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In the deserted moon blanched street	A
How lonely rings the echo of my feet	A
Those windows which I gaze at frown	B
Silent and white unopening down	B
Repellent as the world but see	C
A break between the housetops shows	D
The moon and lost behind her fading dim	E
Into the dewy dark obscurity	C
Down at the far horizon's rim	E
Doth a whole tract of heaven disclose	D
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And to my mind the thought	F
Is on a sudden brought	F
Of a past night and a far different scene	G
Headlands stood out into the moonlit deep	H
As clearly as at noon	I
The spring tide's brimming flow	J
Heaved dazzlingly between	G
Houses with long wide sweep	H
Girdled the glistening bay	K
Behind through the soft air	L
The blue haze cradled mountains spread away	K
That night was far more fair	L
But the same restless pacings to and fro	J
And the same vainly throbbing heart was there	L
And the same bright calm moon	I
	-
And the calm moonlight seems to say	K
Hast thou then still the old unquiet breast	M
Which neither deadens into rest	M
Nor ever feels the fiery glow	J
That whirls the spirit from itself away	K
But fluctuates to and fro	J
Never by passion quite possessed	M
And never quite benumbed by the world's sway	K
And I I know not if to pray	K
Still to be what I am or yield and be	C
Like all the other men I see	C
	-
For most men in a brazen prison live	N
Where in the sun's hot eye	O
With heads bent o'er their toil they languidly	J
Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give	P
Dreaming of naught beyond their prison wall	J
And as year after year	Q
Fresh products of their barren labor fall	J
From their tired hands and rest	M
Never yet comes more near	Q
Gloom settles slowly down over their breast	M
And while they try to stem	R
The waves of mournful thought by which they are prest	M
Death in their prison reaches them	R
Unfreed having seen nothing still unblest	M
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And the rest a few	S
Escape their prison and depart	M
On the wide ocean of life anew	S
There the freed prisoner where'er his heart	M
Listeth will sail	J
Nor doth he know how there prevail	J
Despotic on that sea	C
Trade winds which cross it from eternity	C
Awhile he holds some false way undebarred	C
By thwarting signs and braves	T
The freshening wind and blackening waves	T
And then the tempest strikes him and between	G
The lightning bursts is seen	G
Only a driving wreck	U
And the pale master on his spar strewn deck	U
With anguished face and flying hair	L
Grasping the rudder hard	C
Still bent to make some port he knows not where	L
Still standing for some false impossible shore	V
And sterner comes the roar	V
Of sea and wind and through the deepening gloom	W
Fainter and fainter wreck and helmsman loom	W
And he too disappears and comes no more	V
	-
Is there no life but these alone	X
Madman or slave must man be one	Y
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Plainness and clearness without shadow of stain	Z
Clearness divine	A2
Ye heavens whose pure dark regions have no sign	A2
Of languor though so calm and though so great	C
Are yet untroubled and unpassionate	C
Who though so noble share in the world's toil	J
And though so tasked keep free from dust and soil	J
I will not say that your mild deeps retain	Z
A tinge it may be of their silent pain	Z
Who have longed deeply once and longed in vain	Z
But I will rather say that you remain	Z
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A world above man's head to let him see	C
How boundless might his soul's horizons be	C
How vast yet of what clear transparency	C
How it were good to live there and breathe free	C
How fair a lot to fill	J
Is left to each man still	J

Matthew Arnold

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