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L M C	A
We sat together last May day and talked	B
Of the dear friends who walked	B
Beside us sharers of the hopes and fears	C
Of five and forty years	C
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Since first we met in Freedom's hope forlorn	D
And heard her battle horn	D
Sound through the valleys of the sleeping North	E
Calling her children forth	E
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And youth pressed forward with hope lighted eyes	F
And age with forecast wise	F
Of the long strife before the triumph won	G
Girded his armor on	H
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Sadly ass name by name we called the roll	I
We heard the dead bells toll	I
For the unanswering many and we knew	J
The living were the few	J
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And we who waited our own call before	K
The inevitable door	K
Listened and looked as all have done to win	L
Some token from within	L
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No sign we saw we heard no voices call	M
The impenetrable wall	M
Cast down its shadow like an awful doubt	N
On all who sat without	N
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Of many a hint of life beyond the veil	O
And many a ghostly tale	O
Wherewith the ages spanned the gulf between	P
The seen and the unseen	P
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Seeking from omen trance and dream to gain	Q
Solace to doubtful pain	Q
And touch with groping hands the garment hem	R
Of truth sufficing them	R
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We talked and turning from the sore unrest	S
Of an all baffling quest	S
We thought of holy lives that from us passed	T
Hopeful unto the last	T
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As if they saw beyond the river of death	U
Like Him of Nazareth	V
The many mansions of the Eternal days	W
Lift up their gates of praise	W
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And hushed to silence by a reverent awe	X
Methought O friend I saw	Y
In thy true life of word and work and thought	Z
The proof of all we sought	Z
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Did we not witness in the life of thee	A
Immortal prophecy	A
And feel when with thee that thy footsteps trod	A2
An everlasting road	B2
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Not for brief days thy generous sympathies	C2
Thy scorn of selfish ease	C2
Not for the poor prize of an earthly goal	I
Thy strong uplift of soul	I
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Than thine was never turned a fonder heart	D2
To nature and to art	D2
In fair formed Hellas in her golden prime	E2
Thy Philothea's time	E2
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Yet loving beauty thou couldst pass it by	F2
And for the poor deny	F2
Thyself and see thy fresh sweet flower of fame	G2
Wither in blight and blame	G2
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Sharing His love who holds in His embrace	H2
The lowliest of our race	H2
Sure the Divine economy must be	A
Conservative of thee	A
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For truth must live with truth self sacrifice	I2
Seek out its great allies	F
Good must find good by gravitation sure	J2
And love with love endure	J2
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And so since thou hast passed within the gate	K2
Whereby awhile I wait	K2
I give blind grief and blinder sense the lie	F2
Thou hast not lived to die	F2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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