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Out of the earth to rest or range	A
Perpetual in perpetual change	A
The unknown passing through the strange	A
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Water and saltness held together	B
To tread the dust and stand the weather	B
And plough the field and stretch the tether	B
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To pass the wine cup and be witty	C
Water the sands and build the city	C
Slaughter like devils and have pity	C
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Be red with rage and pale with lust	D
Make beauty come make peace make trust	D
Water and saltness mixed with dust	D
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Drive over earth swim under sea	C
Fly in the eagle's secrecy	C
Guess where the hidden comets be	C
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Know all the deathy seeds that still	E
Queen Helen's beauty Caesar's will	E
And slay them even as they kill	E
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Fashion an altar for a rood	F
Defile a continent with blood	G
And watch a brother starve for food	F
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Love like a madman shaking blind	H
Till self is burnt into a kind	H
Possession of another mind	H
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Brood upon beauty till the grace	I
Of beauty with the holy face	I
Brings peace into the bitter place	I
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Prove in the lifeless granites scan	J
The stars for hope for guide for plan	J
Live as a woman or a man	J
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Fasten to lover or to friend	K
Until the heart break at the end	K
The break of death that cannot mend	K
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Then to lie useless helpless still	E
Down in the earth in dark to fill	E
The roots of grass or daffodil	E
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Down in the earth in dark alone	L
A mockery of the ghost in bone	L
The strangeness passing the unknown	L
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Time will go by that outlasts clocks	M
Dawn in the thorps will rouse the cocks	M
Sunset be glory on the rocks	M
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But it the thing will never heed	N
Even the rootling from the seed	N
Thrusting to suck it for its need	N
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Since moons decay and suns decline	O
How else should end this life of mine	O
Water and saltness are not wine	O
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But in the darkest hour of night	P
When even the foxes peer for sight	P
The byre cock crows he feels the light	P
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So in this water mixed with dust	D
The byre cock spirit crows from trust	D
That death will change because it must	D
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For all things change the darkness changes	Q
The wandering spirits change their ranges	Q
The corn is gathered to the granges	R
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The corn is sown again it grows	S
The stars burn out the darkness goes	S
The rhythms change they do not close	T
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They change and we who pass like foam	U
Like dust blown through the streets of Rome	U
Change ever too we have no home	U
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Only a beauty only a power	B
Sad in the fruit bright in the flower	B
Endlessly erring for its hour	B
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But gathering as we stray a sense	V
Of Life so lovely and intense	V
It lingers when we wander hence	V
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That those who follow feel behind	H
Their backs when all before is blind	H
Our joy a rampart to the mind	H

John Masefield

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