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SCENE A street of that village	A
Three men with ropes accosted by a stranger	B
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THE STRANGER	B
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I pray you tell me where you go	C
With heads averted from the skies	D
And long ropes trailing in the snow	C
And resolution in your eyes	D
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THE FIRST MAN	E
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I am a lover sick of love	F
For scorn rewards my constancy	G
And now I hate the stars above	F
Because my dear will naught of me	G
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THE SECOND MAN	E
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I am a beggar man and play	H
Songs with a splendid swing in them	I
But I have seen no food to day	H
They want no song in Bethlehem	I
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THE THIRD MAN	E
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I am an old man Sir and blind	J
A child of darkness since my birth	K
I cannot even call to mind	J
The beauty of the scheme of earth	K
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Therefore I sought to understand	L
A secret hid from mortal eyes	D
So in a far and fragrant land	L
I talked with men accounted wise	D
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And I implored the Indian priest	M
For wisdom from his holy snake	N
Yet am no wiser in the least	M
And have not seen the darkness break	N
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STRANGER	B
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And whither go ye now unhappy three	G
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THE THREE MEN WITH ROPES	O
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Sir in our strange and special misery	G
We met this night and swore in bitter pride	P
To sing one song together friend with friend	Q
And then proceeding to the country side	P
To bind this cordage to a barren tree	G
And face to face to give our lives an end	Q
And only thus shall we be satisfied	P
They make to continue their road	R
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THE STRANGER	B
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Stay for a moment Great is your despair	S
But God is kind What voice from over there	S
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A WOMAN from a lattice	T
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My lover O my lover come to me	G
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FIRST MAN	E
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God with you he runs to the window	C
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STRANGER	B
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Ah how swiftly gone is he	G
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MANY VOICES heard singing in a cottage	A
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There is a softness in the night	U
A wonder in that splendid star	V
That fills us with delight	U
Poor foolish working people that we are	V
And only fit to keep	W
A little garden or a dozen sheep	W
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Old broken women at the fire	B
Have many ancient tales they sing	X
How the whole world's desire	B
Should blossom here and how a child should bring	X
New glory to his race	Y
Though born in so contemptible a place	Y
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Let all come in if any brother go	C
In shame or hunger cold or fear	Z
Through all this waste of snow	C
To night the Star the Rose the Song are near	Z
And still inside the door	A2
Is full provision for another score	A2
The Beggar runs to them	I
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THE STRANGER to the Blind Man	E
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Do you not mean to share these joys	B2
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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Aweary of this earthly noise	B2
I pace my silent way	H
Come you and help me tie this rope	C2
I would not lose my only hope	C2
Already clear the birds I hear	D2
Already breaks the day	H
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STRANGER	B
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O foolish and most blind old man	E
Where are those other two	E2
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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Why one is wed and t'other fed	F2
Small thanks they gave to you	E2
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STRANGER	B
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To me no thanks are due	E2
Yet since I have some little power	B
Bequeathed me at this holy hour	B
I tell you friend that God shall grant	G2
This night to you your dearest want	H2
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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Why this sweet odour Why this flame	I2
I am afraid What is your name	I2
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THE STRANGER	B
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Ask your desire for this great night	U
Is passing	X
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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Sir I ask my sight	U
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THE STRANGER	B
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To see this earth Or would you see	G
That hidden world which sent you me	G
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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O sweet it were but once before I die	J2
To track the bird about the windy sky	J2
Or watch the soft and changing grace	Y
Imprinted on a human face	Y
Yet grant me that which most I struggled for	A2
Since I am old and snow is on the ground	K2
On earth there's little to be found	K2
And I would bear with earth no more	A2
O gentle youth	L2
A fool am I but let me see the Truth	L2
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THE STRANGER	B
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Gaze in my eyes	D
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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How can I gaze	M2
What song is that and what these rays	M2
Of splendour and this rush of wings	N2
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THE STRANGER	B
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These are the new celestial things	N2
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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Round the body of a child	O2
A great dark flame runs wild	O2
What may this be	G
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THE STRANGER	B
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Look further you shall see	G
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THE BLIND MAN	E
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Out on the sea of time and far away	H
The Empires sail like ships and many years	P2
Scatter before them in a mist of spray	H
Beyond is mist when the mist clears	P2
Enough Away O friend I would be there	S
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STRANGER	B
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It is most sure that God has heard his prayer	S
The stranger vanishes	Q2
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THE BEGGAR	B
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Leading a troop of revellers from the house where they were singing	X
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Come brothers seek my friend and bring him in	R2
On such a night as this it were a sin	R2
To leave the blind alone	S2
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THE REVELLERS	T2
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Greatly we fear lest he still resolute	U2
Have wandered to the fields for poisoned fruit	U2
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THE BEGGAR	B
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See here upon this stone	S2
He is all frozen take him to a bed	F2
And warm his hands	V2
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THE REVELLERS	T2
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O sorrow he is dead	F2