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High on the mountain shrouded in vast trees	A
The stillness had the chastity of frost	B
I trod the fallen pallors of the moon	C
The path was paven stone I was not lost	B
But followed whither it should lead me soon	C
Into the mountain's midmost secrecies	A
	-
Wandering into the mind sweet luminous warm	D
Remembrances of the body	E
Smell of the woods in the irradiated noonday	E
Flushes of foliage	F
The ridged horizon opening far and blue	G
Came with a breathing of colour and then sank	H
Remote as flames gleam in a dark pane glassed	E
Earth had rolled onward into regions new	G
And all the darkness at my senses drank	H
Aware now subtly as of a frontier passed	E
	-
On either side the trees unending rose	A
No shadowy sound stirred amid all their plumes	A
Each seemed a separate and a soaring night	E
Black canopies of cold uncounted tombs	A
Pilgrims had here fallen on their repose	A
Graven with names their tablets gleamed upright	E
	-
And softly as the fallen lightness of a willow leaf	I
On the liquid stealing	J
Of water unrippled profound my spirit was stolen	K
By the crystal silence	A
And with me it seemed invisible others went	E
Spirits unhistoried of such dim surmise	A
As in the dark the tremble of a leaf	I
With them I went and Night was eloquent	E
Of things that are not in the day's belief	I
And made me of those things like a blind man wise	A
	-
Obscurity at last relented round	E
A glimmering space the inmost Shrine appeared	E
Before it motionless as any tree	E
Praying a pilgrim stood There was a sound	E
Of water in the distance hardly heard	E
But most that living man astonished me	E
	-
Many stone lanterns made a clustered shining	J
As if in a wondrous	A
Cavern of lost and intricate shadows enclosing	J
The light's clear vigil	L
But the air behind that solitary form	D
Was trembling like a veil of trembling light	E
Where from an urn rose endless incense fume	M
That left a ghostly fragrance on the night	E
It seemed a spirit sighing to resume	M
The touch of what was breathing human warm	D
	-
Bare headed sandalled still that pilgrim prayed	E
Unconscious of all else but his heart's prayer	N
Out of his breast a broken murmur deep	O
Came with his frosted breathing on the air	N
Before the shrine in its tree guarded shade	E
Where that great Saint continued in his sleep	O
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It seemed that from Time's beginning he had stood there	N
In a hushed vastness	A
Solitary erect amid the unimagined motion	K
Of worlds unnumbered	E
Absorbed secure in his small star of light	E
And now that ceaseless fugitive frail smoke	P
Appeared to me like shadowy souls in flight	E
Woven together into a veil of breath	Q
That wavered as their little life awoke	P
And passed for ever into birth or death	Q
	-
What prayer was his that mingled with the mist	E
Of the forgotten sighings of the dead	E
I knew not yet in him I seemed to share	N
Longings that still were patient to persist	E
Through Time and Death from lips that once were red	E
In that one image all my kind stood there	N
Lover of the body lover of the divine sun	K
Of earth's replenished	E
Fullness and change and savour of life rejoicing	J
Careless of all care	N
Me now the Silence for its vessel chose	A
And filled from wells unsounded by the mind	E
No other need I had and could not less	A
Than to be wholly to this spell resigned	E
And dark communion with the spirit that knows	A
Vigil and frost and solitariness	A
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Fragments we are and none has seen the whole	R
Only some moment wins us to restore	S
The touch of infinite companionship	T
I that had journeyed from so far a shore	S
Found at the world's end the same pilgrim soul	R
And the old sorrow no flight can outstrip	T
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Now in the midst of the irradiated noonday	E
Suddenly absent	E
While in my ear is the sound of familiar voices	A
Light talk and laughter	U
My thought has in an instant flown the seas	A
A great remoteness occupies my heart	E
And there arises on my inward sight	E
The shadowy apparition of vast trees	A
A pathway opens I am stolen apart	E
And I ascend a mountain in the night	E

Robert Laurence Binyon

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