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They left their home of summer ease	A
Beneath the lowland's sheltering trees	A
To seek by ways unknown to all	B
The promise of the waterfall	B
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Some vague faint rumor to the vale	C
Had crept perchance a hunter's tale	C
Of its wild mirth of waters lost	D
On the dark woods through which it tossed	D
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Somewhere it laughed and sang somewhere	E
Whirled in mad dance its misty hair	E
But who had raised its veil or seen	F
The rainbow skirts of that Undine	F
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They sought it where the mountain brook	G
Its swift way to the valley took	G
Along the rugged slope they clomb	H
Their guide a thread of sound and foam	H
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Height after height they slowly won	I
The fiery javelins of the sun	I
Smote the bare ledge the tangled shade	J
With rock and vine their steps delayed	J
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But through leaf openings now and then	K
They saw the cheerful homes of men	K
And the great mountains with their wall	B
Of misty purple girdling all	B
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The leaves through which the glad winds blew	L
Shared the wild dance the waters knew	L
And where the shadows deepest fell	M
The wood thrush rang his silver bell	M
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Fringing the stream at every turn	N
Swung low the waving fronds of fern	N
From stony cleft and mossy sod	O
Pale asters sprang and golden rod	O
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And still the water sang the sweet	P
Glad song that stirred its gliding feet	P
And found in rock and root the keys	A
Of its beguiling melodies	A
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Beyond above its signals flew	L
Of tossing foam the birch trees through	L
Now seen now lost but baffling still	Q
The weary seekers' slackening will	Q
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Each called to each 'Lo here Lo there	E
Its white scarf flutters in the air '	-
They climbed anew the vision fled	R
To beckon higher overhead	R
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So toiled they up the mountain slope	S
With faint and ever fainter hope	S
With faint and fainter voice the brook	G
Still bade them listen pause and look	G
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Meanwhile below the day was done	I
Above the tall peaks saw the sun	I
Sink beam shorn to its misty set	T
Behind the hills of violet	U
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'Here ends our quest ' the seekers cried	V
'The brook and rumor both have lied	V
The phantom of a waterfall	B
Has led us at its beck and call '	-
	-
But one with years grown wiser said	R
'So always baffled not misled	R
We follow where before us runs	W
The vision of the shining ones	W
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'Not where they seem their signals fly	X
Their voices while we listen die	X
We cannot keep however fleet	P
The quick time of their winged feet	P
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'From youth to age unresting stray	Y
These kindly mockers in our way	Y
Yet lead they not the baffling elves	Z
To something better than themselves	Z
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'Here though unreached the goal we sought	A2
Its own reward our toil has brought	A2
The winding water's sounding rush	B2
The long note of the hermit thrush	B2
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'The turquoise lakes the glimpse of pond	C2
And river track and vast beyond	C2
Broad meadows belted round with pines	D2
The grand uplift of mountain lines	D2
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'What matter though we seek with pain	E2
The garden of the gods in vain	E2
If lured thereby we climb to greet	P
Some wayside blossom Eden sweet	P
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'To seek is better than to gain	E2
The fond hope dies as we attain	E2
Life's fairest things are those which seem	H
The best is that of which we dream	H
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'Then let us trust our waterfall	B
Still flashes down its rocky wall	B
With rainbow crescent curved across	F2
Its sunlit spray from moss to moss	F2
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'And we forgetful of our pain	E2
In thought shall seek it oft again	K
Shall see this aster blossomed sod	O
This sunshine of the golden rod	O
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'And haply gain through parting boughs	G2
Grand glimpses of great mountain brows	G2
Cloud turbaned and the sharp steel sheen	F
Of lakes deep set in valleys green	F
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'So failure wins the consequence	H2
Of loss becomes its recompense	I2
And evermore the end shall tell	M
The unreached ideal guided well	M
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'Our sweet illusions only die	X
Fulfilling love's sure prophecy	J2
And every wish for better things	K2
An undreamed beauty nearer brings	K2
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'For fate is servitor of love	L2
Desire and hope and longing prove	M2
The secret of immortal youth	N2
And Nature cheats us into truth	N2
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'O kind allurers wisely sent	O2
Beguiling with benign intent	O2
Still move us through divine unrest	P2
To seek the loveliest and the best	P2
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'Go with us when our souls go free	J2
And in the clear white light to be	J2
Add unto Heaven's beatitude	P2
The old delight of seeking good '	-

John Greenleaf Whittier

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