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Rolled in a smouldering mist wrapt in an ardent cloud	A
Over ridged roofs over the buried roar	B
That comes and goes	C
Where shadowy London mutters at the core	B
Of meeting streets interminably ploughed	A
Through blackness built and steepled and immense	D
With felt unfeatured waste magnificence	D
The night shudders and glows	D
Ensanguined skies that lower and lift and change	E
Each instant sullen with a spectral rose	D
Upon the towered horizon but more near	F
A lurid vapour throbbing up the gloom	G
Glares like a furnace fume	G
Exhausted pallors hover faint and strange	E
Dull fiery flushes melt and reappear	F
While over all in lofty glimpses far	H
Spaces of silence and blue dream disclose	D
The still eye of a star	H
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Muffled in burning air so dumb	I
Above this monstrous ever trembling hum	I
What hide you heavens What sombre presences	D
What powers pass over What dim legioned host	J
What peopled pageantries	D
With gleam of arms and robes that crimsoned trail	K
In silent triumph or huge mockery hail	K
O is it the tumultuous memoried ghost	J
Of some lost city fabulous and frail	K
Stoops over London Susa Thebes or Tyre	L
Rebuilded out of mist and fire	M
No rather to its secret self revealed	N
The soul of London burning in the skies	D
Her desolations and her majesties	D
	-
There there is all unsealed	N
Terror and hope ecstasy and despair	O
Their apparition yield	N
While still through kindled street and shadowy square	O
The faces pass the uncounted faces crowd	A
Rages lamentings joys in masks of flesh concealed	N
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Down a grimed lane around a bare benched room	G
Seven shapes of men are sunken heads upon hands bowed	A
O spent and mad desires lost in the fiery cloud	A
What dungeon fled you from	I
Across the river's glittering gloom	G
Under the towered chimes a youth steps bright	P
With dream that all the future clothes	D
Into this new enchanted land	Q
Incessant stream the faces into light	P
From his wife's hand	Q
Behold a drunkard snatch the toil earned pence	D
And strike her on the patient face with oaths	D
But over trees upon a balcony	R
To a young girl life murmurs up immense	D
Its strange delight	P
And in her pulses to her spirit sings	D
Along an alley thronged and flaring	S
A woman's loud self loathing laughter rings	D
The old prowler leers Fierce cries a mob incense	D
Still the red Night her stormy heart is baring	S
A bent blind beggar taps along the stones	D
The indifferent traffic roars and drones	D
Blank under a high torch	T
Gapes a house ruin propped with beams beneath	U
Some shadow guarded and neglected porch	T
A girl and boy	V
Whence flowered O Night yon soft and fearful rose	D
Press timid lips and breathe	W
Speechless their joy	V
Hither and thither goes	D
The homeless outcast students turn the page	X
By lamplight the physician sentences	D
Dull eyed or jovial tavern loungers drink	Y
The applauded actor steps upon the stage	X
Mothers with far thoughts watch upon their knees	D
Where children slumber revellers stamp and shout	Z
Long parted bosoms meet in sobbed embrace	D
Hope behind doors ebbs from the waiting face	D
Locked bodies sway and swell	A2
With pain of unendurable farewell	A2
No instant but some debt of terror's paid	B2
Some shame exacted measureless love poured out	Z
Weak hearts are helped strong men are torn	C2
Wild sorrow in dear arms is comforted	D2
The last peace dawns upon the newly dead	E2
And in hushed rooms is heard wail of the newly born	C2
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What ferments rise and mingle	F2
Night on your cloudy mirror what young fire	M
Shoots and what endless lassitudes expire	L
Yet out of one flesh wrought	G2
None separate none single	F2
Hater and hated seeker and sought	G2
O restless O innumerable shapes	D
Kneaded by one all urging thought	G2
That none diverts that none escapes	D
So thirsted for if not in pride in shame	H2
If not with tenderness with railing curse	D
If not with hands that cherish hands that maim	H2
Life how vast Life how brief	I2
Eternally wooed and wooing	S
That some would stifle and some hotly seize	D
And some by cunning trap into their mesh	J2
Or plunder in the darkness like a thief	I2
And these from rapturous pangs of flesh	J2
Would crush to maddening wine and these	D
In still renunciation lure to their soul's ease	D
Though never in a single heart contained	K2
Though depth of it no wisest seer may plumb	I
Though height of it no hero wholly gained	K2
Heavenly and human twined in all our throes	D
Of passion that in blind heat overflows	D
To charge the night with thick and shuddering fume	G
And felt in every cry in every deed	L2
Defaced or freed	L2
Ah spent at such a dear and cruel cost	M2
Possessed a moment and then like yon height	P
Of stars clouded in our own selves and lost	N2
Lives the supreme	O2
Reality diviner than all dream	O2
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Now all the heaven like a huge smithy glows	D
Hollow and palpitating dusk and glare	O
Ah forge of God where blows	D
The blast of an incredible flame what might	P
Shapes to what uses there	O
Each obdurate iron or molten fiery part	P2
Of the one infinite wrought human heart	P2
In tears love anger beauty and despair	O
Throbbing for ever under the red night	P

Robert Laurence Binyon

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