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Four years and didst thou stay above	A
The ground which hides thee now but four	B
And all that life and all that love	A
Were crowded Geist into no more	B
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Only four years those winning ways	C
Which make me for thy presence yearn	D
Call'd us to pet thee or to praise	C
Dear little friend at every turn	D
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That loving heart that patient soul	E
Had they indeed no longer span	F
To run their course and reach their goal	E
And read their homily to man	F
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That liquid melancholy eye	G
From whose pathetic soul fed springs	H
Seem'd surging the Virgilian cry	G
The sense of tears in mortal things	H
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That steadfast mournful strain consoled	I
By spirits gloriously gay	J
And temper of heroic mould	I
What was four years their whole short day	J
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Yes only four and not the course	K
Of all the centuries yet to come	L
And not the infinite resource	K
Of Nature with her countless sum	L
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Of figures with her fulness vast	M
Of new creation evermore	B
Can ever quite repeat the past	M
Or just thy little self restore	B
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Stern law of every mortal lot	N
Which man proud man finds hard to bear	O
And builds himself I know not what	P
Of second life I know not where	O
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But thou when struck thine hour to go	Q
On us who stood despondent by	G
A meek last glance of love didst throw	Q
And humbly lay thee down to die	G
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Yet would we keep thee in our heart	R
Would fix our favourite on the scene	S
Nor let thee utterly depart	R
And be as if thou ne'er hadst been	T
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And so there rise these lines of verse	U
On lips that rarely form them now	V
While to each other we rehearse	U
Such ways such arts such looks hadst thou	V
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We stroke thy broad brown paws again	W
We bid thee to thy vacant chair	O
We greet thee by the window pane	X
We hear thy scuffle on the stair	O
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We see the flaps of thy large ears	Y
Quick raised to ask which way we go	Q
Crossing the frozen lake appears	Y
Thy small black figure on the snow	Q
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Nor to us only art thou dear	Z
Who mourn thee in thine English home	A2
Thou hast thine absent master's tear	O
Dropt by the far Australian foam	A2
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Thy memory lasts both here and there	O
And thou shalt live as long as we	B2
And after that thou dost not care	O
In us was all the world to thee	B2
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Yet fondly zealous for thy fame	C2
Even to a date beyond our own	D2
We strive to carry down thy name	C2
By mounded turf and graven stone	D2
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We lay thee close within our reach	E2
Here where the grass is smooth and warm	F2
Between the holly and the beech	E2
Where oft we watch'd thy couchant form	F2
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Asleep yet lending half an ear	G2
To travellers on the Portsmouth road	H2
There build we thee O guardian dear	Z
Mark'd with a stone thy last abode	H2
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Then some who through this garden pass	I2
When we too like thyself are clay	J
Shall see thy grave upon the grass	I2
And stop before the stone and say	J
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People who lived here long ago	Q
Did by this stone it seems intend	J2
To name for future times to know	Q
The dachs hound Geist their little friend	J2

Matthew Arnold

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