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I	A
The desert sand at day's swift flight	B
Drank of the dew cold vivid night	B
Where Nile flows as he flowed	C
When first men reaped and sowed	D
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As though his stream since Time began	E
Bore all the history of Man	E
Vast ages lapsing brief	F
As noiseless as a leaf	F
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But when the first high star concealed	G
Itself by shadowing boughs revealed	G
The glinting ripple it seemed	H
As the great water streamed	H
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That ears attuned might hear the strings	I
Plucked by the harpist for those kings	I
Who in persistence fond	J
Would be companion'd	J
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Through the faint under world and still	K
Press the firm clustered grape and feel	L
Wind from the fanning plume	M
Sweetened with incense fume	M
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Still watch the honey coloured grain	N
Stiffen to ripeness on the plain	N
Or dancers with slim flanks	O
Circle in chiming ranks	O
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For Time so old must abdicate	J
Eyes and a smile that have no date	J
Respond from chiselled stone	P
Young as each day the dawn	Q
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And pulsings of the carver's wrist	J
So subtly in those curves persist	J
The presence in the form	R
To touch is almost warm	R
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But like the pictures dreams make glow	S
On darkness that in daylight go	S
So soon except they find	J
Some lodging in the mind	J
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Only by beauty can these cross	T
The dark stream of the dead to us	U
Only the hot sun dwells	V
'Mid those long parallels	V
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Of broken pillars roofed with air	W
In temples of unanswered prayer	W
And Gods unfeasted own	P
Naught but a granite throne	P
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II	A
Rain and the scolding wind's uproar	X
And the black cloud befitted more	X
The towering walls that hem	Y
Teeming Jerusalem	Z
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City of wailing wrath and blood	J
The city of the grave and shroud	J
Whence arose the Word	J
That brought so sharp a sword	J
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O city stubbornly enthroned	J
The city that the prophets stoned	J
Over which Jesus wept	J
And proud Rome vainly swept	J
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But as from heavens of brooding love	A2
A peace unearthly beamed above	A2
The hill surrounded sea	B2
Of lonely Galilee	B2
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And we beneath those silent skies	C2
Walked among flowers of paradise	D2
As if their happier seed	J
Knew peace on earth indeed	J
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Peace by the world praised and eschewed	J
Lived in that ageless solitude	J
And with no phrases deckt	J
Shone richer in neglect	J
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And under stony hills severe	E2
Where sounds are few we still could hear	F2
The shepherd from the rock	G2
Pipe to his wandering flock	G2
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Remote beyond the Syrian bay	H2
At close of a long burning day	H2
Into the dusk still shone	P
The snows of Lebanon	I2
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III	A
Morning came dancing Morning warmed	J
The blue sea circle whence she charmed	J
Isle after isle to rise	C2
Rock pointed toward the skies	C2
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Whose names transfigured strand and cape	J2
Into a legendary shape	J2
Re peopled from afar	K2
But to be brought more near	E2
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As if old ships and oar'd galleys	L2
Still swept along the silent seas	L2
Sailors of Tyre in quest	J
Of the remoter West	J
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Athenians racing to undo	J
Their own decree before it slew	J
And Cleopatra's sail	M2
From Actium flying pale	M2
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And traffickers with rich Byzance	L2
Past Patmos fading lost in trance	L2
And Paul on fire within	N2
The sad world's soul to win	N2
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And Rudel in love's dear duress	L2
Turned eastward to his Far Princess	L2
To die for that one bliss	L2
The first and the last kiss	L2
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And doomed Othello Cyprus bound	J
The islands rose and sank around	J
And when the day declined	J
Their shadows filled the mind	J
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Dim in the dawn stood Hector's ghost	J
Upon the mound where Troy lies lost	J
But through the straits we sped	J
Turned to our dearer dead	J
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IV	A2
The hills divide the seas unite	J
The valleys of a land of light	J
But O how bare beside	J
That Hellas glorified	J
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Which wasted clan by warring clan	E
Yet made a splendour shine in Man	E
By that inquiring will	K
Whose way we follow still	K
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Built in the mind his palace rare	W
Towered high as thought can dare	W
And thronged with images	L2
Of joys and agonies	L2
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Confronting destiny and wrong	O2
With the high symbol'd scene and song	O2
Threading its music through	J
The tale of wrath and rue	J
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But Time so tender to a thought	J
That branches up from living root	J
Has here unbuilt defaced	J
And Beauty dispossessed	J
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Conniving with men's minds inert	J
Brute blows and stupid skill to hurt	J
As if 'twere half their joy	P2
To maim and to destroy	P2
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O Delphi where all Hellas came	Q2
To hear the awful Voice proclaim	Q2
Fate how beneath your steep	R2
Is all forgetting sleep	R2
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No voice no votary no shrine	S2
Though the long vale be still divine	S2
From that blue bay below	S
To the far mountain snow	S
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And soundless noon that idly warms	L2
The scattered stones and shattered forms	L2
Only the shadow brings	L2
Of wheeling eagles' wings	L2
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V	A2
In the last light some column glows	L2
Where once a white perfection rose	L2
Imperfectly divined	J
By the rebuilding mind	J
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Which treasures up a shape a thought	J
From footprint or from echo caught	J
Hard gleanings that attest	J
Oblivion has the best	J
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Fade coasts and isles where the seed sown	P
Still flowers in all we are and own	P
A future presses near	E2
Clouds of unshapen fear	E2
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And now the ghostly vast night fall	T2
Like an age closing past recall	T2
Seems and this darkening sea	A2
The wastes of history	A2
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The sea that no proud trophy claims	L2
For sunken ventures foundered fames	L2
Dishevelled navies tost	J
Ships like a bubble lost	J
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That keeps no sure abiding form	R
And rises in unconscious storm	R
Whipt by an ignorant blast	J
And when the fury's past	J
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Sleeking its waves mile after mile	U2
Into the image of a smile	U2
Is this what Time does still	K
Working a witless will	K
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But through the dark stopt by no seas	L2
Pass other Powers and Presences	L2
Unseen from shore to shore	X
Armed and at conscious war	X
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Ideas mightier than men	V2
That seize and madden free or chain	N
The things unprophesied	J
Our prophecies deride	J
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But end is none though the storms break	W2
And the mind pale and the heart shake	W2
Out of that future ring	X2
Far trumpets challenging	X2