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I scorn the man a fool at most	A
And ignorant and blind	B
Who loves to go about and boast	A
He understands mankind	B
I thought I had that knowledge too	C
And boasted it with pride	D
But since I ve learned that human hearts	E
Cannot be classified	D
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In days when I was young and wild	F
I had no vanity	G
I always thought when women smiled	F
That they were fooling me	G
I was content to let them fool	H
And let them deem I cared	I
For tutored in a narrow school	H
I held myself prepared	I
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But Lily had a pretty face	J
And great blue Irish eyes	K
And she was fair as any race	J
Beneath the Northern skies	K
The sweetest voice I ever heard	L
Although it was unschooled	L
So for a season I preferred	L
By Lily to be fooled	L
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A friend embittered all my life	M
With careless words of his	N
He said I d never win a wife	M
With such an ugly phiz	N
I laughed the loudest at the wit	L
Though loud the laughter rung	O
So be it to his credit writ	L
He never knew it stung	O
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As far as human nature goes	N
The cynic I would teach	P
That fruit s not always sour to those	N
For whom none hangs in reach	P
I only gazed as captives might	L
Gaze through their prison bars	N
Fair women seemed to me as bright	L
Though far away as stars	N
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And Lily was to me a star	Q
As fair as those above	R
As beautiful but just as far	Q
From my revengeful love	R
The love I bore was not exempt	L
From hate if this might be	G
I hated her for that contempt	L
I thought she had for me	G
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The sour grapes are often sweet	L
To lips that cannot touch	S
And it is soothing to repeat	L
It does not matter much	S
But O to think that fruit so dear	T
To me in manhood s prime	U
Though seeming far was clustered near	T
And red ripe all the time	U
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My fault perhaps in Heav n above	R
May not be deemed a sin	V
I never thought that she would love	R
Or I d the power to win	V
And even now it puzzles me	G
The butt of station chaff	W
For I was plain as man could be	G
And awkward as a calf	W
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I would have liked to break the bow	X
That Lily never bent	L
I thought she d only laugh to know	Y
How well her shafts were sent	L
If my contempt had power to gall	Z
Or careless sneers to touch	S
The heart that loved me after all	Z
She must have suffered much	S
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Ah I was blind and could not see	G
The plain things in my way	A2
When Lily s mistress twitted me	G
About the wedding day	A2
I answered with a careless word	L
And half unconscious sneer	T
I never thought that Lily heard	L
Nor dreamed that she was near	T
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We talked of other things and joked	L
Till tongues began to tire	B2
Then I and Lily s master smoked	L
Our pipes beside the fire	B2
The day wore on and then she brought	L
The kettle to the hob	C2
And as she turned to go I thought	L
I heard a stifled sob	C2
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I spoke she never answered me	G
I sneered I ll not forget	L
Above all things I hate to see	G
A woman in a pet	L
Those cruel words that were the last	L
That Lily ever heard	L
I ve heard them shrieking in the blast	L
And twittered by the bird	L
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Deep in the creek that wandered near	T
There lay a grassy pool	H
Neath oaks that sighed through all the year	T
And kept the water cool	H
The stars that pierced the reedy bower	B2
Made water lilies bright	L
And underneath her sister flower	B2
Our Lily slept that night	L
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She d brought a pole the pool to sound	L
It must have tried her strength	D2
We found it lying on the ground	L
And wet for half its length	D2
We found it there upon the grass	N
But ah it was not all	Z
An open prayer book lay alas	N
Beside poor Lily s shawl	Z
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We drew her out and laid her down	E2
Upon a granite ledge	F2
The water from her dripping gown	E2
Went trickling o er the edge	F2
Like drops into a pool of fears	N
I saw the crystals dart	L
Or one by one like scalding tears	N
That plash upon the heart	L
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The circles died upon the shore	G2
The frogs began to croak	H2
The wind that passed to list once more	G2
Went sighing through the oak	H2
The oak that seemed to say to me	G
I think I hear it yet	L
Above all things I hate to see	G
A woman in a pet	L
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The blackest thoughts are swift to fill	I2
The evil minds of men	J2
I knew the meaning of the looks	N
They bent upon me then	J2
And then I did as cowards do	L
I vanished like a cur	B2
For many years I never knew	L
Where they had buried her	B2
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But drawn by that same power that brings	N
The slayer to the slain	K2
Or driven like the bird that wings	N
Against the storm in vain	K2
I journeyed from another shore	G2
Across the weary wave	L2
And wandered by the creek once more	G2
And sought for Lily s grave	L2
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I rode across the ridges brown	E2
And through a rocky pass	N
And took the track that led me down	E2
To great white flats of grass	N
I passed the homestead s skeleton	M2
That rotted in the sun	M2
And by the broken stockyards on	N2
The long deserted run	M2
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Whole beds of reeds were covered o er	B2
With coats of yellow mud	L
And all along the creek I saw	N
The traces of a flood	L
I reached the place where Lily died	L
The banks were washed away	A2
Before me on the other side	L
There rose a wall of clay	A2
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I saw a thing that seemed a weed	L
Outgrowing from the face	N
I stood and marvelled that a seed	L
Had grown in such a place	N
I climbed the bank and with a rod	L
I pushed the weed about	L
And from the dry and crumbling sod	L
I saw a skull roll out	L
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I started back from where I stood	L
For she was buried there	O2
I d seen the coffin s rotting wood	L
The weed was Lily s hair	O2
They d laid her in the rushes dank	P2
Upon a sandy bend	L
The floods had washed away the bank	P2
And reached the coffin s end	L
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Ah coward heart and conscience too	L
Did I reclaim the dead	L
Ah no I did as cowards do	L
A second time I fled	L
And still I see the flying form	Q2
I see myself again	J2
A madman riding through the storm	Q2
With terror in his brain	K2
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That night the rain in torrents dashed	L
The sky seemed flushed with blood	L
And here and there the she oaks crashed	L
Beneath the yellow flood	L
And still I see the murderous sky	R2
That never seems to change	S2
And hear the flood go growling by	R2
That thundered from the range	S2
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My inner sight as years went o er	B2
Grew sharp instead of dull	T2
And nearly every night I saw	N
The coffin and the skull	T2
Three ghastly things unaltered still	I2
I knew would haunt my night	L
I knew would fill my dreams until	I2
I buried them from sight	L
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I journeyed to the creek once more	G2
When five long years had flown	U2
And buried in the sand I saw	N
A piece of fashioned stone	U2
And bit by bit and bone by bone	U2
In those long years of rain	K2
The cruel creek had claimed its own	U2
And buried it again	J2
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I clambered down the bank and knelt	L
And scraped away the sand	L
And graven on the stone I felt	L
Her name beneath my hand	L
And in the she oak over me	G
The wind was sneering yet	L
Above all things I hate to see	G
A woman in a pet	L