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The grand authentic songs that roll	A
Across grey widths of wild faced sea	B
The lordly anthems of the Pole	A
Are loud upon the lea	B
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Yea deep and full the South Wind sings	C
The mighty symphonies that make	D
A thunder at the mountain springs	C
A whiteness on the lake	D
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And where the hermit hornet hums	E
When Summer fires his wings with gold	F
The hollow voice of August comes	E
Across the rain and cold	F
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Now on the misty mountain tops	G
Where gleams the crag and glares the fell	H
Wild Winter like one hunted stops	G
And shouts a fierce farewell	H
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Keen fitful gusts shoot past the shore	I
And hiss by moor and moody mere	J
The heralds bleak that come before	I
The turning of the year	J
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A sobbing spirit wanders where	K
By fits and starts the wild fire shines	L
Like one who walks in deep despair	K
With Death amongst the pines	L
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And ah the fine majestic grief	M
Which fills the heart of forests lone	N
And makes a lute of limb and leaf	M
Is human in its tone	N
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Too human for the thought to slip	O
How every song that sorrow sings	C
Betrays the broad relationship	O
Of all created things	C
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Man's mournful speech the wail of tree	B
The words the winds and waters say	P
Make up that general elegy	B
Whose burden is decay	P
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To night my soul looks back and sees	Q
Across wind broken wastes of wave	R
A widow on her bended knees	Q
Beside a new made grave	R
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A sufferer with a touching face	S
By love and grief made beautiful	T
Whose rapt religion lights the place	S
Where death holds awful rule	U
	-
The fair tired soul whose twofold grief	M
For child and father lends a tone	N
Of pathos to the pallid leaf	M
That sighs above the stone	N
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The large beloved heart whereon	N
She used to lean lies still and cold	F
Where like a seraph shines the sun	N
On flowerful green and gold	F
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I knew him well the grand the sweet	V
Pure nature past all human praise	W
The dear Gamaliel at whose feet	V
I sat in other days	W
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He glorified by god like lore	I
First showed my soul Life's highest aim	X
When like one winged I breathed before	I
The years of sin and shame	X
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God called him Home And in the calm	Y
Beyond our best possessions priced	Z
He passed as floats a faultless psalm	A2
To his fair Father Christ	Z
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But left as solace for the hours	B2
Of sorrow and the loss thereof	C2
A sister of the birds and flowers	B2
The daughter of his love	C2
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She like a stray sweet seraph shed	D2
A healing spirit that flamed and flowed	E2
As if about her bright young head	D2
A crown of saintship glowed	E2
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Suppressing with sublime self slight	F2
The awful face of that distress	G2
Which fell upon her youth like blight	F2
She shone like happiness	H2
	-
And in the home so sanctified	F2
By death in its most noble guise	I2
She kissed the lips of love and dried	F2
The tears in sorrow's eyes	I2
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And helped the widowed heart to lean	N
So broken up with human cares	J2
On one who must be felt and seen	N
By such pure souls as hers	B2
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Moreover having lived and learned	F2
The taste of Life's most bitter spring	K2
For all the sick this sister yearned	F2
The poor and suffering	K2
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But though she had for every one	N
The phrase of comfort and the smile	L2
This shining daughter of the sun	N
Was dying all the while	L2
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Yet self withdrawn held out of reach	M2
Was grief except when music blent	F2
Its deep divine prophetic speech	M2
With voice and instrument	F2
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Then sometimes would escape a cry	N2
From that dark other life of hers	B2
The half of her humanity	F2
And sob through sound and verse	O2
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At last there came the holy touch	P2
With psalms from higher homes and hours	B2
And she who loved the flowers so much	P2
Now sleeps amongst the flowers	B2
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By hearse like yews and grey haired moss	Q2
Where wails the wind in starts and fits	R2
Twice bowed and broken down with loss	Q2
The wife the mother sits	R2
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God help her soul She cannot see	F2
For very trouble anything	K2
Beyond this wild Gethsemane	N
Of swift black suffering	K2
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Except it be that faltering faith	S2
Which leads the lips of life to say	P
'There must be something past this death	T2
Lord teach me how to pray '	-
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Ah teach her Lord And shed through grief	M
The clear full light the undefiled	F2
The blessing of the bright belief	M
Which sanctified her child	F2
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Let me a son of sin and doubt	F2
Whose feet are set in ways amiss	U2
Who cannot read Thy riddle out	F2
Just plead and ask Thee this	U2
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Give her the eyes to see the things	C
The Life and Love I cannot see	F2
And lift her with the helping wings	C
Thou hast denied to me	F2
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Yea shining from the highest blue	V2
On those that sing by Beulah's streams	W2
Shake on her thirsty soul the dew	V2
Which brings immortal dreams	W2
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So that her heart may find the great	F2
Pure faith for which it looks so long	X2
And learn the noble way to wait	F2
To suffer and be strong	X2

Henry Kendall

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