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SYNOPSIS	A
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Introduction The mountains and the sea the cradles of Freedom contrasted with the birth place of Cromwell His childhood and youth The germs of his future character probably formed during his life of inaction Cromwell at the moment of his intended embarkation Retrospect of his past life and profligate youth Temptations held out by the prospect of a life of rest in America How far such rest was allowable Vision of his future life Different persons represented in it Charles the First Cromwell himself His victories and maritime glory Pym Strafford Laud Hampden Falkland Milton Charles the First Cromwell on his death bed His character Dispersion of the vision Conclusion	B
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Schrecklich ist es deiner Wahrheit	C
Sterbliches Gef ss zu seyn	B
V Schiller	D
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High fate is theirs ye sleepless waves whose ear	E
Learns Freedom's lesson from your voice of fear	F
Whose spellbound sense from childhood's hour hath known	B
Familiar meanings in your mystic tone	B
Sounds of deep import voices that beguile	G
Age of its tears and childhood of its smile	G
To yearn with speechless impulse to the free	H
And gladsome greetings of the buoyant sea	H
High fate is theirs who where the silent sky	I
Stoops to the soaring mountains live and die	I
Who scale the cloud capt height or sink to rest	C
In the deep stillness of its shelt'ring breast	C
Around whose feet the exulting waves have sung	J
The eternal hills their giant shadows flung	J
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No wonders nurs'd thy childhood not for thee	H
Did the waves chant their song of liberty	H
Thine was no mountain home where Freedom's form	K
Abides enthron'd amid the mist and storm	K
And whispers to the listening winds that swell	L
With solemn cadence round her citadel	L
These had no sound for thee that cold calm eye	I
Lit with no rapture as the storm swept by	I
To mark with shiver'd crest the reeling wave	M
Hide his torn head beneath his sunless cave	M
Or hear 'mid circling crags the impatient cry	I
Of the pent winds that scream in agony	H
Yet all high sounds that mountain children hear	E
Flash'd from thy soul upon thine inward ear	E
All Freedom's mystic language storms that roar	N
By hill or wave the mountain or the shore	N
All these had stirr'd thy spirit and thine eye	I
In common sights read secret sympathy	H
Till all bright thoughts that hills or waves can yield	C
Deck'd the dull waste and the familiar field	C
Or wondrous sounds from tranquil skies were borne	B
Far o'er the glistening sheets of windy corn	B
Skies that unbound by clasp of mountain chain	B
Slope stately down and melt into the plain	B
Sounds such as erst the lone wayfaring man	B
Caught as he journeyed from the lips of Pan	B
Or that mysterious cry that smote with fear	F
Like sounds from other worlds the Spartan's ear	E
While o'er the dusty plain the murmurous throng	O
Of Heaven's embattled myriads swept along	O
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Say not such dreams are idle for the man	B
Still toils to perfect what the child began	B
And thoughts that were but outlines time engraves	H
Deep on his life and childhood's baby waves	H
Made rough with care become the changeful sea	H
Stemm'd by the strength of manhood fearlessly	L
And fleeting thoughts that on the lonely wild	C
Swept o'er the fancy of that heedless child	C
Perchance had quicken'd with a living truth	P
The cold dull soil of his unfruitful youth	P
Till with his daily life a life that threw	Q
Its shadows o'er the future flower'd and grew	Q
With common cares unmingling and apart	C
Haunting the shrouded chambers of his heart	C
Till life unstirr'd by action life became	R
Threaded and lighten'd by a track of flame	R
An inward light that with its streaming ray	S
On the dark current of his changeless day	S
Bound all his being with a silver chain	B
Like a swift river through a silent plain	B
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High thoughts were his when by the gleaming flood	C
With heart new strung and stern resolve he stood	C
Where rode the tall dark ships whose loosen'd sail	L
All idly flutter'd in the eastern gale	L
High thoughts were his but Memory's glance the while	L
Fell on the cherish'd past with tearful smile	L
And peaceful joys and gentler thoughts swept by	I
Like summer lightnings o'er a darken'd sky	I
The peace of childhood and the thoughts that roam	T
Like loving shadows round that childhood's home	T
Joys that had come and vanish'd half unknown	B
Then slowly brighten'd as the days had flown	B
Years that were sweet or sad becalm'd or toss'd	C
On life's wild waves the living and the lost	C
Youth stain'd with follies and the thoughts of ill	L
Crush'd as they rose by manhood's sterner will	L
Repentant prayers that had been strong to save	M
And the first sorrow which is childhood's grave	M
All shapes that haunt remembrance soft and fair	U
Like a green land at sunset all were there	U
Eyes that he knew old faces unforgot	C
Gaz'd sadly down on his unrestful lot	C
And Memory's calm clear voice and mournful eye	I
Chill'd every buoyant hope that floated by	I
Like frozen winds on southern vales that blow	L
From a far land the children of the snow	L
O'er flowering plain and blossom'd meadow fling	V
The cold dull shadow of their icy wing	V
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Then Fancy's roving visions bold and free	H
A moment dispossess'd reality	H
All airy hopes that idle hearts can frame	R
Like dreams between two sorrows went and came	R
Fond hearts that fain would clothe the unwelcome truth	P
Of toilsome manhood in the dreams of youth	P
To bend in rapture at some idle throne	B
Some lifeless soulless phantom of their own	B
Some shadowy vision of a tranquil life	W
Of joys unclouded years unstirr'd by strife	W
Of sleep unshadow'd by a dream of woe	L
Of many a lawny hill and streams with silver flow	L
Of giant mountains by the western main	B
The sunless forest and the sea like plain	B
Those lingering hopes of coward hearts that still	L
Would play the traitor to the steadfast will	L
One moment's space perchance might charm his eye	I
From the stern future and the years gong by	I
One moment's space might waft him far away	S
To western shores the death place of the day	S
Might paint the calm sweet peace the rest of home	T
Far o'er the pathless waste of labouring foam	T
Peace that recall'd his childish hours anew	Q
More calm more deep than childhood ever knew	Q
Green happy places like a flowery lea	H
Between the barren mountains and the stormy sea	H
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O pleasant rest if once the race were run	B
O happy slumber if the day were done	B
Dreams that were sweet at eve at morn were sin	B
With cares to conquer and a goal to win	B
His were no tranquil years no languid sleep	X
No life of dreams no home beyond the deep	X
No softening ray no visions false and wild	C
No glittering hopes on life's grey distance smiled	C
Like isles of sunlight on a mountain's brow	Y
Lit by a wandering gleam we know not how	Y
Far on the dim horizon when the sky	I
With glooming clouds broods dark and heavily	H
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Then his eye slumber'd and the chain was broke	Z
That bound his spirit and his heart awoke	Z
Then like a kingly river swift and strong	O
The future roll'd its gathering tides along	O
The shout of onset and the shriek of fear	F
Smote like the rush of waters on his ear	E
And his eye kindled with the kindling fray	S
The surging battle and the mail'd array	S
All wondrous deeds the coming days should see	H
And the long Vision of the years to be	H
Pale phantom hosts like shadows faint and far	A2
Councils and armies and the pomp of war	N
And one sway'd all who wore a kingly crown	B
Until another rose and smote him down	B
A form that tower'd above his brother men	B
A form he knew but it was shrouded then	B
With stern slow steps unseen yet still the same	R
By leaguer'd tower and tented field it came	R
By Naseby's hill o'er Marston's heathy waste	C
By Worcester's field the warrior vision pass'd	C
From their deep base thy beetling cliffs Dunbar	A2
Rang as he trode them with the voice of war	N
The soldier kindled at his words of fire	D
The statesman quail'd before his glance of ire	B2
Worn was his brow with cares no thought could scan	B
His step was loftier than the steps of man	B
And the winds told his glory and the wave	M
Sonorous witness to his empire gave	M
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What forms are these that with complaining sound	C
And slow reluctant steps are gathering round	C
Forms that with him shall tread life's changing stage	C2
Cross his lone path or share his pilgrimage	D2
There as he gazed a wondrous band they came	R
Pym's look of hate and Strafford's glance of flame	R
There Laud with noiseless steps and glittering eye	I
In priestly garb a frail old man Went by	I
His drooping head bowed meekly on his breast	C
His hands were folded like a saint at rest	C
There Hampden bent him o'er his saddle bow	Y
And death's cold dews bedimm'd his earnest brow	Y
Still turn'd to watch the battle still forgot	C
Himself his sufferings in his country's lot	C
There Falkland eyed the strife that would not cease	H
Shook back his tangled locks and murmur'd 'Peace '	-
With feet that spurn'd the ground lo Milton there	U
Stood like a statue and his face was fair	U
Fair beyond human beauty and his eye	I
That knew not earth soar'd upwards to the sky	I
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He too was there it was the princely boy	E2
The child companion of his childish joy	E2
But oh how chang'd those deathlike features wore	N
Childhood's bright glance and sunny smile no more	N
That brow so sad so pale so full of care	U
What trace of careless childhood linger'd there	U
What spring of youth in that majestic mien	B
So sadly calm so kingly so serene	B
No all was chang'd the monarch wept alone	B
Between a ruin'd church and shatter'd throne	B
Friendless and hopeless like a lonely tree	H
On some bare headland straining mournfully	H
That all night long its weary moan doth make	F2
To the vex'd waters of a mountain lake	F2
Still as he gaz'd the phantom's mournful glance	H
Shook the deep slumber of his deathlike trance	H
Like some forgotten strain that haunts us still	H
That calm eye follow'd turn him where he will	H
Till the pale monarch and the long array	S
Pass'd like a morning mist in tears away	S
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Then all his dream was troubled and his soul	H
Thrill'd with a dread no slumber could control	H
On that dark form his eyes had gaz'd before	N
Nor known it then but it was veil'd no more	N
In broad clear light the ghastly vision shone	B
That form was his those features were his own	B
The night of terrors and the day of care	U
The years of toil all all were written there	U
Sad faces watch'd around him and his breath	G2
Came faint and feeble in the embrace of death	G2
The gathering tempest with its voice of fear	F
His latest loftiest music smote his ear	E
That day of boundless hope and promise high	I
That day that hail'd his triumphs saw him die	I
Then from those whitening lips as death drew near	F
The imprisoning chains fell off and all was clear	F
Like lowering clouds that at the close of day	S
Bath'd in a blaze of sunset melt away	S
And with its clear calm tones that dying prayer	U
Cheer'd all the failing hearts that sorrow'd there	U
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A life whose ways no human thought could scan	B
A life that was not as the life of man	B
A life that wrote its purpose with a sword	C
Moulding itself in action not in word	C
Rent with tumultuous thoughts whose conflict rung	J
Deep thro' his soul and chok'd his faltering tongue	J
A heart that reck'd not of the countless dead	C
That strew'd the blood stain'd path where Empire led	C
A daring hand that shrunk not to fulfil	H
The thought that spurr'd it and a dauntless will	H
Bold action's parent and a piercing ken	B
Through the dark chambers of the hearts of men	B
To read each thought and teach that master mind	C
The fears and hopes and passions of mankind	C
All these were thine Oh thought of fear and thou	Y
Stretch'd on that bed of death art nothing now	Y
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Then all his vision faded and his soul	H
Sprang from its sleep and lo the waters roll	H
Once more beneath him and the fluttering sail	H
Where the dark ships rode proudly woo'd the gale	H
And the wind murmur'd round him and he stood	C
Once more alone beside the gleaming flood	C