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The sandy spits the shore lock'd lakes	A
Melt into open moonlit sea	B
The soft Mediterranean breaks	A
At my feet free	B
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Dotting the fields of corn and vine	C
Like ghosts the huge gnarl'd olives stand	D
Behind that lovely mountain line	C
While by the strand	D
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Cette with its glistening houses white	E
Curves with the curving beach away	F
To where the lighthouse beacons bright	E
Far in the bay	F
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Ah such a night so soft so lone	G
So moonlit saw me once of yore	H
Wander unquiet and my own	G
Vext heart deplore	H
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But now that trouble is forgot	I
Thy memory thy pain to night	E
My brother and thine early lot	I
Possess me quite	E
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The murmur of this Midland deep	J
Is heard to night around thy grave	K
There where Gibraltar's cannon'd steep	J
O'erfrowns the wave	K
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For there with bodily anguish keen	L
With Indian heats at last fordone	L
With public toil and private teen	L
Thou sank'st alone	L
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Slow to a stop at morning grey	F
I see the smoke crown'd vessel come	M
Slow round her paddles dies away	F
The seething foam	N
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A boat is lower'd from her side	O
Ah gently place him on the bench	P
That spirit if all have not yet died	O
A breath might quench	P
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Is this the eye the footstep fast	Q
The mien of youth we used to see	B
Poor gallant boy for such thou wast	Q
Still art to me	B
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The limbs their wonted tasks refuse	R
The eyes are glazed thou canst not speak	S
And whiter than thy white burnous	R
That wasted cheek	S
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Enough The boat with quiet shock	T
Unto its haven coming nigh	U
Touches and on Gibraltar's rock	T
Lands thee to die	U
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Ah me Gibraltar's strand is far	V
But farther yet across the brine	L
Thy dear wife's ashes buried are	V
Remote from thine	L
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For there where Morning's sacred fount	U
Its golden rain on earth confers	R
The snowy Himalayan Mount	U
O'ershadows hers	R
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Strange irony of Fate alas	R
Which for two jaded English saves	R
When from their dusty life they pass	R
Such peaceful graves	R
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In cities should we English lie	U
Where cries are rising ever new	L
And men's incessant stream goes by	U
We who pursue	L
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Our business with unslackening stride	U
Traverse in troops with care fill'd breast	U
The soft Mediterranean side	U
The Nile the East	U
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And see all sights from pole to pole	W
And glance and nod and bustle by	U
And never once possess our soul	W
Before we die	U
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Not by those hoary Indian hills	R
Not by this gracious Midland sea	R
Whose floor to night sweet moonshine fills	R
Should our graves be	R
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Some sage to whom the world was dead	U
And men were specks and life a play	F
Who made the roots of trees his bed	U
And once a day	F
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With staff and gourd his way did bend	U
To villages and homes of man	L
For food to keep him till he end	U
His mortal span	L
	-
And the pure goal of Being reach	X
Grey headed wrinkled clad in white	U
Without companion without speech	X
By day and night	U
	-
Pondering God's mysteries untold	U
And tranquil as the glacier snows	R
He by those Indian mountains old	U
Might well repose	R
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Some grey crusading knight austere	Y
Who bore Saint Louis company	R
And came home hurt to death and here	Z
Landed to die	U
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Some youthful troubadour whose tongue	A2
Fill'd Europe once with his love pain	L
Who here outwearied sunk and sung	A2
His dying strain	L
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Some girl who here from castle bower	B2
With furtive step and cheek of flame	C2
'Twixt myrtle hedges all in flower	B2
By moonlight came	C2
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To meet her pirate lover's ship	D2
And from the wave kiss'd marble stair	E2
Beckon'd him on with quivering lip	D2
And unbound hair	E2
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And lived some moons in happy trance	R
Then learnt his death and pined away	F
Such by these waters of romance	R
'Twas meet to lay	F
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But you a grave for knight or sage	F2
Romantic solitary still	G2
O spent ones of a work day age	F2
Befits you ill	G2
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So sang I but the midnight breeze	R
Down to the brimm'd moon charmed main	L
Comes softly through the olive trees	R
And checks my strain	L
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I think of her whose gentle tongue	A2
All plaint in her own cause controll'd	U
Of thee I think my brother young	A2
In heart high soul'd	U
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That comely face that cluster'd brow	H2
That cordial hand that bearing free	R
I see them still I see them now	H2
Shall always see	R
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And what but gentleness untired	U
And what but noble feeling warm	I2
Wherever shown howe'er attired	U
Is grace is charm	J2
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What else is all these waters are	V
What else is steep'd in lucid sheen	L
What else is bright what else is fair	E2
What else serene	L
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Mild o'er her grave ye mountains shine	L
Gently by his ye waters glide	U
To that in you which is divine	L
They were allied	U

Matthew Arnold

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