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Goethe in Weimar sleeps and Greece	A
Long since saw Byron's struggle cease	A
But one such death remain'd to come	B
The last poetic voice is dumb	B
We stand to day by Wordsworth's tomb	C
	-
When Byron's eyes were shut in death	D
We bow'd our head and held our breath	D
He taught us little but our soul	E
Had felt him like the thunder's roll	E
With shivering heart the strife we saw	F
Of passion with eternal law	F
And yet with reverential awe	G
We watch'd the fount of fiery life	H
Which served for that Titanic strife	H
	-
When Goethe's death was told we said	I
Sunk then is Europe's sagest head	I
Physician of the iron age	J
Goethe has done his pilgrimage	K
He took the suffering human race	L
He read each wound each weakness clear	M
And struck his finger on the place	L
And said Thou ailest here and here	N
	-
He look'd on Europe's dying hour	O
Of fitful dream and feverish power	O
His eye plunged down the weltering strife	H
The turmoil of expiring life	H
He said The end is everywhere	P
Art still has truth take refuge there	P
And he was happy if to know	Q
Causes of things and far below	Q
His feet to see the lurid flow	Q
Of terror and insane distress	R
And headlong fate be happiness	S
	-
And Wordsworth Ah pale ghosts rejoice	T
For never has such soothing voice	T
Been to your shadowy world convey'd	U
Since erst at morn some wandering shade	U
Heard the clear song of Orpheus come	B
Through Hades and the mournful gloom	C
Wordsworth has gone from us and ye	V
Ah may ye feel his voice as we	V
He too upon a wintry clime	C
Had fallen on this iron time	C
Of doubts disputes distractions fears	W
He found us when the age had bound	X
Our souls in its benumbing round	X
He spoke and loosed our heart in tears	Y
He laid us as we lay at birth	Z
On the cool flowery lap of earth	Z
Smiles broke from us and we had ease	A2
	-
The hills were round us and the breeze	A2
Went o'er the sun lit fields again	B2
Our foreheads felt the wind and rain	C2
Our youth return'd for there was shed	I
On spirits that had long been dead	I
Spirits dried up and closely furl'd	I
The freshness of the early world	I
	-
Ah since dark days still bring to light	I
Man's prudence and man's fiery might	I
Time may restore us in his course	D2
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force	D2
But where will Europe's latter hour	O
Again find Wordsworth's healing power	O
Others will teach us how to dare	P
And against fear our breast to steel	E2
Others will strengthen us to bear	P
But who ah who will make us feel	E2
The cloud of mortal destiny	V
Others will front it fearlessly	E2
But who like him will put it by	F2
	-
Keep fresh the grass upon his grave	G2
O Rotha with thy living wave	G2
Sing him thy best for few or none	H2
Hears thy voice right now he is gone	I2

Matthew Arnold

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