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I was contented with the warm silence	A
Sitting by the fire book on knee	B
And fancy uncentred afloat and astray	C
Idled from thought to thought	D
Like a child picking flowers and dropping them	E
In a meadow at play	C
I was contented with the kind silence	A
When there invaded me	B
Not a sound no there was no sound	F
But awareness of a menace	G
Creeping up round	F
The little island of my mind	H
A creeping up of gradual waves out of a sea	B
With storm coming behind	H
Wave on pale wave smile on inhuman smile	I
Driven on by the black force of alien will	J
To drown my world to be the burial	K
Of joy beauty and all	L
That seemed impossible to kill	J
Even the secret home that hope inherited	M
I sat in an unreal room alone	N
Befriending and familiar shapes were gone	O
And I was seized with dread	P
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Then I became restless	G
As if in bonds that must at any cost be burst	Q
The very peace seemed to oppress	R
I was imprisoned and athirst	Q
And rose and crossed the floor	S
Craving to front the naked outer night	Q
At the opened door	S
Stood a thin mist ghostly and motionless	G
	-
Smell of the leaves rotting	T
Breathed through a cold vapour	S
Bitter to the nostril	J
My feet stumbled	Q
In my heart was a cry	S
O for some single point of certitude	Q
I lifted up my face and saw the sky	S
	-
There where I stood	Q
Low mist clung to the earth	U
But above pale and diminished	Q
Only the larger lights pierced the dim air	S
I faced the North	V
And far and faint over a shadowy pine	W
That rose out of the mist	Q
I saw the North Star shine	W
	-
I remembered sailors of old	Q
For whom unclouded night	Q
Was stretched above the dark Mediterranean	X
A blue tapestry pricked with powdery gold	Q
Where legendary presences shone bright	Q
Each with a memory and a name	Y
And under the luminous maze	Z
Steering by the North Star	S
Ships to their harbour came	Y
	-
And now through thick silence	A
On the stifled fog possessed Atlantic	A2
I was hearing distant or near	S
Muffled answer of horn to horn	B2
The rocking clang of the buoy bell	C2
Sound crossing sound to warn	B2
Steamers that on their blinded motion still	J
Unfaltering over seas invisible	K
Held to a silent clue	D2
Because with the assurance of that star	S
The needle points them true	D2
	-
There was a voice whispered	Q
Ascend ascend	Q
Out of the earthy vapour out	Q
Of the invading doubt	Q
Into deliverance into bare	S
Heights of unmeasured air	S
Utterly stilled I stood	Q
Climbing in dizzying thought without an end	Q
To that magnetic light	Q
That affirmation of old certitude	Q
And pinnacled alone in the vast night	Q
My thought was there	S
	-
Oh earth is gone	O
My earth is lost	Q
North Star North Star	S
Dost thou fail me	B
Thou art not what thou wast	Q
And all I was is taken from my mind	Q
For there is neither path nor direction	X
For any thought to find	Q
No North nor South nor East nor West	Q
But homelessness suspended out of time	E2
Where I had sought to climb	E2
North Star it was no shroud	Q
Of mist nor glory of overflowing sun	X
It was no blotting curtain of blank cloud	Q
But a thought in the mind that deposed thee	B
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Down down I sink	F2
Earth again holds me	B
Again North Star I see thee shine	W
But from the naked night I will not shrink	F2
And privately I take	G2
A courage for thy sake	G2
Because thou hast thy place and I have mine	W
Because I still need thee	B
Because thou need'st not me	B

Robert Laurence Binyon

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