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The south wind brings	A
Life sunshine and desire	B
And on every mount and meadow	C
Breathes aromatic fire	B
But over the dead he has no power	B
The lost the lost he cannot restore	D
And looking over the hills I mourn	E
The darling who shall not return	F
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I see my empty house	G
I see my trees repair their boughs	H
And he the wondrous child	I
Whose silver warble wild	I
Outvalued every pulsing sound	J
Within the air's cerulean round	J
The hyacinthine boy for whom	K
Morn well might break and April bloom	K
The gracious boy who did adorn	E
The world whereinto he was born	E
And by his countenance repay	L
The favor of the loving Day	L
Has disappeared from the Day's eye	M
Far and wide she cannot find him	N
My hopes pursue they cannot bind him	N
Returned this day the south wind searches	O
And finds young pines and budding birches	O
But finds not the budding man	P
Nature who lost him cannot remake him	N
Fate let him fall Fate can't retake him	N
Nature Fate men him seek in vain	Q
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And whither now my truant wise and sweet	R
Oh whither tend thy feet	R
I had the right few days ago	C
Thy steps to watch thy place to know	C
How have I forfeited the right	S
Hast thou forgot me in a new delight	S
I hearken for thy household cheer	T
O eloquent child	I
Whose voice an equal messenger	B
Conveyed thy meaning mild	I
What though the pains and joys	O
Whereof it spoke were toys	O
Fitting his age and ken	U
Yet fairest dames and bearded men	U
Who heard the sweet request	V
So gentle wise and grave	W
Bended with joy to his behest	V
And let the world's affairs go by	M
Awhile to share his cordial game	X
Or mend his wicker wagon frame	X
Still plotting how their hungry ear	Y
That winsome voice again might hear	Y
For his lips could well pronounce	O
Words that were persuasions	O
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Gentlest guardians marked serene	Z
His early hope his liberal mien	Z
Took counsel from his guiding eyes	O
To make this wisdom earthly wise	O
Ah vainly do these eyes recall	A2
The school march each day's festival	B2
When every morn my bosom glowed	C2
To watch the convoy on the road	C2
The babe in willow wagon closed	D2
With rolling eyes and face composed	D2
With children forward and behind	E2
Like Cupids studiously inclined	E2
And he the Chieftain paced beside	F2
The centre of the troop allied	F2
With sunny face of sweet repose	O
To guard the babe from fancied foes	O
The little Captain innocent	G2
Took the eye with him as he went	H2
Each village senior paused to scan	P
And speak the lovely caravan	P
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From the window I look out	I2
To mark thy beautiful parade	J2
Stately marching in cap and coat	K2
To some tune by fairies played	J2
A music heard by thee alone	L2
To works as noble led thee on	M2
Now love and pride alas in vain	Q
Up and down their glances strain	Q
The painted sled stands where it stood	N2
The kennel by the corded wood	N2
The gathered sticks to stanch the wall	A2
Of the snow tower when snow should fall	A2
The ominous hole he dug in the sand	O2
And childhood's castles built or planned	O2
His daily haunts I well discern	F
The poultry yard the shed the barn	P2
And every inch of garden ground	J
Paced by the blessed feet around	J
From the road side to the brook	Q2
Whereinto he loved to look	Q2
Step the meek birds where erst they ranged	R2
The wintry garden lies unchanged	R2
The brook into the stream runs on	M2
But the deep eyed Boy is gone	S2
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On that shaded day	L
Dark with more clouds than tempests are	T2
When thou didst yield thy innocent breath	U2
In bird like heavings unto death	U2
Night came and Nature had not thee	V2
I said we are mates in misery	V2
The morrow dawned with needless glow	C
Each snow bird chirped each fowl must crow	C
Each tramper started but the feet	R
Of the most beautiful and sweet	R
Of human youth had left the hill	W2
And garden they were bound and still	W2
There's not a sparrow or a wren	U
There's not a blade of autumn grain	Q
Which the four seasons do not tend	X2
And tides of life and increase lend	X2
And every chick of every bird	Y2
And weed and rock moss is preferred	Y2
O ostriches' forgetfulness	O
O loss of larger in the less	O
Was there no star that could be sent	H2
No watcher in the firmament	H2
No angel from the countless host	H2
That loiters round the crystal coast	H2
Could stoop to heal that only child	H2
Nature's sweet marvel undefiled	H2
And keep the blossom of the earth	Z2
Which all her harvests were not worth	Z2
Not mine I never called thee mine	A3
But nature's heir if I repine	A3
And seeing rashly torn and moved	H2
Not what I made but what I loved	H2
Grow early old with grief that then	A3
Must to the wastes of nature go	C
'Tis because a general hope	B3
Was quenched and all must doubt and grope	B3
For flattering planets seemed to say	O
This child should ills of ages stay	O
By wondrous tongue and guided pen	A3
Bring the flown muses back to men	A3
Perchance not he but nature ailed	O
The world and not the infant failed	O
It was not ripe yet to sustain	A3
A genius of so fine a strain	A3
Who gazed upon the sun and moon	A3
As if he came unto his own	A3
And pregnant with his grander thought	O
Brought the old order into doubt	O
Awhile his beauty their beauty tried	O
They could not feed him and he died	O
And wandered backward as in scorn	A3
To wait an on to be born	A3
Ill day which made this beauty waste	O
Plight broken this high face defaced	O
Some went and came about the dead	O
And some in books of solace read	O
Some to their friends the tidings say	O
Some went to write some went to pray	O
One tarried here there hurried one	A3
But their heart abode with none	A3
Covetous death bereaved us all	A2
To aggrandize one funeral	B2
The eager Fate which carried thee	V2
Took the largest part of me	V2
For this losing is true dying	C3
This is lordly man's down lying	C3
This is slow but sure reclining	C3
Star by star his world resigning	C3
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O child of Paradise	O
Boy who made dear his father's home	D3
In whose deep eyes	O
Men read the welfare of the times to come	E3
I am too much bereft	O
The world dishonored thou hast left	O
O truths and natures costly lie	M
O trusted broken prophecy	V2
O richest fortune sourly crossed	O
Born for the future to the future lost	O
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The deep Heart answered Weepest thou	F3
Worthier cause for passion wild	O
If I had not taken the child	O
And deemest thou as those who pore	D
With aged eyes short way before	D
Think'st Beauty vanished from the coast	O
Of matter and thy darling lost	O
Taught he not thee the man of eld	O
Whose eyes within his eyes beheld	O
Heaven's numerous hierarchy span	A3
The mystic gulf from God to man	A3
To be alone wilt thou begin	A3
When worlds of lovers hem thee in	A3
To morrow when the masks shall fall	A2
That dizen nature's carnival	B2
The pure shall see by their own will	W2
Which overflowing love shall fill	W2
'Tis not within the force of Fate	O
The fate conjoined to separate	O
But thou my votary weepest thou	F3
I gave thee sight where is it now	F3
I taught thy heart beyond the reach	G3
Of ritual Bible or of speech	G3
Wrote in thy mind's transparent table	B2
As far as the incommunicable	B2
Taught thee each private sign to raise	O
Lit by the supersolar blaze	O
Past utterance and past belief	H3
And past the blasphemy of grief	H3
The mysteries of nature's heart	O
And though no muse can these impart	O
Throb thine with nature's throbbing breast	O
And all is clear from east to west	O
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I came to thee as to a friend	O
Dearest to thee I did not send	O
Tutors but a joyful eye	M
Innocence that matched the sky	M
Lovely locks a form of wonder	B
Laughter rich as woodland thunder	B
That thou might'st entertain apart	O
The richest flowering of all art	O
And as the great all loving Day	O
Through smallest chambers takes its way	O
That thou might'st break thy daily bread	O
With Prophet Saviour and head	O
That thou might'st cherish for thine own	A3
The riches of sweet Mary's Son	A3
Boy Rabbi Israel's Paragon	A3
And thoughtest thou such guest	O
Would in thy hall take up his rest	O
Would rushing life forget its laws	O
Fate's glowing revolution pause	O
High omens ask diviner guess	O
Not to be conned to tediousness	O
And know my higher gifts unbind	O
The zone that girds the incarnate mind	O
When the scanty shores are full	B2
With Thought's perilous whirling pool	B2
When frail Nature can no more	D
Then the spirit strikes the hour	B
My servant Death with solving rite	O
Pours finite into infinite	O
Wilt thou freeze love's tidal flow	B2
Whose streams through nature circling go	B2
Nail the star struggling to its track	I3
On the half climbed Zodiack	I3
Light is light which radiates	O
Blood is blood which circulates	O
Life is life which generates	O
And many seeming life is one	A3
Wilt thou transfix and make it none	A3
Its onward stream too starkly pent	O
In figure bone and lineament	O
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Wilt thou uncalled interrogate	O
Talker the unreplying fate	O
Nor see the Genius of the whole	B2
Ascendant in the private soul	B2
Beckon it when to go and come	E3
Self announced its hour of doom	K
Fair the soul's recess and shrine	A3
Magic built to last a season	A3
Masterpiece of love benign	A3
Fairer than expansive reason	A3
Whose omen 'tis and sign	A3
Wilt thou not ope this heart to know	B2
What rainbows teach and sunsets show	B2
Verdict which accumulates	O
From lengthened scroll of human fates	O
Voice of earth to earth returned	O
Prayers of heart that inly burned	O
Saying what is excellent	O
As God lives is permanent	O
Hearts are dust hearts' loves remain	A3
Heart's love will meet thee again	A3
Revere the Maker fetch thine eye	M
Up to His style and manners of the sky	M
Not of adamant and gold	O
Built He heaven stark and cold	O
No but a nest of bending reeds	O
Flowering grass and scented weeds	O
Or like a traveller's fleeting tent	O
Or bow above the tempest pent	O
Built of tears and sacred flames	O
And virtue reaching to its aims	O
Built of furtherance and pursuing	I3
Not of spent deeds but of doing	I3
Silent rushes the swift Lord	O
Through ruined systems still restored	O
Broad sowing bleak and void to bless	O
Plants with worlds the wilderness	O
Waters with tears of ancient sorrow	B2
Apples of Eden ripe to morrow	B2
House and tenant go to ground	O
Lost in God in Godhead found	O