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The dripping of the boughs in silence heard	A
Softly the low note of some lingering bird	A
Amid the weeping vapour the chill fall	B
Of solitary evening upon all	B
That stirs and hopes and apprehends and grieves	C
With pining odours of the ruined leaves	C
Have like a dew distilled upon my heart	D
The air of death but now recoiling start	D
Longing and keen remembrance out of sighs	E
And forward the desiring spirit flies	E
Toward the wild peace of that illumined shore	F
Which left behind her yet still shines before	F
To Douro rushing through the mighty hills	G
Now his great stream with fancied splendour fills	G
Even this brooding twilight a swift ghost	H
Journeying forever to the glimmering coast	H
Where his majestic voice is heard afar	I
Exulting dim upon that ocean bar	I
O Douro gliding by dark woods and fleet	J
Beneath thy shadowy rocks in the noon heat	J
How my heart faints to follow after thee	K
On one true course to my deep destined sea	K
To take no care of dimness or sunshine	L
Urged ever by an inward way divine	L
Nor falter in this heavy gloom that brings	M
So thick upon me lamentable things	M
Of earth and hinders the swift spirit's wings	M
And clouds the steadfast vision that sustains	N
Alone the trembling heart amid perpetual pains	N
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Dear friend who thirstest even as I to be	K
Heir and possessor of sweet liberty	K
Once more in memory let us pluck the hour	O
That bloomed so perfect and renew the power	O
Of joy within our wondering breasts to feel	P
That freshness of eternal things and heal	P
All our unhappy thoughts in those pure rays	Q
Not yet the last of these delightful days	Q
Into the dark unwillingly has flown	R
And thou and I upon a hill o'ergrown	R
That indolently shadows Douro stream	S
Together watch the wonderful clear dream	S
Of evening Under the dark shore of pines	T
Noiselessly running the wide water shines	T
Curving afar from where the mountains lift	U
Their burning heads through many a forest rift	U
The River comes scenting the spaces free	K
In this broad channel of his welcoming sea	K
No more by silent precipices hewn	R
Out of the night murmuring a lonely tune	R
To craggy Fregeneda nor where shines	T
Regoa throned among her purple vines	T
Impetuously seeking valleys new	R
But smoothing his broad mirror to the hue	R
And peace of heaven unhasting now he flows	V
And with the sky unfathomably glows	V
Even as on yonder shore the woods receive	W
In their empurpled bosoms the warm eve	W
As when a lover gazes tenderly	K
Upon his loved one and as tender she	K
Hushes her heart her joy to realize	E
So hushed so lovely so contented lies	E
Earth by that earnest gazing glory blest	X
But on this hither bank that fervent West	X
Is hidden behind us and the stems around	Y
Spring shadowy from the bare and darkling ground	Y
Only a single pine out of the shade	Z
Emerges in what splendour soft arrayed	Z
Magical clearness warming to the sight	A2
As to the touch it would be plumed with light	A2
Motionless upward the tree soars and burns	B2
But now the dews upon the freshened ferns	B2
In the dim hollow gather and cool scent	C2
Of herbage with the pine's pure odour blent	C2
And voices of the villagers below	D2
As home with music up the stream they row	D2
Greet us descending every blossom sleeps	E2
And bluer and more blue the evening steeps	E2
Water and fragrant grass and the straight stems	E2
In tender mystery Down a path that hems	E2
The hollow to our waiting boat we come	F2
Pale purple flames shining amid the gloom	G2
Signal the autumn crocus look afar	I
Betwixt the tree tops the first ventured star	I
Soon gliding homeward under shadowy shores	E2
And deepened sky to the repeated oars'	E2
Strong chime we hasten Now along pale sand	C2
Our ripple leaps in silver now the land	C2
High over the swift water darkly massed	C2
Echoes our falling blades as we go past	C2
Until enthroned upon her hills divine	R
The city nears us lights begin to shine	R
Scarce from the stars distinguished so the gloom	G2
Has mingled earth and sky more steeply loom	G2
The banks on either side at intervals	E2
Tufted with trees or crowned with winding walls	E2
And now at last the river opens large	H2
Filled with the city's murmur from his marge	H2
Slope over slope the glimmering terraces	E2
Rise and their scattered lamps' bright images	E2
Cast on the wavering water and we hear	I2
The sound of soft bells and cries faint or near	J2
From the dim wharves or anchored ships whose spars	E2
Entangle in dark meshes the white stars	E2
And pale smoke rising blue on the blue air	K2
Sleeps in a thin cloud under heights that bear	K2
Towers and roofs lofty against the west	C2
Where yet a clearness lingers Now the breast	C2
Of Douro heaves foreboding whither bound	C2
His currents hasten and with joyous sound	C2
As though the encountering brine new pulses gave	L2
Lifts to outrace our speed his buoyant wave	L2
For hearken up the peaceful evening borne	R
Out of the wide sea gates low thunders warn	R
Of Ocean beating with his sleepless surge	M2
Along the wild sand marges the deep dirge	M2
Of mariners that wakes the widow's ear	I2
At night far inland terrible and near	J2
Fainter this eve he murmurs than as oft	C2
His troubled music here by distance soft	C2
The abrupt volley the sharp shattering roar	F
And seethe of foam flung tumbling up the shore	F
Mingle in one wide rumour that all round	C2
Is heard afar robing the air with sound	C2
Deep in my heart I hear it The still night	C2
Deepens as we ascend the homeward height	C2
And loud or low in following intervals	E2
Over the hills the sound unwearied falls	E2
And as upon my bed my heavy eyes	E2
Close up the drowsing mind re occupies	E2
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O what a vision floats into my sleep	N2
As a night shutting flower my senses keep	N2
The live day's lingering odours and warm hues	E2
That thought and motion with themselves transfuse	E2
Till sound and light and perfume are but one	R
Mingled in fires of the embracing sun	R
Yet still I am aware of Ocean stirred	C2
Far off and like a grave rejoicing heard	C2
Am I awake or in consenting dreams	E2
Pour thither all my thought's tumultuous streams	E2
His voice to meet them a deep answer sends	E2
My soul to listen her light wing suspends	E2
And pillowed upon undulating sound	C2
For all desire hath satisfaction found	C2
He calls her thither where the winds uncage	M2
Vast longing that the unsounded seas assuage	M2
Breeze after breeze her wing d pinnace bears	E2
Over the living water that prepares	E2
Still widening mystery she her speed the more	F
Urges exulting to have lost the shore	F
Supported by the joy that sets her free	K
Delighted mistress of her destiny	K
Fills the wide night with beating of her wing	O2
And is content for ever voyaging	O2
By timeless courses over worlds unknown	R
Lifted and lost abounding and alone	R

Robert Laurence Binyon

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