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In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by	A
Small on green fields beneath the hueless sky	A
They do not stay for question do not hear	B
Any old human speech their tongue and ear	B
Seem only thought for when I spoke they stirred not	C
And their bright minds conversing my ear heard not	C
Until I slept or musing on a heap	D
Of warm crisp fern lay between sense and sleep	D
Drowsy still clinging to a strand of thought	E
Spider like frail and all unconscious wrought	E
For thinking of that unforgettable thing	F
The war that spreads a loud and shaggy wing	F
On things most peaceful simple happy and bright	G
Until the spirit is blind though the eye is light	G
Thinking of all that evil envy hate	H
The cruelty most dark most desolate	I
Thinking of the English dead How can you dead	J
I muttered with your life and young joy shed	J
How can you but in these new lands of life	K
Relume the fiery passion of old strife	K
Just anger mortal hate the natural scorn	L
Of men true born for all things foully born	L
For I had thought that not death's touch could still	M
In man's clean spirit the hate of good for ill	M
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But now to see their shapes go lightly by	A
On those vast fields clear 'neath the hueless sky	A
With not one furious gesture and when seen	N
With but the broad dark hedgerow space between	N
No eye's disdain no thin drawn face of grief	O
But pondering calm or lightened look and brief	O
Smile almost gay yet all seen in the air	P
That driv'n mist makes unreal everywhere	P
So strange I breathed How can you English dead	J
Forget them for whose life your life was shed	J
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It was no voice that answered yet plain word	Q
Less plain is than the unspoken that I heard	Q
As I lay there on the dry heap of fern	R
And watched them pass mix disappear and return	R
And felt their mute speech into empty senses burn	R
Earth's is the strife The Heavenly Powers that sent	S
The gray globe spinning in the firmament	S
The Heavenly Powers that soon or late will stay	S
The spinning as a child that tires of play	S
And globe by spent globe put forgot away	S
In some vast airless hollow could they see	T
Or seeing endure immortal misery	T
Made out of mortal and undying hate	S
Earth's perishing agonies perpetuate	S
O spirits unhappy if from earth men brought	S
The mind's disease the sickness of mad thought	S
Sooner the Heavenly Powers would let them lie	A
Eternally unrising 'neath a sky	A
Arctic and lonely where death's starven wind	S
Raged full delighted sooner would those kind	S
Serenities man's generation cast	S
Back into nothingness than heaven should waste	S
With finite anguish infinitely prolonged	S
Until the Eternal Spring were stained and wronged	S
O even the Heavenly Powers at such a breath	U
From mortal shores would fade and fade to death	U
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Was it a voice or but a thought I heard	S
Mine or another's in my boughs that stirred	S
Waking the leafy darkness of the mind	S
Was it a voice or but a new roused wind	S
That answered O I know I know I know	V
The oldest rivers into the full sea flow	V
And there are lost so everything is lost	S
On midnight waves into oblivion tost	S
Yet the high passion the pity the joy and pride	S
The righteousness for which these men have died	S
The courage the uncounted sacrifice	W
The love and beauty all that's beyond all price	W
That this the immortal heart of mortal man	X
Should be O tell me what tell me again again	Y
Petals lost on the river of the years	Z
When April sweetness pauses fades and disappears	Z
That this high Quarrel should be quenched in death	U
As some vexed petty plaint unworthy breath	U
That the blood and the tears should never rise	A2
Renewed accusing in grave judgment skies	A2
Tell me again O rather tell me not	S
Lest that ill telling never be forgot	S
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And then I rose from that warm ferny heap	D
And my thoughts climbed from the abyss of sleep	D
No more in human guise did cloud shapes pass	B2
Nor sighed with sad intelligence the grass	B2
I saw the hueless sky break into blue	C2
And I remembered how that heaven I knew	C2
When a small child I gazed at the great height	S
And thought of nothing but the blue and white	S
Pools of sweet blue swimming in fields of light	S
And as tired men from mine and stithy turn	R
While still the midnight fires unslackened burn	R
Flushing their road and so reach home and then	Y
Dream of old childhood's days and dream again	Y
So I forgot those inward fires and found	S
Old happiness like dew lying all around	S
Under the hedge I stood and far below	V
Saw on the Worcester Plain the swift clouds flow	V
Like ships on seas no greener than the Plain	D2
That shone between October sun and rain	D2
And thinking how time's plenteousness would bring	F
Back and more bright the young delicious Spring	F
Between wet brambles thrust my hand and tasted	S
Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted	S

John Frederick Freeman

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