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We sat beneath tall waving trees that flung	A
Their heavy shadows o'er the dewy grass	B
Over the waters breaking at our feet	C
Quivered the moon and lighted solemnly	D
The scene before us	E
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He with whom I talked	F
Was in the noble vigor of his youth	G
Tall much beyond the standard and well knit	H
With a dark Norman face from which the breeze	I
Flung back his locks of ebon darkness which	J
In rare luxuriance fell around his brow	K
That in its massive beauty brought me up	L
Pictures by ancient masters or the sharp	M
And perfect features carved by Grecian hands	N
In days when Gods in forms worthy of Gods	O
Started from marble to bewitch the world	P
A brow so beautiful was his that one	Q
Might well conceive it always bound with dreams	R
His eyes were luminous and full of gleams	R
That made me think of waves wherein I've seen	S
The moon hued lightning breaking in the dark	T
With sudden flashes of phosphoric light	U
His cheeks were bronze his firm lips scarlet hued	V
The Roman's valor the Assyrian's love	W
Of ease and pomp sat on his crimson lips	X
Uneasy rulers on the self same throne	Y
Spoiling the empire of the soul within	Z
Such was his face	A2
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His thoughts went forth like emperors and all	B2
His words arrayed themselves around them like	C2
Imperial guards	D2
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Opinions which I had been taught to hold	E2
As full of pith and gravity he took	F2
As 'twere 'twixt thumb and finger of his wit	H
Rubbed off their gloss until they seemed to me	D
All as he said varnished hypocrisies	D2
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Most wise for one so young and strangely read	G2
In books of quaint philosophy although	H2
His mind's strange alchemy could find some	I2
Rich thought hidden in the basest thing	J2
Which he transmuted into golden words	D2
So that in hearing him I often thought	K2
Upon the story of that Saint whose mouth	L2
Was radiant with the angel's blessed touch	M2
Which gave him superhuman eloquence	D2
And though he was thus gifted yet ah me	D
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Still earnest with my theme I bade him think	N2
Of Auerbach's cellar and that wassail night	U
Whole centuries ago and then in phrase	D2
Better than that which cometh to me now	K
I likened it the necromancy which	J
Drew richest vintage from the rugged boards	D2
Unto the spell wherewith he'd bound himself	O2
The spell by which he drew from simplest things	D2
Conceptions beautiful as Faust drew wine	P2
From the rude table for this friend of mine	P2
Was a true poet though he seldom wrote	Q2
The wealth which might have royally endowed	R2
Some noble charity for coming time	S2
Was idly wasted pearls dissolved in wine	P2
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Still on my theme I hung and pointed out	T2
Full eagerly how Mephistopheles	D2
Ordered the gimlet wherewith it was drawn	U2
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But he who went his way that summer night	U
Beneath the shadow of those stately trees	D2
Comes back to me to earth ah nevermore	V2
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He fell obscurely in the common ranks	D2
His keen sword rusted in its splendid sheath	W2
God pardon him his faults for faults he had	X2
But oh so blent with goodness that the while	Y2
The lip of every theory of his	D2
Curved with a sneer each action smiled	Z2
With Christian charity	D
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Like Manfred he had summoned to his aid	A3
Forbidden ministers but unlike his	D2
Of the earth earthy which did slowly clutch	M2
Upon his lofty faculties until	B3
They summoned him from the lone tow'r of thought	K2
And false philosophy wherein he dwelt	C3
God pardon him Amen	D3

James Barron Hope

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