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I	A
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He sang above the vineyards of the world	B
And after him the vines with woven hands	C
Clambered and clung and everywhere unfurled	B
Triumphing green above the barren lands	C
Till high as gardens grow he climbed he stood	D
Sun crowned with life and strength and singing toil	E
And looked upon his work and it was good	D
The corn the wine the oil	E
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He sang above the noon The topmost cleft	F
That grudged him footing on the mountain scars	G
He planted and despaired not till he left	F
His vines soft breathing to the host of stars	G
He wrought he tilled and even as he sang	H
The creatures of his planting laughed to scorn	I
The ancient threat of deserts where there sprang	H
The wine the oil the corn	I
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He sang not for abundance Over lords	J
Took of his tilth Yet was there still to reap	K
The portion of his labor dear rewards	J
Of sunlit day and bread and human sleep	K
He sang for strength for glory of the light	L
He dreamed above the furrows 'They are mine '	-
When all he wrought stood fair before his sight	L
With corn and oil and wine	M
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Truly the light is sweet	N
Yea and a pleasant thing	O
It is to see the Sun	P
And that a man should eat	N
His bread that he hath won	P
So is it sung and said	Q
That he should take and keep	K
After his laboring	O
The portion of his labor in his bread	Q
His bread that he hath won	P
Yea and in quiet sleep	K
When all is done	P
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He sang above the burden and the heat	N
Above all seasons with their fitful grace	R
Above the chance and change that led his feet	N
To this last ambush of the Market place	R
'Enough for him ' they said and still they say	S
'A crust with air to breathe and sun to shine	M
He asks no more ' Before they took away	S
The corn the oil the wine	M
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He sang No more he sings now anywhere	T
Light was enough before he was undone	P
They knew it well who took away the air	T
Who took away the sun	P
Who took to serve their soul devouring greed	U
Himself his breath his bread the goad of toil	E
Who have and hold before the eyes of Need	U
The corn the wine the oil	E
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Truly one thing is sweet	N
Of things beneath the Sun	P
This that a man should earn his bread and eat	N
Rejoicing in his work which he hath done	P
What shall be sung or said	Q
Of desolate deceit	N
When others take his bread	Q
His and his children's bread	Q
And the laborer hath none	P
This for his portion now of all that he hath done	P
He earns and others eat	N
He starves they sit at meat	N
Who have taken away the Sun	P
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II	A
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Seek him now that singing Man	V
Look for him	W
Look for him	W
In the mills	X
In the mines	Y
Where the very daylight pines	Y
He who once did walk the hills	X
You shall find him if you scan	V
Shapes all unbefitting Man	V
Bodies warped and faces dim	W
In the mines in the mills	X
Where the ceaseless thunder fills	X
Spaces of the human brain	Z
Till all thought is turned to pain	Z
Where the skirl of wheel on wheel	A2
Grinding him who is their tool	B2
Makes the shattered senses reel	A2
To the numbness of the fool	B2
Perisht thought and halting tongue	C2
Once it spoke once it sung	C2
Live to hunger dead to song	D2
Only heart beats loud with wrong	D2
Hammer on How long	D2
How long How long	D2
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Search for him	W
Search for him	W
Where the crazy atoms swim	W
Up the fiery furnace blast	E2
You shall find him at the last	E2
He whose forehead braved the sun	P
Wreckt and tortured and undone	P
Where no breath across the heat	N
Whispers him that life was sweet	N
But the sparkles mock and flare	T
Scattering up the crooked air	T
Blackened with that bitter mirk	D2
Would God know His handiwork	D2
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Thought is not for such as he	F2
Naught but strength and misery	F2
Since for just the bite and sup	G2
Life must needs be swallowed up	G2
Only reeling up the sky	D2
Hurtling flames that hurry by	D2
Gasp and flare with Why Why	D2
Why	D2
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Why the human mind of him	W
Shrinks and falters and is dim	W
When he tries to make it out	H2
What the torture is about	H2
Why he breathes a fugitive	I2
Whom the World forbids to live	J2
Why he earned for his abode	K2
Habitation of the toad	K2
Why his fevered day by day	S
Will not serve to drive away	S
Horror that must always haunt	L2
Want Want	M2
Nightmare shot with waking pangs	N2
Tightening coil and certain fangs	N2
Close and closer always nigh	D2
Why Why	D2
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Why he labors under ban	V
That denies him for a man	V
Why his utmost drop of blood	O2
Buys for him no human good	D
Why his utmost urge of strength	P2
Only lets Them starve at length	P2
Will not let him starve alone	Q2
He must watch and see his own	Q2
Fade and fail and starve and die	D2
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Why Why	D2
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Heart beats in a hammering song	D2
Heavy as an ox may plod	R2
Goaded goaded faint with wrong	D2
Cry unto some ghost of God	R2
How long How long	D2
How long	D2
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III	A
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Seek him yet Search for him	W
You shall find him spent and grim	W
In the prisons where we pen	S2
These unsightly shards of men	S2
Sheltered fast	E2
Housed at length	P2
Clothed and fed no matter how	T2
Where the householders aghast	E2
Measure in his broken strength	P2
Nought but power for evil now	T2
Beast of burden drudgeries	N2
Could not earn him what was his	N2
He who heard the world applaud	U2
Glories seized by force and fraud	U2
He must break he must take	D2
Both for hate and hunger's sake	D2
He must seize by fraud and force	N2
He must strike without remorse	N2
Seize he might but never keep	K
Strike his once Behold him here	V2
Human life we buy so cheap	K
Who should know we held it dear	W2
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No denial no defence	N2
From a brain bereft of sense	N2
Any more than penitence	N2
But the heart beats now that plod	R2
Goaded goaded dumb with wrong	D2
Ask not even a ghost of God	R2
How long	D2
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When the Sea gives up its dead	Q
Prison caverns yield instead	Q
This rejected and despised	X2
This the Soiled and Sacrificed	Y2
Without form or comeliness	N2
Shamed for us that did transgress	N2
Bruised for our iniquities	N2
With the stripes that are all his	N2
Face that wreckage you who can	V
It was once the Singing Man	V
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IV	D2
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Must it be Must we then	S2
Render back to God again	S2
This His broken work this thing	D2
For His man that once did sing	D2
Will not all our wonders do	Z2
Gifts we stored the ages through	Z2
Trusting that He had forgot	A3
Gifts the Lord requir d not	A3
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Would the all but human serve	D2
Monsters made of stone and nerve	D2
Towers to threaten and defy	D2
Curse or blessing of the sky	D2
Shafts that blot the stars with smoke	D2
Lightnings harnessed under yoke	D2
Sea things air things wrought with steel	A2
That may smite and fly and feel	A2
Oceans calling each to each	B3
Hostile hearts with kindred speech	B3
Every work that Titans can	V
Every marvel save a man	V
Who might rule without a sword	C3
Is a man more precious Lord	C3
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Can it be Must we then	S2
Render back to Thee again	S2
Million million wasted men	S2
Men of flickering human breath	D3
Only made for life and death	D3
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Ah but see the sovereign Few	Z2
Highly favored that remain	Z
These the glorious residue	Z2
Of the cherished race of Cain	Z
These the magnates of the age	E3
High above the human wage	E3
Who have numbered and possesst	Z2
All the portion of the rest	Z2
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What are all despairs and shames	N2
What the mean forgotten names	N2
Of the thousand more or less	N2
For one surfeit of success	N2
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For those dullest lives we spent	Z2
Take these Few magnificent	Z2
For that host of blotted ones	N2
Take these glittering central suns	N2
Few but how their lustre thrives	N2
On the million broken lives	N2
Splendid over dark and doubt	Z2
For a million souls gone out	Z2
These the holders of our hoard	Z2
Wilt thou not accept them Lord	Z2
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V	D2
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Oh in the wakening thunders of the heart	Z2
The small lost Eden troubled through the night	Z2
Sounds there not now forboded and apart	Z2
Some voice and sword of light	Z2
Some voice and portent of a dawn to break	D2
Searching like God the ruinous human shard	Z2
Of that lost Brother man Himself did make	D2
And Man himself hath marred	Z2
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It sounds And may the anguish of that birth	F3
Seize on the world and may all shelters fail	G3
Till we behold new Heaven and new Earth	F3
Through the rent Temple vail	G3
When the high tides that threaten near and far	H3
To sweep away our guilt before the sky	D2
Flooding the waste of this dishonored Star	H3
Cleanse and o'erwhelm and cry	D2
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Cry from the deep of world accusing waves	N2
With longing more than all since Light began	V
Above the nations underneath the graves	N2
'Give back the Singing Man '	-