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In a great land a new land a land full of labour	A
and riches and confusion	B
Where there were many running to and fro and	C
shouting and striving together	D
In the midst of the hurry and the troubled noise	E
I heard the voice of one singing	F
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quot What are you doing there O man singing	F
quietly amid all this tumult	G
This is the time for new inventions mighty	H
shoutings and blowings of the trumpet quot	H
But he answered quot I am only shepherding my	I
sheep with music quot	H
	-
So he went along his chosen way keeping his	J
little flock around him	K
And he paused to listen now and then beside	H
the antique fountains	L
Where the faces of forgotten gods were refreshed	H
with musically falling waters	M
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Or he sat for a while at the blacksmith's door	N
and heard the cling clang of the anvils	M
Or he rested beneath old steeples full of bells	M
that showered their chimes upon him	K
Or he walked along the border of the sea	M
drinking in the long roar of the billows	M
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Or he sunned himself in the pine scented ship	O
yard amid the tattoo of the mallets	M
Or he leaned on the rail of the bridge letting	F
his thoughts flow with the whispering river	D
He hearkened also to ancient tales and made	H
them young again with his singing	F
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Then a flaming arrow of death fell on his flock	P
and pierced the heart of his dearest	H
Silent the music now as the shepherd entered	H
the mystical temple of sorrow	Q
Long he tarried in darkness there but when he	M
came out he was singing	F
	-
And I saw the faces of men and women and	H
children silently turning toward him	K
The youth setting out on the journey of life and	H
the old man waiting beside the last mile stone	R
The toiler sweating beneath his load and the	S
happy mother rocking her cradle	T
	-
The lonely sailor on far off seas and the grey	U
minded scholar in his book room	V
The mill hand bound to a clacking machine and	H
the hunter in the forest	H
And the solitary soul hiding friendless in the	S
wilderness of the city	M
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Many human faces full of care and longing were	D
drawn irresistibly toward him	K
By the charm of something known to every heart	H
yet very strange and lovely	M
And at the sound of that singing wonderfully	M
all their faces were lightened	H
	-
quot Why do you listen O you people to this old	H
and world worn music	W
This is not for you in the splendour of a new	X
age in the democratic triumph	Y
Listen to the clashing cymbals the big drums the	S
brazen trumpets of your poets quot	H
	-
But the people made no answer following in	Z
their hearts the simpler music	W
For it seemed to them noise weary nothing	F
could be better worth the hearing	F
Than the melodies which brought sweet order	D
into life's confusion	B
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So the shepherd sang his way along until he	M
came unto a mountain	B
And I know not surely whether it was called	H
Parnassus	M
But he climbed it out of sight and still I heard	H
the voice of one singing	F

Henry Van Dyke

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