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Around me broods the dim mysterious Night	A
Star lit and still	B
No whisper comes across the Plain	C
Asleep beneath the breezes light	A
Which scarcely stir the growing grain	C
Slow chimes the quiet midnight hour	D
In some unseen and distant tower	D
While round me broods the vague mysterious Night	A
Star lit and cool and still	B
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And I must desecrate this silent time	E
Of drowsy dreams	F
On mighty wings towards the sky	G
Towards the stars I have to climb	E
And o'er the sleeping country fly	G
And such far echoing clamour make	H
That all the villages must wake	H
So must I desecrate this quiet time	E
Of soft and drowsy dreams	F
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The hour comes soon must I say farewell	I
To this fair earth	J
Then to my little room I go	K
Where I perhaps no more shall dwell	I
Shall I return The Gods but know	K
Perchance again I shall not sleep	L
On that white bed in silence deep	L
For soon the hour comes to say farewell	I
To this fair friendly earth	J
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I stand there long before into the gloom	M
I take my way	N
There are the pictures of my friends	O
And all the treasures of my room	M
On which my lamp soft radiance sends	O
And long with lingering gaze I look	P
Upon each much belov d book	P
I stand and dream before into the gloom	M
I sadly take my way	N
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And now I gain the field whence I must part	Q
Upon my quest	R
My Pegasus of wood and steel	S
Is ready straining at the start	Q
The governor is at the wheel	S
And with an ever growing roar	T
Across the hidden fields we soar	T
So with one envious look from Earth I part	Q
Upon my midnight quest	R
	-
Beneath me lies the sleeping countryside	U
Hazy and dim	V
And here and there a little gleam	W
Like stars upon the heavens wide	U
Speaks of some wretch who cannot dream	W
But on his bed all night must toss	X
And hear me as I pass across	X
In droning flight above the countryside	U
Hazy and huge and dim	V
	-
And in the great blue night I ever rise	Y
Towards the stars	Z
As to the hostile lands I sail	A2
High in the dark and cloudless skies	Y
Whose gloom our gloomy wings doth veil	A2
Beneath a scarce seen ribbon shows	B2
Where through the woods a river flows	B2
As in the shadowy night I ever rise	Y
Towards the scattered stars	Z
	-
Now high above War's frontiers do I sit	C2
Above the lines	D2
Great lights like flowers rise and fall	E2
On either side red flashes spit	C2
Hot death at those poor souls which crawl	E2
On secret errands O how grim	V
Must be that midnight slaughter dim	V
And happy am I that so high I sit	C2
Above those cruel lines	D2
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Each man beneath me now detests my race	F2
With iron hate	G2
Each tiny light I see must shine	H2
Upon some grim unfriendly face	F2
Who curses England's name and mine	H2
And would be glad if both were gone	I2
But steadily must I fly on	J2
Though every soul beneath me loathes my race	F2
With stern unceasing hate	G2
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I see a far flung City all ablaze	K2
With jewelled lamps	L2
I trace its quays its roads its squares	M2
And all its intermingled ways	K2
And as I wonder how it dares	M2
To flaunt itself the City dies	Y
And in an utter darkness lies	Y
For I have terrified that town ablaze	K2
With twinkling jewelled lamps	L2
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But see the furnace with its ruddy breath	N2
Which I must wreck	O2
The searchlights sweep across the sky	G
Long fingered ministers of Death	N2
I look deep in their cold blue eye	G
Incessant shells with blinding light	A
Show every wire clear and white	A
There is the furnace with its ruddy breath	N2
Which I must wreck	O2
	-
It lies beneath my time has come at last	P2
To do my work	Q2
I wait O will you never stop	R2
Your fearful shells that burst so fast	P2
And then I hear destruction drop	R2
Behind my back as I release	S2
Such fearful death with such great ease	T2
Burst on you shells My time has come at last	P2
To do my deadly work	Q2
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Then do I turn and hurry swiftly back	U2
Towards my home	V2
I gladly leave that place behind	W2
No more I hear the shrapnel's crack	U2
No more my eyes the searchlights blind	W2
I cross the lines with lightening breast	R
And sail into the friendly West	R
How glad am I to hurry swiftly back	U2
Towards my peaceful home	V2
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I reach the field and then I softly land	X2
My work is o'er	D
I leave my hot and panting steed	Y2
And clasp a comrade's outstretched hand	X2
And with him to my bedroom speed	Y2
Then over steaming beakers set	Z2
The night's fierce menace soon forget	Z2
How great a welcome waits me when I land	X2
When all my work is o'er	D
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But ere I search shy sleep on my white bed	A3
I greet the dawn	I2
And think with heart weighed down with grief	B3
How cruel this dawn to those whose dead	A3
Lie shattered torn whom like a thief	B3
At darkest midnight I have slain	C
Poor unknown victims real my pain	C
What widows orphans sweethearts see their dead	A3
This cruel hopeless dawn	I2
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France	C3

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