly born it needs not cling	E
In terror to its chords	G
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I think that nothing made is lost	H
That not a moon has ever shone	I
That not a cloud my eyes hath crossed	H
But to my soul is gone	J
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That all the lost years garnered lie	K
In this thy casket my dim soul	L
And thou wilt once the key apply	K
And show the shining whole	L
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But were they dead in me they live	M
In thee whose Parable is Time	N
And Worlds and Forms all things that give	O
Me thoughts and this my rime	N
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And after what men call my death	P
When I have crossed the unknown sea	Q
Some heavenly morn on hopeful breath	P
Shall rise this prayer to thee	Q
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Oh let me be a child once more	R
And dream fine glories in the gloom	N
Of sun and moon and stars in store	R
To ceil my humble room	N
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Oh call again the moons that crossed	H
Blue gulfs behind gray vapours crept	S
Show me the solemn skies I lost	H
Because in thee I slept	S
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Once more let gathering glory swell	T
And lift the world's dim eastern eye	K
Once more let lengthening shadows tell	T
Its time is come to die	K
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But show me first oh blessed sight	U
The lowly house where I was young	V
There winter sent wild winds at night	U
And up the snow heaps flung	V
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Or soundless brought a chaos fair	W
Full formless of fantastic forms	X
White ghostly trees in sparkling air	W
Chamber for slumbering storms	X
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There sudden dawned a dewy morn	Y
A man was turning up the mould	Z
And in our hearts the spring was born	Y
Crept thither through the cold	Z
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And Spring in after years of youth	A2
Became the form of every form	N
For hearts now bursting into truth	A2
Now sighing in the storm	N
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On with the glad year let me go	B2
With troops of daisies round my feet	C2
Flying my kite or in the glow	B2
Of arching summer heat	C2
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Outstretched in fear upon a bank	D2
Lest gazing up on awful space	E2
I should fall down into the blank	D2
From off the round world's face	E2
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And let my brothers come with me	Q
To play our old games yet again	F2
Children on earth more full of glee	Q
That we in heaven are men	F2
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If then should come the shadowy death	P
Take one of us and go	B2
We left would say under our breath	P
It is a dream you know	B2
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And in the dream our brother's gone	J
Upstairs he heard our father call	G2
For one by one we go alone	I
Till he has gathered all	G2
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Father in joy our knees we bow	H2
This earth is not a place of tombs	I2
We are but in the nursery now	H2
They in the upper rooms	I2
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For are we not at home in thee	Q
And all this world a visioned show	B2
That knowing what Abroad is we	Q
What Home is too may know	B2
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And at thy feet I sit O Lord	J2
As once of old in moonlight pale	K2
I at my father's sat and heard	L2
Him read a lofty tale	K2
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On with my history let me go	B2
And reap again the gliding years	M2
Gather great noontide's joyous glow	B2
Eve's love contented tears	N2
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One afternoon sit pondering	E
In that old chair in that old room	N
Where passing pigeon's sudden wing	E
Flashed lightning through the gloom	N
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There try once more with effort vain	O2
To mould in one perplexed things	P2
There find the solace yet again	F2
Hope in the Father brings	P2
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Or mount and ride in sun and wind	Q2
Through desert moors hills bleak and high	K
Where wandering vapours fall and find	Q2
In me another sky	K
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For so thy Visible grew mine	R2
Though half its power I could not know	B2
And in me wrought a work divine	R2
Which thou hadst ordered so	B2
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Giving me cups that would not spill	S2
But water carry and yield again	F2
New bottles with new wine to fill	S2
For comfort of thy men	F2
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But if thou thus restore the past	T2
One hour for me to wander in	U2
I now bethink me at the last	T2
O Lord leave out the sin	U2
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And with the thought comes doubt my God	V2
Shall I the whole desire to see	Q
And walk once more of that hill road	W2
By which I went to thee	Q

George Macdonald

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