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When I was but a little boy	A
Who hunted in the wood	B
To scare or mangle or destroy	A
A freakish elemental joy	A
That tasted life and found it good	B
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I hardly heard the awful ban	C
That mutters round the free	D
But followed where the waters ran	C
And wondered when the pipe of Pan	C
Shook silence with its minstrelsy	E
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Where sun spray glittered on my limbs	E
I danced and laughed and trilled	B
My happy incoherent hymns	E
Sped only by the whirling whims	E
With which my eager heart was filled	B
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The wind was glad and so was I	F
My soul lay open wide	B
Reflecting all the starry sky	F
The swallows called to me to fly	F
I dreamed of how the fishes glide	B
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But while my errant feet were set	B
On mosses cool and sweet	B
The great grey phantoms brooding met	B
Within the shades and cast a net	B
With dreary charms about my feet	B
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They pent me in a barren place	E
A city so they said	B
Of gallant wonder working grace	E
But haunted haunted by a race	E
Of rigid unperceptive dead	B
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With sightless eyes they pored on books	E
And scrawled on many a sheet	B
Their regimental strokes and hooks	E
And stalked about with pompous looks	E
Top hatted in the civil street	B
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I strove to flee but everywhere	G
Met solid seeming walls	E
And yet I knew the world was fair	G
And hearkening well heard even there	G
A bird and distant waterfalls	E
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And love which I had scarcely known	H
Leaped upward as I heard	B
I blessed the creek the mossy stone	H
The fern along the gully strown	H
The little beasts the piping bird	B
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Could walls o'ermaster one who knew	H
The world of outer light	B
The very shadow that they threw	H
Was tindured with a deeper blue	H
Because the quickening sun was bright	B
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I laughed aloud as one who leaps	E
Against a curling wave	I
And as a widening ripple creeps	E
A shudder caught the stony steeps	E
And life shook laughing in the grave	I
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O phantoms who are you to fix	E
Eternal towers of pride	B
I mocked at their fantastic tricks	E
I thrust my fingers through the bricks	E
And felt the flowers the other side	B
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I pricked my pointed ears to hear	J
The love song of the bird	B
And dear was every note and dear	K
The myriad sounds that echoed near	K
The magically chorus'd word	B
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I saw the fading phantoms glare	G
Their tones to silence hissed	B
The walls bulged brightening everywhere	G
And thinned and melted in the air	G
To ragged streams of rosy mist	B
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Trill happy bird for ever trill	L
For I have learned to bless	E
The great grey shades whose thwarted will	L
Turned earth to heaven and I am still	L
A dweller in the wilderness	E

John Le Gay Brereton

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