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Who are these that meet	A
At random in the street	A
Adversaries Yet they	B
Make no sign nor stay	B
Neither he nor she	C
Knows what those Powers be	C
That bodied in them go	D
Among the peopled flow	D
One toward the dusk and one	E
Toward the Western sun	E
	-
Secret eyes turn to her	F
And bosoms throb astir	F
As if a perfume blew	G
And made the evening new	G
Lissom with budding breast	H
She steps toward the bright West	H
An airy footed shape	I
Above the neck's young nape	I
Springs wonderful her hair	F
The round throat lifts in air	F
The flower that is her head	J
Her lips are Peril's red	J
Her eyes a shy surprise	K
Shedding soft cruelties	L
	-
Of what will was she wrought	M
Vivid without a thought	M
Fragrance of all that's young	N
And delicately sprung	N
Is round her like a lure	F
Voluptuously pure	F
Eternal soul of sense	O
The moment's quintessence	P
Of what will was she made	Q
With those fine lashes laid	Q
Upon her bloom She comes	R
From the wild Earth that hums	R
With summer in the mead	S
Glutting the flower cups' greed	S
Of sunlight ill to tame	T
As Hunger Thirst or Flame	T
	-
But he that's striding East	U
Regards not her the least	U
His thought is far away	B
Circling the end of day	B
Though young the restless mind	V
Moulding the flesh has signed	V
His features and his gaze	W
Absented in retreat	A
From all this human street	A
Holds musings that begin	X
To sharpen cheek and chin	X
What speculation now	Y
Beneath that ardent brow	Y
Braves what it sees Among	N
Blind worlds this planet swung	N
Like an old toy a spark	Z
In the gigantic dark	Z
A mote of dust alive	A2
Where millions meanly strive	A2
For what If Thought alone	B2
Keeps man upon his throne	B2
Of courage to outface	W
The Gorgon mask of Space	W
What wills it with this house	W
Of flesh that loves to drowse	W
And take the hours of sense	W
For sweetness and defence	W
Of flesh that is but clay	B
For Thought to sift away	B
Like powder of idle sand	C2
Within the crumbling hand	C2
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Two Cruelties are these	W
And two Defiances	W
Yet though they be apart	D2
As East and West the heart	D2
Of man is twined in each	E2
Of them he makes his speech	E2
His torment and delight	F2
His songs his tears his height	F2
Of wisdom his despair	F
Though both his being tear	F
He knows not which to choose	W
Nor which he'd harder lose	W

Robert Laurence Binyon

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