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To exalt enthrone establish and defend	A
To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend	A
Wine true begetter of all arts that be	B
Wine privilege of the completely free	B
Wine the recorder wine the sagely strong	C
Wine bright avenger of sly dealing wrong	C
Awake Ausonian Muse and sing the vineyard song	C
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Sing how the Charioteer from Asia came	D
And on his front the little dancing flame	D
Which marked the God head Sing the Panther team	E
The gilded Thrysus twirling and the gleam	E
Of cymbals through the darkness Sing the drums	F
He comes the young renewer of Hellas comes	F
The Seas await him Those Aegean Seas	G
Roll from the dawning ponderous ill at ease	G
In lifts of lead whose cresting hardly breaks	H
To ghostly foam when suddenly there awakes	H
A mountain glory inland All the skies	H
Are luminous and amid the sea bird cries	H
The mariner hears a morning breeze arise	H
Then goes the Pageant forward The sea way	I
Silvers the feet of that august array	I
Trailing above the waters through the airs	H
And as they pass a wind before them bears	H
The quickening word the influence magical	J
The Islands have received it marble tall	K
The long shores of the mainland Something fills	H
The warm Euboean combes the sacred hills	H
Of Aulis and of Argos Still they move	L
Touching the City walls the Temple grove	M
Till far upon the horizon glint a gleam	E
Of light of trembling light revealed they seem	E
Turned to a cloud but to a cloud that shines	H
And everywhere as they pass the Vines The Vines	H
The Vines the conquering Vines And the Vine	N
breaths	H
Her savour through the upland empty heaths	H
Of treeless wastes the Vines have come to where	O
The dark Pelasgian steep defends the lair	O
Of the wolf's hiding to the empty fields	H
By Aufidus the dry campaign that yields	H
No harvest for the husbandman but now	P
Shall bear a nobler foison than the plough	P
To where festooned along the tall elm trees	H
Tendrils are mirrored in Tyrrhenian seas	H
To where the South awaits them even to where	O
Stark African informed of burning air	O
Upturned to Heaven the broad Hipponian plain	Q
Extends luxurious and invites the main	Q
Guelma's a mother barren Thaspsa breeds	H
And northward in the valleys next the meads	H
That sleep by misty river banks the Vines	H
Have struck to spread below the solemn pines	H
The Vines are on the roof trees All the Shrines	H
And Homes of men are consecrate with Vines	H
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And now the task of that triumphant day	I
Has reached to victory In the reddening ray	I
With all his train from hard Iberian lands	H
Fulfilled apparent that Creator stands	H
Halted on Atlas Far Beneath him far	R
The strength of Ocean darkening and the star	R
Beyond all shores There is a silence made	S
It glorifies and the gigantic shade	S
Of Hercules adores him from the West	T
Dead Lucre burnt Ambition Wine is best	T
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But what are these that from the outer murk	U
Of dense mephitic vapours creeping lurk	U
To breathe foul airs from that corrupted well	V
Which oozes slime along the floor of Hell	V
These are the stricken palsied brood of sin	W
In whose vile veins poor poisonous and thin	W
Decoctions of embittered hatreds crawl	K
These are the Water Drinkers cursed all	K
On what gin sodden Hags what flaccid sires	H
Bred these White Slugs from what exhaust desires	H
In what close prison's horror were their wiles	H
Watched by what tyrant power with evil smiles	H
Or in what caverns blocked from grace and air	O
Received they then the mandates of despair	O
What Must our race our tragic race that roam	X
All exiled from our first and final home	X
That in one moment of temptation lost	Y
Our heritage and now wander hunger tost	Y
Beyond the Gates still speaking with our eyes	H
For ever of remembered Paradise	H
Must we with every gift accepted still	Z
With every joy receive attendant ill	Z
Must some lewd evil follow all our good	Y
And muttering dog our brief beatitude	Y
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A primal doom inexorable wise	H
Permitted ordered even these to rise	H
Even in the shadow of so bright a Lord	Y
Must swarm and propagate the filthy horde	Y
Debased accursed I say abhorrent and abhorred	Y
Accursed and curse bestowing For whosoe'er	O
Shall suffer their contagion everywhere	O
Falls from the estate of man and finds his end	Y
To the mere beverage of the beast condemned	Y
For such as these in vain the Rhine has rolled	Y
Imperial centuries by hills of gold	Y
For such as these the flashing Rhone shall rage	A2
In vain its lightning through the Hermitage	B2
Or level browed divine Touraine receive	C2
The tribute of her vintages at eve	C2
For such as these Burgundian heats in vain	Q
Swell the rich slope or load the empurpled plain	Q
Bootless for such as these the mighty task	D2
Of bottling God the Father in a flask	D2
And leading all Creation down distilled	Y
To one small ardent sphere immensely filled	Y
With memories empty with experience null	J
With vapid eye balls meaningless and dull	J
They pass unblest through the unfruitful light	Y
And when we open the bronze doors of Night	Y
When we in high carousal we reclined	Y
Spur up to Heaven the still ascending mind	Y
Pass with the all inspiring to and fro	O
The torch of genius and the Muse's glow	O
They lifeless stare at vacancy alone	E2
Or plan mean traffic or repeat their moan	E2
We when repose demands us welcomed are	O
In young white arms like our great Exemplar	O
Who wearied with creation takes his rest	Y
And sinks to sleep on Ariadne's breast	Y
They through the darkness into darkness press	H
Despised abandoned and companionless	H
And when the course of either's sleep has run	F2
We leap to life like heralds of the sun	F2
We from the couch in roseate mornings gay	I
Salute as equals the exultant day	I
While they the unworthy unrewarded they	I
The dank despisers of the Vine arise	H
To watch grey dawns and mourn indifferent skies	H
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Forget them Form the Dionysian ring	G2
And pulse the ground and Io Io sing	G2
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Father Lenaean to whom our strength belongs	H
Our loves our wars our laughter and our songs	H
Remember our inheritance who praise	H
Your glory in these last unhappy days	H
When beauty sickens and a muddied robe	H2
Of baseness fouls the universal globe	H2
Though all the Gods indignant and their train	Q
Abandon ruined man do thou remain	Q
By thee the vesture of our life was made	Y
The Embattled Gate the lordly Colonnade	Y
The woven fabric's gracious hues the sound	Y
Of trumpets and the quivering fountain round	Y
And indestructible the Arch and high	I2
The Shaft of Stone that stands against the sky	I2
And last the guardian genius of them Rhyme	J2
Come from beyond the world to conquer time	J2
All these are thine Lenaean	Q
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By thee do seers the inward light discern	Q
By thee the statue lives the Gods return	Q
By thee the thunder and the falling foam	X
Of loud Acquoria's torrent call to Rome	X
Alba rejoices in a thousand springs	H
Gensano laughs and Orvieto sings	H
But Ah With Orvieto with that name	D
Of dark Eturian subterranean flame	D
The years dissolve I am standing in that hour	O
Of majesty Septembral and the power	O
Which swells the clusters when the nights are still	Z
With autumn stars on Orvieto hill	Z
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Had these been mine Ausonian Muse to know	Q
The large contented oxen heaving slow	Q
To count my sheaves at harvest so to spend	Y
Perfected days in peace until the end	Y
With every evening's dust of gold to hear	O
The bells upon the pasture height the clear	O
Full horn of herdsmen gathering in the kine	Q
To ancient byres in hamlets Appenine	Q
And crown abundant age with generous ease	H
Had these Ausonian Muse had these had these	H
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But since I would not since I could not stay	I
Let me remember even in this my day	I
How when the ephemeral vision's lure is past	Y
All all must face their Passion at the last	Y
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Was there not one that did to Heaven complain	Q
How driving through the midnight and the rain	Q
He struck the Atlantic seethe and surge before	O
Wrecked in the North along a lonely shore	O
To make the lights of home and hear his	H

Hilaire Belloc

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