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I	A
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NOR did we lack our own right royal king	B
The glory of our peaceful realm and race	C
By no long years of restless travailing	B
By no fierce wars or intrigues bland and base	C
Did he attain his superlofty place	C
But one fair day he lounging to the throne	D
Reclined thereon with such possessing grace	C
That all could see it was in sooth his own	D
That it for him was fit and he for it alone	D
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II	A
He there reclined as lilies on a river	E
All cool in sunfire float in buoyant rest	F
He stirred as flowers that in the sweet south quiver	E
He moved as swans move on a lake s calm breast	F
Or clouds slow gliding in the golden west	F
He thought as birds may think when mid the trees	G
Their joy showers music o er the brood filled nest	F
He swayed us all with ever placid ease	G
As sways the throned moon her world wide wandering seas	G
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III	A
Look as within some fair and princely hall	H
The marble statue of a god may rest	F
Admired in silent reverence by all	H
Soothing the weary brain and anguished breast	F
By life s sore burthens all too much oppressed	F
With visions of tranquillity supreme	I
So self sufficing grand and bland and blest	F
He dwelt enthroned and whoso gazed did seem	I
Endowed with death calm life in long unwistful dream	I
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IV	J
While others fumed and schemed and toiled in vain	K
To mould the world according to their mood	L
He did by might of perfect faith refrain	K
From any part in such disturbance rude	L
The world he said indeed is very good	M
Its Maker surely wiser far than we	N
Feed soul and flesh upon its bounteous food	L
Nor fret because of ill All good is He	N
And worketh not in years but in Eternity	N
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V	N
How men will strain to row against the tide	O
Which yet must sweep them down in its career	P
Or if some win their way and crown their pride	O
What do they win the desert wild and drear	P
The savage rocks the icy wastes austere	P
Wherefrom the river s turbid rills downflow	H
But he upon the waters broad and clear	P
In harmony with all the winds that blow	H
Mid cities fields and farms went drifting to and fro	H
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VI	J
The king with constant heed must rule his realm	Q
The soldier faint and starve in marches long	B
The sailor guide with sleepless care his helm	Q
The poet from sick languors soar in song	B
But he alone amidst the troubled throng	B
In restful ease diffused beneficence	R
Most like a mid year noontide rich and strong	B
That fills the earth with fruitful life intense	S
And yet doth trance it all in sweetest indolence	S
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VII	J
When summer reigns the joyous leaves and flowers	S
Steal imperceptibly upon the tree	P
So stole upon him all his bounteous hours	S
So passive to their influence seemed he	P
So clothed they him with joy and majesty	P
Basking in ripest summer all his time	T
We blessed his shade and sang him songs of glee	P
The dew and sunbeams fed his perfect prime	T
And rooted broad and deep he broadly towered sublime	T
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VIII	J
Thus could he laugh those great and generous laughs	S
Which made us love ourselves the world and him	U
And while they rang we felt as one who quaffs	S
Some potent wine cup dowered to the brim	U
And straightway all things seem to reel and swim	U
Suns moons earth stars sweep through the vast profound	V
Wrapt in a golden mist light warm and dim	U
Rolled in a volume of triumphant sound	V
So in that laughter s joy the whole world carolled round	V
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IX	S
The sea the sky wood mountain stream and plain	K
Our whole fair world did serve him and adorn	W
Most like some casual robe which he might deign	K
To use when kinglier vesture was not worn	W
Was all its being by his soul upborne	W
That it should render homage so complete	X
The day and night the even and the morn	W
Seemed ever circling grateful round his feet	X
With Thee through Thee we live this rich life pure and sweet	X
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X	S
For while he loved our broad world beautiful	H
His placid wisdom penetrated it	Y
And found the lovely words but poor and dull	H
Beside the secret splendours they transmit	Y
The Heavenly things in earthly symbols writ	Y
He knew the blood red sweetness of the vine	W
Yet did not therefore at the revel sit	Y
But straining out the very wine of wine	W
Lived calm and pure and glad in drunkenness divine	W
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XI	S
Without an effort the imperial sun	W
With ever ample life of light doth feed	Z
The spheres revolving round it every one	W
So all his heart and soul and thought and deed	Z
Flowed freely forth for every brother s need	Z
He knew no difference between good and ill	H
But as the sun doth nourish flower and weed	Z
With self same bounty he too ever still	H
Lived blessing all alike with equal loving will	H
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XII	S
The all bestowing sun is clothed with splendour	P
The all supporting sun doth reign supreme	I
So must eternal justice ever render	P
Each unsought payment to its last extreme	I
Thus he most rich in others joy did seem	I
And reigned by servitude all effortless	S
For heaven and earth must vanish like a dream	I
Ere such a soul divine can know distress	S
Whom all the laws of Life conspire to love and bless	S

James Thomson

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