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SHALL he on whom the fair lord Delphicus	A
Turned gracious eyes and countenance of shine	B
Be left to lie without a wreath from us	A
To sleep without a flower upon his shrine	B
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Shall he the son of that resplendent Muse	A
Who gleams high priestess of sweet scholarship	C
Still slumber on and every bard refuse	A
To touch a harp or move a tuneful lip	C
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No let us speak though feeble be our speech	D
And let us sing though faltering be our strain	E
And haply echoes of the song may reach	D
And please the soul we cannot see again	F
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We sing the beautiful the radiant life	G
That shone amongst us like the quiet moon	H
A fine exception in this sphere of strife	G
Whose time went by us like a hallowed tune	H
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Yon tomb whereon the moonlit grasses sigh	I
Hides from our view the shell of one whose days	A
Were set throughout to that grand harmony	J
Which fills all minor spirits with amaze	A
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This was the man whose dear lost face appears	A
To rise betimes like some sweet evening dream	K
And holy memories of faultless years	A
And touching hours of quietness supreme	K
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He having learned in full the golden rule	L
Which guides great lives stood fairly by the same	M
Unruffled as the Oriental pool	L
Before the bright disturbing angel came	M
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In Learning s halls he walked a leading lord	N
He trod the sacred temple s inner floors	A
But kindness beamed in every look and word	O
He gave the humblest Levite at the doors	A
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When scholars poor and bowed beneath the ban	P
Which clings as fire were like to faint and fall	Q
This was the gentle good Samaritan	R
Who stopped and held a helping hand to all	Q
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No term that savoured of unfriendliness	A
No censure through those pure lips ever passed	S
He saw the erring spirit s keen distress	A
And hoped for it long suffering to the last	S
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Moreover in these days when Faith grows faint	T
And Heaven seems blurred by speculation wild	U
He blameless as a mediaeval saint	T
Had all the trust which sanctifies a child	U
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But now he sleeps and as the years go by	I
We ll often pause above his sacred dust	V
And think how grand a thing it is to die	I
The noble death which deifies the just	V

Henry Kendall

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