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I	A
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The Tyrant passed and friendlier was his eye	A
On the great man of Athens whom for foe	B
He knew than on the sycophantic fry	A
That broke as waters round a galley's flow	B
Bubbles at prow and foam along the wake	C
Solidity the Thunderer could not shake	C
Beneath an adverse wind still stripping bare	D
His kinsman of the light in cavern look	E
From thought drew and a countenance could wear	D
Not less at peace than fields in Attic air	D
Shorn and shown fruitful by the reaper's hook	E
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II	A
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Most enviable so yet much insane	F
To deem of minds of men they grow these sheep	G
By fits wild horses need the crook and rein	F
Hot bulls by fits pure wisdom hold they cheap	G
My Lawgiver when fiery is the mood	H
For ones and twos and threes thy words are good	I
For thine own government are pillars mine	J
Stand acts to fit the herd which has quick thirst	K
Rejecting elegiacs though they shine	J
On polished brass and worthy of the Nine	J
In showering columns from their fountain burst	K
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III	A
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Thus museful rode the Tyrant princely plumed	K
To his high seat upon the sacred rock	L
And Solon blank beside his rule resumed	K
The meditation which that passing mock	L
Had buffeted awhile to sallowness	M
He little loved the man his office less	M
Yet owned him for a flower of his kind	K
Therefore the heavier curse on Athens he	N
The people grew not in themselves but blind	K
Accepted sight from him to him resigned	K
Their hopes of stature rootless as at sea	N
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IV	B
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As under sea lay Solon's work or seemed	K
By turbid shore waves beaten day by day	K
Defaced half formless like an image dreamed	K
Or child that fashioned in another clay	K
Appears by strangers' hands to home returned	K
But shall the Present tyrannize us earned	K
It was in some way justly says the sage	O
One sees not how while husbanding regrets	M
While tossing scorn abroad from righteous rage	O
High vision is obscured for this is age	O
When robbed more infant than the babe it frets	M
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V	B
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Yet see Athenians treading the black path	P
Laid by a prince's shadow well content	K
To wait his pleasure shivering at his wrath	P
They bow to their accepted Orient	K
With offer of the all that renders bright	K
Forgetful of the growth of men to light	K
As creatures reared on Persian milk they bow	Q
Unripe unripe The times are overcast	K
But still may they who sowed behind the plough	Q
True seed fix in the mind an unborn NOW	Q
To make the plagues afflicting us things past	K

George Meredith

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