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How solitary gleams the lamplit street	A
Waiting the far off morn	B
How softly from the unresting city blows	C
The murmur borne	B
Down this deserted way	D
Dim loiterers pass home with stealthy feet	A
Now only sudden at their interval	E
The lofty chimes awaken and let fall	F
Deep thrills of ordered sound	G
Subsiding echoes gradually drowned	G
In a great stillness that creeps up around	G
And darkly grows	C
Profounder over all	F
Like a strong frost hushing a stormy day	D
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But who is this that by the brazier red	H
Encamped in his rude hut	I
With many a sack about his shoulder spread	H
Watches with eyes unshut	H
The burning brazier flushes his old face	J
Illumining the old thoughts in his eyes	K
Surely the Night doth to her secrecies	K
Admit him and the watching stars attune	L
To their high patience who so lightly seems	K
To bear the weight of many thousand dreams	K
Dark hosts around him sleeping numberless	K
He surely hath unbuilt all walls of thought	H
To reach an air wide wisdom past access	K
Of us who labour in the noisy noon	L
The noon that knows him not	H
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For lo at last the gloom slowly retreats	K
And swiftly like an army comes the Day	H
All bright and loud through the awakened streets	K
Sending a cheerful hum	M
And he has stolen away	H
Now with the morning shining round them come	M
Young men and strip their coats	K
And loose the shirts about their throats	K
And lightly up their ponderous hammers lift	H
Each in his turn descending swift	H
With triple strokes that answer and begin	N
Duly and quiver in repeated change	O
Marrying the eager echoes that weave in	N
A music clear and strange	O
But pausing soon each lays his hammer down	P
And deeply breathing bares	K
His chest stalwart and brown	P
To the sunny airs	K
Laughing one to another limber hand	H
On limber hip flushed in a group they stand	H
And now untired renew their ringing toil	Q
	-
The sun stands high and ever a fresh throng	R
Comes murmuring but that eddying turmoil	Q
Leaves many a loiterer prosperous or unfed	H
On easy or unhappy ways	K
At idle gaze	K
Charmed in the sunshine and the rhythm enthralling	R
As of unwearied Fates for ever young	R
That on the anvil of necessity	H
From measureless desire and quivering fear	S
With musical sure lifting and downfalling	R
Of arm and hammer driven perpetually	H
Beat out in obscure span	T
The fiery destiny of man	T

Robert Laurence Binyon

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