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To Edmund Gosse	A
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Within mankind's duration so they say	B
Khephren and Ninus lived but yesterday	B
Asia had no name till man was old	C
And long had learned the use of iron and gold	C
And ons had passed when the first corn was planted	D
Since first the use of syllables was granted	D
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Men were on earth while climates slowly swung	E
Fanning wide zones to heat and cold and long	F
Subsidence turned great continents to sea	G
And seas dried up dried up interminably	G
Age after age enormous seas were dried	H
Amid wastes of land And the last monsters died	H
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Earth wore another face O since that prime	I
Man with how many works has sprinkled time	I
Hammering hewing digging tunnels roads	J
Building ships temples multiform abodes	J
How for his body's appetites his toils	J
Have conquered all earth's products all her soils	J
And in what thousand thousand shapes of art	K
He has tried to find a language for his heart	K
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Never at rest never content or tired	L
Insatiate wanderer marvellously fired	L
Most grandly piling and piling into the air	M
Stones that will topple or arch he knows not where	M
And yet did I this spring think it more strange	N
More grand more full of awe than all that change	N
And lovely and sweet and touching unto tears	J
That through man's chronicled and unchronicled years	J
And even into that unguessable beyond	O
The water hen has nested by a pond	O
Weaving dry flags into a beaten floor	P
The one sure product of her only lore	P
Low on a ledge above the shadowed water	Q
Then when she heard no men as nature taught her	Q
Flashing around with busy scarlet bill	R
She built that nest her nest and builds it still	R
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O let your strong imagination turn	S
The great wheel backward until Troy unburn	S
And then unbuild and seven Troys below	T
Rise out of death and dwindle and outflow	T
Till all have passed and none has yet been there	M
Back ever back Our birds still crossed the air	M
Beyond our myriad changing generations	J
Still built unchanged their known inhabitations	J
A million years before Atlantis was	J
Our lark sprang from some hollow in the grass	J
Some old soft hoof print in a tussock's shade	U
And the wood pigeon's smooth snow white eggs were laid	U
High amid green pines' sunset coloured shafts	J
And rooks their villages of twiggy rafts	J
Set on the tops of elms where elms grew then	S
And still the thumbling tit and perky wren	S
Popped through the tiny doors of cosy balls	J
And the blackbird lined with moss his high built walls	J
A round mud cottage held the thrush's young	E
And straws from the untidy sparrow's hung	E
And skimming forktailed in the evening air	M
When man first was were not the martins there	M
Did not those birds some human shelter crave	V
And stow beneath the cornice of his cave	V
Their dry tight cups of clay And from each door	P
Peeped on a morning wiseheads three or four	P
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Yes daw and owl curlew and crested hern	S
Kingfisher mallard water rail and tern	S
Chaffinch and greenfinch wagtail stonechat ruff	W
Whitethroat and robin fly catcher and chough	X
Missel thrush magpie sparrow hawk and jay	B
Built those far ages gone in this year's way	B
And the first man who walked the cliffs of Rame	I
As I this year looked down and saw the same	I
Blotches of rusty red on ledge and cleft	Y
With grey green spots on them while right and left	Y
A dizzying tangle of gulls were floating and flying	Z
Wheeling and crossing and darting crying and crying	Z
Circling and crying over and over and over	Q
Crying with swoop and hover and fall and recover	Q
And below on a rock against the grey sea fretted	A2
Pipe necked and stationary and silhouetted	A2
Cormorants stood in a wise black equal row	T
Above the nests and long blue eggs we know	T
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O delicate chain over all the ages stretched	B2
O dumb tradition from what far darkness fetched	B2
Each little architect with its one design	S
Perpetual fixed and right in stuff and line	S
Each little ministrant who knows one thing	Z
One learn d rite to celebrate the spring	Z
Whatever alters else on sea or shore	P
These are unchanging man must still explore	P

John Collings Squire, Sir

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