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Often we talk of the house that we will build	A
For airier and less jostled days than these	B
We chafe in and send Fancy roaming wide	C
Down western valleys with a choosing eye	D
To hover upon this nook or on that	E
And let the mind like fingers pressing clay	F
Shape and reshape the mould of an old desire	G
Spur jogging Time conjure slow years to days	H
Until tall trees like those far fabled walls	I
Rise visibly to the mind's music Here	J
We scoop a terrace under hanging woods	K
Upon the generous slope of a green hill	L
That gazes over alluring distances	M
Listen to our merry children at their play	F
And see the shadow lengthen from our roof	N
On plots of garden Fancy busy still	L
Sows colours for the seasons in those plots	O
And matches or contrasts the chosen leaves	P
That are to shade our saunters the clean boughs	Q
Of aromatic walnut the wild crab	R
With after snows of blossom fiery fruit	S
And beeches of a grander race beyond them	T
Withdrawing into uninvaded wood	U
But farther down our orchard falls to where	V
The stream makes a live murmur all day long	W
Man is a builder born not for the shell	X
That makes him armour against stripping wind	Y
And frost and darkness for befriending roof	N
And walls to sally from a bread getter	G
No but as out of mere unmeaning sound	Z
And the wild silence he has made himself	A2
Marvellous words and the order of sweet speech	B2
Breathing and singing syllables that move	C2
Out of the caverns of his heart like waves	D2
Into the world beyond discovery so	E2
Builds he projecting memory and strong hope	F2
And dear and dark experience into stone	G2
And the warm earth he digs in and reshapes	E2
Dyeing them human and with a subtle touch	H2
Discovering far kinships in the sky	D
And the altering season till the very cloud	I2
Brings its own shadow as to familiar haunts	E2
And the sun rests as on a place it sought	J2
Earth also as with a soft step unperceived	J2
Draws from her ancient silence nearer him	K2
Sending wild birds to nest beneath his eaves	E2
Or to shake songs about him as he walks	E2
Shy friends the airy playmates of his joy	L2
Caesars may hoist their towers and heave their walls	E2
Into a stark magnificence impose	E2
The aggrandised image of themselves as trumpets	E2
Shattering stillness We'll not envy them	T
While there's a garden to companion us	E2
And earth to meet us with her gentle moss	E2
Upon our own walls They may entertain	M2
Prodigally a thousand guests unpleased	J2
But we have always one guest that is ever	G
Lovely and gracious and acceptable	N2
Light As I lay upon a hill top's turf	O2
I watched the wide light filling the round air	V
And I was filled with its felicity	J2
O the carriage of the light among the corn	P2
When the glory of the wind dishevels it	J2
How it filters into the dim domes of trees	E2
Spilt down their green height shadows dropping gold	J2
How beautiful its way upon the hills	E2
At morning and at evening when the blades	E2
Of grass blow luminous every little blade	J2
How the flowers drink it happy to the roots	E2
This lovely guest is ours to lodge and we	J2
Will build for it escapes and entrances	E2
And corners to waylay the early beam	Q2
And keep its last of lingering here to accept	J2
Its royalty of fullness there to catch	R2
In dusky cool one lustre on the floor	S2
Doubling itself in echoed radiances	E2
Mellow as an old golden wine on wall	T2
And ceiling oh how gentle a touch it has	E2
On choice books and smooth burnished wood in such	H2
Human captivity When the winds roar over	G
What sudden splendours toss into our peace	E2
With reappearing victories O the glory	J2
Of morning through a doorway on the hair	V
Neck arms young movements of a laughing child	J2
O mystery of brightness when we wake	U2
In the night hush and see upon the blind	J2
The trembling of the shadow of a tree	J2
Kissed by the moon that from the buried light	J2
Wooes ghostliness of beauty and receives	E2
And whispers it to all the world asleep	V2
Whatever it be made of this dreamed home	W2
Upon a hill I know not in what vale	X2
Shall be a little palace for the light	J2
To stray and sleep in and be blest for it	J2
So thought I then I thought O my dear Love	Y2
Surely I am that house and you the light	J2

Robert Laurence Binyon

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