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Robert Laurence Binyon

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I	A
Out of the Forest into a terrible splendour	B
Of noon the pinnacles of the temple portals	C
Stone Faces immense in carven ruin	D
Above the trembling of giant trees emerge	E
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Stone Faces of secret and eternal smile	F
Ruined Faces perilously towering	G
Over the waving of the wilderness a fourfold	H
Gaze opposing the slow strength of Time	I
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Visible afar stony serenity crown	J
Of the builders' labour of imagination	D
Last and loftiest thought of a little dust	K
That once robed in authority moved commanding	G
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When overseeing his busy handed companies	L
Of workmen and elephants hoisting obedient	M
A King magnificent satiate of victory	B
Builded his vision of the eternal Peace	N
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Have you not heard alone in your abandonment	M
Since the last echoing vibrations vanished	O
Of tremulous fame diminishing have you not	P
'Mid the resplendent silence of the noon	Q
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Heard the cry of the little seed in the earth	R
Prisoned and crying to the mighty Sun in heaven	D
With his strong beams to find and to deliver her	B
Through million miles of air is heard her cry	B
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The cry of Desire that aches with a blind throbbing	G
Ignorant of all but the aching of its desire	B
Desire inappeasable cruel as a desert thirst	S
Desire born of desire breeding desire	B
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In lust of light it springs from the little seed	T
Climbing out of the hot suffocation of darkness	U
Multiplying bursting swelling to burst afresh	V
Writhing and wrestling to mount into the light	W
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And up from the furnaces of its own corruption	D
As with a trample of triumph to the imperious	U
Sting of the Sun and the prodigally spending	G
Wanton rain surges the sap in answer	B
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As if it were red blood boiling in the suddenness	U
Of panther's sinewy and ungovernable spring	G
As if it were an invisible conflagration	D
Glorying up into a momentary splendour	B
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The sap presses stronger than spirting fountains	X
Reasonless wild as the doubled strength of madmen	D
Invisible and unheard it races into	Y
The boughs and the boughs stream out into the leaves	Z
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Roots thrust downward into the black heat of earth	R
Boughs descend thicken and root themselves afresh	V
The builded fabric is seized and is enfolded	Y
In the tightening of those fibres passive as a victim	A2
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Supplanting the jamb a root upholds the lintel	B2
Cracking the rounded column and delicately carved	Y
Frieze with slow muscle the serpent folds	C2
Fasten increasing crush or twist awry	B
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Invented order and scruple of willed proportion	D
The strong square all the lineaments of reason	D
Lost in the green extravagance the strangling	G
Young embraces of a pitiless desire	B
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Vast blocks upheaved as by an elephant's	D2
Shouldering force are incredibly suspended	Y
By vast stems that swelling slow like pythons	D2
Capture a purchase for their upward towering	G
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The ancient meditation of the Gods is prisoned	Y
As in the clasp of heavy and voluptuous arms	D2
The still presence of Peace is broken in fragments	D2
Ruined and fabulous is the eternal smile	F
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The Stone Faces look from a lost battle	B2
Over the ascending wilderness the nearing	G
Waves of Time re conquering Eternity	Y
As a beaten rock left on a crumbling strand	Y
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II	A
Images people the shadows and throng the sun soaked	Y
Porches demon forms and the armed striding	G
Of warriors frowns of scorn and limbs of anger	B
And 'mid their conflict shapes of young delight	Y
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Ah Heavenly Dancer motioned by an ecstasy	Y
Breathed into stone O time delivered vision	D
Image of celestial joy everlasting	G
Sung by the body to the Spirit's flute	Y
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Now like a shipwreckt remnant of security	Y
Drifted to shore by the negligent ocean streams	D2
Thou hidest shaped into the image of humanity	Y
As lips hide speech the Spirit's profound desire	B
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In a trance the eye can behold the hands that formed thee	Y
Supple hands chiselling the stone's resistance	D2
To a thought in the fingers' pressure and smooth relentings	D2
Transfiguring ancient stone to breathing mind	Y
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Like as the distant gaze and sky divining	G
Will of the helmsman with touches light as breath	E2
Shape the speed of a winged keel to union	D
With the firm wind's invisible inspiration	D
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The hand traces the blood thinks and pauses	D2
Fingers marry and divide perfecting motions	D2
Delicately measuring shape into significance	D2
Dreams But hands have purpose these have none	D
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These strong fibres strong as the whole body	Y
Of a wrestler locked in an obstinate tenacity	Y
Of effort clutch of innumerable tendrils	D2
Never relaxing their terrible embrace	D2
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Live Live they cry as they mount exuberant	Y
Whither O whither the seething savage ardour	B
Craving and riotous in its own destruction	D
Answers only the silence of the Sun	D
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The silence of the Sun possesses the still cranny	Y
Smooth lizards flicker across the abraded wall	F2
High amid molten splendour in topmost trees	D2
The indolent gibbon swings from branch to branch	G2
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Song of birds rippling an airy and strange chime	I
And shrilled unceasing chorus of cicalas	D2
Crown the ruined history of proud peoples	D2
The Forest burns in the crucible of the Sun	D
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III	A
Out of the moulder of Time and great oblivion	D
Shines the remoteness of legendary majesties	D2
Willed to remain high over farthest sundown	J
Now in a memory melting insubstantial	B2
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Solomon the King built a temple in Jerusalem	A2
For the glory of the Lord to inhabit for eternity	Y
Lebanon from her forests gave him cedar and cypress	D2
These became pillar and beam and coffered ceiling	G
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Carved with lily and gourd and palm and pomegranate	Y
And all overlaid was the house within with gold	Y
Stone was the foundation in the midmost was the oracle	B2
There Solomon ascended to the secrecy of the Lord	Y
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It was told to Solomon There is a queen in Saba	H2
In Saba of sweet valleys of spices and precious stones	D2
Young she is and comely and she seeks after wisdom	A2
Great pity it is that she worshippeth the Sun	D
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Balkis the queen had grave men for her counsellors	D2
Warriors stood before her to execute her bidding	G
She was wise in her body's secret wisdom of beauty	Y
But none knew her wisdom it flowed not from her lips	D2
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It was told in the ears of Balkis Solomon the King	G
Is wiser than all men even the sages of Egypt	Y
Also he has riches beyond computation	D
Armies he has and navies and seven hundred wives	D2
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Learned is he in the tongues of beast and bird	Y
In the hearts of the fishes and of all creeping things	D2
And Balkis was seized with a marvelling curiosity	Y
I will see this Solomon said Balkis and arose	D2
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And with heavy laden camels she journeyed to Jerusalem	A2
And Solomon accepted her Arabian spice he showed her	B
The splendour of his house his servants and all his horsemen	D
And the temple founded to be the Lord's for ever	B
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Solomon and Balkis sat upon lofty thrones	D2
Together the bright birds of the air thronged round them	I2
Many coloured plumage and the King knew their voices	D2
The lion in the desert also he heard afar	B
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Solomon spoke not of his own magnificence	D2
And the things he had shown her surpassing belief and rumour	B
Till her heart was faint he had shown her all these marvels	D2
And not a question asked he had not answered	Y
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But he spoke of the Temple wherein he had newly housed	Y
The glory of the invisible God creator	B
Of all men even of Solomon and his wisdom	A2
The temple built to endure for everlasting	G
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Then were they silent Evening descended on them	I2
And the low sun smote that high place in Jerusalem	A2
Over against all the splendour of the Temple	B2
That seemed eternity flaming before their eyes	D2
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In the gaze of Solomon was a great contentment	Y
With all he had willed and all he had performed	Y
But still in the unreasonable memory of Balkis	D2
Was the cry of the seed to the glory of the Sun	D
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IV	-
Lips imperious bosom superb Eyes	D2
Smiling with all persuasion to all adventure	B
Veins that leap in the lightning of ecstasy Spirit	Y
Of splendour and storm peril of Caesar and sage	J2
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Whether to charm the eagle mind from form its solitude	Y
And wondrously to enter the secret and strange places	D2
Of wisdom passionately importuning that ultimate	Y
Possession satiate of all else beside	Y
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Or with subtle tendrils of pleasure serpentining	G
About the strength of the stony will and weaving	G
Nets invisible merciless inescapable	B2
Softly to master the mastery of the strong	G
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Or stung by profounder hunger of satisfaction	D
Incarnate Flame to tower a rapturous moment	Y
Over an empire fallen in ashes exulting	G
To vanish in legend having destroyed a world	Y
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From what seed sown in the ignorant immensity	Y
Of existence ascend you into agonies and furies	D2
Not joy not pain but necessity of deliverance	D2
To enchant to burn into victory and perish	K2
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These dead doorways black squares of emptiness	D2
Framed in vivid stone that scorches the hand	Y
And dazzles the sight are not so hollow	L2
As the sockets that housed the brilliance of your eyes	D2
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And this palsy of twisted and whitened fibre	B
Dangling inert athwart the interior blackness	D2
Is not so wasted as the suppleness of arms	D2
Moulded to be chains about the necks of conquerors	D2
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All that interior triumph of the throbbing heart	Y
Throbbing through wall and pillar and through the hardness	D2
Of men dissolving fortresses is quieter	B
Than dust in the corner earth from you has peace	D2
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O Stone Faces was it a far off vision	D
Of Peace that the builder imagined when he shaped you	Y
That shadowy King to endure beyond his memory	Y
And awe with eternal mask the children of Time	I
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Surely in his heart was a vision of Life the Destroyer	B
Dancing the dance of Desire the all creating	G
All destroying Power from Power proceeding	G
Or Death from Death issuing who shall know	L2
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Or who distinguish the inconceivable riches	D2
From the inconceivable ruin the victory crowned with	M2
Annihilation Afraid of his own vision	D
He lent it human lineaments of Peace	D2
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V	Y
Here in the forest under a roof of mats	D2
Cross legged sitting with a bowl beside him	N2
Waited the Hermit in his still persistence	D2
Motionless contemplating the eternal motion	D
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Come back thou Hermit here in the fierce forest	Y
To thine own station whether from a handful	O2
Of dust remoulded or from the wandered worlds	D2
Of air an essence into Time resumed	Y
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Still as a flame is still in a windless place	D2
Seeking thy far and invisible affinity	Y
I see thee careless of emperors and captains	D2
As of the tree tops towering above thee	Y
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Hearing not clash of arms nor the resounding	G
Triumph nor cry of the vanquished but with senses	D2
Unfeasted sure of that foreknown subsiding	G
Into the silence where thy thought is native	-
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Round thy ribs slowly fasten the serpent roots	D2
Over thee meshes that insatiate voracity	Y
As with mouths thirsting for life's fierce savour	B
As with limbs lusting for the pleasures of the Sun	D
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Still art thou there like the emptiness a whirlpool	P2
Furiously encompasses O indestructible	B2
Emptiness Only the communion of silence	D2
Fills thee and light that the evening dims not	Y
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O naked Hermit seated in thy mystery	B
Of patience gazing down the ruin of Time	I
Thou to the ravaging forest that rejoices	D2
To teem and perish perish and teem again	Q2
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Thou art no more than a fallen fragment of stone	R2
Only to be seized by the implacable fibres	D2
Lifeless without share in the green upsurging	G
That streams about thee and climbs above thy head	Y
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But to thee dipt into a central stillness	D2
All this enormity of violent abundance	D2
All the strength of the serpent roots and the wild	Y
Energy leaping into boughs and leaves	D2
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Are but obstructing shadow and apparition	D
Vapours ascending from vain desires of Time	I
Drawn as a mist is drawn from the wandering rivers	D2
The stream into the cloud and the cloud into the stream	S2
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But from what desire O Solitary dost thou come	A2
From what seed sown in the abysses of the stars	D2
Was the strong engendering of the passion of thy stillness	D2
Desire surpassing all the desires of mortals	D2
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Secret in the anchored body's immense surrender	B
A strange transforming vision a strange excess	D2
Prisoned in the heart's beat and out of its prison	D
Crying to the glory of the Universal Sun	D