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I sought the long clear twilights of my home	A
Far in the pale blue skies and slaty seas	B
What time the sunset dies not utterly	C
But withered to a ghost like stealthy gleam	D
Round the horizon creeps the short lived night	E
And changes into sunrise in a swoon	F
I found my home in homeliness unchanged	G
The love that made it home unchangeable	C
Received me as a child and all was well	C
My ancient summer heaven borne on the hills	H
Once more embraced me and once more the vale	C
So often sighed for in the far off nights	I
Rose on my bodily vision and behold	J
In nothing had the fancy mocked the fact	K
The hasting streams went garrulous as of old	J
The resting flowers in silence uttered more	L
The blue hills rose and dwelt alone in heaven	M
Householding Nature from her treasures brought	N
Things old and new the same yet not the same	O
For all was holier lovelier than before	L
And best of all once more I paced the fields	P
With him whose love had made me long for God	Q
So good a father that needs must I sought	N
A better still Father of him and me	C
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Once on a day my cousin Frank and I	R
Sat swiftly borne behind the dear white mare	S
That oft had carried me in bygone days	T
Along the lonely paths of moorland hills	H
But now we sought the coast where deep waves foam	A
'Gainst rocks that lift their dark fronts to the north	U
And with us went a girl on whose kind face	V
I had not looked for many a youthful year	W
But the old friendship straightway blossomed new	X
The heavens were sunny and the earth was green	Y
The large harebells in families stood along	Z
The grassy borders of a tender blue	X
Transparent as the sky haunted with wings	A2
Of many butterflies as blue as they	B2
And as we talked and talked without restraint	C2
Brought near by memories of days that were	D2
And therefore are for ever by the joy	E2
Of motion through a warm and shining air	S
By the glad sense of freedom and like thoughts	F2
And by the bond of friendship with the dead	G2
She told the tale which here I tell again	H2
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I had returned to childish olden time	I2
And asked her if she knew a castle worn	J2
Whose masonry razed utterly above	K2
Yet faced the sea cliff up and met the waves	L2
'Twas one of my child marvels for each year	W
We turned our backs upon the ripening corn	J2
And sought some village on the Moray shore	L
And nigh this ruin was that I loved the best	M2
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For oh the riches of that little port	N2
Down almost to the beach where a high wall	C
Inclosed them came the gardens of a lord	O2
Free to the visitor with foot restrained	P2
His shady walks his ancient trees of state	Q2
His river that would not be shut within	R2
But came abroad went dreaming o'er the sands	S2
And lost itself in finding out the sea	C
Inside it bore grave swans white splendours crept	T2
Under the fairy leap of a wire bridge	U2
Vanished in leaves and came again where lawns	V2
Lay verdurous and the peacock's plumy heaven	M
Bore azure suns with green and golden rays	T
It was my childish Eden for the skies	W2
Were loftier in that garden and the clouds	X2
More summer gracious edged with broader white	E
And when they rained it was a golden rain	Y2
That sparkled as it fell an odorous rain	Y2
And then its wonder heart a little room	Z2
Half hollowed in the side of a steep hill	C
Which rose with columned windy temple crowned	A3
A landmark to far seas The enchanted cell	C
Was clouded over in the gentle night	E
Of a luxuriant foliage and its door	L
Half filled with rainbow hues of coloured glass	B3
Opened into the bosom of the hill	C
Never to sesame of mine that door	L
Gave up its sanctuary but through the glass	B3
Gazing with reverent curiosity	C
I saw a little chamber round and high	R
Which but to see was to escape the heat	C3
And bathe in coolness of the eye and brain	Y2
For all was dusky greenness on one side	D3
A window half blind with ivy manifold	J
Whose leaves like heads of gazers climbed to the top	E3
Gave a joy saddened light for all that came	O
Through the thick veil was green oh kindest hue	X
But the heart has a heart this heart had one	M
Still in the midst the ever more of all	C
On a low column stood white cold dim clear	W
A marble woman Who she was I know not	F3
A Psyche or a Silence or an Echo	G3
Pale undefined a silvery shadow still	C
In one lone chamber of my memory	C
She is a power upon me as of old	J
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But ah to dream there through hot summer days	T
In coolness shrouded and sea murmurings	T
Forgot by all till twilight shades grew dark	H3
To find half hidden in the hollowed wall	C
A nest of tales old volumes such as dreams	T
Hoard up in bookshops dim in tortuous streets	T
That wondrous marble woman evermore	L
Filling the gloom with calm delirium	I3
Of radiated whiteness as I read	G2
The fancied joy too plenteous for its cup	J3
O'erflowed and turned to sadness as it fell	C
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But the gray ruin on the shattered shore	L
Not the green refuge in the bowering hill	C
Drew forth our talk that day For as I said	G2
I asked her if she knew it She replied	D3
I know it well A woman used to live	K3
In one of its low vaults my mother says	T
I found a hole I said and spiral stair	S
Leading from level of the ground above	K2
To a low vaulted room within the rock	L3
Whence through a small square window I looked forth	U
Wide o'er the waters the dim sounding waves	T
Were many feet below and shrunk in size	T
To a great ripple 'Twas not there she said	G2
Not in that room half up the cliff but one	M
Low down within the margin of spring tides	T
When both the tide and northern wind are high	R
'Tis more an ocean cave than castle vault	M3
And then she told me all she knew of her	D2
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It was a simple tale a monotone	N3
She climbed one sunny hill gazed once abroad	O3
Then wandered down to pace a dreary plain	Y2
Alas how many such are told by night	E
In fisher cottages along the shore	L
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Farewell old summer day I turn aside	D3
To tell her story interwoven with thoughts	T
Born of its sorrow for I dare not think	P3
A woman at the mercy of a sea	T

George Macdonald

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