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I	A
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Once only once I saw it clear	B
That Eden every human heart has dreamed	C
A hundred times but always far away	D
Ah well do I remember how it seemed	C
Through the still atmosphere	B
Of that enchanted day	D
To lie wide open to my weary feet	E
A little land of love and joy and rest	F
With meadows of soft green	G
Rosy with cyclamen and sweet	E
With delicate breath of violets unseen	G
And tranquil 'mid the bloom	H
As if it waited for a coming guest	F
A little house of peace and joy and love	I
Was nested like a snow white dove	I
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From the rough mountain where I stood	J
Homesick for happiness	K
Only a narrow valley and a darkling wood	J
To cross and then the long distress	L
Of solitude would be forever past	M
I should be home at last	M
But not too soon oh let me linger here	N
And feed my eyes hungry with sorrow	O
On all this loveliness so near	B
And mine to morrow	O
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Then from the wood across the silvery blue	P
A dark bird flew	P
Silent with sable wings	Q
Close in his wake another came	R
Fragments of midnight floating through	P
The sunset flame	R
Another and another weaving rings	Q
Of blackness on the primrose sky	A
Another and another look a score	S
A hundred yes a thousand rising heavily	T
From that accursed dumb and ancient wood	J
They boiled into the lucid air	U
Like smoke from some deep caldron of despair	U
And more and more and ever more	S
The numberless ill omened brood	V
Flapping their ragged plumes	W
Possessed the landscape and the evening light	X
With menaces and glooms	W
Oh dark dark dark they hovered o'er the place	W
Where once I saw the little house so white	X
Amid the flowers covering every trace	W
Of beauty from my troubled sight	X
And suddenly it was night	X
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II	A
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At break of day I crossed the wooded vale	Y
And while the morning made	Z
A trembling light among the tree tops pale	Y
I saw the sable birds on every limb	A2
Clinging together closely in the shade	Z
And croaking placidly their surly hymn	A2
But oh the little land of peace and love	I
That those night loving wings had poised above	I
Where was it gone	B2
Lost lost forevermore	S
Only a cottage dull and gray	S
In the cold light of dawn	B2
With iron bars across the door	S
Only a garden where the withering heads	W
Of flowers presaging decay	S
Hung over barren beds	W
Only a desolate field that lay	S
Untilled beneath the desolate day	S
Where Eden seemed to bloom I found but these	W
So wondering I passed along my way	S
With anger in my heart too deep for words	W
Against that grove of evil sheltering trees	W
And the black magic of the croaking birds	W

Henry Van Dyke

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