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The year was dying and the day	A
Was almost dead	B
The West beneath a sombre gray	A
Was sombre red	B
The gravestones in the ghostly light	C
'Mid trees half bare	D
Seemed phantoms clothed in glimmering white	C
That haunted there	D
	-
I stood beside the grave of one	E
Who here in life	F
Had wronged my home who had undone	E
My child and wife	F
I stood beside his grave until	G
The moon came up	H
As if the dark unhallowed hill	G
Lifted a cup	H
	-
No stone was there to mark his grave	I
No flower to grace	J
'T was meet that weeds alone should wave	I
In such a place	J
I stood beside his grave until	G
The stars swam high	K
And all the night was iron still	G
From sky to sky	K
	-
What cared I if strange eyes seemed bright	C
Within the gloom	L
If evil blue a wandering light	C
Burnt by each tomb	L
Or that each crook d thorn tree seemed	M
A witch hag cloaked	N
Or that the owl above me screamed	M
The raven croaked	M
	-
For I had cursed him when the day	M
Was sullen red	M
Had cursed him when the West was gray	M
And day was dead	M
And now when night made dark the pole	O
Both soon and late	M
I cursed his body yea and soul	O
With the hate of hate	M
	-
Once in my soul I seemed to hear	P
A low voice say	M
'T were better to forgive and fear	Q
Thy God and pray	M
I laughed and from pale lips of stone	R
On sculptured tombs	S
A mocking laugh replied alone	R
Deep in the glooms	S
	-
And then I felt I felt as if	T
Some force should seize	S
The body and its limbs stretch stiff	T
And fastening freeze	S
Down downward deeper than the knees	S
Into the earth	U
While still among the twisted trees	S
That voice made mirth	U
	-
And in my Soul was fear despair	D
Like lost ones feel	V
When knotted in their pitch stiff hair	D
They feel the steel	V
Of devils' forks lift up through sleet	M
Of hell's slant fire	W
Then plunge as white from head to feet	M
I grew entire	W
	-
A voice without me yet within	X
As still as frost	M
Intoned Thy sin is thrice a sin	X
Thrice art thou lost	M
Behold how God would punish thee	Y
For this thy crime	Z
Thy crime of hate and blasphemy	Y
Through endless time	Z
	-
O'er him whom thou wouldst not forgive	A2
Record what good	M
He did on earth and let him live	B2
Loved understood	M
Be memory thine of all the worst	M
He did thine own	R
There at the head of him I cursed	M
I stood a stone	R

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