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The lights are out and gone are all the guests	A
That thronging came with merriment and jests	A
To celebrate the Hanging of the Crane	B
In the new house into the night are gone	C
But still the fire upon the hearth burns on	D
And I alone remain	B
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O fortunate O happy day	E
When a new household finds its place	F
Among the myriad homes of earth	G
Like a new star just sprung to birth	G
And rolled on its harmonious way	E
Into the boundless realms of space	F
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So said the guests in speech and song	H
As in the chimney burning bright	I
We hung the iron crane to night	I
And merry was the feast and long	H
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II	J
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And now I sit and muse on what may be	K
And in my vision see or seem to see	K
Through floating vapors interfused with light	I
Shapes indeterminate that gleam and fade	L
As shadows passing into deeper shade	L
Sink and elude the sight	I
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For two alone there in the hall	M
As spread the table round and small	M
Upon the polished silver shine	N
The evening lamps but more divine	N
The light of love shines over all	M
Of love that says not mine and thine	N
But ours for ours is thine and mine	N
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They want no guests to come between	O
Their tender glances like a screen	O
And tell them tales of land and sea	K
And whatsoever may betide	P
The great forgotten world outside	P
They want no guests they needs must be	K
Each other's own best company	K
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III	J
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The picture fades as at a village fair	Q
A showman's views dissolving into air	Q
Again appear transfigured on the screen	O
So in my fancy this and now once more	R
In part transfigured through the open door	R
Appears the selfsame scene	O
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Seated I see the two again	S
But not alone they entertain	B
A little angel unaware	Q
With face as round as is the moon	T
A royal guest with flaxen hair	Q
Who throned upon his lofty chair	Q
Drums on the table with his spoon	T
Then drops it careless on the floor	R
To grasp at things unseen before	R
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Are these celestial manners these	U
The ways that win the arts that please	U
Ah yes consider well the guest	V
And whatsoe'er he does seems best	V
He ruleth by the right divine	N
Of helplessness so lately born	W
In purple chambers of the morn	W
As sovereign over thee and thine	N
He speaketh not and yet there lies	X
A conversation in his eyes	X
The golden silence of the Greek	Y
The gravest wisdom of the wise	X
Not spoken in language but in looks	Z
More legible than printed books	Z
As if he could but would not speak	Y
And now O monarch absolute	A2
Thy power is put to proof for lo	B2
Resistless fathomless and slow	B2
The nurse comes rustling like the sea	K
And pushes back thy chair and thee	K
And so good night to King Canute	A2
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IV	C2
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As one who walking in a forest sees	U
A lovely landscape through the parted frees	U
Then sees it not for boughs that intervene	O
Or as we see the moon sometimes revealed	A2
Through drifting clouds and then again concealed	A2
So I behold the scene	O
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There are two guests at table now	D2
The king deposed and older grown	E2
No longer occupies the throne	E2
The crown is on his sister's brow	D2
A Princess from the Fairy Isles	F2
The very pattern girl of girls	G2
All covered and embowered in curls	G2
Rose tinted from the Isle of Flowers	H2
And sailing with soft silken sails	I2
From far off Dreamland into ours	H2
Above their bowls with rims of blue	J2
Four azure eyes of deeper hue	J2
Are looking dreamy with delight	A2
Limpid as planets that emerge	K2
Above the ocean's rounded verge	K2
Soft shining through the summer night	A2
Steadfast they gaze yet nothing see	K
Beyond the horizon of their bowls	L2
Nor care they for the world that rolls	L2
With all its freight of troubled souls	L2
Into the days that are to be	K
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V	K
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Again the tossing boughs shut out the scene	O
Again the drifting vapors intervene	O
And the moon's pallid disk is hidden quite	A2
And now I see the table wider grown	E2
As round a pebble into water thrown	E2
Dilates a ring of light	A2
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I see the table wider grown	E2
I see it garlanded with guests	A
As if fair Ariadne's Crown	M2
Out of the sky had fallen down	M2
Maidens within whose tender breasts	A
A thousand restless hopes and fears	N2
Forth reaching to the coming years	N2
Flutter awhile then quiet lie	O2
Like timid birds that fain would fly	O2
But do not dare to leave their nests	A
And youths who in their strength elate	A2
Challenge the van and front of fate	A2
Eager as champions to be	K
In the divine knight errantry	D2
Of youth that travels sea and land	A2
Seeking adventures or pursues	P2
Through cities and through solitudes	P2
Frequented by the lyric Muse	P2
The phantom with the beckoning hand	A2
That still allures and still eludes	P2
O sweet illusions of the brain	B
O sudden thrills of fire and frost	A2
The world is bright while ye remain	B
And dark and dead when ye are lost	A2
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VI	O2
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The meadow brook that seemeth to stand still	Q2
Quickens its current as it nears the mill	Q2
And so the stream of Time that lingereth	K
In level places and so dull appears	P2
Runs with a swifter current as it nears	P2
The gloomy mills of Death	K
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And now like the magician's scroll	R2
That in the owner's keeping shrinks	P2
With every wish he speaks or thinks	P2
Till the last wish consumes the whole	R2
The table dwindles and again	S
I see the two alone remain	B
The crown of stars is broken in parts	P2
Its jewels brighter than the day	A2
Have one by one been stolen away	A2
To shine in other homes and hearts	P2
One is a wanderer now afar	D2
In Ceylon or in Zanzibar	D2
Or sunny regions of Cathay	A2
And one is in the boisterous camp	S2
Mid clink of arms and horses' tramp	S2
And battle's terrible array	A2
I see the patient mother read	A2
With aching heart of wrecks that float	A2
Disabled on those seas remote	A2
Or of some great heroic deed	A2
On battle fie ds where thousands bleed	A2
To lift one hero into fame	T2
Anxious she bends her graceful head	A2
Above these chronicles of pain	B
And trembles with a secret dread	A2
Lest there among the drowned or slain	B
She find the one beloved name	T2
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VII	O2
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After a day of cloud and wind and rain	B
Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again	S
And touching all the darksome woods with light	A2
Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing	U2
Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring	U2
Drops down into the night	A2
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What see I now The night is fair	D2
The storm of grief the clouds of care	D2
The wind the rain have passed away	A2
The lamps are lit the fires burn bright	A2
The house is full of life and light	A2
It is the Golden Wedding day	A2
The guests come thronging in once more	D2
Quick footsteps sound along the floor	D2
The trooping children crowd the stair	D2
And in and out and everywhere	D2
Flashes along the corridor	D2
The sunshine of their golden hair	D2
On the round table in the hall	M
Another Ariadne's Crown	M2
Out of the sky hath fallen down	M2
More than one Monarch of the Moon	T
Is drumming with his silver spoon	T
The light of love shines over all	M
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O fortunate O happy day	A2
The people sing the people say	A2
The ancient bridegroom and the bride	A2
Smiling contented and serene	O
Upon the blithe bewildering scene	O
Behold well pleased on every side	A2
Their forms and features multiplied	A2
As the reflection of a light	A2
Between two burnished mirrors gleams	P2
Or lamps upon a bridge at night	A2
Stretch on and on before the sight	A2
Till the long vista endless seems	P2