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The day is closing dark and cold	A
With roaring blast and sleety showers	B
And through the dusk the lilacs wear	C
The bloom of snow instead of flowers	B
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I turn me from the gloom without	D
To ponder o'er a tale of old	A
A legend of the age of Faith	E
By dreaming monk or abbess told	A
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On Tintoretto's canvas lives	F
That fancy of a loving heart	G
In graceful lines and shapes of power	H
And hues immortal as his art	G
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In Provence so the story runs	I
There lived a lord to whom as slave	J
A peasant boy of tender years	K
The chance of trade or conquest gave	J
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Forth looking from the castle tower	H
Beyond the hills with almonds dark	L
The straining eye could scarce discern	M
The chapel of the good St Mark	L
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And there when bitter word or fare	C
The service of the youth repaid	N
By stealth before that holy shrine	O
For grace to bear his wrong he prayed	N
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The steed stamped at the castle gate	P
The boar hunt sounded on the hill	Q
Why stayed the Baron from the chase	R
With looks so stern and words so ill	Q
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'Go bind yon slave and let him learn	M
By scath of fire and strain of cord	S
How ill they speed who give dead saints	T
The homage due their living lord '	-
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They bound him on the fearful rack	U
When through the dungeon's vaulted dark	L
He saw the light of shining robes	V
And knew the face of good St Mark	L
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Then sank the iron rack apart	G
The cords released their cruel clasp	W
The pincers with their teeth of fire	H
Fell broken from the torturer's grasp	W
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And lo before the Youth and Saint	X
Barred door and wall of stone gave way	Y
And up from bondage and the night	Z
They passed to freedom and the day	Y
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O dreaming monk thy tale is true	A2
O painter true thy pencil's art	G
in tones of hope and prophecy	B2
Ye whisper to my listening heart	G
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Unheard no burdened heart's appeal	C2
Moans up to God's inclining ear	D2
Unheeded by his tender eye	E2
Falls to the earth no sufferer's tear	C
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For still the Lord alone is God	F2
The pomp and power of tyrant man	G2
Are scattered at his lightest breath	H2
Like chaff before the winnower's fan	G2
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Not always shall the slave uplift	I2
His heavy hands to Heaven in vain	J2
God's angel like the good St Mark	L
Comes shining down to break his chain	J2
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O weary ones ye may not see	B2
Your helpers in their downward flight	Z
Nor hear the sound of silver wings	K2
Slow beating through the hush of night	Z
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But not the less gray Dothan shone	L2
With sunbright watchers bending low	M2
That Fear's dim eye beheld alone	L2
The spear heads of the Syrian foe	M2
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There are who like the Seer of old	A
Can see the helpers God has sent	N2
And how life's rugged mountain side	O2
Is white with many an angel tent	N2
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They hear the heralds whom our Lord	S
Sends down his pathway to prepare	C
And light from others hidden shines	P2
On their high place of faith and prayer	C
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Let such for earth's despairing ones	I
Hopeless yet longing to be free	B2
Breathe once again the Prophet's prayer	C
'Lord ope their eyes that they may see '	-

John Greenleaf Whittier

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