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I	A
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Like a gaunt scraggly pine	B
Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills	C
And patiently through dull years of bitter silence	C
Untended and uncared for starts to grow	D
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Ungainly labouring huge	E
The wind of the north has twisted and gnarled its branches	C
Yet in the heat of midsummer days when thunderclouds ring the horizon	F
A nation of men shall rest beneath its shade	G
And it shall protect them all	H
Hold everyone safe there watching aloof in silence	C
Until at last one mad stray bolt from the zenith	I
Shall strike it in an instant down to earth	J
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II	A
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There was a darkness in this man an immense and hollow darkness	C
Of which we may not speak nor share with him nor enter	K
A darkness through which strong roots stretched downwards into the earth	J
Towards old things	C
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Towards the herdman kings who walked the earth and spoke with God	L
Towards the wanderers who sought for they knew not what and found their goal	M
at last	N
Towards the men who waited only waited patiently when all seemed lost	O
Many bitter winters of defeat	P
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Down to the granite of patience	C
These roots swept knotted fibrous roots prying piercing seeking	Q
And drew from the living rock and the living waters about it	R
The red sap to carry upwards to the sun	F
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Not proud but humble	S
Only to serve and pass on to endure to the end through service	C
For the ax is laid at the roots of the trees and all that bring not forth	T
good fruit	U
Shall be cut down on the day to come and cast into the fire	K
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III	A
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There is a silence abroad in the land to day	V
And in the hearts of men a deep and anxious silence	C
And because we are still at last those bronze lips slowly open	F
Those hollow and weary eyes take on a gleam of light	W
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Slowly a patient firm syllabled voice cuts through the endless silence	C
Like labouring oxen that drag a plow through the chaos of rude clay fields	C
I went forward as the light goes forward in early spring	Q
But there were also many things which I left behind	X
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Tombs that were quiet	Y
One of a mother whose brief light went out in the darkness	C
One of a loved one the snow on whose grave is long falling	Q
One only of a child but it was mine	B
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Have you forgot your graves Go question them in anguish	Z
Listen long to their unstirred lips From your hostages to silence	C
Learn there is no life without death no dawn without sun setting	Q
No victory but to him who has given all	H
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IV	-
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The clamour of cannon dies down the furnace mouth of the battle is silent	A2
The midwinter sun dips and descends the earth takes on afresh	B2
its bright colours	C
But he whom we mocked and obeyed not he whom we scorned and mistrusted	C2
He has descended like a god to his rest	D2
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Over the uproar of cities	C
Over the million intricate threads of life wavering and crossing	Q
In the midst of problems we know not tangling perplexing ensnaring	Q
Rises one white tomb alone	E2
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Beam over it stars	C
Wrap it round stripes stripes red for the pain that he bore for you	F2
Enfold it forever O flag rent soiled but repaired through your anguish	Z
Long as you keep him there safe the nations shall bow to your law	G2
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Strew over him flowers	C
Blue forget me nots from the north and the bright pink arbutus	C
From the east and from the west rich orange blossom	H2
And from the heart of the land take the passion flower	K
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Rayed violet dim	I2
With the nails that pierced the cross that he bore and the circlet	D2
And beside it there lay also one lonely snow white magnolia	J2
Bitter for remembrance of the healing which has passed	D2

John Gould Fletcher

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