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I	A
Nothing of itself is in the still'd mind only	B
A still submission to each exterior image	C
Still as a pool accepting trees and sky	A
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A candid mirror that never a breath disturbs	D
Nor drifted leaf as if of a single substance	E
With every shape and colour that it encloses	E
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When alone and lost in the morning's white silence	E
Drowsily drowsing eyes empty of thought	F
Accept the blank breadth of the opposite wall	G
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Lying in my bed motionless hardly emerged	H
From clouds of sleep a solitary cloud	I
Is not more vague in the placeless blue of ether	J
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Than I with unapportioned and unadjusted	K
Senses that put off trouble of understanding	L
Even the stirring of wonder and acquiesce	E
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The early light brims over the filled silence	E
Memory stirs not a wave or a shadow within me	B
Only the wall is the world there stops my sight	M
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II	A
If he should bend his bow that great Archer	J
There before me if tautened and all erect	N
Slowly he should draw the arrow back to his ear	O
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Suddenly I should see the curve of his tense body	B
Alter and O at the leap of the sighted arrow	P
The arms descend shoulder and hip relax	E
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But hidden in his face hidden the bow behind him	Q
I see the square of the buckle that clasps embossed	R
The belt girding the slenderness of his loins	E
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The smooth and idle energy of his arms	E
And under the mould of breast and flank I feel	S
The invisible veins and warm blood pulsing through them	T
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But why is his face hidden And why does my heart	U
Beat with a fear that he may be all disclosed	V
Terrible in calm terrible in beauty and power	J
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For his eyes must surely be filled with the far mountains	E
Rivers and great plains be his eyes' possession	W
And full in the centre of his concentred vision	W
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Stands his victim he who is soon to be stricken	W
Soon to fall with the arrow pouncing upon him	Q
The arrow that carries the light and scorn of his eyes	E
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Why do you hide your face glorious Archer	J
If I could see you then though the arrow pierced me	B
Gazing upon you it were a glory to fall	G
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Will you at last seizing the bow bend it	X
Now as I gaze A thrilling of fear rushes	E
Blind in my veins fear is it fear or hope	Y
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As if all my gaze were fixt on a drop of water	J
Suspended about to fall and still not falling	L
A liquid jewel of slowly increasing splendour	J
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As the rain retreats and the shadow of cloud is lifted	Z
And all light comes to enclose itself in the circle	A2
Of a single drop so is this suspended moment	B2
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III	A
The stillness moves Tripping of feet shadows	E
Voices The hospital wakes to its ritual round	C2
The moment breaks the drop the bright drop falls	E
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A sponge has prest its coldness over my spirit	D2
Shape and colour abandon their apparition	W
Subside into place in the order of usual things	E
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And another mind returns with the day's returning	L
Weaving its soft invisible meshes around me	B
This is the daylight bald on the plain wall	G
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Cracks in the paint a trickle of random lines	E
A trailing scrawl that a child might trace with a stick	E2
As he runs idly about the ebb tide sands	E
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Is it out of these I supposed a towering image	C
There on the blankness Are you gone my Archer	J
You who were living more than the millions waking	L
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No you are there still It was I released you	F2
Out of the secret world wherein you are hidden	W
You are there there and the arrow is flying flying	L
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And yet patient as if nothing were endangered	G2
We do small things and keep the little commandments	E
We and our doings a scribble upon the wall	G
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Anniversary	B
November	J
I	A
Thunder in the night Vague ghostly remote	H2
It rolls The world sleeps Suddenly splitting the air	J
Stumbles a crash and a million sleepers awake	I2
Each in his silence menaced and all aware	J
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The aroused and secret spirit in each listens	E
Companioned by an invisible listening host	J2
And sees the blackness gashed with quaking light	M
Surrendered then to sounds of a world lost	R
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In a heart shaking convulsion of senseless force	E
Wandering and warring blasts of a monstrous breath	K2
Legendary Chaos throned in heaven and dealing	L
Purposeless darts and the air vivid with death	K2
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But we we are men that walk upright in the sun	W
That judge question remember and foresee	B
What have we to do with blind demons of air	J
We choose and act aim reason and are free	B
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Thunder in the night As stupefying and sudden	W
The stumbling crash of the nations into flame	L2
Woke us aghast We looked we heard we knew	F2
That from us men the inhuman chaos came	L2
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From reason frenzy from knowledge blindness from pity	B
Cruelty Trapped in Necessity's iron net	M2
To be free to be free we battled and hoped the dawn	N2
Nor counted cost if flesh could pay the debt	M2
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O beauty broken O glory of thought exiled	O2
O flowers in a furnace tossed O joy defaced	P2
O sense and soul grown used in the fire assenting	L
To brute futility torture and waste waste	P2
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The Spirit of Man in anguish amid the cloud	I
And the antiphons of thunder and earth upheaved	I
Beheld amazed the deeds of its body and rose	E
In them to a splendour strange and unconceived	I
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II	A
They who simply heard the call of their own land	I
The fields the hills the hamlets that they knew	F2
Hurt and in peril and questioned not but went	I
To a fibre deep in the very body true	F2
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They who high in hope of youth and flame of faith	Q2
Streamed to the storm with a beating heart of pride	I
Because that threat towered black against the sun	W
Who fell and made a radiance where they died	I
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They who would not for their soul's sake stand apart	I
They who took upon themselves the world's red stain	R2
Who saw who loathed yet would not bear to watch	S2
The struggle of others in unpartner'd pain	R2
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They who still when the mind sickened and faith darkened	I
And falsehood clung as the mud clung and the cloud	I
Confused and horror gnawed endured to death	K2
Still seeing the star to which their course was vowed	I
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Them we name over them we recall to day	I
Whose dear bodies in foreign earth are laid	I
Ours is the light to breathe and a world to mould	I
But over them all is sleep their hands are stayed	I
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Have we only remembering tears and flowers to strew	F2
They are crying to us with the cry of the unfulfilled	I
Like the earth aching for spring when frosts are late	I
Are we the answer Or shall they twice be killed	I
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Their pain is upon us pain of hope imperilled	I
They are crying to us with the spirit's untold desires	E
Heart brain and hand the will and the vision all	G
And more than all the Cause of Man requires	E
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We stumble and plod by little and little we gain	R2
Old folly tempts old habit about us twines	E
But to day our eyes are lifted and hearts with them	T
And near as the stillness falls the Vision shines	E

Robert Laurence Binyon

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