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THE PARSON'S BROTHER SISTER AND TWO CHILDREN	A
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Preface	B
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What wonder man should fail to stay	C
A nursling wafted from above	D
The growth celestial come astray	C
That tender growth whose name is Love	D
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It is as if high winds in heaven	A
Had shaken the celestial trees	E
And to this earth below had given	A
Some feathered seeds from one of these	E
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O perfect love that 'dureth long	F
Dear growth that shaded by the palms	G
And breathed on by the angel's song	F
Blooms on in heaven's eternal calms	G
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How great the task to guard thee here	H
Where wind is rough and frost is keen	I
And all the ground with doubt and fear	J
Is checkered birth and death between	I
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Space is against thee it can part	K
Time is against thee it can chill	L
Words they but render half the heart	K
Deeds they are poor to our rich will	L
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Merton Though she had loved me I had never bound	M
Her beauty to my darkness that had been	N
Too hard for her Sadder to look so near	J
Into a face all shadow than to stand	O
Aloof and then withdraw and afterwards	P
Suffer forgetfulness to comfort her	Q
I think so and I loved her therefore I	R
Have no complaint albeit she is not mine	S
And yet and yet withdrawing I would fain	T
She would have pleaded duty would have said	U
My father wills it would have turned away	C
As lingering or unwillingly for then	V
She would have done no damage to the past	W
Now she has roughly used it flung it down	X
And brushed its bloom away If she had said	U
Sir I have promised therefore lo my hand	O
Would I have taken it Ah no by all	Y
Most sacred no	Z
I would for my sole share	A2
Have taken first her recollected blush	B2
The day I won her next her shining tears	C2
The tears of our long parting and for all	Y
The rest her cry her bitter heart sick cry	R
That day or night I know not which it was	D2
The days being always night that darkest night	E2
When being led to her I heard her cry	R
O blind blind blind	F2
Go with thy chosen mate	G2
The fashion of thy going nearly cured	H2
The sorrow of it I am yet so weak	I2
That half my thoughts go after thee but not	J2
So weak that I desire to have it so	Z
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JESSIE seated at the piano sings	K2
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When the dimpled water slippeth	L2
Full of laughter on its way	C
And her wing the wagtail dippeth	L2
Running by the brink at play	C
When the poplar leaves atremble	C
Turn their edges to the light	E2
And the far up clouds resemble	C
Veils of gauze most clear and white	E2
And the sunbeams fall and flatter	Q
Woodland moss and branches brown	X
And the glossy finches chatter	Q
Up and down up and down	X
Though the heart be not attending	M2
Having music of her own	N2
On the grass through meadows wending	M2
It is sweet to walk alone	N2
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When the falling waters utter	Q
Something mournful on their way	C
And departing swallows flutter	Q
Taking leave of bank and brae	C
When the chaffinch idly sitteth	L2
With her mate upon the sheaves	O2
And the wistful robin flitteth	L2
Over beds of yellow leaves	O2
When the clouds like ghosts that ponder	Q
Evil fate float by and frown	X
And the listless wind doth wander	Q
Up and down up and down	X
Though the heart be not attending	M2
Having sorrows of her own	N2
Through the fields and fallows wending	M2
It is sad to walk alone	N2
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Merton Blind blind blind	F2
Oh sitting in the dark for evermore	P2
And doing nothing putting out a hand	O
To feel what lies about me and to say	C
Not This is blue or red but This is cold	Q2
And this the sun is shining on and this	R2
I know not till they tell its name to me	S2
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O that I might behold once more my God	T2
The shining rulers of the night and day	C
Or a star twinkling or an almond tree	S2
Pink with her blossom and alive with bees	E
Standing against the azure O my sight	E2
Lost and yet living in the sunlit cells	U2
Of memory that only lightsome place	V2
Where lingers yet the dayspring of my youth	L2
The years of mourning for thy death are long	F
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Be kind sweet memory O desert me not	J2
For oft thou show'st me lucent opal seas	E
Fringed with their cocoa palms and dwarf red crags	E
Whereon the placid moon doth rest her chin	N
For oft by favor of thy visitings	E
I feel the dimness of an Indian night	E2
And lo the sun is coming Red as rust	W2
Between the latticed blind his presence burns	E
A ruby ladder running up the wall	C
And all the dust printed with pigeons' feet	X2
Is reddened and the crows that stalk anear	S2
Begin to trail for heat their glossy wings	E
And the red flowers give back at once the dew	Y2
For night is gone and day is born so fast	W
And is so strong that huddled as in flight	E2
The fleeting darkness paleth to a shade	Z2
And while she calls to sleep and dreams Come on	A3
Suddenly waked the sleepers rub their eyes	E
Which having opened lo she is no more	S2
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O misery and mourning I have felt	B3
Yes I have felt like some deserted world	C3
That God had done with and had cast aside	D3
To rock and stagger through the gulfs of space	E
He never looking on it any more	S2
Untilled no use no pleasure not desired	E3
Nor lighted on by angels in their flight	E2
From heaven to happier planets and the race	E
That once had dwelt on it withdrawn or dead	U
Could such a world have hope that some blest day	C
God would remember her and fashion her	S2
Anew	Y2
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Jessie What dearest Did you speak to me	S2
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Child I think he spoke to us	E
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M No little elves	E
You were so quiet that I half forgot	J2
Your neighborhood What are you doing there	S2
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J They sit together on the window mat	F3
Nursing their dolls	E
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C Yes Uncle our new dolls	E
Our best dolls that you gave us	E
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M Did you say	C
The afternoon was bright	E2
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J Yes bright indeed	G3
The sun is on the plane tree and it flames	E
All red and orange	H3
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C I can see my father	S2
Look look the leaves are falling on his gown	X
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M Where	S2
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C In the churchyard Uncle he is gone	I3
He passed behind the tower	S2
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M I heard a bell	C
There is a funeral then behind the church	J3
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d Child Are the trees sorry when their leaves drop off	K3
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st Child You talk such silly words no not at all	C
There goes another leaf	L3
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d Child I did not see	S2
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st Child Look on the grass between the little hills	E
Just where they planted Amy	S2
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J Amy died	D3
Dear little Amy when you talk of her	S2
Say she is gone to heaven	A
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d Child They planted her	S2
Will she come up next year	S2
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st Child No not so soon	M3
But some day God will call her to come up	N3
And then she will Papa knows everything	M2
He said she would before he planted her	S2
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d Child It was at night she went to heaven Last night	E2
We saw a star before we went to bed	U
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st Child Yes Uncle did you know A large bright star	S2
And at her side she had some little ones	E
Some young ones	E
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M Young ones no my little maid	Z2
Those stars are very old	Q2
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st Child What all of them	O3
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M Yes	E
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st Child Older than our father	S2
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M Older far	S2
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d Child They must be tired of shining there so long	F
Perhaps they wish they might come down	X
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J Perhaps	E
Dear children talk of what you understand	O
Come I must lift the trailing creepers up	N3
That last night's wind has loosened	P3
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st Child May we help	Q3
Aunt may we help to nail them	O3
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J We shall see	S2
Go find and bring the hammer and some shreds	E
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Steps outside the window lifts a branch and sings	E
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Should I change my allegiance for rancor	S2
If fortune changes her side	D3
Or should I like a vessel at anchor	S2
Turn with the turn of the tide	D3
Lift O lift thou lowering sky	R
An thou wilt thy gloom forego	Z
An thou wilt not he and I	R
Need not part for drifts of snow	Z
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M within Lift no thou lowering sky thou wilt not lift	R3
Thy motto readeth Never	S2
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Children Here they are	S2
Here are the nails and may we help	Q3
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J You shall	C
If I should want help	Q3
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st Child Will you want it then	V
Please want it we like nailing	M2
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d Child Yes we do	Y2
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J It seems I ought to want it hold the bough	S3
And each may nail in turn	T3
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Sings	E
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Like a daisy I was near him growing	M2
Must I move because favors flag	U3
And be like a brown wall flower blowing	M2
Far out of reach in a crag	M2
Lift O lift thou lowering sky	M2
An thou canst thy blue regain	T
An thou canst not he and I	M2
Need not part for drops of rain	T
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st Child Now have we nailed enough	V3
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J trains the creepers Yes you may go	M2
But do not play too near the churchyard path	L2
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M within Even misfortune does not strike so near	S2
As my dependence O in youth and strength	L2
To sit a timid coward in the dark	M2
And feel before I set a cautious step	W3
It is so very dark so far more dark	M2
Than any night that day comes after night	E2
In which there would be stars or else at least	X3
The silvered portion of a sombre cloud	Y3
Through which the moon is plunging	M2
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J entering Merton	A
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M Yes	E
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J Dear Merton did you know that I could hear	S2
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M No e'en my solitude is not mine now	S3
And if I be alone is ofttimes doubt	Z3
Alas far more than eyesight have I lost	A4
For manly courage drifteth after it	B4
E'en as a splintered spar would drift away	C
From some dismasted wreck Hear I complain	T
Like a weak ailing woman I complain	T
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J For the first time	C4
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M I cannot bear the dark	M2
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J My brother you do bear it bear it well	C
Have borne it twelve long months and not complained	D4
Comfort your heart with music all the air	S2
Is warm with sunbeams where the organ stands	E
You like to feel them on you Come and play	C
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M My fate my fate is lonely	S2
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J So it is	E
I know it is	E
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M And pity breaks my heart	K
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J Does it dear Merton	A
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M Yes I say it does	E
What do you think I am so dull of ear	S2
That I can mark no changes in the tones	E
That reach me Once I liked not girlish pride	D3
And that coy quiet chary of reply	M2
That held me distant now the sweetest lips	E
Open to entertain me fairest hands	E
Are proffered me to guide	D3
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J That is not well	C
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M No give me coldness pride or still disdain	T
Gentle withdrawal Give me anything	M2
But this a fearless sweet confiding ease	E
Whereof I may expect I may exact	E4
Considerate care and have it gentle speech	F4
And have it Give me anything but this	E
For they who give it give it in the faith	L2
That I will not misdeem them and forget	G4
My doom so far as to perceive thereby	M2
Hope of a wife They make this thought too plain	T
They wound me O they cut me to the heart	K
When have I said to any one of them	O3
I am a blind and desolate man come here	S2
I pray you be as eyes to me When said	U
Even to her whose pitying voice is sweet	X2
To my dark ruined heart as must be hands	E
That clasp a lifelong captive's through the grate	G2
And who will ever lend her delicate aid	Z2
To guide me dark encumbrance that I am	H4
When have I said to her Comforting voice	E
Belonging to a face unknown I pray	C
Be my wife's voice	E
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J Never my brother no	M2
You never have	I4
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M What could she think of me	S2
If I forgot myself so far or what	J4
Could she reply	M2
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J You ask not as men ask	M2
Who care for an opinion else perhaps	E
Although I am not sure although perhaps	E
I have no right to give one I should say	C
She would reply I will	C
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Afterthought	J2
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Man dwells apart though not alone	N2
He walks among his peers unread	U
The best of thoughts which he hath known	N2
For lack of listeners are not said	U
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Yet dreaming on earth's clustered isles	E
He saith They dwell not lone like men	V
Forgetful that their sunflecked smiles	E
Flash far beyond each other's ken	V
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He looks on God's eternal suns	E
That sprinkle the celestial blue	Y2
And saith Ah happy shining ones	E
I would that men were grouped like you	Y2
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Yet this is sure the loveliest star	S2
That clustered with its peers we see	S2
Only because from us so far	S2
Doth near its fellows seem to be	S2