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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
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I heard no more 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
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It seemed so still the valleys were	J
As if the whole world knelt in 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 a 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
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The babble wren and the 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 noes	X
Her million times ten million throats	Y
Exalt Him loud and long	W
And lips and lungs and tongues of Grace	Z
From every part and every place	Z
Within the shining of His face	Z
The universal throng	W
	-
I heard the hymn of being sound	D
From every well of honour found	D
In human sense and soul	A2
The song of poets when they write	E
The testament of Beautysprite	E
Upon a flying scroll	A2
The song of painters when they take	B2
A burning brush for Beauty's sake	B2
And limn her features whole	A2
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The song of men divinely wise	C2
Who look and see in starry skies	C2
Not stars so much as robins' eyes	C2
And when these pale away	F
Her 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	D2
To some blest vision true	E2
The song of beggars when they throw	D2
The crust of pity all men owe	D2
To hungry sparrows in the snow	D2
Old beggars hungry too	E2
The song of kings of kingdoms when	Q
They rise above their fortune men	Q
And crown themselves anew	E2
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The song of courage heart and will	F2
And gladness in a fight	E
Of men who face a hopeless hill	F2
With sparking and delight	E
The bells and bells of song that ring	G2
Round banners of a cause or king	G2
From armies bleeding white	E
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The song of sailors every one	I
When monstrous tide and tempest run	I
At ships like bulls at red	E
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	E
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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
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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 quarelling kings	L2
The song of fighters great and small	M2
The song of pretty fighters all	M2
And high heroic things	L2
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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
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And crying loves and passions still	F2
In every key from soft to shrill	F2
And numbers never done	I
Dog loyalties to faith and friend	E
And loves like Ruth's of old no end	E
And intermission none	I
	-
And burst on burst for beauty and	E
For numbers not behind	E
From men whose love of motherland	E
Is like a dog's for one dear hand	E
Sole selfless boundless blind	E
And song of some with hearts beside	E
For men and sorrows far and wide	E
Who watch the world with pity and pride	E
And warm to all mankind	E
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And endless joyous music rise	C2
From children at their play	F
And endless soaring lullabies	C2
From happy happy mothers' eyes	C2
And answering crows and baby cries	C2
How many who shall say	F
And many a song as wondrous well	G
With pangs and sweets intolerable	P2
From lonely hearths too gray to tell	G
God knows how utter gray	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
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And song the song whose singers come	Q2
With old kind tales of pity from	Q2
The Great Compassion's lips	R2
That makes the bells of Heaven to peal	S2
Round pillows frosty with the feel	S2
Of Death's cold finger tips	R2
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The song of men all sorts and kinds	T2
As many tempers moods and minds	T2
As leaves are on a tree	U
As many faiths and castes and creeds	U2
As many human bloods and breeds	U2
As in the world may be	U
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The song of each and all who gaze	V2
On Beauty in her naked blaze	V2
Or see her dimly in a haze	V2
Or get her light in fitful rays	V2
And tiniest needles even	W2
The song of all not wholly dark	X2
Not wholly sunk in stupor stark	X2
Too deep for groping Heaven	I
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The 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	E
Of wind and sea and bird and brute	E
And lips deaf men imagine mute	E
In wood and stone and clay	F
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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	Y2
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	X
From every leopard lark and rose	X
And everything that gleams or goes	X
Lack lustre in the sea	U
	-
I heard it all each every note	E
Of every lung and tongue and throat	E
Ay every rhythm and rhyme	O2
Of everything that lives and loves	Z2
And upward ever upward moves	A3
Form 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	A2
Harmonious hymn of being roll	A2
Up through the chapel of my soul	A2
And at the altar die	E
And in the awful quiet then	Q
Myself I heard Amen Amen	Q
Amen I heard me cry	E
I heard it all and then although	D2
I caught my flying sense oh	D2
A dizzy man was I	E
I stood and stared the sky was lit	E
The sky was stars all over it	E
I stood I knew not why	E
Without a wish without a will	F2
I stood upon that silent hill	F2
And stared into the sky until	F2
My eyes were blind with stars and still	F2
I stared into the sky	E