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Robert Laurence Binyon

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I	A
Where is all the beauty that hath been	B
Where the bloom	C
Dust on boundless wind Grass dropt into fire	D
Shall Earth boast at last of all her teeming womb	C
All that suffered all that triumphed to inspire	E
Life in perfect mould and speech the proud mind's lamp serene	F
Nothing Space be starry in tremendous choir	D
For whom	C
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In this deserted chamber as the evening falls	G
Silent curtains move no fold	H
Long has ebbed the floor's pale gold	H
Shadows deepen down the silent walls	G
The air is mute as dreams beneath a sleeper's face	I
Distant undivined	H
But every hovering shadow seems to hold	H
Want untold	H
The look of things forsaken each in its own place	I
Memories without home in any mind	H
Idle rich neglect and perfume old	H
Over these the glimmer of the twilight fades	J
Infinite human solitude invades	J
Forms relinquished hues resigned	H
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O little mirror round and clear	K
In solemn coloured shadow lying	L
Cold as the moon pale as a tear	M
With spiritual silver beam replying	L
Indifferently to all things as to one	N
Beauty's relic and oblivion	N
But void void void Desolate as a cave	O
Abandoned even of the breaking wave	O
A home of youth and mirth when all its guests are gone	P
As I touch thee in the silence here	Q
Where thou liest alone apart	H
Through the silence of my heart	H
Thou flashest elfin flames of fear	K
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Like a thought of lost delight	H
Like love sweetness like despair	M
Come faint spices of the night	H
Floating on the darkened air	M
The air is tender with the sense of dew	H
Is tranced is dim is heavy as if there hung	R
Within the tinges of its shadowy hue	H
Ghosts of lost flowers with all their petals young	R
And the young beauty they made incense to	H
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O forlorn mirror is there nothing thine	S
The cup is emptied of its fragrant wine	S
The dress is vacant of the breathing form	T
And thou that gleam'st	H
All absence of what once moved gracious white and warm	T
In thy clear wells or luminously mused	H
O little mirror long disused	H
Laid in this empty bower's recess	U
Thou thyself seem'st	H
The soul and mystery of emptiness	V
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Yet if I should raise thee now	W
As once and oft thou knowest how	W
Hand and slim wrist smooth as a flower stem raised	H
Thy silent radiance and with intent brow	W
Eyes within thee gazed	H
Seeking thine oracle	X
Shall not from these pellucid secrecies appear	K
Not I nor any shape of this dim room	C
But all that in thy cave of lambent gloom	C
Hath dwelt and still may dwell	Y
Ambushed like visions bound in sleeping memory's cell	Y
All that thy brightness buries as the sea	Z
Tossed bones and crusted gold had I the key	Z
Might'st thou not open depths might'st thou not yield	H
Wonder of wonders what since time began	A2
Was never yet revealed	H
The unmapped unmeasured secret heart of man	A2
Half shut eyes voluptuously	Y
Lightening as the bosom swells and glows	B2
Smile to smile flowering from an ardent thought	H
O what moments didst thou deify	A
With the promise of life crushed to wine	S
Redder than the cheek's triumphant rose	B2
But from deeper places hast thou brought	H
Nothing Are not other answers thine	S
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Hast thou not heard hast thou not seen	F
Hast thou not shown hast thou not found	H
Shames unwhispered terrors bound	H
Earthquake pangs of aghast surmise	C2
When with itself the heart has been	B
Face to face in an hour profound	H
Out of thee what ghosts shall rise	C2
Shapes and gestures and accusing eyes	C2
World flattered faces in midnights of pain	D2
Faces defaced by tiger lusts insane	D2
Faces appalled before a self unguessed	H
Ashaming dawns on faces fallen and dispossessed	H
O what glimpses hast thou flashed in dread	H
With what hauntings wast thou visited	H
Apparitions of a soul made bare	M
Shuddering at the thing it looked on there	M
But thou art stainless though the heart has bled	H
Thou art silent as the air	M
Or the wave that closes smooth above the drowner's head	H
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No man hath seen his soul	Y
Save for a glimpse in the night	H
Brief as an ember of coal	Y
Blown for an instant bright	H
To see his own soul as it is	E2
Eternity must enter him	F2
With the torches of Seraphim	F2
That have shone to the last abyss	G2
Mirror couldst thou show the spirit this	G2
Then within this narrow room	F2
Were the Judgment and the Doom	F2
For by so much as its own self it knew	H
Searched by that burning vision through and through	H
To the innermost of where it crouched and hid	H
Amid the husks of the mean deeds it did	H
Amid the shadow of all it shunned the quest	H
It turned from and in palterings acquiesced	H
To the uttermost of what its eager passion	N
Caught of the glory springing to re fashion	N
Hope and the world and great with pity saw	H2
Life darkly wrestling with the angel Law	H2
By such a measure molten in that fire	D
Should the soul mete itself on God's desire	D
Suffer at last all wisdom and endure	I2
The beam and vision of a thought all pure	I2
O were not this to taste Heaven's dawn or dwell	Y
Because of knowledge in the pains of Hell	Y
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II	A
Where is all the wailing all the want	H
That sorrow tore	J2
From Love's bleeding breast Extinguished quite	H
Shall the wide winged glory of hope extravagant	H
Shall the laughter shall the song that sprang to soar	J2
Fall and no ear hearken and their falling flight	H
Echoless waste walls of adamant	H
Ignore	J2
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Draw wide the curtain Fabulous remote	H
Night is come	F2
Over Earth's lost bosom fragrant breathings float	H
Into glimmering heights of gloom	F2
But upon the solitary verge extreme	F2
Steals a beam	F2
Hushed and sudden ere the eye could note	H
Lo the moon is there	M
Innocence of splendour gazing bare	M
Drenches leaves in quiet thought in dream	F2
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Is it Earth's pale mirror lifted lone	K2
For an answer to her million sighs	C2
Can that far Tranquillity atone	K2
In the gaze of those unnumbered eyes	C2
For the pang and for the moan	K2
For the heart's dim burial and long dirge	L2
Luring as she lures the mutinous sea surge	L2
To her will of peace this human tide	H
From a charmed shadow on the shorn hill side	H
Hand in hand lovers through the trees emerge	L2
And pause their very souls are glorified	H
Their feet tread airy on immaterial ground	H
With marvelling gaze they feel	Y
That well of spiritual light o'erflow	Y
The listening hush and steal	Y
Fear and trouble as though	M2
The world were one vast music of ethereal sound	H
And they a stillness in the midst of it	H
Peace peace and pity pardon pity peace	N2
Passing all mortal wit	H
O truth long sought and magically found	H
O wonder and release	N2
O secret of the world long hidden in day's dust	H
They bathe their hearts in that sweet dew their hands	O2
Thrill clasping in a touch that understands	O2
Nothing magnificent but a divine surrender	D
Absolving and august	H
To distances immersed and tender	D
Unfolds this vale of struggle hard and pent	H
Region of unwon ravishment	H
In unadventured lands	O2
A place of leaves and lonely light and leafy scent	H
Storied like that old forest of the perilous Fleece	N2
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Sorceress of million nights	P2
Hast thou charmed indeed the brew	H
When the stealth of perverse rites	P2
Mouths that mutter hands that strew	H
Love tormented and malign	S
Flushed with terror like a maddening wine	S
Sought another's rue	H
Hecate of the cross roads hast thou hearkened	H
To the sailing witch's mew	H
And the felon raven's croak	Q2
When the shuddering winds were darkened	H
And the leaves rushed from the withered oak	Q2
Ah not these foul toys would I invoke	Q2
O for some supreme enchanting spell	Y
Voice of a God crying aloud	H
Felt and feared on Earth's heart strings	R2
To conjure and to compel	Y
Like a spectre from the shroud	H
Or like incense dust that springs	R2
Into fire and fragrant cloud	H
Out of thy blind caves and cold recesses	S2
Out of that blank mirror's desert beam	F2
All the unnumbered longings and wild prayers	T2
Infinite heart broken tendernesses	T2
Indignations and despairs	T2
That from man's long wound of passion stream	F2
Sucked like vapour like a mist of tears	T2
Into that imagined peace that ecstasy	T2
O surely surely thou hast wrought thy part	H
In every secret and tempestuous heart	H
Thou that hast gleamed on thousand battle crimsoned spears	T2
Thou that wast radiant on Gethsemane	S
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She has seen not she has heard not	H
Hearts have leapt for her but she has stirred not	H
Pity she has made but none has had	H
Though her magic mingles with Earth's want	H
And the trouble of Earth's tender sons	T2
Thunder of the builded Babylons	T2
Music of the dreaming poet's chant	H
Venture of the steering argosies	T2
With a light as of divine fulfilment clad	H
Breathing in for ever syllables of peace	T2
Peace is it peace Yet Earth dark Earth	U2
Mother O Mother thou that nourishest	H
In the blind patience of thy teeming breast	H
Hope without end who drivest life to birth	U2
Yet numberest not our dear and sacred dead	H
Unheeding of our anguish and lost cries	T2
So thou mayst build beyond us in our stead	H
A race enriched with all for which we bled	H
Of haughtier stature and of kinglier eyes	T2
Thou of whose vast desire strong realms of old	H
The dynasty of empires were but waves	T2
That towered and crashed into their splendid graves	T2
For thine unresting hunger to remould	H
Yet mightier O insatiable Doth fear	K
Not shake thee Mother seest thou not ev'n here	Q
In that cold mirror's answer what shall steep	V2
Thee also in oblivion Thou shalt keep	V2
Of all the fruit of thy most fiery spring	L
Stored riches of thy sleepless trafficking	L
And proud perfection thou hast travailed for	J2
Nothing The beauty that thy body bore	J2
Fresh and exulting Mother dost not weep	V2
Laughter of streams young flowers and starry seas	T2
Pillar and palace heaven faced images	T2
That man has wrought his tossing heart to ease	T2
Nothing To cloud shall vanish the deed done	S
The bannered victory the wrong borne alone	S
Nothing and thou be desolate and none	S
To feel thy desolation emptiness	T2
Night within night immense and issueless	T2
Till as a breath upon the mirror dies	T2
Fades the last smoke of thy long sacrifice	T2
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Out of the deeps trembling the soul	Y
Cries through night to the silent pole	Y
I that am want I that am grief	W2
I that am love I that am mirth	U2
I that am fear I that am fire	D
Though thou clothe me in beauty brief	W2
Though I have worn thy sweet attire	D
I thy endless sorrow Earth	U2
Dwell in the glory of God's desire	D
That kneads for ever in the flesh	X2
Of man to make his spirit afresh	X2
A marvel more than all thy wandering seas	T2
And mightier than thy caverned mysteries	T2
Nor stays nor sleeps but world on world transfuses	T2
Melted ever to diviner uses	T2
Through infinite swift changes burning	L
Itself the end no end discerning	L
Till all the universe be wrought	H
Into its far perfecting thought	H
Then this mind of cloud and rue	H
Shall in eternal mind be new	H
Mirror of God pure and alone	S
See and be seen know and be known ''	-