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I	A
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Right upward on the road of fame	B
With sounding steps the poet came	B
Born and nourished in miracles	C
His feet were shod with golden bells	D
Or where he stepped the soil did peal	E
As if the dust were glass and steel	E
The gallant child where'er he came	B
Threw to each fact a tuneful name	B
The things whereon he cast his eyes	F
Could not the nations rebaptize	F
Nor Time's snows hide the names he set	G
Nor last posterity forget	G
Yet every scroll whereon he wrote	H
In latent fire his secret thought	I
Fell unregarded to the ground	J
Unseen by such as stood around	J
The pious wind took it away	K
The reverent darkness hid the lay	K
Methought like water haunting birds	F
Divers or dippers were his words	F
And idle clowns beside the mere	L
At the new vision gape and jeer	L
But when the noisy scorn was past	M
Emerge the wing d words in haste	N
New bathed new trimmed on healthy wing	O
Right to the heaven they steer and sing	O
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A Brother of the world his song	P
Sounded like a tempest strong	P
Which tore from oaks their branches broad	Q
And stars from the ecliptic road	R
Times wore he as his clothing weeds	F
He sowed the sun and moon for seeds	F
As melts the iceberg in the seas	F
As clouds give rain to the eastern breeze	F
As snow banks thaw in April's beam	S
The solid kingdoms like a dream	S
Resist in vain his motive strain	T
They totter now and float amain	T
For the Muse gave special charge	U
His learning should be deep and large	U
And his training should not scant	V
The deepest lore of wealth or want	W
His flesh should feel his eyes should read	X
Every maxim of dreadful Need	Y
In its fulness he should taste	N
Life's honeycomb but not too fast	M
Full fed but not intoxicated	Z
He should be loved he should be hated	Z
A blooming child to children dear	L
His heart should palpitate with fear	L
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And well he loved to quit his home	A2
And Calmuck in his wagon roam	A2
To read new landscapes and old skies	F
But oh to see his solar eyes	F
Like meteors which chose their way	K
And rived the dark like a new day	K
Not lazy grazing on all they saw	F
Each chimney pot and cottage door	B2
Farm gear and village picket fence	F
But feeding on magnificence	F
They bounded to the horizon's edge	C2
And searched with the sun's privilege	D2
Landward they reached the mountains old	E2
Where pastoral tribes their flocks infold	E2
Saw rivers run seaward by cities high	A
And the seas wash the low hung sky	A
Saw the endless rack of the firmament	E2
And the sailing moon where the cloud was rent	E2
And through man and woman and sea and star	F2
Saw the dance of Nature forward and far	F2
Through worlds and races and terms and times	F
Saw musical order and pairing rhymes	F
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II	A
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The gods talk in the breath of the woods	F
They talk in the shaken pine	T
And fill the long reach of the old seashore	B2
With dialogue divine	T
And the poet who overhears	F
Some random word they say	F
Is the fated man of men	T
Whom the ages must obey	F
One who having nectar drank	G2
Into blissful orgies sank	G2
He takes no mark of night or day	F
He cannot go he cannot stay	F
He would yet would not counsel keep	H2
But like a walker in his sleep	H2
With staring eye that seeth none	T
Ridiculously up and down	T
Seeks how he may fitly tell	I2
The heart o'erlading miracle	J2
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Not yet not yet	E2
Impatient friend	E2
A little while attend	E2
Not yet I sing but I must wait	E2
My hand upon the silent string	O
Fully until the end	E2
I see the coming light	E2
I see the scattered gleams	F
Aloft beneath on left and right	E2
The stars' own ether beams	F
These are but seeds of days	F
Not yet a steadfast morn	T
An intermittent blaze	F
An embryo god unborn	T
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How all things sparkle	J2
The dust is alive	K2
To the birth they arrive	K2
I snuff the breath of my morning afar	F2
I see the pale lustres condense to a star	F2
The fading colors fix	F
The vanishing are seen	T
And the world that shall be	L2
Twins the world that has been	T
I know the appointed hour	M2
I greet my office well	I2
Never faster never slower	M2
Revolves the fatal wheel	E
The Fairest enchants me	L2
The Mighty commands me	L2
Saying 'Stand in thy place	F
Up and eastward turn thy face	F
As mountains for the morning wait	E2
Coming early coming late	E2
So thou attend the enriching Fate	E2
Which none can stay and none accelerate	E2
I am neither faint nor weary	L2
Fill thy will O faultless heart	E2
Here from youth to age I tarry	L2
Count it flight of bird or dart	E2
My heart at the heart of things	F
Heeds no longer lapse of time	N2
Rushing ages moult their wings	F
Bathing in thy day sublime	N2
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The sun set but set not his hope	O2
Stars rose his faith was earlier up	P2
Fixed on the enormous galaxy	L2
Deeper and older seemed his eye	A
And matched his sufferance sublime	N2
The taciturnity of Time	N2
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Beside his hut and shading oak	Q2
Thus to himself the poet spoke	Q2
'I have supped to night with gods	F
I will not go under a wooden roof	R2
As I walked among the hills	F
In the love which Nature fills	F
The great stars did not shine aloof	R2
They hurried down from their deep abodes	F
And hemmed me in their glittering troop	S2
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'Divine Inviters I accept	E2
The courtesy ye have shown and kept	E2
From ancient ages for the bard	E2
To modulate	E2
With finer fate	E2
A fortune harsh and hard	E2
With aim like yours	F
I watch your course	F
Who never break your lawful dance	F
By error or intemperance	F
O birds of ether without wings	F
O heavenly ships without a sail	T2
O fire of fire O best of things	F
O mariners who never fail	T2
Sail swiftly through your amber vault	E2
An animated law a presence to exalt '	-
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Ah happy if a sun or star	F2
Could chain the wheel of Fortune's car	F2
And give to hold an even state	E2
Neither dejected nor elate	E2
That haply man upraised might keep	H2
The height of Fancy's far eyed steep	H2
In vain the stars are glowing wheels	F
Giddy with motion Nature reels	F
Sun moon man undulate and stream	S
The mountains flow the solids seem	S
Change acts reacts back forward hurled	E2
And pause were palsy to the world	E2
The morn is come the starry crowds	F
Are hid behind the thrice piled clouds	F
The new day lowers and equal odds	F
Have changed not less the guest of gods	F
Discrowned and timid thoughtless worn	T
The child of genius sits forlorn	T
Between two sleeps a short day's stealth	U2
'Mid many ails a brittle health	U2
A cripple of God half true half formed	E2
And by great sparks Promethean warmed	E2
Constrained by impotence to adjourn	T
To infinite time his eager turn	T
His lot of action at the urn	T
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He by false usage pinned about	E2
No breath therein no passage out	E2
Cast wishful glances at the stars	F
And wishful saw the Ocean stream	S
'Merge me in the brute universe	F
Or lift to a diviner dream '	-
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Beside him sat enduring love	V2
Upon him noble eyes did rest	E2
Which for the Genius that there strove	W2
The follies bore that it invest	E2
They spoke not for their earnest sense	F
Outran the craft of eloquence	F
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He whom God had thus preferred	E2
To whom sweet angels ministered	E2
Saluted him each morn as brother	M2
And bragged his virtues to each other	M2
Alas how were they so beguiled	E2
And they so pure He foolish child	E2
A facile reckless wandering will	X2
Eager for good not hating ill	X2
Thanked Nature for each stroke she dealt	E2
On his tense chords all strokes were felt	E2
The good the bad with equal zeal	E
He asked he only asked to feel	E
Timid self pleasing sensitive	Y2
With Gods with fools content to live	K2
Bended to fops who bent to him	Z2
Surface with surfaces did swim	Z2
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'Sorrow sorrow ' the angels cried	E2
'Is this dear Nature's manly pride	E2
Call hither thy mortal enemy	L2
Make him glad thy fall to see	L2
Yon waterflag yon sighing osier	M2
A drop can shake a breath can fan	T
Maidens laugh and weep Composure	M2
Is the pudency of man '	-
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Again by night the poet went	E2
From the lighted halls	F
Beneath the darkling firmament	E2
To the seashore to the old seawalls	F
Out shone a star beneath the cloud	E2
The constellation glittered soon	T
You have no lapse so have ye glowed	E2
But once in your dominion	T
And yet dear stars I know ye shine	T
Only by needs and loves of mine	T
Light loving light asking life in me	L2
Feeds those eternal lamps I see	L2
And I to whom your light has spoken	T
I pining to be one of you	A3
I fall my faith is broken	T
Ye scorn me from your deeps of blue	A3
Or if perchance ye orbs of Fate	E2
Your ne'er averted glance	F
Beams with a will compassionate	E2
On sons of time and chance	F
Then clothe these hands with power	M2
In just proportion	T
Nor plant immense designs	F
Where equal means are none '	-
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CHORUS OF SPIRITS	F
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Means dear brother ask them not	E2
Soul's desire is means enow	T
Pure content is angel's lot	E2
Thine own theatre art thou	B3
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Gentler far than falls the snow	T
In the woodwalks still and low	T
Fell the lesson on his heart	E2
And woke the fear lest angels part	E2
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POET	E2
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I see your forms with deep content	E2
I know that ye are excellent	E2
But will ye stay	E2
I hear the rustle of wings	F
Ye meditate what to say	E2
Ere ye go to quit me for ever and aye	A
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SPIRITS	F
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Brother we are no phantom band	E2
Brother accept this fatal hand	E2
Aches thine unbelieving heart	E2
With the fear that we must part	E2
See all we are rooted here	M2
By one thought to one same sphere	M2
From thyself thou canst not flee	L2
From thyself no more can we	L2
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POET	E2
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Suns and stars their courses keep	H2
But not angels of the deep	H2
Day and night their turn observe	C3
But the day of day may swerve	C3
Is there warrant that the waves	F
Of thought in their mysterious caves	F
Will heap in me their highest tide	E2
In me therewith beatified	E2
Unsure the ebb and flood of thought	E2
The moon comes back the Spirit not	E2
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SPIRITS	F
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Brother sweeter is the Law	F
Than all the grace Love ever saw	F
We are its suppliants By it we	L2
Draw the breath of Eternity	L2
Serve thou it not for daily bread	E2
Serve it for pain and fear and need	E2
Love it though it hide its light	E2
By love behold the sun at night	E2
If the Law should thee forget	E2
More enamoured serve it yet	E2
Though it hate thee suffer long	P
Put the Spirit in the wrong	P
Brother no decrepitude	E2
Chills the limbs of Time	N2
As fleet his feet his hands as good	E2
His vision as sublime	N2
On Nature's wheels there is no rust	E2
Nor less on man's enchanted dust	E2
Beauty and Force alight	E2