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Glion Ah twenty years it cuts	A
All meaning from a name	B
White houses prank where once were huts	A
Glion but not the same	B
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And yet I know not All unchanged	C
The turf the pines the sky	D
The hills in their old order ranged	C
The lake with Chillon by	D
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And 'neath those chestnut trees where stiff	E
And stony mounts the way	F
The crackling husk heaps burn as if	E
I left them yesterday	F
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Across the valley on that slope	G
The huts of Avant shine	H
lts pines under their branches ope	G
Ways for the pasturing kine	H
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Full foaming milk pails Alpine fare	I
Sweet heaps of fresh cut grass	J
Invite to rest the traveller there	I
Before he climb the pass	J
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The gentian flower'd pass its crown	H
With yellow spires aflame	B
Whence drops the path to Alli re down	H
And walls where Byron came	B
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By their green river who doth change	K
His birth name just below	L
Orchard and croft and full stored grange	K
Nursed by his pastoral flow	L
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But stop to fetch back thoughts that stray	F
Beyond this gracious bound	M
The cone of Jaman pale and gray	F
See in the blue profound	M
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Ah Jaman delicately tall	N
Above his sun warm'd firs	O
What thoughts to me his rocks recall	N
What memories he stirs	O
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And who but thou must be in truth	P
Obermann with me here	Q
Thou master of my wandering youth	P
But left this many a year	R
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Yes I forget the world's work wrought	S
Its warfare waged with pain	H
An eremite with thee in thought	S
Once more I slip my chain	H
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And to thy mountain chalet come	T
And lie beside its door	U
And hear the wild bee's Alpine hum	T
And thy sad tranquil lore	U
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Again I feel the words inspire	V
Their mournful calm serene	H
Yet tinged with infinite desire	W
For all that might have been	H
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The harmony from which man swerved	X
Made his life's rule once more	U
The universal order served	X
Earth happier than before	U
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While thus I mused night gently ran	H
Down over hill and wood	Y
Then still and sudden Obermann	H
On the grass near me stood	Y
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Those pensive features well I knew	H
On my mind years before	U
Imaged so oft imaged so true	H
A shepherd's garb he wore	U
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A mountain flower was in his hand	Z
A book was in his breast	A2
Bent on my face with gaze which scann'd	Z
My soul his eyes did rest	A2
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'And is it thou ' he cried 'so long	B2
Held by the world which we	C2
Loved not who turnest from the throng	B2
Back to thy youth and me	C2
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'And from thy world with heart opprest	A2
Choosest thou now to turn	H
Ah me we anchorites read things best	A2
Clearest their course discern	H
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'Thou fledst me when the ungenial earth	D2
Man's work place lay in gloom	E2
Return'st thou in her hour of birth	D2
Of hopes and hearts in bloom	E2
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'Perceiv'st thou not the change of day	A2
Ah Carry back thy ken	H
What some two thousand years Survey	A2
The world as it was then	H
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'Like ours it look'd in outward air	I
Its head was clear and true	H
Sumptuous its clothing rich its fare	I
No pause its action knew	H
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'Stout was its arm each thew and bone	H
Seem'd puissant and alive	F2
But ah its heart its heart was stone	H
And so it could not thrive	F2
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'On that hard Pagan world disgust	A2
And secret loathing fell	G2
Deep weariness and sated lust	A2
Made human life a hell	G2
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'In his cool hall with haggard eyes	H2
The Roman noble lay	A2
He drove abroad in furious guise	H2
Along the Appian way	A2
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'He made a feast drank fierce and fast	A2
And crown'd his hair with flowers	O
No easier nor no quicker pass'd	A2
The impracticable hours	O
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'The brooding East with awe beheld	A2
Her impious younger world	A2
The Roman tempest swell'd and swell'd	A2
And on her head was hurl'd	A2
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'The East bow'd low before the blast	A2
In patient deep disdain	H
She let the legions thunder past	A2
And plunged in thought again	H
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'So well she mused a morning broke	I2
Across her spirit grey	A2
A conquering new born joy awoke	I2
And fill'd her life with day	A2
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''Poor world ' she cried 'so deep accurst	A2
That runn'st from pole to pole	J2
To seek a draught to slake thy thirst	A2
Go seek it in thy soul '	-
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'She heard it the victorious West	A2
In crown and sword array'd	A2
She felt the void which mined her breast	A2
She shiver'd and obey'd	A2
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'She veil'd her eagles snapp'd her sword	A2
And laid her sceptre down	H
Her stately purple she abhorr'd	A2
And her imperial crown	H
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'She broke her flutes she stopp'd her sports	K2
Her artists could not please	L2
She tore her books she shut her courts	K2
She fled her palaces	M2
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'Lust of the eye and pride of life	N2
She left it all behind	A2
And hurried torn with inward strife	N2
The wilderness to find	A2
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'Tears wash'd the trouble from her face	O2
She changed into a child	A2
'Mid weeds and wrecks she stood a place	O2
Of ruin but she smiled	A2
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'Oh had I lived in that great day	A2
How had its glory new	H
Fill'd earth and heaven and caught away	A2
My ravish'd spirit too	H
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'No thoughts that to the world belong	B2
Had stood against the wave	P2
Of love which set so deep and strong	B2
From Christ's then open grave	P2
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'No cloister floor of humid stone	H
Had been too cold for me	C2
For me no Eastern desert lone	H
Had been too far to flee	C2
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'No lonely life had pass'd too slow	L
When I could hourly scan	H
Upon his Cross with head sunk low	L
That nail'd thorn crowned Man	H
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'Could see the Mother with her Child	A2
Whose tender winning arts	Q2
Have to his little arms beguiled	A2
So many wounded hearts	Q2
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'And centuries came and ran their course	R2
And unspent all that time	S2
Still still went forth that Child's dear force	R2
And still was at its prime	S2
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'Ay ages long endured his span	H
Of life 'tis true received	A2
That gracious Child that thorn crown'd Man	H
He lived while we believed	A2
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'While we believed on earth he went	A2
And open stood his grave	P2
Men call'd from chamber church and tent	A2
And Christ was by to save	P2
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'Now he is dead Far hence he lies	H2
In the lorn Syrian town	H
And on his grave with shining eyes	H2
The Syrian stars look down	H
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'In vain men still with hoping new	H
Regard his death place dumb	T
And say the stone is not yet to	H
And wait for words to come	T
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'Ah o'er that silent sacred land	A2
Of sun and arid stone	H
And crumbling wall and sultry sand	A2
Sounds now one word alone	H
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'Unduped of fancy henceforth man	H
Must labour must resign	H
His all too human creeds and scan	H
Simply the way divine	H
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'But slow that tide of common thought	A2
Which bathed our life retired	A2
Slow slow the old world wore to nought	A2
And pulse by pulse expired	A2
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'Its frame yet stood without a breach	T2
When blood and warmth were fled	A2
And still it spake its wonted speech	T2
But every word was dead	A2
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'And oh we cried that on this corse	R2
Might fall a freshening storm	U2
Rive its dry bones and with new force	R2
A new sprung world inform	U2
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' Down came the storm O'er France it pass'd	A2
In sheets of scathing fire	W
All Europe felt that fiery blast	A2
And shook as it rush'd by her	W
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'Down came the storm In ruins fell	G2
The worn out world we knew	H
It pass'd that elemental swell	G2
Again appear'd the blue	H
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'The sun shone in the new wash'd sky	D
And what from heaven saw he	C2
Blocks of the past like icebergs high	D
Float on a rolling sea	C2
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'Upon them plies the race of man	H
All it before endeavour'd	A2
'Ye live ' I cried 'ye work and plan	H
And know not ye are sever'd	A2
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''Poor fragments of a broken world	A2
Whereon men pitch their tent	A2
Why were ye too to death not hurl'd	A2
When your world's day was spent	A2
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''That glow of central fire is done	H
Which with its fusing flame	B
Knit all your parts and kept you one	H
But ye ye are the same	B
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''The past its mask of union on	H
Had ceased to live and thrive	F2
The past its mask of union gone	H
Say is it more alive	F2
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''Your creeds are dead your rites are dead	A2
Your social order too	A2
Where tarries he the Power who said	A2
See I make all things new	A2
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''The millions suffer still and grieve	V2
And what can hel	H