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'I sate beside the Steersman then and gazing	B
Upon the west cried Spread the sails Behold	C
The sinking moon is like a watch tower blazing	B
Over the mountains yet the City of Gold	C
Yon Cape alone does from the sight withhold	C
The stream is fleet the north breathes steadily	D
Beneath the stars they tremble with the cold	C
Ye cannot rest upon the dreary sea	D
Haste haste to the warm home of happier destiny	D
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'The Mariners obeyed the Captain stood	E
Aloof and whispering to the Pilot said	F
Alas alas I fear we are pursued	G
By wicked ghosts a Phantom of the Dead	F
The night before we sailed came to my bed	F
In dream like that The Pilot then replied	H
It cannot be she is a human Maid	I
Her low voice makes you weep she is some bride	H
Or daughter of high birth she can be nought beside	H
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'We passed the islets borne by wind and stream	J
And as we sailed the Mariners came near	K
And thronged around to listen in the gleam	J
Of the pale moon I stood as one whom fear	K
May not attaint and my calm voice did rear	K
Ye are all human yon broad moon gives light	L
To millions who the selfsame likeness wear	M
Even while I speak beneath this very night	L
Their thoughts flow on like ours in sadness or delight	L
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' What dream ye Your own hands have built an home	N
Even for yourselves on a beloved shore	O
For some fond eyes are pining till they come	P
How they will greet him when his toils are o'er	Q
And laughing babes rush from the well known door	O
Is this your care ye toil for your own good	E
Ye feel and think has some immortal power	Q
Such purposes or in a human mood	G
Dream ye some Power thus builds for man in solitude	G
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' What is that Power Ye mock yourselves and give	R
A human heart to what ye cannot know	S
As if the cause of life could think and live	T
'Twere as if man's own works should feel and show	S
The hopes and fears and thoughts from which they flow	S
And he be like to them Lo Plague is free	D
To waste Blight Poison Earthquake Hail and Snow	S
Disease and Want and worse Necessity	D
Of hate and ill and Pride and Fear and Tyranny	D
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' What is that Power Some moon struck sophist stood	E
Watching the shade from his own soul upthrown	D
Fill Heaven and darken Earth and in such mood	G
The Form he saw and worshipped was his own	D
His likeness in the world's vast mirror shown	D
And 'twere an innocent dream but that a faith	U
Nursed by fear's dew of poison grows thereon	D
And that men say that Power has chosen Death	V
On all who scorn its laws to wreak immortal wrath	W
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' Men say that they themselves have heard and seen	D
Or known from others who have known such things	X
A Shade a Form which Earth and Heaven between	D
Wields an invisible rod that Priests and Kings	X
Custom domestic sway ay all that brings	X
Man's freeborn soul beneath the oppressor's heel	Y
Are his strong ministers and that the stings	X
Of death will make the wise his vengeance feel	Y
Though truth and virtue arm their hearts with tenfold steel	Y
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' And it is said this Power will punish wrong	Z
Yes add despair to crime and pain to pain	D
And deepest hell and deathless snakes among	A2
Will bind the wretch on whom is fixed a stain	D
Which like a plague a burden and a bane	D
Clung to him while he lived for love and hate	B2
Virtue and vice they say are difference vain	D
The will of strength is right this human state	B2
Tyrants that they may rule with lies thus desolate	C2
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' Alas what strength Opinion is more frail	D2
Than yon dim cloud now fading on the moon	D
Even while we gaze though it awhile avail	D2
To hide the orb of truth and every throne	D
Of Earth or Heaven though shadow rests thereon	D
One shape of many names for this ye plough	E2
The barren waves of ocean hence each one	D
Is slave or tyrant all betray and bow	E2
Command or kill or fear or wreak or suffer woe	S
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' Its names are each a sign which maketh holy	D
All power ay the ghost the dream the shade	I
Of power lust falsehood hate and pride and folly	D
The pattern whence all fraud and wrong is made	I
A law to which mankind has been betrayed	I
And human love is as the name well known	D
Of a dear mother whom the murderer laid	I
In bloody grave and into darkness thrown	D
Gathered her wildered babes around him as his own	D
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' O Love who to the hearts of wandering men	D
Art as the calm to Ocean's weary waves	F2
Justice or Truth or Joy those only can	D
From slavery and religion's labyrinth caves	F2
Guide us as one clear star the seaman saves	F2
To give to all an equal share of good	E
To track the steps of Freedom though through graves	F2
She pass to suffer all in patient mood	G
To weep for crime though stained with thy friend's dearest blood	G2
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' To feel the peace of self contentment's lot	H2
To own all sympathies and outrage none	D
And in the inmost bowers of sense and thought	I2
Until life's sunny day is quite gone down	D
To sit and smile with Joy or not alone	D
To kiss salt tears from the worn cheek of Woe	S
To live as if to love and live were one	D
This is not faith or law nor those who bow	E2
To thrones on Heaven or Earth such destiny may know	S
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' But children near their parents tremble now	E2
Because they must obey one rules another	Q
And as one Power rules both high and low	S
So man is made the captive of his brother	Q
And Hate is throned on high with Fear her mother	Q
Above the Highest and those fountain cells	J2
Whence love yet flowed when faith had choked all other	Q
Are darkened Woman as the bond slave dwells	J2
Of man a slave and life is poisoned in its wells	J2
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' Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave	K2
A lasting chain for his own slavery	D
In fear and restless care that he may live	T
He toils for others who must ever be	D
The joyless thralls of like captivity	D
He murders for his chiefs delight in ruin	D
He builds the altar that its idol's fee	D
May be his very blood he is pursuing	B
O blind and willing wretch his own obscure undoing	B
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' Woman she is his slave she has become	P
A thing I weep to speak the child of scorn	D
The outcast of a desolated home	N
Falsehood and fear and toil like waves have worn	D
Channels upon her cheek which smiles adorn	D
As calm decks the false Ocean well ye know	S
What Woman is for none of Woman born	D
Can choose but drain the bitter dregs of woe	S
Which ever from the oppressed to the oppressors flow	S
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' This need not be ye might arise and will	L2
That gold should lose its power and thrones their glory	D
That love which none may bind be free to fill	L2
The world like light and evil faith grown hoary	D
With crime be quenched and die Yon promontory	D
Even now eclipses the descending moon	D
Dungeons and palaces are transitory	D
High temples fade like vapour Man alone	D
Remains whose will has power when all beside is gone	D
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' Let all be free and equal From your hearts	M2
I feel an echo through my inmost frame	N2
Like sweetest sound seeking its mate it darts	M2
Whence come ye friends Alas I cannot name	N2
All that I read of sorrow toil and shame	N2
On your worn faces as in legends old	C
Which make immortal the disastrous fame	N2
Of conquerors and impostors false and bold	C
The discord of your hearts I in your looks behold	C
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' Whence come ye friends from pouring human blood	G2
Forth on the earth Or bring ye steel and gold	C
That Kings may dupe and slay the multitude	G
Or from the famished poor pale weak and cold	C
Bear ye the earnings of their toil Unfold	C
Speak Are your hands in slaughter's sanguine hue	O2
Stained freshly have your hearts in guile grown old	C
Know yourselves thus ye shall be pure as dew	O2
And I will be a friend and sister unto you	O2
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' Disguise it not we have one human heart	P2
All mortal thoughts confess a common home	N
Blush not for what may to thyself impart	P2
Stains of inevitable crime the doom	Q2
Is this which has or may or must become	P
Thine and all humankind's Ye are the spoil	R2
Which Time thus marks for the devouring tomb	Q2
Thou and thy thoughts and they and all the toil	R2
Wherewith ye twine the rings of life's perpetual coil	R2
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' Disguise it not ye blush for what ye hate	B2
And Enmity is sister unto Shame	N2
Look on your mind it is the book of fate	B2
Ah it is dark with many a blazoned name	N2
Of misery all are mirrors of the same	N2
But the dark fiend who with his iron pen	D
Dipped in scorn's fiery poison makes his fame	N2
Enduring there would o'er the heads of men	D
Pass harmless if they scorned to make their hearts his den	D
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' Yes it is Hate that shapeless fiendly thing	B
Of many names all evil some divine	D
Whom self contempt arms with a mortal sting	B
Which when the heart its snaky folds entwine	D
Is wasted quite and when it doth repine	D
To gorge such bitter prey on all beside	H
It turns with ninefold rage as with its twine	D
When Amphisbaena some fair bird has tied	H
Soon o'er the putrid mass he threats on every side	H
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' Reproach not thine own soul but know thyself	D
Nor hate another's crime nor loathe thine own	D
It is the dark idolatry of self	D
Which when our thoughts and actions once are gone	D
Demands that man should weep and bleed and groan	D
Oh vacant expiation Be at rest	S2
The past is Death's the future is thine own	D
And love and joy can make the foulest breast	S2
A paradise of flowers where peace might build her nest	S2
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' Speak thou whence come ye A Youth made reply	T2
Wearily wearily o'er the boundless deep	U2
We sail thou readest well the misery	D
Told in these faded eyes but much doth sleep	U2
Within which there the poor heart loves to keep	U2
Or dare not write on the dishonoured brow	D
Even from our childhood have we learned to steep	U2
The bread of slavery in the tears of woe	S
And never dreamed of hope or refuge until now	D
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' Yes I must speak my secret should have perished	V2
Even with the heart it wasted as a brand	W2
Fades in the dying flame whose life it cherished	V2
But that no human bosom can withstand	W2
Thee wondrous Lady and the mild command	W2
Of thy keen eyes yes we are wretched slaves	F2
Who from their wonted loves and native land	W2
Are reft and bear o'er the dividing waves	F2
The unregarded prey of calm and happy graves	F2
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' We drag afar from pastoral vales the fairest	X2
Among the daughters of those mountains lone	D
We drag them there where all things best and rarest	Y2
Are stained and trampled years have come and gone	D
Since like the ship which bears me I have known	D
No thought but now the eyes of one dear Maid	I
On mine with light of mutual love have shone	D
She is my life I am but as the shade	I
Of her a smoke sent up from ashes soon to fade	I
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' For she must perish in the Tyrant's hall	Z2
Alas alas He ceased and by the sail	D2
Sate cowering but his sobs were heard by all	Z2
And still before the ocean and the gale	D2
The ship fled fast till the stars 'gan to fail	D2
And round me gathered with mute countenance	A3
The Seamen gazed the Pilot worn and pale	D2
With toil the Captain with gray locks whose glance	B3
Met mine in restless awe they stood as in a trance	B3
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' Recede not pause not now Thou art grown old	C
But Hope will make thee young for Hope and Youth	C3
Are children of one mother even Love behold	C
The eternal stars gaze on us is the truth	C3
Within your soul care for your own or ruth	C3
For others' sufferings do ye thirst to bear	D
A heart which not the serpent Custom's tooth	C3
May violate Be free and even here	D
Swear to be firm till death They cried We swear We swear	D
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'The very darkness shook as with a blast	D3
Of subterranean thunder at the cry	T2
The hollow shore its thousand echoes cast	D3
Into the night as if the sea and sky	T2
And earth rejoiced with new born liberty	D
For in that name they swore Bolts were undrawn	D
And on the deck with unaccustomed eye	T2
The captives gazing stood and every one	D
Shrank as the inconstant torch upon her countenance shone	D
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'They were earth's purest children young and fair	D
With eyes the shrines of unawakened thought	I2
And brows as bright as Spring or Morning ere	D
Dark time had there its evil legend wrought	I2
In characters of cloud which wither not	H2
The change was like a dream to them but soon	D
They knew the glory of their altered lot	H2
In the bright wisdom of youth's breathless noon	D
Sweet talk and smiles and sighs all bosoms did attune	D
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'But one was mute her cheeks and lips most fair	D
Changing their hue like lilies newly blown	D
Beneath a bright acacia's shadowy hair	D
Waved by the wind amid the sunny noon	D
Showed that her soul was quivering and full soon	D
That Youth arose and breathlessly did look	E3
On her and me as for some speechless boon	D
I smiled and both their hands in mine I took	E3
And felt a soft delight from what their spirits shook	E3