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Come dear children let us away	A
Down and away below	B
Now my brothers call from the bay	A
Now the great winds shoreward blow	B
Now the salt tides seaward flow	B
Now the wild white horses play	A
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray	A
Children dear let us away	A
This way this way	A
	-
Call her once before you go	B
Call once yet	C
In a voice that she will know	B
'Margaret Margaret '	-
Children's voices should be dear	D
Call once more to a mother's ear	E
Children's voices wild with pain	F
Surely she will come again	G
Call her once and come away	A
This way this way	A
'Mother dear we cannot stay	A
The wild white horses foam and fret '	-
Margaret Margaret	H
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Come dear children come away down	I
Call no more	J
One last look at the white walled town	I
And the little grey church on the windy shore	J
Then come down	I
She will not come though you call all day	A
Come away come away	A
	-
Children dear was it yesterday	A
We heard the sweet bells over the bay	A
In the caverns where we lay	A
Through the surf and through the swell	K
The far off sound of a silver bell	K
Sand strewn caverns cool and deep	L
Where the winds are all asleep	L
Where the spent lights quiver and gleam	M
Where the salt weed sways in the stream	M
Where the sea beasts ranged all round	N
Feed in the ooze of their pasture ground	N
Where the sea snakes coil and twine	O
Dry their mail and bask in the brine	O
Where great whales come sailing by	P
Sail and sail with unshut eye	P
Round the world for ever and aye	P
When did music come this way	A
Children dear was it yesterday	A
	-
Children dear was it yesterday	A
Call yet once that she went away	A
Once she sate with you and me	Q
On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea	Q
And the youngest sate on her knee	Q
She combed its bright hair and she tended it well	K
When down swung the sound of a far off bell	K
She sighed she looked up through the clear green sea	Q
She said 'I must go for my kinsfolk pray	A
In the little grey church on the shore today	A
'Twill be Easter time in the world ah me	Q
And I lose my poor soul Merman here with thee '	-
I said 'Go up dear heart through the waves	R
Say thy prayer and come back to the kind sea caves '	-
She smiled she went up through the surf in the bay	A
Children dear was it yesterday	A
	-
Children dear were we long alone	S
'The sea grows stormy the little ones moan	S
Long prayers ' I said 'in the world they say	A
Come ' I said and we rose through the surf in the bay	A
We went up the beach by the sandy down	I
Where the sea stocks bloom to the white walled town	I
Through the narrow paved streets where all was still	T
To the little grey church on the windy hill	T
From the church came a murmur of folk at their prayers	U
But we stood without in the cold blowing airs	U
We climbed on the graves on the stones worn with rains	V
And we gazed up the aisle through the small leaded panes	V
She sate by the pillar we saw her clear	D
'Margaret hist come quick we are here	E
Dear heart ' I said 'we are long alone	S
The sea grows stormy the little ones moan '	-
But ah she gave me never a look	W
For her eyes we sealed to the holy book	W
Loud prays the priest shut stands the door	J
Come away children call no more	J
Come away come down call no more	J
	-
Down down down	I
Down to the depths of the sea	Q
She sits at her wheel in the humming town	I
Singing most joyfully	Q
Hark what she sings 'O joy O joy	X
For the humming street and the child with its toy	X
For the priest and the bell and the holy well	K
For the wheel where I spun	Y
And the blessed light of the sun '	-
And so she sings her fill	T
Singing most joyfully	Q
Till the shuttle drops from her hand	Z
And the whizzing wheel stands still	T
She steals to the window and looks at the sand	Z
And over the sand at the sea	Q
And her eyes are set in a stare	A2
And anon there breaks a sigh	P
And anon there drops a tear	A2
From a sorrow clouded eye	P
And a heart sorrow laden	Y
A long long sigh	P
For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden	Y
And the gleam of her golden hair	A2
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Come away away children	Y
Come children come down	Y
The hoarse wind blows coldly	Q
Lights shine in the town	Y
She will start from her slumber	B2
When gusts shake the door	J
She will hear the winds howling	C2
Will hear the waves roar	J
We shall see while above us	D2
The waves roar and whirl	E2
A ceiling of amber	B2
A pavement of pearl	E2
Singing 'Here came a mortal	F2
But faithless was she	Q
And alone dwell for ever	B2
The kings of the sea '	-
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But children at midnight	G2
When soft the winds blow	B
When clear fall the moonlight	G2
When spring tides are low	B
When sweet airs come seaward	H2
From heaths starred with broom	I2
And high rocks throw mildly	Q
On the blanched sands a gloom	I2
Up the still glistening beaches	J2
Up the creeks we will hie	K2
Over banks of bright seaweed	L2
The ebb tide leaves dry	P
We will gaze from the sand hills	M2
At the white sleeping town	Y
At the church on the hillside	N2
And then come back down	Y
Singing 'There dwells a loved one	Y
But cruel is she	Q
She left lonely for ever	B2
The kings of the sea '	-

Matthew Arnold

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