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F T	A
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The cord broke and the tent	B
Slipped and the silken roof	C
Lay prone beneath the viewless hoof	C
Of the deliberate firmament	B
Yet cared we not how should we care	D
Knowing that labourless now he breathes	E
A golden paradisal air	D
Where with more certain craft he wreathes	E
Bright braids of words more wise and fair	D
Than ever his earthly fabrics were	F
That his unwavering eyes made fresh	G
Purged and regarbed in fadeless flesh	G
What he then darkly guessed behold	B
And watch with an abiding joy	H
The eternal mysteries unfold	B
Which do his now transfigured songs evermore employ	H
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Brother yet great thy power	F
Thou stood'st as on a tower	F
Small 'neath the stars yet high above the fields	E
In thy alembic song	I
Imagination strong	I
Distilled what essences the quest to mortals yields	E
This thy reward well won	J
For every morning's sun	J
Found thy heart's firm allegiance still unshaken	J
No temporal ache or smart	B
Drave Beauty from thy heart	B
And by thy mighty mistress never wast forsaken	J
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Yes for though stringent was the test	B
When that thy trial was bitterest	B
Steadfast thou did'st remain unshod	B
The harrows of Pain thy feet once trod	B
Humiliate as thy sad song tells	E
Before the vault's white sentinels	E
Friendless and faint thou sojourned'st there	D
A bowed brave timid wanderer	F
A lonely nomad of the spirit	B
Who did a triple curse inherit	B
Hunger regret and memory	A
Yet never did they vanquish thee	A
When nighest broken most alone	K
Thy unassuag d thoughts could clamber	F
To beauty on her ageless throne	K
Thou wert as one in torture chamber	F
Who sees the blue through an open casement	B
And hammers his soul to endure the time	L
Of his corporeal abasement	B
Nor writhed'st at thine or others' fault	B
But with grim tenderness did salt	B
Thy cicatrices with a rhyme	L
Not the most sable flame of gloom	M
Could penetrate thy inmost room	M
But through the walls thy spirit sucked	B
Into that cloistral hermitage	N
Stray lovely things moonbeams and snows	E
The far sky shed into thy cage	O
And from the very gutter plucked	B
A lost and mired campestral rose	E
	-
Ended that purgatorial period	B
Filled was thy wallet and thy feet were shod	B
The leaden weights were moved the rack withdrawn	P
Thou didst traverse the dewy fields of dawn	P
Watch sunsets blazoning over upland turf	Q
Pull poppies from the frontiers of the surf	Q
Dwelled'st with love and human eyes	E
Vigilant calm and wise	E
But still as when thy bark did ride	B
Derelict on the city's tide	B
As then for penury now for pride	B
Thy bodily senses were denied	B
Though they cried out and would not sleep	R
Ascetic thou didst armour them	S
Lest acid pleasure should eat thine art's pure gem	S
Hourly the tempter's ambuscades	E
But thou didst guard the gates and keep	R
Thy senses' hungry colonnades	E
Accessible but to Beauty's ministers	E
Unlit by any ruby flame but hers	E
Immuring so thy spirit eager	F
Within a body frail and meagre	F
Far from the meads of earthly milk and honey	A
Yet franchised of more wondrous territories	E
Like those poor Bedouin of Arabia the Stony	A
Who roam spare fed and hollow eyed but free	A
By day to wander and by night to camp	T
In vast serenity	A
Compassed by God's great silent glories	E
The sun's gold splendour and the moon's white lamp	T
Folded and safe from harm	U
Beneath the mighty sky's protecting arm	U
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Ha but the Titan's ardour	A
Wherewith thou scour'dst the vast	B
To spoil the starry larder	A
Of fruits of heavenly taste	B
Urania's fiercest servant	B
With thirst as furnace fervent	B
And serene burning brow	A
Worthy of thy great lineage thou	A
Drankest without a shudder	A
In proud humility	A
Milk from that vast prim val udder	A
That swells for such as thee	A
Milk from the fountains of the Universe	E
That cowards deem infected with a curse	E
That flushes him who drinks	E
Nor shrinks	E
The exalted anguish of diurnal draughts	E
To a clear vision more intolerable	V
In its blissful pain than love's most ardent shafts	E
Of the seats where she doth dwell	W
She whom thou didst confess	E
Enticed	B
Thee hot to her throne to press	E
For the greater glory of Christ	B
To uplift the curtains of her closed eyes	E
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Not all was for thy learning	X
Nor any mortal's else	E
Only for thy discerning	X
Sporadic syllables	E
Of those supernal glances	E
Coffer of which her marble countenance is	E
Yet vain was not the adventure	A
Reluctant though the prize	E
Thou gainedst a debenture	A
On the fringe of Beauty's eyes	E
Such fragmentary trophy	A
As some cross tunic'd knight	B
From Saladin or Sophy	A
May have won in sword's despite	B
Not the dear polar shrines	E
Held captive by the Paynim	U
But still as fruit of wars	E
Some stone from Sion's lines	E
Some relic that might sain him	U
Of life's uncounted scars	E
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Self dedicated anchorite	B
Never disdainful of the dust	B
But conscious of the overcoming night	B
That must engulph the blooms and berries of lust	B
And unforgetful of the enveloping day beyond	B
Though a sweet show was spread for thy delight	B
Resolved not to be so fond	B
As in ephemeral gauds caparisoned	B
To station feet upon a world of vapour	A
Soft as a dream and fleeting as a taper	A
Thou thoughtest nevertheless that thou shouldst occupy	Y
Thyself as it seemed to thee most worthily	W
Until the rapid hour when thou shouldst die	Y
So in a world of seemings	E
Of shadows and of dreamings	E
Busied thyself to fashion and record	B
Unto the greater glory of thy Lord	B
For thy proud lady Beauty His	E
Most excellent and humble handmaid is	E
Says one thy service was too ceremonial	W
Thy vestments irised overmuch thy ritual	W
Too elaborate and thy rubric too obscure	A
Therefore thy gift of chant and orison	A
Beneath the perfect service men have done	A
O but thy notes were pure	A
And in a day like this we now endure	A
No fault it was in thee to set thy camp	T
Remote aloof aloof	C
In a far fastness proof	C
'Gainst the mephitic odours of the swamp	Z
Which being so no gain	A
'Twere to explain	A
An exquisiteness too meticulous	E
Let us but say it pleased thee thus	E
Dowered with imagination heavy fruited	B
To raise a column garlanded and fluted	B
For Him thy heavenly abacus	E
This was thine offering thou didst make	A2
In founded hope that He	A
The craftsman's best would take	A2
Well knowing its unobscure sincerity	A
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The cord broke and the tent	B
Slipped and the silken roof	C
Lay prone beneath the viewless hoof	C
Of the deliberate firmament	B
We still in this terrene abode	B
Forlorn must tread the difficult road	B
And all meek thanks and all belief	B2
Hardly suffice to rampart grief	B2
For gone is Beauty's votary apostolic	A2
And are her temples now delivered over	A
To blindworms and libidinous goats that frolic	A2
In places hallowed by that celestial lover	A
Save only two or three	A
With undivided minds like thee	A
None now remains that girds	E
The peregrinal loin	A
None reverent of Beauty's holy tongue	A2
But counterfeiters of her imaged coin	A
Iconoclasts breakers of carven words	E
Seekers of worthless treasure in the dung	A2
Mock mages and cacophonous charlatans	E
And pismire artisans	E
Labouring to make	A2
Such mirrored replicas of Nature's face	E
As might the surface of a stagnant lake	A2
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Yet we should anger not	B
Nor let that be forgot	B
The testament of stateliest worth	C2
He left us when he fled the earth	C2
The mausoleum made of rhyme	U
Fair in its unfrequented field	B
Which shall invulnerably shield	B
His memory to the end of Time	U
The house with curtain flaming halls	E
And roof of gold and jewelled walls	E
For which the fisher sank his net	B
Into the deepest pools of speech	D2
Scooping rich conchs and ribbons wet	B
That a less venturous could not reach	D2
The hunter tracked the metaphor	A
On many a foamy silver coast	B
A hundred leagues beyond the most	B
Fabulous Tellurian shore	A
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Magnificent he was and mild	B
Glad to be still and glad to speak	A2
Daring yet delicate as a child	B
Faithful compassionate and holy	A
And being human strong and weak	A2
And full of hope and melancholy	A
No more than we able to shed	B
Man's nature he inherited	B
Neither sin's garrison to kill	W
Yet at the last with constancy so great	B
As the world's vanities to abnegate	B
Sternly to will the sacrifice of will	W
Upon the altars of the Uncreate	B
So that he lived before he died	B
As one who hourly to himself denied	B
All joys save those that cannot pall	W
Who having nothing yet had all	W