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At evening when the aspens rustled soft	A
And the last blackbird by the hedge nest laughed	B
And through the leaves the moon's unmeaning face	C
Looked and then rose in dark blue leafless space	C
Watching the trees and moon she could not bear	D
The silence and the presence everywhere	D
The blackbird called the silence and it came	E
Closing and closing round like smoke round flame	E
Into her heart it crept and the heart was numb	F
Even wishes died and all but fear was dumb	F
Fear and its phantoms Then the trees were enlarged	G
And from their roundness unguessed shapes emerged	H
Or no shape but the image of her fear	I
Creeping forth from her mind and hovering near	I
If a bat flitted it was an evil thing	J
Sadder the trees grew with every shadowy wing	J
Their shape enlarged their arms quivered their thought	K
Stirring in the leaves a silent anguish wrought	K
What are they thinking of the evil trees	L
Nod nodding standing in malignant ease	L
Something against man's mortal heart was sworn	M
Once when their dark Powers were conceived and born	M
And in such fading or such lightless hours	N
The world is delivered to these plotting Powers	N
No physical swift blow she dreaded not	O
Lightning's quick mercy but her heart grew hot	O
And cold and hot with uncomprehended sense	P
Of an assassin spiritual influence	Q
Moving in the unmoving trees	L
Till as she stared	R
Her eyes turned cowards at last and no more dared	R
Yet could she never rise and shut the door	S
Perhaps those Powers would batter at the door	S
And that were madness So right through the house	T
She set the doors all wide when she could arouse	U
The body's energy to serve the mind	V
Then the air would move and any little wind	V
Would cleanse awhile the darkness and diminish	W
Her fear and the dumb shadow war would finish	W
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But it was not the trees the birds the moon	X
Birds cease months fly green seasons wither soon	X
Nature was constant all the seasons through	Y
Sinister watchful and a thick cloud drew	Y
Over the mind when its simplicity	Z
Challenged what seemed with thought of what must be	Z
She wondered seeing how a child could play	A2
Lightly in a shady field all day	A2
For in that golden brief benignant weather	B2
When spring and summer calling run together	B2
And the sun's fresh and hot she saw deep guile	C2
In the sweetness of that unconditioned smile	C2
Sweetness not sweetness was but indifference	Q
Or wantonness disguised to her grave sense	P
And if she could have seen the things she felt	D2
She'd looked for darkness and lit shapes that knelt	D2
Appealing unregarded at a high	E2
Altar uprising from the pit to the sky	E2
Had the trees consciousness with flowers and clouds	F2
And winds that hung like thin clouds in the woods	G2
And stars and silence had they each a mind	V
Bending on hers clear eyes on her eyes blind	V
In the green dense heights elm oak ash yew or beech	H2
She scarce saw was there not a brain in each	H2
An undiscovered centre of quick nerves	I2
By which like man the tree lives masters serves	I2
Waxes and wanes Oppressed her mind would shrink	J2
From thought and into her trembling body sink	J2
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Something of this had childhood taught her when	K2
Sickly she lay and peered again and again	K2
At gray skies and white skies and void bright blue	Y
And watched the sun the bare town tree boughs through	Y
And then through leafy boughs and once more bare	D
Or in the west country's heavy hill drawn air	D
Had felt the green grass pushing within her veins	L2
Tangling and strangling and the warm spring rains	L2
Tapping all night upon her childish head	M2
She shivered lying lonely on her bed	M2
With all that life all round and she so weak	N2
Longing to speak yet what was there to speak	N2
And as she grew and health came and love came	E
And life was happier happier still the same	E
Inhuman spirit rose whenever she	Z
Held in her thoughts more than her eyes could see	Z
Behind the happiest hours the dark cloud hung	O2
Distant or nearing and its dullness flung	O2
On the south meadows of her thought the fairest	P2
Shrinking in shadow aspirations rarest	Q2
Falling like shot birds in a reedy fen	K2
Slain by the old Enemy of men	K2
Life ebbed while men strove for the means of life	R2
The grudging earth turned labour into strife	R2
The moving hosts within the heavy clod	Q2
Seemed infinite in malice frost and flood	Q2
Season and inter season were conspired	Q2
In smiling or sour mockery and untired	Q2
And undelighted man scratched and scratched on	S2
And what he did by Nature was undone	T2
She saw men twisted more than rocks or trees	L
Bruised numbed by age and labour and the disease	L
Of labour in the cold fields women worn	M
By many child bearings and their self scorn	M
Because of time and their lost woman's powers	N
Bitter was Nature to women for those hours	N
Of the spirit's and the body's first delight	Q2
Passed soon and the long day evening night	Q2
Of life uncherished bitterest when even	U2
That brief hour was denied of dancing heaven	T2
Dewy love and fulfilled desires	N
But age	V2
Of all ills made her pity and anger rage	V2
To see and smell the calm months bud and bloom	W2
April's first warmth June's hues and slow perfume	W2
The sweetness drifting by in those long hours	N
While out of her she nursed the vital powers	N
Were pressed by pain and pressed by pain renewed	Q2
Till closing the life long vicissitude	Q2
Came starving death with full heaped summer and	Q2
Wrung the last pangs that spirit could withstand	Q2
Or to see age in its prison slowly freeze	L
With impotence more disastrous than disease	L
While trees flowered on or all the winter through	Y
Upheld brave arms and with spring flowered anew	Y
Above those living graves and graves of the dead	Q2
'Twas all such bitterness but she nothing said	Q2
She saw men as courageous boats that sailed	Q2
On all the seas and some a far port hailed	Q2
Perhaps to sail again or anchor there	D
Forever some would quietly disappear	I
In stormless waters and some in storms be broken	T2
And all be hidden and no clear meaning spoken	T2
Nor any trace upon the waters linger	B2
Where the boat went the wind with hasty finger	B2
Savage and sly as aught of land could be	Z
Erased the little wrinkling of the sea	Z
O in such enmity was man enisled	Q2
Such loneliness by foolish shades beguiled	Q2
That it was bravery to see and live	X2
But cowardice to see and to forgive	Y2
The wrong of evil the wrong of death to life	R2
The defeat of innocence the waste of strife	R2
The heavy ills of time injustice pain	Z2
In field and forest and flood rose huge and plain	Z2
Brushing her mind with darkness till she thought	Q2
Not with her brain but all her nerves were wrought	Q2
Into an apprehension burning strong	A3
Unslackening of mortality's old wrong	A3
But if her eyes she raised to those clear lonely	Z
Altitudes of stars and ether only	Z
Her eyes fell and rebuked her as forbidden	T2
With human mind to question what was hidden	T2
At summer dusk the broad moon rising high	E2
Put gentleness in the vast strength of the sky	E2
Easing its weight or the hot summer sun	T2
Made noonday kind and the hours lightly run	T2
But in those blazing midnights of the stars	B3
Gathered and brightening for immortal wars	C3
With spears and darts and arrows of sharp light	Q2
She read the indifference of the infinite	Q2
The high strife flashing through eternity	Z
While on the earth stared mortals but as she	Z
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O 'twas a living world that rose around	Q2
And in her sentience burned a hollow wound	Q2
Such easy brightness as the poets see	Z
Or easy gloom or hues of faerie	B2
She never saw but into her own heart peered	Q2
To find what spirit indeed it was she feared	Q2
Whether in antique days a divine foe	D3
Sprung branchlike from dense woods had wrought her woe	D3
Whether in antique days a pagan rite	Q2
Herself a pagan still unfilmed her sight	Q2
And taught her secrets never to be forgot	Q2
And by man's generation pardoned not	Q2
The same blood in ancestral veins ran fleet	Q2
As now made hers a road for pain's quick feet	Q2
Into the marrow of her hidden life	R2
Had poured the agony of their termless strife	R2
With immaterial and material things	E3
And as a bird an unlearned music sings	E3
Because a million generations sang	F3
So in her breast the old alarum rang	F3
So the old sorrowfulness in her thought	Q2
Renewed and apprehensions all untaught	Q2
As if indeed a creature primitive	Y2
Still did she in the world's dim morning live	X2
That wanted human warmth and gentleness	G3
To make its solitude a little less	H3
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Kindness gave solitude the lovely light	Q2
She loved and made less terrible black midnight	Q2
Even as a bird its unlearned music pours	C3
Though windows all be blind and shut the doors	C3
And sings on still though no faint sound be heard	Q2
But wind and leaves and another lonely bird	Q2
So poured she untaught kindness all around	Q2
And in that human music comfort found	Q2
Music her own and music heard from others	N
Prime music of all lovers children mothers	N
Precarious music between all men sounding	J
The horror of silent and dark Powers confounding	J
Singing that music she could bravely live	X2
Hearing it find less sorrow to forgive	Y2