The Dreams That Came True Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I saw in a vision once our mother sphere	A
The world her fixed foredoom d oval tracing	B
Rolling and rolling on and resting never	C
While like a phantom fell behind her pacing	B
The unfurled flag of night her shadow drear	C
Fled as she fled and hung to her forever	C
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Great Heaven methought how strange a doom to share	C
Would I may never bear	C
Inevitable darkness after me	D
Darkness endowed with drawings strong	E
And shadowy hands that cling unendingly	F
Nor feel that phantom wings behind me sweep	G
As she feels night pursuing through the long	E
Illimitable reaches of the vasty deep	G
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God save you gentlefolks There was a man	H
Who lay awake at midnight on his bed	I
Watching the spiral flame that feeding ran	H
Among the logs upon his hearth and shed	I
A comfortable glow both warm and dim	J
On crimson curtains that encompassed him	J
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Right stately was his chamber soft and white	K
The pillow and his quilt was eider down	L
What mattered it to him though all that night	K
The desolate driving cloud might lower and frown	L
And winds were up the eddying sleet to chase	M
That drave and drave and found no settling place	M
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What mattered it that leafless trees might rock	N
Or snow might drift athwart his window pane	O
He bare a charm d life against their shock	N
Secure from cold hunger and weather stain	O
Fixed in his right and born to good estate	P
From common ills set by and separate	P
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From work and want and fear of want apart	Q
This man men called him Justice Wilvermore	C
This man had comforted his cheerful heart	Q
With all that it desired from every shore	C
He had a right the right of gold is strong	E
He stood upon his right his whole life long	E
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Custom makes all things easy and content	R
Is careless therefore on the storm and cold	S
As he lay waking never a thought he spent	R
Albeit across the vale beneath the wold	S
Along a reedy mere that frozen lay	F
A range of sordid hovels stretched away	F
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What cause had he to think on them forsooth	T
What cause that night beyond another night	K
He was familiar even from his youth	T
With their long ruin and their evil plight	K
The wintry wind would search them like a scout	U
The water froze within as freely as without	U
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He think upon them No They were forlorn	V
So were the cowering inmates whom they held	W
A thriftless tribe to shifts and leanness born	V
Ever complaining infancy or eld	W
Alike But there was rent or long ago	X
Those cottage roofs had met with overthrow	X
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For this they stood and what his thoughts might be	D
That winter night I know not but I know	X
That while the creeping flame fed silently	D
And cast upon his bed a crimson glow	X
The Justice slept and shortly in his sleep	G
He fell to dreaming and his dream was deep	G
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He dreamed that over him a shadow came	Y
And when he looked to find the cause behold	W
Some person knelt between him and the flame	Y
A cowering figure of one frail and old	W
A woman and she prayed as he descried	W
And spread her feeble hands and shook and sighed	W
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Good Heaven the Justice cried and being distraught	W
He called not to her but he looked again	Z
She wore a tattered cloak but she had naught	W
Upon her head and she did quake amain	Z
And spread her wasted hands and poor attire	C
To gather in the brightness of his fire	C
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I know you woman then the Justice cried	W
I know that woman well he cried aloud	W
The shepherd Aveland's widow God me guide	W
A pauper kneeling on my hearth and bowed	W
The hag like one at home its warmth to share	C
How dares she to intrude What does she there	C
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Ho woman ho but yet she did not stir	C
Though from her lips a fitful plaining broke	A2
I'll ring my people up to deal with her	C
I'll rouse the house he cried but while he spoke	A2
He turned and saw but distant from his bed	W
Another form a Darkness with a head	W
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Then in a rage he shouted Who are you	B2
For little in the gloom he might discern	Z
Speak out speak now or I will make you rue	B2
The hour but there was silence and a stern	Z
Dark face from out the dusk appeared to lean	Z
And then again drew back and was not seen	Z
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God cried the dreaming man right impiously	X
What have I done that these my sleep affray	B2
God said the Phantom I appeal to Thee	D
Appoint Thou me this man to be my prey	B2
God sighed the kneeling woman frail and old	W
I pray Thee take me for the world is cold	W
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Then said the trembling Justice in affright	W
Fiend I adjure thee speak thine errand here	B2
And lo it pointed in the failing light	W
Toward the woman answering cold and clear	B2
Thou art ordained an answer to thy prayer	B2
But first to tell her tale that kneeleth there	B2
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Her tale the Justice cried A pauper's tale	X
And he took heart at this so low behest	W
And let the stoutness of his will prevail	X
Demanding Is't for her you break my rest	W
She went to jail of late for stealing wood	W
She will again for this night's hardihood	W
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I sent her and to morrow as I live	C2
I will commit her for this trespass here	B2
Thou wilt not quoth the Shadow thou wilt give	D2
Her story words and then it stalked anear	B2
And showed a lowering face and dread to see	D
A countenance of angered majesty	D
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Then said the Justice all his thoughts astray	B2
With that material Darkness chiding him	J
If this must be then speak to her I pray	B2
And bid her move for all the room is dim	J
By reason of the place she holds to night	W
She kneels between me and the warmth and light	W
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With adjurations deep and drawings strong	E
And with the power it said unto me given	Z
I call upon thee man to tell thy wrong	E
Or look no more upon the face of Heaven	Z
Speak though she kneel throughout the livelong night	W
And yet shall kneel between thee and the light	W
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This when the Justice heard he raised his hands	E2
And held them as the dead in effigy	D
Hold theirs when carved upon a tomb The bands	E2
Of fate had bound him fast no remedy	D
Was left his voice unto himself was strange	F2
And that unearthly vision did not change	F2
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He said That woman dwells anear my door	B2
Her life and mine began the selfsame day	B2
And I am hale and hearty from my store	B2
I never spared her aught she takes her way	B2
Of me unheeded pining pinching care	B2
Is all the portion that she has to share	B2
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She is a broken down poor friendless wight	W
Through labor and through sorrow early old	W
And I have known of this her evil plight	W
Her scanty earnings and her lodgment cold	W
A patienter poor soul shall ne'er be found	W
She labored on my land the long year round	W
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What wouldst thou have me say thou fiend abhorred	W
Show me no more thine awful visage grim	J
If thou obey'st a greater tell thy lord	W
That I have paid her wages Cry to him	J
He has not much against me None can say	B2
I have not paid her wages day by day	B2
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The spell It draws me I must speak again	Z
And speak against myself and speak aloud	W
The woman once approached me to complain	Z
'My wages are so low ' I may be proud	W
It is a fault Ay quoth the Phantom fell	X
Sinner it is a fault thou sayest well	X
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She made her moan 'My wages are so low '	-
Tell on She said he answered 'My best days	G2
Are ended and the summer is but slow	X
To come and my good strength for work decays	G2
By reason that I live so hard and lie	X
On winter nights so bare for poverty '	-
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And you replied began the lowering shade	W
And I replied the Justice followed on	Z
That wages like to mine my neighbor paid	W
And if I raised the wages of the one	Z
Straight should the others murmur furthermore	B2
The winter was as winters gone before	B2
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No colder and not longer Afterward	W
The Phantom questioned Afterward he groaned	W
She said my neighbor was a right good lord	W
Never a roof was broken that he owned	W
He gave much coal and clothing 'Doth he so	X
Work for my neighbor then ' I answered 'Go	E
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'You are full welcome ' Then she mumbled out	W
She hoped I was not angry hoped forsooth	D
I would forgive her and I turned about	W
And said I should be angry in good truth	D
If this should be again or ever more	B2
She dared to stop me thus at the church door	B2
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Then quoth the Shade and he constrained said on	Z
Then she reproved curtseyed herself away	B2
Hast met her since it made demand anon	Z
And after pause the Justice answered Ay	B2
Some wood was stolen my people made a stir	B2
She was accused and I did sentence her	B2
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But yet and yet the dreaded questions came	Y
And didst thou weigh the matter taking thought	W
Upon her sober life and honest fame	Y
I gave it he replied with gaze distraught	W
I gave it Fiend the usual care I took	E
The usual pains I could not nearer look	E
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Because because their pilfering had got head	W
What wouldst thou more The neighbors pleaded hard	W
'Tis true and many tears the creature shed	W
But I had vowed their prayers to disregard	W
Heavily strike the first that robbed my land	W
And put down thieving with a steady hand	W
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She said she was not guilty Ay 'tis true	B2
She said so but the poor are liars all	X
O thou fell Fiend what wilt thou Must I view	B2
Thy darkness yet and must thy shadow fall	X
Upon me miserable I have done	Z
No worse no more than many a scathless one	Z
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Yet quoth the Shade if ever to thine ears	H2
The knowledge of her blamelessness was brought	W
Or others have confessed with dying tears	I2
The crime she suffered for and thou hast wrought	W
All reparation in thy power and told	W
Into her empty hand thy brightest gold	W
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If thou hast honored her and hast proclaimed	W
Her innocence and thy deplored wrong	E
Still thou art nought for thou shalt yet be blamed	W
In that she feeble came before thee strong	E
And thou in cruel haste to deal a blow	X
Because thou hadst been angered worked her woe	X
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But didst thou right her Speak The Justice sighed	W
And beaded drops stood out upon his brow	B2
How could I humble me forlorn he cried	W
To a base beggar Nay I will avow	B2
That I did ill I will reveal the whole	X
I kept that knowledge in my secret soul	X
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Hear him the Phantom muttered hear this man	Z
O changeless God upon the judgment throne	Z
With that cold tremors through his pulses ran	Z
And lamentably he did make his moan	Z
While with its arms upraised above his head	W
The dim dread visitor approached his bed	W
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Into these doors it said which thou hast closed	W
Daily this woman shall from henceforth come	J2
Her kneeling form shall yet be interposed	W
Till all thy wretched hours have told their sum	J2
Shall yet be interposed by day by night	W
Between thee sinner and the warmth and light	W
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Remembrance of her want shall make thy meal	X
Like ashes and thy wrong thou shalt not right	W
But what Nay verily nor wealth nor weal	X
From henceforth shall afford thy soul delight	W
Till men shall lay thy head beneath the sod	W
There shall be no deliverance saith my God	W
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Tell me thy name the dreaming Justice cried	W
By what appointment dost thou doom me thus	K2
'Tis well that thou shouldst know me it replied	W
For mine thou art and nought shall sever us	K2
From thine own lips and life I draw my force	L2
The name thy nation give me is REMORSE	L2
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This when he heard the dreaming man cried out	W
And woke affrighted and a crimson glow	X
The dying ember shed Within without	W
In eddying rings the silence seemed to flow	X
The wind had lulled and on his forehead shone	Z
The last low gleam he was indeed alone	Z
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O I have had a fearful dream said he	D
I will take warning and for mercy trust	W
The fiend Remorse shall never dwell with me	D
I will repair that wrong I will be just	W
I will be kind I will my ways amend	W
Now the first dream is told unto its end	W
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Anigh the frozen mere a cottage stood	W
A piercing wind swept round and shook the door	B2
The shrunken door and easy way made good	W
And drave long drifts of snow along the floor	B2
It sparkled there like diamonds for the moon	Z
Was shining in and night was at the noon	Z
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Before her dying embers bent and pale	X
A woman sat because her bed was cold	W
She heard the wind the driving sleet and hail	X
And she was hunger bitten weak and old	W
Yet while she cowered and while the casement shook	E
Upon her trembling knees she held a book	E
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A comfortable book for them that mourn	Z
And good to raise the courage of the poor	B2
It lifts the veil and shows beyond the bourne	Z
Their Elder Brother from His home secure	B2
That for them desolate He died to win	Z
Repeating Come ye blessed enter in	Z
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What thought she on this woman on her days	G2
Of toil or on the supperless night forlorn	Z
I think not so the heart but seldom weighs	G2
With conscious care a burden always borne	Z
And she was used to these things had grown old	W
In fellowship with toil hunger and cold	W
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Then did she think how sad it was to live	C2
Of all the good this world can yield bereft	W
No her untutored thoughts she did not give	D2
To such a theme but in their warp and weft	W
She wove a prayer then in the midnight deep	G
Faintly and slow she fell away to sleep	G
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A strange a marvellous sleep which brought a dream	M2
And it was this that all at once she heard	W
The pleasant babbling of a little stream	M2
That ran beside her door and then a bird	W
Broke out in songs She looked and lo the rime	M2
And snow had melted it was summer time	M2
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And all the cold was over and the mere	B2
Full sweetly swayed the flags and rushes green	Z
The mellow sunlight poured right warm and clear	B2
Into her casement and thereby were seen	Z
Fair honeysuckle flowers and wandering bees	N2
Were hovering round the blossom laden trees	N2
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She said I will betake me to my door	B2
And will look out and see this wondrous sight	W
How summer is come back and frost is o'er	B2
And all the air warm waxen in a night	W
With that she opened but for fear she cried	W
For lo two Angels one on either side	W
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And while she looked with marvelling measureless	N2
The Angels stood conversing face to face	N2
But neither spoke to her The wilderness	N2
One Angel said the solitary place	N2
Shall yet be glad for Him And then full fain	Z
The other Angel answered He shall reign	Z
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And when the woman heard in wondering wise	N2
She whispered They are speaking of my Lord	W
And straightway swept across the open skies	N2
Multitudes like to these They took the word	W
That flock of Angels He shall come again	Z
My Lord my Lord they sang and He shall reign	Z
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Then they drawn up into the blue o'er head	W
Right happy shining ones made haste to flee	D
And those before her one to other said	W
Behold He stands aneath yon almond tree	D
This when the woman heard she fain had gazed	W
But paused for reverence and bowed down amazed	W
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After she looked for this her dream was deep	G
She looked and there was nought beneath the tree	D
Yet did her love and longing overleap	G
The fear of Angels awful though they be	D
And she passed out between the blessed things	N2
And brushed her mortal weeds against their wings	N2
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O all the happy world was in its best	W
The trees were covered thick with buds and flowers	N2
And these were dropping honey for the rest	W
Sweetly the birds were piping in their bowers	N2
Across the grass did groups of Angels go	X
And Saints in pairs were walking to and fro	X
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Then did she pass toward the almond tree	D
And none she saw beneath it yet each Saint	W
Upon his coming meekly bent the knee	D
And all their glory as they gazed waxed faint	W
And then a 'lighting Angel neared the place	N2
And folded his fair wings before his face	N2
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She also knelt and spread her aged hands	N2
As feeling for the sacred human feet	W
She said Mine eyes are held but if He stands	N2
Anear I will not let Him hence retreat	W
Except He bless me Then O sweet O fair	B2
Some words were spoken but she knew not where	B2
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She knew not if beneath the boughs they woke	E
Or dropt upon her from the realms above	O2
What wilt thou woman in the dream He spoke	E
Thy sorrow moveth Me thyself I love	O2
Long have I counted up thy mournful years	N2
Once I did weep to wipe away thy tears	N2
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She said My one Redeemer only blest	W
I know Thy voice and from my yearning heart	W
Draw out my deep desire my great request	W
My prayer that I might enter where Thou art	W
Call me O call from this world troublesome	M2
And let me see Thy face He answered Come	M2
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Here is the ending of the second dream	M2
It is a frosty morning keen and cold	W
Fast locked are silent mere and frozen stream	M2
And snow lies sparkling on the desert wold	W
With savory morning meats they spread the board	W
But Justice Wilvermore will walk abroad	W
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Bring me my cloak quoth he as one in haste	W
Before you breakfast sir his man replies	N2
Ay quoth he quickly and he will not taste	W
Of aught before him but in urgent wise	N2
As he would fain some carking care allay	X
Across the frozen field he takes his way	X
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A dream how strange that it should move me so	X
'Twas but a dream quoth Justice Wilvermore	B2
And yet I cannot peace nor pleasure know	X
For wrongs I have not heeded heretofore	B2
Silver and gear the crone shall have of me	D
And dwell for life in yonder cottage free	D
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For visions of the night are fearful things	N2
Remorse is dread though merely in a dream	M2
I will not subject me to visitings	N2
Of such a sort again I will esteem	M2
My peace above my pride From natures rude	W
A little gold will buy me gratitude	W
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The woman shall have leave to gather wood	W
As much as she may need the long year round	W
She shall I say moreover it were good	W
Yon other cottage roofs to render sound	W
Thus to my soul the ancient peace restore	B2
And sleep at ease quoth Justice Wilvermore	B2
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With that he nears the door a frosty rime	M2
Is branching over it and drifts are deep	G
Against the wall He knocks and there is time	M2
For none doth open time to list the sweep	G
And whistle of the wind along the mere	B2
Through beds of stiffened reeds and rushes sere	B2
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If she be out I have my pains for nought	W
He saith and knocks again and yet once more	B2
But to his ear nor step nor stir is brought	W
And after pause he doth unlatch the door	B2
And enter No she is not out for see	N2
She sits asleep 'mid frost work winterly	X
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Asleep asleep before her empty grate	W
Asleep asleep albeit the landlord call	X
What dame he saith and comes toward her straight	W
Asleep so early But whate'er befall	X
She sleepeth then he nears her and behold	W
He lays a hand on hers and it is cold	W
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Then doth the Justice to his home return	Z
From that day forth he wears a sadder brow	B2
His hands are opened and his heart doth learn	Z
The patience of the poor He made a vow	B2
And keeps it for the old and sick have shared	W
His gifts their sordid homes he hath repaired	W
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And some he hath made happy but for him	M2
Is happiness no more He doth repent	W
And now the light of joy is waxen dim	M2
Are all his steps toward the Highest sent	W
He looks for mercy and he waits release	N2
Above for this world doth not yield him peace	N2
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Night after night night after desolate night	W
Day after day day after tedious day	W
Stands by his fire and dulls its gleamy light	W
Paceth behind or meets him in the way	W
Or shares the path by hedgerow mere or stream	M2
The visitor that doomed him in his dream	M2
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Thy kingdom come	M2
I heard a Seer cry The wilderness	N2
The solitary place	N2
Shall yet be glad for Him and He shall bless	N2
Thy kingdom come with his reveal d face	N2
The forests they shall drop their precious gum	M2
And shed for Him their balm and He shall yield	W
The grandeur of His speech to charm the field	W
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Then all the sooth d winds shall drop to listen	Z
Thy kingdom come	M2
Comforted waters waxen calm shall glisten	Z
With bashful tremblement beneath His smile	X
And Echo ever the while	X
Shall take and in her awful joy repeat	W
The laughter of His lips thy kingdom come	M2
And hills that sit apart shall be no longer dumb	M2
No they shall shout and shout	W
Raining their lovely loyalty along the dewy plain	Z
And valleys round about	W
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And all the well contented land made sweet	W
With flowers she opened at His feet	W
Shall answer shout and make the welkin ring	E
And tell it to the stars shout shout and sing	E
Her cup being full to the brim	M2
Her poverty made rich with Him	M2
Her yearning satisfied to its utmost sum	M2
Lift up thy voice O earth prepare thy song	E
It shall not yet be long	E
Lift up O earth for He shall come again	Z
Thy Lord and He shall reign and He SHALL reign	Z
Thy kingdom come	M2

Jean Ingelow

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