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When you came over the top of the world	A
In the great day on the Downs	B
The air was crisp and the clouds were curled	A
When you came over the top of the world	A
And under your feet were spire and street	C
And seven English towns	B
	-
And I could not think that the pride was perished	D
As you came over the down	E
Liberty chivalry all we cherished	D
Lost in a rattle of pelf and perished	D
Or the land we love that you walked above	F
Withering town by town	E
	-
For you came out on the dome of the earth	G
Like a vision of victory	H
Out on the great green dome of the earth	G
As the great blue dome of the sky for girth	G
And under your feet the shires could meet	C
And your eyes went out to sea	H
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Under your feet the towns were seven	I
Alive and alone on high	J
Your back to the broad white wall of heaven	I
You were one and the towns were seven	I
Single and one as the soaring sun	I
And your head upheld the sky	J
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And I thought of a thundering flag unfurled	A
And the roar of the burghers' bell	K
Beacons crackled and bolts were hurled	A
As you came over the top of the world	A
And under your feet were chance and cheat	C
And the slime of the slopes of hell	K
	-
It has not been as the great wind spoke	L
On the great green down that day	M
We have seen wherever the wide wind spoke	L
Slavery slaying the English folk	L
The robbers of land we have seen command	N
The rulers of land obey	M
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We have seen the gigantic golden worms	O
In the garden of paradise	P
We have seen the great and the wise make terms	O
With the peace of snakes and the pride of worms	O
and them that plant make covenant	Q
With the locust and the lice	P
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And the wind blows and the world goes on	R
And the world can say that we	H
Who stood on the cliffs where the quarries shone	S
Stood upon clouds that the sun shone on	R
And the clouds dissunder and drown in thunder	T
The news that will never be	H
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Lady of all that have loved the people	U
Light over roads astray	M
Maze of steading and street and steeple	U
Great as a heart that has loved the people	U
Stand on the crown of the soaring down	E
Lift up your arms and pray	M
	-
Only you I have not forgotten	I
For wreck of the world's renown	E
Rending and ending of things gone rotten	I
Only the face of you unforgotten	I
And your head upthrown in the skies alone	I
As you came over the down	I

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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