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St Austin going in thought	A
Along the sea sands gray	B
Into another world was caught	C
And Carthage far away	B
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He saw the City of God	D
Hang in the saffron sky	E
And this was holy ground he trod	D
Where mortals come not nigh	E
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He saw pale spires aglow	F
Houses of heavenly sheen	G
All in a world of rose and snow	F
A sea of gold and green	G
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There amid Paradise	H
The saint was rapt away	B
From unillumined sands and skies	I
And floor of muddy clay	B
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His soul took wings and flew	J
Forgetting mortal stain	K
Upon the track of that bright crew	J
That homed to heaven again	L
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Forgetting mortal dearth	M
It seized on heavenly things	N
Till it was cast again to earth	M
Because it had not wings	N
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Because the Three in One	O
He could not understand	P
Baffled and beaten and undone	O
He gazed o'er sea and land	P
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Then by a little pool	Q
A lovely child he saw	R
A harmless thing and beautiful	S
And yet so full of awe	T
	-
That with a curved sea shell	U
Held in his rosy hand	P
Had scooped himself a little well	U
Within the yielding sand	P
	-
And to and fro went he	V
Between it and the wave	W
Bearing his shell filled with the sea	V
To find a sandy grave	W
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'What is it that you do	J
You lovely boy and bold '	-
'I empty out the ocean blue	J
You man so wise and old	X
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'See you how in this cup	Y
I bind the great sea's girth '	-
'Ah no the gray sands suck it up	Y
Your cup is little worth	M
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'Now put your play aside	Z
And let the ocean be	V
Tell me your name O violet eyed	Z
That empty out the sea	V
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'What lineage high and fine	A2
Is yours O kingly boy	B2
That sure art sprung of royal line	A2
A people's hope and joy '	-
	-
'Austin as you have said	C2
A crown my Sire doth wear	D2
My mother was a royal maid	E2
And yet went cold and bare '	-
	-
He shook his golden curls	F2
A scornful laugh laughed he	V
'The night that I was born the churls	F2
They would not shelter me	V
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'Only the ox and ass	F2
The night that I was born	G2
Made me a cradle of the grass	F2
And watched by me till morn	G2
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'The night that I was born	G2
The ass and ox alone	H2
Betwixt the midnight and the morn	G2
Knelt down upon the stone	H2
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'The bitter night I came	I2
Each star sang in its sphere	J2
Now riddle riddle me my name	I2
My Austin tried and dear '	-
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Austin is on his face	F2
Before that vision bright	K2
'My Lord what dost Thou in this place	F2
With such a sinful wight '	-
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'I come not here in wrath	L2
But I come here in love	M2
My Austin skilled in life and death	N2
Thy vanity to prove	O2
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'Mortal yet over bold	X
To fly where th' eagle flies	F2
As soon this cup the sea will hold	X
As thou My Mysteries	F2
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'Patience a little yet	P2
And thou shalt be with Me	V
And in thy soul's small cup unmeet	P2
Myself will pour the sea '	-
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When Austin raised his head	P2
No child was there beside	P2
But in the cup the Child had made	P2
There swelled the rising tide	P2

Katharine Tynan

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