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I	A
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Time gathers to my name	B
Along the ways wheredown my feet have passed	C
I see the years with little triumph crowned	D
Exulting not for perils dared downcast	C
And weary eyed and desolate for shame	B
Of having been unstirred of all the sound	D
Of the deep music of the men that move	E
Through the world's days in suffering and love	F
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Poor barren years that brooded over much	G
On your own burden pale and stricken years	H
Go down to your oblivion we part	I
With no reproach or ceremonial tears	J
Henceforth my hands are lifted to the touch	G
Of hands that labour with me and my heart	I
Hereafter to the world's heart shall be set	K
And its own pain forget	K
Time gathers to my name	B
Days dead are dark the days to be a flame	B
Of wonder and of promise and great cries	L
Of travelling people reach me I must rise	L
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II	A
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Was I not man Could I not rise alone	M
Above the shifting of the things that be	N
Rise to the crest of all the stars and see	N
The ways of all the world as from a throne	M
Was I not man with proud imperial will	O
To cancel all the secrets of high heaven	P
Should not my sole unbridled purpose fill	O
All hidden paths with light when once was riven	P
God's veil by my indomitable will	O
So dreamt I little man of little vision	P
Great only in unconsecrated pride	Q
Man's pity grew from pity to derision	P
And still I thought 'Albeit they deride	Q
Yet is it mine uncharted ways to dare	R
Unknown to these	S
And they shall stumble darkly unaware	R
Of solemn mysteries	S
Whereof the key is mine alone to bear '	-
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So I forgot my God and I forgot	T
The holy sweet communion of men	U
And moved in desolate places where are not	T
Meek hands held out with patient healing when	U
The hours are heavy with uncharitable pain	V
No company but vain	V
And arrogant thoughts were with me at my side	Q
And ever to myself I lied	Q
Saying 'Apart from all men thus I go	W
To know the things that they may never know '	-
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III	A
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Then a great change befell	X
Long time I stood	Y
In witless hardihood	Y
With eyes on one sole changeless vision set	Y
The deep disturbed fret	Y
Of men who made brief tarrying in hell	X
On their earth travelling	Z
It was as though the lives of men should be	N
Set circle wise whereof one little span	A2
Through which all passed was blackened with the wing	Z
Of perilous evil bateless misery	N
But all beyond making the whole complete	Y
O'er which the travelling feet	Y
Of every man	A2
Made way or ever he might come to death	B2
Was odorous with the breath	B2
Of honey laden flowers and alive	C2
With sacrificial ministrations sweet	Y
Of man to man and swift and holy loves	D2
And large heroic hopes whereby should thrive	C2
Man's spirit as he moves	E2
From dawn of life to the great dawn of death	B2
It was as though mine eyes were set alone	M
Upon that woeful passage of despair	R
Until I held that life had never known	M
Dominion but in this most troubled place	F2
Where many a ruined grace	F2
And many a friendless care	R
Ran to and fro in sorrowful unrest	Y
Still in my hand I pressed	Y
Hope's fragile chalice whence I drew deep draughts	G2
Shaping belief that even yet should grow	W
Out of this dread confusion as of broken crafts	G2
Driven along ungovernable seas	S
Some threads of order and that I should know	W
After long vigil all the mysteries	S
Of human wonder and of human fate	Y
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O fool O only great	Y
In pride unhallowed O most blind of heart	Y
Confusion but more dark confusion bred	Y
Grief nurtured grief I cried aloud and said	Y
'Through trackless ways the soul of man is hurled	Y
No sign upon the forehead of the skies	L
No beacon and no chart	Y
Are given to him and the inscrutable world	Y
But mocks his scars and fills his mouth with dust '	-
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'And lies bore lies	L
And lust bore lust	Y
And the world was heavy with flowerless rods	H2
And pride outran	A2
The strength of a man	A2
Who had set himself in the place of gods'	H2
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IV	C2
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Soon was I then to gather bitter shame	B
Of spirit I had been most wildly proud	Y
Yet in my pride had been	I2
Some little courage formless as a cloud	Y
Unpiloted save by the vagrant wind	Y
But still an earnest of the bonds that tame	B
The legionary hates of sacred loves that lean	J2
From the high soul of man towards his kind	Y
And all my grief	C2
Had been for those I watched go to and fro	W
In uncompassioned woe	W
Along that little span my unbelief	C2
Had fashioned in my vision as all life	C2
Now even this so little virtue waned	Y
For I became caught up into the strife	C2
That I had pitied and my soul was stained	Y
At last by that most venomous despair	R
Self pity	N
I no longer was aware	R
Of any will to heal the world's unrest	Y
I suffered as it suffered and I grew	K2
Troubled in all my daily trafficking	Z
Not with the large heroic trouble known	M
By proud adventurous men who would atone	M
With their own passionate pity for the sting	Z
And anguish of a world of peril and snares	H2
It was the trouble of a soul in thrall	L2
To mean despairs	H2
Driven about a waste where neither fall	L2
Of words from lips of love nor consolation	P
Of grave eyes comforting nor ministration	P
Of hand or heart could pierce the deadly wall	L2
Of self of self I was a living shame	B
A broken purpose I had stood apart	Y
With pride rebellious and defiant heart	Y
And now my pride had perished in the flame	B
I cried for succour as a little child	Y
Might supplicate whose days are undefiled	Y
For tutored pride and innocence are one	P
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'To the gloom has won	P
A gleam of the sun	P
And into the barren desolate ways	H2
A scent is blown	M
As of meadows mown	M
By cooling rivers in clover days'	H2
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V	N
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I turned me from that place in humble wise	H2
And fingers soft were laid upon mine eyes	H2
And I beheld the fruitful earth with store	M2
Of odorous treasure full and golden grain	M
Ripe orchard bounty slender stalks that bore	M2
Their flowered beauty with a meek content	Y
The prosperous leaves that loved the sun and rain	M
Shy creatures unreproved that came and went	Y
In garrulous joy among the fostering green	M
And over all the changes of the day	Y
And ordered year their mutable glory laid	Y
Expectant winter soberly arrayed	Y
The prudent diligent spring whose eyes have seen	M
The beauty of the roses uncreate	Y
Imperial June magnificent elate	Y
Beholding all the ripening loves that stray	Y
Among her blossoms and the golden time	N2
Of the full ear and bounty of the boughs	H2
And the great hills and solemn chanting seas	H2
And prodigal meadows answering to the chime	N2
Of God's good year and bearing on their brows	H2
The glory of processional mysteries	H2
From dawn to dawn the woven shadow and shine	M
Of the high moon the twilight secrecies	H2
And the inscrutable wonder of the stars	H2
Flung out along the reaches of the night	Y
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'And the ancient might	Y
Of the binding bars	H2
Waned as I woke to a new desire	O2
For the choric song	P2
Of exultant strong	P2
Earth passionate men with souls of fire'	O2
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VI	C2
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'Twas given me to hear As I beheld	Y
With a new wisdom tranquil asking not	Y
For mystic revelation this glory long forgot	Y
This re discovered triumph of the earth	Q2
In high creative will and beauty's pride	Y
Established beyond the assaulting years	H2
It came to me a music that compelled	Y
Surrender of all tributary fears	H2
Full throated fierce and rhythmic with the wide	Y
Beat of the pilgrim winds and labouring seas	H2
Sent up from all the harbouring ways of earth	Q2
Wherein the travelling feet of men have trod	Y
Mounting the firmamental silences	H2
And challenging the golden gates of God	Y
'We bear the burden of the years	H2
Clean limbed clear hearted open browed	Y
Albeit sacramental tears	H2
Have dimmed our eyes we know the proud	Y
Content of men who sweep unbowed	Y
Before the legionary fears	H2
In sorrow we have grown to be	N
The masters of adversity	N
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Long ere from immanent silence leapt	Y
Obedient hands and fashioning will	O
The giant god within us slept	Y
And dreamt of seasons to fulfil	O
The shaping of our souls that still	O
Expectant earthward vigil kept	Y
Our wisdom grew from secrets drawn	M
From that far off dim memoried dawn	M
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Wise of the storied ages we	N
Of perils dared and crosses borne	M
Of heroes bound by no decree	N
Of laws defiled or faiths outworn	M
Of poets who have held in scorn	M
All mean and tyrannous things that be	N
We prophesy with lips that sped	Y
The songs of the prophetic dead	Y
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Wise of the brief beloved span	M
Of this our glad earth travelling	Z
Of beauty's bloom and ordered plan	M
Of love and love's compassioning	Z
Of all the dear delights that spring	Z
From man's communion with man	M
We cherish every hour that strays	H2
Adown the cataract of the days '	-
'We see the dear untroubled skies	H2
We see the glory of the rose	H2
And laugh nor grieve that clouds will rise	H2
And wax with every wind that blows	H2
Nor that the blossoming time will close	H2
For beauty seen of humble eyes	H2
Immortal habitation has	H2
Though beauty's form may pale and pass	H2
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Wise of the great unshapen age	R2
To which we move with measured tread	Y
All girt with passionate truth to wage	R2
High battle for the word unsaid	Y
The song unsung the cause unled	Y
The freedom that no hope can gauge	R2
Strong armed sure footed iron willed	Y
We sift and weave we break and build	Y
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Into one hour we gather all	O
The years gone down the years unwrought	Y
Upon our ears brave measures fall	O
Across uncharted spaces brought	Y
Upon our lips the words are caught	Y
Wherewith the dead the unborn call	O
From love to love from height to height	Y
We press and none may curb our might '	-
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VII	C2
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O blessed voices O compassionate hands	H2
Calling and healing O great hearted brothers	H2
I come to you Ring out across the lands	H2
Your benediction and I too will sing	Z
With you and haply kindle in another's	H2
Dark desolate hour the flame you stirred in me	N
O bountiful earth in adoration meet	Y
I bow to you O glory of years to be	N
I too will labour to your fashioning	Z
Go down go down unweariable feet	Y
Together we will march towards the ways	H2
Wherein the marshalled hosts of morning wait	Y
In sleepless watch with banners wide unfurled	Y
Across the skies in ceremonial state	Y
To greet the men who lived triumphant days	H2
And stormed the secret beauty of the world	Y