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The little waves fall in the wintry light	A
On idle sands along the bitter shore	B
The piling clouds are all a pale suspended flight	A
They tarry and are moved no more	B
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Thin rushes tremble about the naked dune	C
A hovering sail sinks down the utmost sea	D
With wreckage and old foam the unending sands are strewn	C
And the waves heap their dumbness over me	D
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This is the earth that lasts beyond our dreams	E
Of time and rushing onward without rest	F
Deludes us with her trancing silences yet teems	E
Fiercely and burns within her breast	F
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Insatiate of youth this old old Earth	G
Who uses our spent ashes for her need	H
Shaping the delicate marvel of her youngest birth	G
And still she kindles a new seed	H
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Intent on the unborn creature of her thought	I
And busy in the waste O even here	J
Though masked as in a calm of dumb frustration naught	I
Stays her no pang nor any fear	K
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But subtly with a touch invisible	L
She is changing and compelling and me too	M
Me too upon the secret stream of that deep will	N
She moves to a destiny ever new	M
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And yet this hour my spirit hides its face	O
And backward turned sighs out an idle pain	P
For the remembered paths these feet may not retrace	O
And the hours that cannot come again	Q
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O hours of heavenly madness in delight	A
That felt the swiftness and the throb of wings	R
That stole the burning soul of naked summer night	A
And the moons of the perfumed springs	R
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Not now to you my longing stretches hands	S
But to lost hours that had no fruit no seed	H
Like fading of low light beyond forgotten lands	S
They have passed and are dead indeed	H
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And once for once unrecking Earth you seem	T
With me to linger and to acquiesce	U
To share the desolation of my doubt and dream	T
And to ponder upon barrenness	U
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The wind lulls on the waste and has no will	N
The foiled tides hush and falter at their bound	V
A little sand is blown then all again is still	N
And the clouds hang their silence around	V
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With such an absence felt in the lone skies	U
Suppression of such tears profoundly sprung	W
In long remembering looks of unconversing eyes	U
As when the old bury the young	W

Robert Laurence Binyon

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