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With love exceeding a simple love of the things	B
That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck	C
Or change their perch on a beat of quivering wings	B
From branch to branch only restful to pipe and peck	C
Or bristled curl at a touch their snouts in a ball	D
Or cast their web between bramble and thorny hook	E
The good physician Melampus loving them all	D
Among them walked as a scholar who reads a book	E
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II	A
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For him the woods were a home and gave him the key	F
Of knowledge thirst for their treasures in herbs and flowers	G
The secrets held by the creatures nearer than we	F
To earth he sought and the link of their life with ours	G
And where alike we are unlike where and the veined	H
Division veined parallel of a blood that flows	I
In them in us from the source by man unattained	H
Save marks he well what the mystical woods disclose	I
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III	A
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And this he deemed might be boon of love to a breast	H
Embracing tenderly each little motive shape	J
The prone the flitting who seek their food whither best	H
Their wits direct whither best from their foes escape	J
For closer drawn to our mother's natural milk	K
As babes they learn where her motherly help is great	H
They know the juice for the honey juice for the silk	K
And need they medical antidotes find them straight	H
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IV	-
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Of earth and sun they are wise they nourish their broods	I
Weave build hive burrow and battle take joy and pain	L
Like swimmers varying billows never in woods	I
Runs white insanity fleeing itself all sane	L
The woods revolve as the tree its shadowing limns	I
To some resemblance in motion the rooted life	-
Restrains disorder you hear the primitive hymns	I
Of earth in woods issue wild of the web of strife	-
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V	-
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Now sleeping once on a day of marvellous fire	M
A brood of snakes he had cherished in grave regret	H
That death his people had dealt their dam and their sire	M
Through savage dread of them crept to his neck and set	H
Their tongues to lick him the swift affectionate tongue	N
Of each ran licking the slumberer then his ears	I
A forked red tongue tickled shrewdly sudden upsprung	N
He heard a voice piping Ay for he has no fears	I
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VI	-
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A bird said that in the notes of birds and the speech	O
Of men it seemed and another renewed He moves	I
To learn and not to pursue he gathers to teach	O
He feeds his young as do we and as we love loves	I
No fears have I of a man who goes with his head	H
To earth chance looking aloft at us kind of hand	H
I feel to him as to earth of whom we are fed	H
I pipe him much for his good could he understand	H
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VII	-
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Melampus touched at his ears laid finger on wrist	H
He was not dreaming he sensibly felt and heard	H
Above through leaves where the tree twigs inter twist	H
He spied the birds and the bill of the speaking bird	H
His cushion mosses in shades of various green	P
The lumped the antlered he pressed while the sunny snake	N
Slipped under draughts he had drunk of clear Hippocrene	P
It seemed and sat with a gift of the Gods awake	N
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VIII	-
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Divinely thrilled was the man exultingly full	Q
As quick well waters that come of the heart of earth	R
Ere yet they dart in a brook are one bubble pool	S
To light and sound wedding both at the leap of birth	R
The soul of light vivid shone a stream within stream	T
The soul of sound from a musical shell outflew	S
Where others hear but a hum and see but a beam	T
The tongue and eye of the fountain of life he knew	P
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IX	I
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He knew the Hours they were round him laden with seed	H
Of hours bestrewn upon vapour and one by one	P
They winged as ripened in fruit the burden decreed	H
For each to scatter they flushed like the buds in sun	P
Bequeathing seed to successive similar rings	I
Their sisters bearers to men of what men have earned	H
He knew them talked with the yet unreddened the stings	I
The sweets they warmed at their bosoms divined discerned	H
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X	I
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Not unsolicited sought by diligent feet	H
By riddling fingers expanded oft watched in growth	U
With brooding deep as the noon ray's quickening wheat	H
Ere touch'd the pendulous flower of the plants of sloth	U
The plants of rigidness answered question and squeeze	I
Revealing wherefore it bloomed uninviting bent	H
Yet making harmony breathe of life and disease	I
The deeper chord of a wonderful instrument	H
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XI	I
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So passed he luminous eyed for earth and the fates	I
We arm to bruise or caress us his ears were charged	H
With tones of love in a whirl of voluble hates	I
With music wrought of distraction his heart enlarged	H
Celestial shining though mortal singer though mute	H
He drew the Master of harmonies voiced or stilled	H
To seek him heard at the silent medicine root	H
A song beheld in fulfilment the unfulfilled	H
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XII	I
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Him Phoebus lending to darkness colour and form	V
Of light's excess many lessons and counsels gave	-
Showed Wisdom lord of the human intricate swarm	V
And whence prophetic it looks on the hives that rave	-
And how acquired of the zeal of love to acquire	M
And where it stands in the centre of life a sphere	W
And Measure mood of the lyre the rapturous lyre	X
He said was Wisdom and struck him the notes to hear	Y
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XIII	I
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Sweet sweet 'twas glory of vision honey the breeze	I
In heat the run of the river on root and stone	P
All senses joined as the sister Pierides	I
Are one uplifting their chorus the Nine his own	P
In stately order evolved of sound into sight	H
From sight to sound intershifting the man descried	H
The growths of earth his adored like day out of night	H
Ascend in song seeing nature and song allied	H
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XIV	-
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And there vitality there there solely in song	N
Resides where earth and her uses to men their needs	I
Their forceful cravings the theme are there is it strong	N
The Master said and the studious eye that reads	I
Yea even as earth to the crown of Gods on the mount	H
In links divine with the lyrical tongue is bound	H
Pursue thy craft it is music drawn of a fount	H
To spring perennial well spring is common ground	H
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Melampus dwelt among men physician and sage	Z
He served them loving them healing them sick or maimed	H
Or them that frenzied in some delirious rage	Z
Outran the measure his juice of the woods reclaimed	H
He played on men as his master Phoebus on strings	I
Melodious as the God did he drive and check	N
Through love exceeding a simple love of the things	I
That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck	N

George Meredith

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