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When through our bodies our two spirits burn	A
Escaping and no more our true eyes turn	A
Outwards and no more hands to fond hands yearn	A
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Then over those poor grassy heaps we'll meet	B
One morning tasting still the morning's sweet	B
Sensible still of light dark rain cold heat	B
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And see 'neath the green dust that dust of gray	C
Which was our useless bodies laid away	C
Mocked still with menace of a Judgment Day	C
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We then that waiting dust at last will call	D
Each to the other's Rise up at last O small	D
Ashes that first love held loveliest of all	D
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'Tis Judgment Day arise And they will arise	E
The dust will lift and spine ribs neck head knees	F
At the sound remember their old unities	F
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And stand there yours with mine as once they stood	G
Beloved obeyed despised with that swift blood	H
Those looks and trembling lips heart's pause and thud	H
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And was it these that love galled thought pursued	I
And with his immortality indued	I
Nor was by their mortality quite subdued	I
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This was the bony hand that held my hand	I
The shoulders whereon all my world might stand	I
They fell but in their fall was I unmanned	I
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This was the breast my eyes delighted in	J
The ribs were faint as now under the skin	J
They mouldered but not my love mouldered within	J
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Away away This was not truly thee	K
A mortal bravery Time's delinquency	K
A dream that held me from thee thee from me	K
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It was not in these bodies that we drew	L
Near nearer never never by these we knew	L
Transfusion past all sense of 'I' and 'You '	-
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It was youth's blindness held the body so dear	M
Slowly slowly year after bewildered year	M
The dark thinned and the eyes of love grew clear	M
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And thought following thought enlinking each	N
Ran where the delighting body could not reach	N
And had speech when there was no voice for speech	N
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So that we scarce grieved when those bodies died	I
And our eyes more than our true spirits cried	I
But as when trees fall the free wind that sighed	I
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Awhile in their fond branches ceases not	I
But sings a moment over the cumbered spot	I
Then flies away our unentangled thought	I
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Our vivid spirits of love unbroken moved	I
And lifted no more sense confined and roved	I
And knew till then we had not utterly loved	I
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Leave now this dust	I
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And then the dust will sink	O
The upheaved mound to its old shape will shrink	O
And we shall turn again from Time's dusk brink	O
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Will it be thus It will be thus Even now	P
Though body to body submissively still bow	P
'Tis not on body's blood that our loves grow	Q
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Though I am old and you are old though nerves	F
Slacken and beauty slowly lose its curves	F
And greedy Time the bone and sinew starves	F
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Like some lean Captain gloating over a town	R
That has not fallen but will fall every stone	S
O'erthrust and every bravery overthrown	S
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Who entering the defeated walls at last	I
Finds emptiness and hears an escaping blast	I
Triumphant from the shining east hills cast	I
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And knows defeat in victory O that rare	T
Music is ours is ours prelusive air	T
Caught from the Judgment music high and severe	M
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Will it indeed be thus Yes thus The body burns	F
Not with desire and into pale smoke turns	F
And there is only flame towards flame that yearns	F
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While that ill lecherous Time among the stones	F
Sits musing and rocking his old brittle bones	F
Irked by long shadows mocked by those bright far tones	F

John Freeman

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