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I rode one evening with Count Maddalo	A
Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow	A
Of Adria towards Venice a bare strand	B
Of hillocks heap'd from ever shifting sand	B
Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds	C
Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds	C
Is this an uninhabited sea side	D
Which the lone fisher when his nets are dried	D
Abandons and no other object breaks	E
The waste but one dwarf tree and some few stakes	E
Broken and unrepair'd and the tide makes	E
A narrow space of level sand thereon	F
Where 'twas our wont to ride while day went down	G
This ride was my delight I love all waste	H
And solitary places where we taste	H
The pleasure of believing what we see	I
Is boundless as we wish our souls to be	I
And such was this wide ocean and this shore	J
More barren than its billows and yet more	J
Than all with a remember'd friend I love	K
To ride as then I rode for the winds drove	L
The living spray along the sunny air	M
Into our faces the blue heavens were bare	M
Stripp'd to their depths by the awakening north	N
And from the waves sound like delight broke forth	N
Harmonizing with solitude and sent	O
Into our hearts a euml real merriment	O
So as we rode we talk'd and the swift thought	O
Winging itself with laughter linger'd not	O
But flew from brain to brain such glee was ours	P
Charg'd with light memories of remember'd hours	P
None slow enough for sadness till we came	Q
Homeward which always makes the spirit tame	Q
This day had been cheerful but cold and now	R
The sun was sinking and the wind also	A
Our talk grew somewhat serious as may be	I
Talk interrupted with such raillery	M
As mocks itself because it cannot scorn	S
The thoughts it would extinguish 'twas forlorn	S
Yet pleasing such as once so poets tell	A
The devils held within the dales of Hell	A
Concerning God freewill and destiny	I
Of all that earth has been or yet may be	I
All that vain men imagine or believe	T
Or hope can paint or suffering may achieve	T
We descanted and I for ever still	A
Is it not wise to make the best of ill	A
Argu'd against despondency but pride	O
Made my companion take the darker side	O
The sense that he was greater than his kind	O
Had struck methinks his eagle spirit blind	O
By gazing on its own exceeding light	O
Meanwhile the sun paus'd ere it should alight	O
Over the horizon of the mountains Oh	A
How beautiful is sunset when the glow	A
Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee	I
Thou Paradise of exiles Italy	I
Thy mountains seas and vineyards and the towers	P
Of cities they encircle It was ours	P
To stand on thee beholding it and then	U
Just where we had dismounted the Count's men	U
Were waiting for us with the gondola	A
As those who pause on some delightful way	V
Though bent on pleasant pilgrimage we stood	O
Looking upon the evening and the flood	O
Which lay between the city and the shore	M
Pav'd with the image of the sky The hoar	M
And a euml ry Alps towards the North appear'd	O
Through mist an heaven sustaining bulwark rear'd	O
Between the East and West and half the sky	W
Was roof'd with clouds of rich emblazonry	M
Dark purple at the zenith which still grew	M
Down the steep West into a wondrous hue	M
Brighter than burning gold even to the rent	O
Where the swift sun yet paus'd in his descent	O
Among the many folded hills they were	M
Those famous Euganean hills which bear	M
As seen from Lido thro' the harbour piles	X
The likeness of a clump of peak egrave d isles	X
And then as if the Earth and Sea had been	Y
Dissolv'd into one lake of fire were seen	Z
Those mountains towering as from waves of flame	Q
Around the vaporous sun from which there came	Q
The inmost purple spirit of light and made	O
Their very peaks transparent Ere it fade	O
Said my companion I will show you soon	A2
A better station so o'er the lagune	A2
We glided and from that funereal bark	B2
I lean'd and saw the city and could mark	B2
How from their many isles in evening's gleam	C2
Its temples and its palaces did seem	C2
Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to Heaven	A2
I was about to speak when We are even	A2
Now at the point I meant said Maddalo	A
And bade the gondolieri cease to row	M
Look Julian on the west and listen well	A
If you hear not a deep and heavy bell	A
I look'd and saw between us and the sun	A2
A building on an island such a one	A2
As age to age might add for uses vile	A
A windowless deform'd and dreary pile	A
And on the top an open tower where hung	D2
A bell which in the radiance sway'd and swung	D2
We could just hear its hoarse and iron tongue	D2
The broad sun sunk behind it and it toll'd	O
In strong and black relief What we behold	O
Shall be the madhouse and its belfry tower	M
Said Maddalo and ever at this hour	M
Those who may cross the water hear that bell	A
Which calls the maniacs each one from his cell	A
To vespers As much skill as need to pray	M
In thanks or hope for their dark lot have they	M
To their stern Maker I replied O ho	M
You talk as in years past said Maddalo	A
'Tis strange men change not You were ever still	A
Among Christ's flock a perilous infidel	A
A wolf for the meek lambs if you can't swim	E2
Beware of Providence I look'd on him	E2
But the gay smile had faded in his eye	W
And such he cried is our mortality	I
And this must be the emblem and the sign	A2
Of what should be eternal and divine	A2
And like that black and dreary bell the soul	A
Hung in a heaven illumin'd tower must toll	A
Our thoughts and our desires to meet below	A
Round the rent heart and pray as madmen do	M
For what they know not till the night of death	F2
As sunset that strange vision severeth	F2
Our memory from itself and us from all	A
We sought and yet were baffled I recall	A
The sense of what he said although I mar	M
The force of his expressions The broad star	M
Of day meanwhile had sunk behind the hill	A
And the black bell became invisible	A
And the red tower look'd gray and all between	A2
The churches ships and palaces were seen	A2
Huddled in gloom into the purple sea	I
The orange hues of heaven sunk silently	I
We hardly spoke and soon the gondola	A
Convey'd me to my lodgings by the way	M
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The following morn was rainy cold and dim	E2
Ere Maddalo arose I call'd on him	E2
And whilst I waited with his child I play'd	O
A lovelier toy sweet Nature never made	O
A serious subtle wild yet gentle being	G2
Graceful without design and unforeseeing	G2
With eyes Oh speak not of her eyes which seem	C2
Twin mirrors of Italian Heaven yet gleam	C2
With such deep meaning as we never see	I
But in the human countenance with me	I
She was a special favourite I had nurs'd	O
Her fine and feeble limbs when she came first	O
To this bleak world and she yet seem'd to know	A
On second sight her ancient playfellow	A
Less chang'd than she was by six months or so	A
For after her first shyness was worn out	O
We sate there rolling billiard balls about	O
When the Count enter'd Salutations past	O
The word you spoke last night might well have cast	O
A darkness on my spirit if man be	I
The passive thing you say I should not see	I
Much harm in the religions and old saws	H2
Though I may never own such leaden laws	H2
Which break a teachless nature to the yoke	G2
Mine is another faith thus much I spoke	G2
And noting he replied not added See	I
This lovely child blithe innocent and free	I
She spends a happy time with little care	M
While we to such sick thoughts subjected are	M
As came on you last night It is our will	A
That thus enchains us to permitted ill	A
We might be otherwise We might be all	A
We dream of happy high majestical	A
Where is the love beauty and truth we seek	G2
But in our mind and if we were not weak	G2
Should we be less in deed than in desire	M
Ay if we were not weak and we aspire	M
How vainly to be strong said Maddalo	A
You talk Utopia It remains to know	A
I the	A

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