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At rest Hard by the margin of that sea	A
Whose sounds are mingled with his noble verse	B
Now lies the shell that never more will house	C
The fine strong spirit of my gifted friend	D
Yea he who flashed upon us suddenly	A
A shining soul with syllables of fire	E
Who sang the first great songs these lands can claim	F
To be their own the one who did not seem	G
To know what royal place awaited him	H
Within the Temple of the Beautiful	I
Has passed away and we who knew him sit	J
Aghast in darkness dumb with that great grief	K
Whose stature yet we cannot comprehend	D
While over yonder churchyard hearsed with pines	L
The night wind sings its immemorial hymn	H
And sobs above a newly covered grave	M
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The bard the scholar and the man who lived	N
That frank that open hearted life which keeps	O
The splendid fire of English chivalry	A
From dying out the one who never wronged	P
A fellow man the faithful friend who judged	Q
The many anxious to be loved of him	H
By what he saw and not by what he heard	R
As lesser spirits do the brave great soul	S
That never told a lie or turned aside	T
To fly from danger he I say was one	U
Of that bright company this sin stained world	V
Can ill afford to lose	W
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They did not know	X
The hundreds who had read his sturdy verse	B
And revelled over ringing major notes	Y
The mournful meaning of the undersong	Z
Which runs through all he wrote and often takes	A2
The deep autumnal half prophetic tone	B2
Of forest winds in March nor did they think	Z
That on that healthy hearted man there lay	C2
The wild specific curse which seems to cling	Z
For ever to the Poet's twofold life	D2
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To Adam Lindsay Gordon I who laid	E2
Two years ago on Lionel Michael's grave	M
A tender leaf of my regard yea I	F2
Who culled a garland from the flowers of song	Z
To place where Harpur sleeps I left alone	B2
The sad disciple of a shining band	G2
Now gone to Adam Lindsay Gordon's name	F
I dedicate these lines and if 'tis true	H2
That past the darkness of the grave the soul	S
Becomes omniscient then the bard may stoop	I2
From his high seat to take the offering	Z
And read it with a sigh for human friends	J2
In human bonds and gray with human griefs	J2
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And having wove and proffered this poor wreath	K2
I stand to day as lone as he who saw	J2
At nightfall through the glimmering moony mists	J2
The last of Arthur on the wailing mere	L2
And strained in vain to hear the going voice	J2

Henry Kendall

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