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In front the awful Alpine track	A
Crawls up its rocky stair	B
The autumn storm winds drive the rack	A
Close o'er it in the air	B
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Behind are the abandon'd baths	C
Mute in their meadows lone	D
The leaves are on the valley paths	E
The mists are on the Rhone	D
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The white mists rolling like a sea	F
I hear the torrents roar	G
Yes Obermann all speaks of thee	F
I feel thee near once more	G
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I turn thy leaves I feel their breath	H
Once more upon me roll	I
That air of languor cold and death	H
Which brooded o'er thy soul	I
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Fly hence poor Wretch whoe'er thou art	J
Condemn'd to cast about	K
All shipwreck in thy own weak heart	J
For comfort from without	K
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A fever in these pages burns	L
Beneath the calm they feign	M
A wounded human spirit turns	L
Here on its bed of pain	M
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Yes though the virgin mountain air	B
Fresh through these pages blows	N
Though to these leaves the glaciers spare	B
The soul of their white snows	N
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Though here a mountain murmur swells	O
Of many a dark bough'd pine	P
Though as you read you hear the bells	O
Of the high pasturing kine	P
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Yet through the hum of torrent lone	P
And brooding mountain bee	F
There sobs I know not what ground tone	P
Of human agony	F
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Is it for this because the sound	Q
Is fraught too deep with pain	P
That Obermann the world around	Q
So little loves thy strain	P
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Some secrets may the poet tell	R
For the world loves new ways	S
To tell too deep ones is not well	R
It knows not what he says	T
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Yet of the spirits who have reign'd	U
In this our troubled day	V
I know but two who have attain'd	U
Save thee to see their way	V
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By England's lakes in grey old age	W
His quiet home one keeps	X
And one the strong much toiling Sage	W
In German Weimar sleeps	X
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But Wordsworth's eyes avert their ken	P
From half of human fate	Y
And Goethe's course few sons of men	P
May think to emulate	Y
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For he pursued a lonely road	Z
His eyes on Nature's plan	P
Neither made man too much a God	A2
Nor God too much a man	P
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Strong was he with a spirit free	F
From mists and sane and clear	B2
Clearer how much than ours yet we	F
Have a worse course to steer	B2
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For though his manhood bore the blast	C2
Of Europe's stormiest time	D2
Yet in a tranquil world was pass'd	C2
His tenderer youthful prime	D2
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But we brought forth and rear'd in hours	E2
Of change alarm surprise	F2
What shelter to grow ripe is ours	E2
What leisure to grow wise'	E2
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Like children bathing on the shore	G
Buried a wave beneath	G2
The second wave succeeds before	G
We have had time to breathe	H2
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Too fast we live too much are tried	I2
Too harass'd to attain	P
Wordsworth's sweet calm or Goethe's wide	I2
And luminous view to gain	P
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And then we turn thou sadder Sage	W
To thee we feel thy spell	R
The hopeless tangle of our age	W
Thou too hast scann'd it well	R
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Immovable thou sittest still	J2
As death compos'd to bear	B
Thy head is clear thy feeling chill	J2
And icy thy despair	B
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Yes as the Son of Thetis said	K2
One hears thee saying now	P
Greater by far than thou are dead	K2
Strive not die also thou	P
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Ah Two desires toss about	K
The poet's feverish blood	L2
One drives him to the world without	K
And one to solitude	M2
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The glow he cries the thrill of life	N2
Where where do these abound	Q
Not in the world not in the strife	N2
Of men shall they be found	Q
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He who hath watch'd not shar'd the strife	N2
Knows how the day hath gone	P
He only lives with the world's life	N2
Who hath renounc'd his own	P
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To thee we come then Clouds are roll'd	O2
Where thou O Seer art set	P2
Thy realm of thought is drear and cold	O2
The world is colder yet	P2
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And thou hast pleasures too to share	B
With those who come to thee	F
Balms floating on thy mountain air	B
And healing sights to see	F
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How often where the slopes are green	P
On Jaman hast thou sate	Y
By some high chalet door and seen	P
The summer day grow late	Y
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And darkness steal o'er the wet grass	E2
With the pale crocus starr'd	Q2
And reach that glimmering sheet of glass	E2
Beneath the piny sward	R2
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Lake Leman's waters far below	S2
And watch'd the rosy light	T2
Fade from the distant peaks of snow	S2
And on the air of night	T2
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Heard accents of the eternal tongue	U2
Through the pine branches play	V
Listen'd and felt thyself grow young	U2
Listen'd and wept Away	V
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Away the dreams that but deceive	V2
And thou sad Guide adieu	W2
I go Fate drives me but I leave	V2
Half of my life with you	W2
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We in some unknown Power's employ	X2
Move on a rigorous line	P
Can neither when we will enjoy	X2
Nor when we will resign	P
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I in the world must live but thou	P
Thou melancholy Shade	Y2
Wilt not if thou canst see me now	P
Condemn me nor upbraid	Y2
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For thou art gone away from earth	Z2
And place with those dost claim	A3
The Children of the Second Birth	Z2
Whom the world could not tame	A3
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And with that small transfigur'd Band	B3
Whom many a different way	V
Conducted to their common land	B3
Thou learn'st to think as they	V
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Christian and pagan king and slave	C3
Soldier and anchorite	B3
Distinctions we esteem so grave	C3
Are nothing in their sight	B3
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They do not ask who pin'd unseen	P
Who was on action hurl'd	B3
Whose one bond is that all have been	P
Unspotted by the world	B3
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There without anger thou wilt see	F
Him who obeys thy spell	R
No more so he but rest like thee	F
Unsoil'd and so Farewell	R
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Farewell Whether thou now liest near	B2
That much lov'd inland sea	F
The ripples of whose blue waves cheer	B2
Vevey and Meillerie	B2
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And in that gracious region bland	B3
Where with clear rustling wave	C3
The scented pines of Switzerland	B3
Stand dark round thy green grave	C3
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Between the dusty vineyard walls	E2
Issuing on that green place	E2
The early peasant still recalls	E2
The pensive stranger's face	E2
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And stoops to clear thy moss grown date	B3
Ere he plods on again	P
Or whether by maligner Fate	B3
Among the swarms of men	P
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Where between granite terraces	E2
The blue Seine rolls her wave	C3
The Capital of Pleasure sees	E2
Thy hardly heard of grave	C3
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Farewell Under the sky we part	B3
In this stern Alpine dell	R
O unstrung will O broken heart	B3
A last a last farewell	R