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I vaguely wondered what you were about	A
But never wrote when you had gone away	B
Assumed you better quenched the uneasy doubt	A
You might need faces or have things to say	B
Did I think of you last evening Dead you lay	B
O bitter words of conscience	C
I hold the simple message	D
And fierce with grief the awakened heart cries out	A
'It shall not be to day	B
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It is still yesterday there is time yet '	-
Sorrow would strive backward to wrench the sun	E
But the sun moves Our onward course is set	F
The wake streams out the engine pulses run	E
Droning a lonelier voyage is begun	E
It is all too late for turning	G
You are past all mortal signal	H
There will be time for nothing but regret	F
And the memory of things done	E
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The quiet voice that always counselled best	I
The mind that so ironically played	J
Yet for mere gentleness forebore the jest	I
The proud and tender heart that sat in shade	J
Nor once solicited another's aid	J
Yet was so grateful always	K
For trifles lightly given	E
The silences the melancholy guessed	I
Sometimes when your eyes strayed	J
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But always when you turned you talked the more	L
Through all our literature your way you took	M
With modest ease yet would you soonest pore	L
Smiling with most affection in your look	M
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook	M
Sage travellers learn d printers	N
Divines and buried poets	O
You knew them all but never half your lore	L
Was drawn from any book	M
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Stories and jests from field and town and port	P
And odd neglected scraps of history	Q
From everywhere for you were of the sort	P
Cool and refined who like rough company	Q
Carter and barmaid hawker and bargee	D
Wise pensioners and boxers	N
With whom you drank and listened	R
To legends of old revelry and sport	P
And customs of the sea	Q
	-
I hear you yet more clear than all one note	S
One sudden hail I still remember best	I
That came on sunny days from one afloat	S
And drew me to the pane in certain quest	I
Of a long brown face bare arms and flimsy vest	I
In fragments through the branches	T
Above the green reflections	U
Paused by the willows in your varnished boat	S
You with your oars at rest	I
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Did that come back to you when you were dying	G
I think it did you had much leisure there	V
And with the things we knew came quietly flying	G
Memories of things you had seen we knew not where	V
	-
You watched again with meditative stare	V
Places where you had wandered	W
Golden and calm in distance	C
Voices from all your altering past came sighing	G
On the soft Hampshire air	V
	-
For there you sat a hundred miles away	B
A rug upon your knees your hands gone frail	X
And daily bade your farewell to the day	B
A music blent of trees and clouds a sail	X
And figures in some old neglected tale	X
And watched the sunset gathering	G
And heard the birdsong fading	G
And went within when the last sleepy lay	B
Passed to a farther vale	X
	-
Never complaining and stepped up to bed	Y
More and more slow a tall and sunburnt man	Z
Grown bony and bearded knowing you would be dead	Y
Before the summer glad your life began	Z
Even thus to end after so short a span	Z
And mused a space serenely	Q
Then fell to easy slumber	A2
At peace content For never again your head	Y
Need make another plan	Z
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Most generous most gentle most discreet	B2
Who left us ignorant to spare us pain	C2
We went our ways with too forgetful feet	B2
And missed the chance that would not come again	D2
Leaving with thoughts on pleasure bent or gain	C2
Fidelity unattested	B2
And services unrendered	B2
The ears are closed the heart has ceased to beat	B2
And now all proof is vain	C2
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Too late for other gifts I give you this	E2
Who took from you so much so carelessly	Q
On your far brows a first and phantom kiss	E2
On your far grave a careful elegy	Q
For one who loved all life and poetry	Q
Sorrow in music bleeding	G
And friendship's last confession	E
But even as I speak that inner hiss	E2
Softly accuses me	Q
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Saying Those brows are senseless deaf that tomb	F2
This is the callous cold resort of art	B2
'I give you this ' What do I give to whom	F2
Words to the air and balm to my own heart	B2
To its old luxurious and commanded smart	B2
An end to all this tuning	G
This cynical masquerading	G
What comfort now in that far final gloom	F2
Can any song impart	B2
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O yet I see you dawning from some heaven	E
Who would not suffer self reproach to live	G2
In one to whom your friendship once was given	E
I catch a vision faint and fugitive	H2
Of a dark face with eyes contemplative	H2
Deep eyes that smile in silence	C
And parted lips that whisper	A2
'Say nothing more old friend of being forgiven	E
There is nothing to forgive '	-

John Collings Squire, Sir

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