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Robert Laurence Binyon

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I	A
I lay upon my bed in the great night	B
The sense of my body drowsed	B
But a clearness yet lingered in the spirit	B
By soft obscurity housed	B
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As an inn to a traveller on a long road	B
Happy sleep appeared	B
I should come there to the room of waiting dreams	C
In the time that slowly neared	B
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But still amid memory's wane fancy delighted	B
Like wings in the afterglow	D
Dipping to the freshness of the waves of living	E
To recover from long ago	D
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A touch or a voice then soaring aloft and afar	F
The free world to range	G
At last on the brink of the dark by subtle degrees	H
Came a chilling and a change	G
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Solitude sank to my marrow and pierced my veins	I
Though I roam and though I learn	J
All the wonder of earth and of men it is here	K
In the end I must return	J
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To the something alone that in each of us breathes and sleeps	L
Profound isolate still	M
And must brave the giant world and from hour to hour	N
Must prove its own will	M
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To this self unexcused and unglorified drawn	O
From its fond shadows and bare	P
Wherein no man that has been none that is or shall be	Q
Shares or can ever share	P
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And it tingled through me how all use and disguise	R
Hide nothing none	S
Avails to shield neither pleader nor protector	N
But the truth of myself alone	T
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And the days that have made me have I not made them also	D
Are they not drops of my blood	B
What have I done with them Flower they still within me	Q
Or lie trodden in the mud	B
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Why for god like freedom an irreplaceable Here	K
An irrevocable Now	U
They were heavy like strong chains about my bosom	V
Like hard bonds upon my brow	U
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The moments oozing out of the silence seemed	B
From my very heart lost	B
In the stream of the worlds I felt them hot like tears	W
And of more than riches' cost	B
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Yet what was it alien in me stood and rebelled	B
And cried Nevertheless	X
My passion is mine my strength and my frailty I am not	B
Thrall unto Time's duress	X
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Then suddenly rose before me older than all	Y
Night of the soft speech	Z
With murmur of tender winds yet terrible with stars	A2
Beyond fancy's reach	Z
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Without foundation without summit without	B
Haven or refuge Night	B
Palpitating with stars that dizzy thought and desire	N
In their unimagined flight	B
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O these most terrible vast surmises touching	E
The pulse of a fear unknown	T
Where all experience breaks like a frail bubble	B2
And the soul is left alone	T
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Alone and abandoned of all familiar uses	C2
Itself the only place	D2
It knows a question winged barbed and burning	E
In the answerless frost of Space	D2
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I was afraid but my heart throbbed faster fiercer	N
I trembled but cried anew	E2
I am strange to you O Stars O Night I am your exile	F2
I have no portion in you	E2
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Though you shall array your silences against me	Q
I know you and defy	A
Though I be but a moth in an abyss of ages	C2
This at least is not yours it is I	A
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II	A
O bless d be the touch of thought	B
That marries moments from afar	F
That finds the thing it had not sought	B
And smells a spice no treasure bought	B
And learns what never sages taught	B
And sees this earth a dazzling star	F
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As in the sheen of a lamp unseen	G2
The lamp of memory shrouded long	H2
There sprang before me sweet as song	H2
The vision of a branch of bloom	I2
A swaying branch of blossom scented	B
And in that bloom amid the gloom	I2
My heart was luminously tented	B
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III	A
A score of years was melted and I was young	J2
And the world young with me	Q
When in innocence of delight I laid me down	K2
Beneath a certain tree	Q
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The breathing splendour of that remembered May	L2
Had yet seven days to spill	M
In fragrant showers of fairy white and red	B
And in notes from the blackbird's bill	M
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When I laid me down on a bank by the water's edge	M2
In the glowing shadow I lay	L2
My very body was drenched in a speechless joy	N2
Whose cause I could not say	L2
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The sky was poured in singing rivers of blue	E2
The ripple danced in sight	B
Close to the marge was a coloured pebble it burned	B
Amid kisses of liquid light	B
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Like a hurry of little flames the tremble of gleams	C
Shivered up through the leaves and was gone	O
Like a shaking of heavenly bells was the sound of the leaves	O2
In the tower of branches blown	T
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And odours wandering each from its honeyed haunt	B
Over the air stole	P2
Like memories out of a world before the world	B
Seeking the private soul	P2
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But I knew not where my soul was in that hour	N
Neither time nor place it knew	E2
It was trembling high in the topmost blossom that drank	Q2
Of the glory of airy blue	E2
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It was dark in the root that sucked of the plenteous earth	R2
It was lovely flames of fire	N
It was water that murmured round and around the world	B
It was poured in the sun's desire	N
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Not the bird but the bird's bright wayward swiftness	S2
Not the flowers in magic throng	H2
But the shooting the breathing and the perfumed breaking	E
Not the singer it was but the song	H2
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I touched the flesh of my body and it was strange	G
It seemed that my spirit knew	E2
It was I no more yet the earth and the sky answered	B
And cried aloud It is you	E2
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Then into my blood the word of my being thrilled	B
Not a nerve but aware It is I	A
Yet I could not tell my thought from the green of the grass	T2
My bliss from the blue of the sky	A
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Overbrimmed overflowing I rose like one who has drunk	U2
Of a radiance keener than wine	V2
I stood on the marvellous earth and felt my blood	B
As the stream of a power divine	V2
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Laughter of children afar on the air came to me	Q
And touched me softly home	W2
There were tears in me like trembling dew I knew not	B
Where they had stolen from	V
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Who is not my brother and who is not my sister	N
O wonder of human eyes	R
Have I passed you by nor perceived how luminous in you	E2
All infinity lies	R
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Love opened my eyes and opened my ears not one	S
But his soul is as mine is to me	Q
I heard like a ripple around the world breaking	E
The voices of children in glee	Q
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I saw the beauty secret as starlit wells	X2
Treasured in the bosoms of the old	B
I heard like the whisper of leaf to leaf in the nightwind	B
Hopes that the tongue never told	B
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Was it the grass that quivered about me I felt	B
Not that but the hearts beating	E
Close to my own unnumbered as blades of the grass	T2
And the dead in the quick heart meeting	E
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And I knew the dreams of wandering sorrow and joy	N2
Breathed in the sleep of the night	B
From the other side of the earth that for me was glowing	E
To the round horizon's light	B
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The earth that moves through the light and the dark for ever	N
As a dancer moves among	J2
The maze of her sister stars with a silent speed	B
In a dance that is always young	J2
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And the heart of my body knew that it shared in all	Y
It was there not alone nor afraid	B
It throbbed in the life that can never be destroyed	B
In the things Time never made	B