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And now while the dark vast earth shakes and rocks	A
In this wild dream like snare of mortal shocks	A
How look I muse those cold and solitary stars	B
On these magnificent cruel wars	C
Venus that brushes with her shining lips	D
Surely the wakeful edge of the world and mocks	A
With hers its all ungentle wantonness	A
Or the large moon pricked by the spars of ships	A
Creeping and creeping in their restlessness	A
The moon pouring strange light on things more strange	E
Looks she unheedfully on seas and lands	A
Trembling with change and fear of counterchange	E
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O not earth trembles but the stars the stars	A
The sky is shaken and the cool air is quivering	F
I cannot look up to the crowded height	G
And see the fair stars trembling in their light	G
For thinking of the starlike spirits of men	H
Crowding the earth and with great passion quivering	F
Stars quenched in anger and hate stars sick with pity	I
I cannot look up to the naked skies	A
Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies	A
Death on the living world of sense	A
Because on my own land a shadow lies	A
That may not rise	A
Because from bare grey hillside and rich city	I
Streams of uncomprehending sadness pour	J
Thwarting the eager spirit's pure intelligence	A
How look I muse those cold and solitary stars	A
On these magnificent cruel wars	A
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Stars trembled in broad heaven faint with pity	I
An hour to dawn I looked Beside the trees	A
Wet mist shaped other trees that branching rose	A
Covering the woods and putting out the stars	A
There was no murmur on the seas	A
No wind blew only the wandering air that grows	A
With dawn then murmurs sighs	A
And dies	A
The mist climbed slowly putting out the stars	A
And the earth trembled when the stars were gone	K
And moving strangely everywhere upon	L
The trembling earth thickened the watery mist	M
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And for a time the holy things are veiled	N
England's wise thoughts are swords her quiet hours	A
Are trodden underfoot like wayside flowers	A
And every English heart is England's wholly	I
In starless night	G
A serious passion streams the heaven with light	G
A common beating is in the air	O
The heart of England throbbing everywhere	O
And all her roads are nerves of noble thought	P
And all her people's brain is but her brain	Q
And all her history less her shame	R
Is part of her requickened consciousness	A
Her courage rises clean again	H
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Even in victory there hides defeat	S
The spirit's murdered though the body survives	A
Except the cause for which a people strives	A
Burn with no covetous foul heat	S
Fights she against herself who infamously draws	A
The sword against man's secret spiritual laws	A
But thou England because a bitter heel	T
Hath sought to bruise the brain the sensitive will	U
The conscience of the world	V
For this England art risen and shalt fight	G
Purely through long profoundest night	G
Making their quarrel thine who are grieved like thee	I
And if to thee the stars yield victory	I
Tempering their hate of the great foe that hurled	V
Vainly her strength against the conscience of the world	V
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I looked again or dreamed I looked and saw	A
The stars again and all their peace again	H
The moving mist had gone and shining still	U
The moon went high and pale above the hill	U
Not now those lights were trembling in the vast	W
Ways of the nervy heaven nor trembled earth	X
Profound and calm they gazed as the soft shod hours passed	W
And with less fear not with less awe	Y
Remembering England all the blood and pain	Q
How look I cried you stern and solitary stars	A
On these disastrous wars	A

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