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Strong pinions bore Safi the dreamer	A
Through the dazzle and whirl of a race	B
And the earth raying up in confusion	C
Like a sea thundered under his face	B
And the earth raying up in confusion	C
Passed flying and flying afar	D
Till it dropped like a moon into silence	E
And waned from a moon to a star	D
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Was it light was it shadow he followed	F
That he swept through those desperate tracts	G
With his hair beating back on his shoulders	H
Like the tops of the wind hackled flax	I
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I come murmured Safi the dreamer	A
I come but thou fliest before	J
But thy way hath the breath of the honey	K
And the scent of the myrrh evermore	J
	-
His eyes were the eyes of a watcher	A
Held on by luxurious faith	L
And his lips were the lips of a longer	A
Amazed with the beauty of Death	M
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For ever and ever he murmured	N
My love for the sweetness with thee	K
Do I follow thy footsteps said Safi	O
Like the wind on a measureless sea	K
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And fronting the furthermost spaces	P
He kept through the distances dim	Q
Till the days and the years and the cycles	R
Were lost and forgotten by him	Q
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When he came to the silver star portals	R
The Queen of that wonderful place	B
Looked forth from her towers resplendent	S
And started and dreamed in his face	B
	-
And one said This is Safi the Only	K
Who lived in a planet below	T
And housed him apart from his fellows	U
A million of ages ago	T
	-
He erred if he suffers to clutch at	V
High lights from the wood and the street	W
Not caring to see how his brothers	H
Were content with the things at their feet	W
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But she whispered Ah turn to the stranger	A
He looks like a lord of the land	X
For his eyes are the eyes of an angel	Y
And the thought on his forehead is grand	X
	-
Is there never a peace for the sinner	A
Whose sin is in this that he mars	Z
The light of his worship of Beauty	K
Forgetting the flower for the stars	Z
	-
Behold him my Sister immortal	Y
And doubt that he knoweth his shame	A2
Who raves in the shadow for sweetness	B2
And gloats on the ghost of a flame	A2
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His sin is his sin if he suffers	H
Who wilfully straitened the truth	C2
And his doom is his doom if he follows	U
A lie without sorrow or ruth	C2
	-
And another from uttermost verges	D2
Ran out with a terrible voice	E2
Let him go it is well that he goeth	C2
Though he break with the lot of his choice	E2
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I come murmured Safi the dreamer	A
I come but thou fliest before	J
But thy way hath the breath of the honey	K
And the scent of the myrrh evermore	J
	-
My Queen said the first of the Voices	P
He hunteth a perilous wraith	C2
Arrayed with voluptuous fancies	F2
And ringed with tyrannical faith	C2
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Wound up in the heart of his error	A
He must sweep through the silences dire	G2
Like one in the dark of a desert	H2
Allured by fallacious fire	A
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And she faltered and asked like a doubter	A
When he hangs on those Spaces sublime	I2
With the Terror that knoweth no limit	J2
And holdeth no record of Time	I2
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Forgotten of God and the demons	K2
Will he keep to his fancy amain	K
Can he live for that horrible chaos	L2
Of flame and perpetual rain	K
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But an answer as soft as a prayer	M2
Fell down from a high hidden land	X
And the words were the words of a language	N2
Which none but the gods understand	X

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