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I climbed a hill as light fell short	A
And rooks came home in scramble sort	A
And filled the trees and flapped and fought	B
And sang themselves to sleep	C
An owl from nowhere with no sound	D
Swung by and soon was nowhere found	D
I heard him calling half way round	D
Holloing loud and deep	C
A pair of stars faint pins of light	E
Then many a star sailed into sight	E
And all the stars the flower of night	E
Were round me at a leap	C
To tell how still the valleys lay	F
I heard a watchdog miles away	F
And bells of distant sheep	C
I heard no sound of bird or bell	G
The mastiff in a slumber fell	G
I stared into the sky	H
As wondering men have always done	I
Since beauty and the stars were one	I
Though none so hard as I	H
It seemed so still the valleys were	J
As if the whole world knelt at prayer	K
Save me and me alone	L
So pure and wide that silence was	M
I feared to bend a blade of grass	N
And there I stood like stone	L
There sharp and sudden there I heard	O
Ah some wild lovesick singing bird	O
Woke singing in the trees	P
The nightingale and babble wren	Q
Were in the English greenwood then	Q
And you heard one of these	P
The babble wren and nightingale	R
Sang in the Abyssinian vale	R
That season of the year	S
Yet true enough I heard them plain	T
I heard them both again again	Q
As sharp and sweet and clear	S
As if the Abyssinian tree	U
Had thrust a bough across the sea	U
Had thrust a bough across to me	U
With music for my ear	V
I heard them both and oh I heard	O
The song of every singing bird	O
That sings beneath the sky	H
And with the song of lark and wren	Q
The song of mountains moths and men	Q
And seas and rainbows vie	H
I heard the universal choir	J
The Sons of Light exalt their Sire	J
With universal song	W
Earth's lowliest and loudest notes	X
Her million times ten million throats	X
Exalt Him loud and long	W
And lips and lungs and tongues of Grace	Y
From every part and every place	Y
Within the shining of His face	Y
The universal throng	W
I heard the hymn of being sound	D
From every well of honour found	D
In human sense and soul	Z
The song of poets when they write	E
The testament of Beauty sprite	E
Upon a flying scroll	Z
The song of painters when they take	A2
A burning brush for Beauty's sake	A2
And limn her features whole	Z
The song of men divinely wise	B2
Who look and see in starry skies	B2
Not stars so much as robins' eyes	B2
And when these pale away	F
Hear flocks of shiny pleiades	P
Among the plums and apple trees	P
Sing in the summer day	F
The song of all both high and low	C2
To some blest vision true	D2
The song of beggars when they throw	C2
The crust of pity all men owe	C2
To hungry sparrows in the snow	C2
Old beggars hungry too	D2
The song of kings of kingdoms when	Q
They rise about their fortune Men	Q
And crown themselves anew	D2
The song of courage heart and will	E2
And gladness in a fight	E
Of men who face a hopeless hill	E2
With sparking and delight	E
The bells and bells of song that ring	F2
Round banners of a cause or king	F2
From armies bleeding white	E
The song of sailors every one	I
When monstrous tide and tempest run	I
At ships like bulls at red	G2
When stately ships are twirled and spun	I
Like whipping tops and help there's none	I
And mighty ships ten thousand ton	I
Go down like lumps of lead	G2
And song of fighters stern as they	F
At odds with fortune night and day	F
Crammed up in cities grim and grey	F
As thick as bees in hives	H2
Hosannas of a lowly throng	W
Who sing unconscious of their song	W
Whose lips are in their lives	I2
And song of some at holy war	J2
With spells and ghouls more dread by far	K2
Than deadly seas and cities are	K2
Or hordes of quarrelling kings	L2
The song of fighters great and small	M2
The song of pretty fighters all	M2
And high heroic things	L2
The song of lovers who knows how	N2
Twitched up from place and time	O2
Upon a sigh a blush a vow	N2
A curve or hue of cheek or brow	N2
Borne up and off from here and now	N2
Into the void sublime	O2
And crying loves and passions still	E2
In every key from soft to shrill	E2
And numbers never done	I
Dog loyalties to faith and friend	P2
And loves like Ruth's of old no end	P2
And intermission none	I
And burst on burst for beauty and	Q2
For numbers not behind	R2
From men whose love of motherland	S2
Is like a dog's for one dear hand	S2
Sole selfless boundless blind	R2
And song of some with hearts beside	T2
For men and sorrows far and wide	T2
Who watch the world with pity and pride	T2
And warm to all mankind	R2
And endless joyous music rise	B2
From children at their play	F
And endless soaring lullabies	B2
From happy happy mothers' eyes	B2
And answering crows and baby cries	B2
How many who shall say	F
And many a song as wondrous well	G
With pangs and sweets intolerable	U2
From lonely hearths too grey to tell	G
God knows how utter grey	F
And song from many a house of care	K
When pain has forced a footing there	K
And there's a Darkness on the stair	K
Will not be turned away	F
And song that song whose singers come	V2
With old kind tales of pity from	V2
The Great Compassion's lips	W2
That makes the bells of Heaven to peal	X2
Round pillows frosty with the feel	X2
Of Death's cold finger tips	W2
The song of men all sorts and kinds	Y2
As many tempers moods and minds	Y2
As leaves are on a tree	U
As many faiths and castes and creeds	Z2
As many human bloods and breeds	Z2
As in the world may be	U
The song of each and all who gaze	A3
On Beauty in her naked blaze	A3
Or see her dimly in a haze	A3
Or get her light in fitful rays	A3
And tiniest needles even	B3
The song of all not wholly dark	C3
Not wholly sink in stupor stark	C3
Too deep for groping Heaven	I
And alleluias sweet and clear	S
And wild with beauty men mishear	V
From choirs of song as near and dear	S
To Paradise as they	F
The everlasting pipe and flute	D3
Of wind and sea and bird and brute	D3
And lips deaf men imagine mute	D3
In woods and stone and clay	F
The music of a lion strong	W
That shakes a hill a whole night long	W
A hill as loud as he	U
The twitter of a mouse among	E3
Melodious greenery	U
The ruby's and the rainbow's song	W
The nightingale's all three	U
The song of life that wells and flows	F3
From every leopard lark and rose	F3
And everything that gleams or goes	F3
Lack lustre in the sea	U
I heard it all each every note	G3
Of every lung and tongue and throat	G3
Ay every rhythm and rhyme	O2
Of everything that lives and loves	H3
And upward ever upward moves	I3
From lowly to sublime	O2
Earth's multitudinous Sons of Light	E
I heard them lift their lyric might	E
With each and every chanting sprite	E
That lit the sky that wondrous night	E
As far as eye could climb	O2
I heard it all I heard the whole	Z
Harmonious hymn of being roll	Z
Up through the chapel of my soul	Z
And at the altar die	H
And in the awful quiet then	Q
Myself I heard Amen Amen	Q
Amen I heard me cry	H
I heard it all and then although	C2
I caught my flying senses Oh	C2
A dizzy man was I	H
I stood and stared the sky was lit	J3
The sky was stars all over it	J3
I stood I knew not why	H
Without a wish without a will	E2
I stood upon that silent hill	E2
And stared into the sky until	E2
My eyes were blind with stars and still	E2
I stared into the sky	H