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She saw me not she heard me not alone	B
Upon the mountain's dizzy brink she stood	C
She spake not breathed not moved not there was thrown	B
Over her look the shadow of a mood	D
Which only clothes the heart in solitude	D
A thought of voiceless depth she stood alone	B
Above the Heavens were spread below the flood	E
Was murmuring in its caves the wind had blown	B
Her hair apart through which her eyes and forehead shone	B
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A cloud was hanging o'er the western mountains	F
Before its blue and moveless depth were flying	G
Gray mists poured forth from the unresting fountains	F
Of darkness in the North the day was dying	G
Sudden the sun shone forth its beams were lying	G
Like boiling gold on Ocean strange to see	H
And on the shattered vapours which defying	G
The power of light in vain tossed restlessly	H
In the red Heaven like wrecks in a tempestuous sea	H
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It was a stream of living beams whose bank	I
On either side by the cloud's cleft was made	J
And where its chasms that flood of glory drank	I
Its waves gushed forth like fire and as if swayed	J
By some mute tempest rolled on HER the shade	J
Of her bright image floated on the river	K
Of liquid light which then did end and fade	J
Her radiant shape upon its verge did shiver	K
Aloft her flowing hair like strings of flame did quiver	K
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I stood beside her but she saw me not	L
She looked upon the sea and skies and earth	M
Rapture and love and admiration wrought	N
A passion deeper far than tears or mirth	M
Or speech or gesture or whate'er has birth	M
From common joy which with the speechless feeling	G
That led her there united and shot forth	O
From her far eyes a light of deep revealing	G
All but her dearest self from my regard concealing	G
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Her lips were parted and the measured breath	P
Was now heard there her dark and intricate eyes	Q
Orb within orb deeper than sleep or death	P
Absorbed the glories of the burning skies	Q
Which mingling with her heart's deep ecstasies	Q
Burst from her looks and gestures and a light	R
Of liquid tenderness like love did rise	Q
From her whole frame an atmosphere which quite	R
Arrayed her in its beams tremulous and soft and bright	R
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She would have clasped me to her glowing frame	S
Those warm and odorous lips might soon have shed	T
On mine the fragrance and the invisible flame	S
Which now the cold winds stole she would have laid	J
Upon my languid heart her dearest head	T
I might have heard her voice tender and sweet	U
Her eyes mingling with mine might soon have fed	T
My soul with their own joy One moment yet	V
I gazed we parted then never again to meet	U
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Never but once to meet on Earth again	W
She heard me as I fled her eager tone	B
Sunk on my heart and almost wove a chain	X
Around my will to link it with her own	B
So that my stern resolve was almost gone	Y
'I cannot reach thee whither dost thou fly	Z
My steps are faint Come back thou dearest one	A2
Return ah me return ' The wind passed by	Z
On which those accents died faint far and lingeringly	Z
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Woe Woe that moonless midnight Want and Pest	B2
Were horrible but one more fell doth rear	C2
As in a hydra's swarming lair its crest	B2
Eminent among those victims even the Fear	C2
Of Hell each girt by the hot atmosphere	C2
Of his blind agony like a scorpion stung	D2
By his own rage upon his burning bier	E2
Of circling coals of fire but still there clung	D2
One hope like a keen sword on starting threads uphung	D2
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Not death death was no more refuge or rest	B2
Not life it was despair to be not sleep	F2
For fiends and chasms of fire had dispossessed	B2
All natural dreams to wake was not to weep	F2
But to gaze mad and pallid at the leap	F2
To which the Future like a snaky scourge	G2
Or like some tyrant's eye which aye doth keep	F2
Its withering beam upon his slaves did urge	G2
Their steps they heard the roar of Hell's sulphureous surge	G2
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Each of that multitude alone and lost	H2
To sense of outward things one hope yet knew	I2
As on a foam girt crag some seaman tossed	H2
Stares at the rising tide or like the crew	I2
Whilst now the ship is splitting through and through	I2
Each if the tramp of a far steed was heard	J2
Started from sick despair or if there flew	I2
One murmur on the wind or if some word	J2
Which none can gather yet the distant crowd has stirred	J2
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Why became cheeks wan with the kiss of death	P
Paler from hope they had sustained despair	K2
Why watched those myriads with suspended breath	P
Sleepless a second night they are not here	E2
The victims and hour by hour a vision drear	E2
Warm corpses fall upon the clay cold dead	T
And even in death their lips are wreathed with fear	E2
The crowd is mute and moveless overhead	T
Silent Arcturus shines 'Ha hear'st thou not the tread	T
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'Of rushing feet laughter the shout the scream	L2
Of triumph not to be contained See hark	D2
They come they come give way ' Alas ye deem	L2
Falsely 'tis but a crowd of maniacs stark	D2
Driven like a troop of spectres through the dark	D2
From the choked well whence a bright death fire sprung	D2
A lurid earth star which dropped many a spark	D2
From its blue train and spreading widely clung	D2
To their wild hair like mist the topmost pines among	D2
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And many from the crowd collected there	E2
Joined that strange dance in fearful sympathies	Q
There was the silence of a long despair	E2
When the last echo of those terrible cries	Q
Came from a distant street like agonies	Q
Stifled afar Before the Tyrant's throne	B
All night his aged Senate sate their eyes	Q
In stony expectation fixed when one	A2
Sudden before them stood a Stranger and alone	B
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Dark Priests and haughty Warriors gazed on him	M2
With baffled wonder for a hermit's vest	B2
Concealed his face but when he spake his tone	B
Ere yet the matter did their thoughts arrest	B2
Earnest benignant calm as from a breast	B2
Void of all hate or terror made them start	N2
For as with gentle accents he addressed	B2
His speech to them on each unwilling heart	N2
Unusual awe did fall a spirit quelling dart	N2
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'Ye Princes of the Earth ye sit aghast	O2
Amid the ruin which yourselves have made	J
Yes Desolation heard your trumpet's blast	O2
And sprang from sleep dark Terror has obeyed	J
Your bidding O that I whom ye have made	J
Your foe could set my dearest enemy free	E2
From pain and fear but evil casts a shade	J
Which cannot pass so soon and Hate must be	E2
The nurse and parent still of an ill progeny	E2
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'Ye turn to Heaven for aid in your distress	Q
Alas that ye the mighty and the wise	Q
Who if ye dared might not aspire to less	Q
Than ye conceive of power should fear the lies	Q
Which thou and thou didst frame for mysteries	Q
To blind your slaves consider your own thought	N
An empty and a cruel sacrifice	Q
Ye now prepare for a vain idol wrought	N
Out of the fears and hate which vain desires have brought	N
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'Ye seek for happiness alas the day	P2
Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold	Q2
Nor in the fame nor in the envied sway	P2
For which O willing slaves to Custom old	Q2
Severe taskmistress ye your hearts have sold	Q2
Ye seek for peace and when ye die to dream	L2
No evil dreams all mortal things are cold	Q2
And senseless then if aught survive I deem	L2
It must be love and joy for they immortal seem	L2
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'Fear not the future weep not for the past	O2
Oh could I win your ears to dare be now	R2
Glorious and great and calm that ye would cast	O2
Into the dust those symbols of your woe	S2
Purple and gold and steel that ye would go	S2
Proclaiming to the nations whence ye came	S
That Want and Plague and Fear from slavery flow	S2
And that mankind is free and that the shame	S
Of royalty and faith is lost in freedom's fame	S
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'If thus 'tis well if not I come to say	P2
That Laon ' while the Stranger spoke among	D2
The Council sudden tumult and affray	E2
Arose for many of those warriors young	D2
Had on his eloquent accents fed and hung	D2
Like bees on mountain flowers they knew the truth	T2
And from their thrones in vindication sprung	D2
The men of faith and law then without ruth	T2
Drew forth their secret steel and stabbed each ardent youth	T2
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They stabbed them in the back and sneered a slave	U2
Who stood behind the throne those corpses drew	E2
Each to its bloody dark and secret grave	U2
And one more daring raised his steel anew	E2
To pierce the Stranger 'What hast thou to do	E2
With me poor wretch ' Calm solemn and severe	E2
That voice unstrung his sinews and he threw	E2
His dagger on the ground and pale with fear	E2
Sate silently his voice then did the Stranger rear	E2
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'It doth avail not that I weep for ye	E2
Ye cannot change since ye are old and gray	E2
And ye have chosen your lot your fame must be	E2
A book of blood whence in a milder day	E2
Men shall learn truth when ye are wrapped in clay	E2
Now ye shall triumph I am Laon's friend	V2
And him to your revenge will I betray	E2
So ye concede one easy boon Attend	V2
For now I speak of things which ye can apprehend	V2
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'There is a People mighty in its youth	T2
A land beyond the Oceans of the West	B2
Where though with rudest rites Freedom and Truth	T2
Are worshipped from a glorious Mother's breast	B2
Who since high Athens fell among the rest	B2
Sate like the Queen of Nations but in woe	S2
By inbred monsters outraged and oppressed	B2
Turns to her chainless child for succour now	R2
It draws the milk of Power in Wisdom's fullest flow	S2
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'That land is like an Eagle whose young gaze	Q
Feeds on the noontide beam whose golden plume	W2
Floats moveless on the storm and in the blaze	Q
Of sunrise gleams when Earth is wrapped in gloom	W2
An epitaph of glory for the tomb	W2
Of murdered Europe may thy fame be made	J
Great People as the sands shalt thou become	X2
Thy growth is swift as morn when night must fade	J
The multitudinous Earth shall sleep beneath thy shade	J
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'Yes in the desert there is built a home	Y2
For Freedom Genius is made strong to rear	E2
The monuments of man beneath the dome	Y2
Of a new Heaven myriads assemble there	E2
Whom the proud lords of man in rage or fear	E2
Drive from their wasted homes the boon I pray	E2
Is this that Cythna shall be convoyed there	E2
Nay start not at the name America	D2
And then to you this night Laon will I betray	E2
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'With me do what ye will I am your foe '	-
The light of such a joy as makes the stare	E2
Of hungry snakes like living emeralds glow	S2
Shone in a hundred human eyes 'Where where	E2
Is Laon Haste fly drag him swiftly here	E2
We grant thy boon ' 'I put no trust in ye	E2
Swear by the Power ye dread ' 'We swear we swear '	-
The Stranger threw his vest back suddenly	E2
And smiled in gentle pride and said 'Lo I am he '	-