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On the isle of Penikese	A
Ringed about by sapphire seas	A
Fanned by breezes salt and cool	B
Stood the Master with his school	B
Over sails that not in vain	C
Wooed the west wind's steady strain	C
Line of coast that low and far	D
Stretched its undulating bar	D
Wings aslant along the rim	E
Of the waves they stooped to skim	E
Rock and isle and glistening bay	F
Fell the beautiful white day	F
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Said the Master to the youth	G
'We have come in search of truth	G
Trying with uncertain key	H
Door by door of mystery	H
We are reaching through His laws	I
To the garment hem of Cause	J
Him the endless unbegun	C
The Unnamable the One	C
Light of all our light the Source	K
Life of life and Force of force	K
As with fingers of the blind	L
We are groping here to find	L
What the hieroglyphics mean	C
Of the Unseen in the seen	C
What the Thought which underlies	M
Nature's masking and disguise	M
What it is that hides beneath	N
Blight and bloom and birth and death	O
By past efforts unavailing	P
Doubt and error loss and failing	P
Of our weakness made aware	Q
On the threshold of our task	R
Let us light and guidance ask	R
Let us pause in silent prayer '	-
	-
Then the Master in his place	S
Bowed his head a little space	S
And the leaves by soft airs stirred	T
Lapse of wave and cry of bird	T
Left the solemn hush unbroken	C
Of that wordless prayer unspoken	C
While its wish on earth unsaid	U
Rose to heaven interpreted	V
As in life's best hours we hear	W
By the spirit's finer ear	W
His low voice within us thus	X
The All Father heareth us	X
And His holy ear we pain	C
With our noisy words and vain	C
Not for Him our violence	Y
Storming at the gates of sense	Z
His the primal language His	A2
The eternal silences	A2
	-
Even the careless heart was moved	B2
And the doubting gave assent	C2
With a gesture reverent	D2
To the Master well beloved	E2
As thin mists are glorified	F2
By the light they cannot hide	F2
All who gazed upon him saw	G2
Through its veil of tender awe	H2
How his face was still uplit	F2
By the old sweet look of it	F2
Hopeful trustful full of cheer	I2
And the love that casts out fear	I2
Who the secret may declare	Q
Of that brief unuttered prayer	Q
Did the shade before him come	J2
Of th' inevitable doom	K2
Of the end of earth so near	I2
And Eternity's new year	I2
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In the lap of sheltering seas	A
Rests the isle of Penikese	A
But the lord of the domain	C
Comes not to his own again	C
Where the eyes that follow fail	L2
On a vaster sea his sail	L2
Drifts beyond our beck and hail	L2
Other lips within its bound	F2
Shall the laws of life expound	F2
Other eyes from rock and shell	M2
Read the world's old riddles well	M2
But when breezes light and bland	F2
Blow from Summer's blossomed land	F2
When the air is glad with wings	N2
And the blithe song sparrow sings	N2
Many an eye with his still face	S
Shall the living ones displace	S
Many an ear the word shall seek	O2
He alone could fitly speak	O2
And one name forevermore	I2
Shall be uttered o'er and o'er	I2
By the waves that kiss the shore	I2
By the curlew's whistle sent	F2
Down the cool sea scented air	I2
In all voices known to her	I2
Nature owns her worshipper	I2
Half in triumph half lament	F2
Thither Love shall tearful turn	C
Friendship pause uncovered there	I2
And the wisest reverence learn	C
From the Master's silent prayer	I2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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