The Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Host	A
Linger not linger not lift your glasses	B
Mirth shall come as misery passes	B
Hark how the mad wind blows his horn	C
And hunts the laggards in streets forlorn	C
Hark how fierce the winter rain	D
Beats and streams on the window pane	D
Ill is it now for the houseless head	E
And for him that makes on the ground his bed	E
But we will forget in the warmth of the fire	F
And be glad and taste of our heart's desire	F
Laugh old care and trouble down	G
And toils and sad remembrance drown	G
All is yours all sorrow bury	H
To night and with me for an hour be merry	H
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Madge	I
You are kind sir Host O believe you not	J
That it makes my joy to cheer your lot	J
You see me who have lived my days	K
In riches pleasure friendship praise	K
I was not happy I wanted more	L
To day I have found what I missed before	L
I have sought you and brought you from cold and rain	D
Now I will raise you out of your pain	D
And you old man shall be young with me	H
Brisk and glad as you used to be	H
And you child with your cheeks so white	M
Shall feel fresh blood in your pulse to night	M
Linger not linger not eat your fill	N
Drink and be merry All We will we will	N
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	-
Blind Roger	F
Set the glass in my hand I'm blind and old	O
But still I shun to be left in the cold	O
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Host	A
Is it hard at the first to remember the way	P
Of mirth and be rid of the load of the day	P
Oh be not afraid to laugh and to smile	Q
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Averill	R
Our lips it may be are slow awhile	Q
And our hearts unused to gaiety yet	S
But let us forget	S
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Tony	H
Ay let us forget	S
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Michael	T
That's easy mates but that's the least	U
Now we're set to so rare a feast	U
I'm ripe and ready for all gay cheer	V
But the great wax lights so soft and clear	V
Abash me and make my eyes afraid	W
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Host	A
Wait but a moment the dazzle will fade	W
Soon to your eyes will the light be as bloom	X
And your ears be filled with the peace of the room	X
Were the wind but quiet instead of the toil	Y
And the traffic beneath with its huge turmoil	Y
You'd fancy the lonely fields around	Z
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Annie	H
'Tis soft and calm but I miss the sound	Z
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Averill	R
Oh it is sweet for an hour to be lulled	A2
For an hour to be happy with senses dulled	A2
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Tony	H
Ah ah the silver how it gleams	B2
I have seen such glitterings in my dreams	B2
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Roger	F
Long long ago when my eyes could see	H
Such sweet odours used to be	H
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Michael	T
What a fruit is this to melt in the mouth	C2
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Host	A
I have a garden in the South	C2
It brings me summer warm in frost	D2
Glories fallen and odours lost	D2
I love fresh roses in the snow	E2
I love them best when the leaves are low	E2
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Annie	H
What wonderful colours are these that burn	F2
In the red flower blushing beneath the fern	F2
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	-
Madge	I
How cold are your hands lass	G2
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Host	A
Come to the fire	F
Come let us heap the bright coal higher	F
Now the sparks fly	H2
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Michael	T
The fire is good	I2
The blessed red flames warm my blood	J2
Better this than the stars I saw	K2
Shine last night where I lay on the straw	K2
Through a chink in the roof of the mouldering shed	E
Ha ha I thought it a famous bed	E
And slept like a prince in his palace till day	P
When the cursing farmer drove me away	P
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Tony	H
Once I sat in as fine a room	X
The host was away but we were at home	L2
We drank his health in his own red wine	M2
'Twas midnight when we sat to dine	M2
We filled our bellies and slept for a spin	N2
And softly we laughed as the dawn came in	N2
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Michael	T
Now we are merrier now for a song	O2
O for some music to bear it along	O2
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Roger	F
I once could sing my song with the best	P2
I rolled my voice up out of my chest	P2
But the sap is dried in my bones so you	Q2
That have voice and blood and all things new	Q2
Sing with the burden we'll all come in	N2
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Host	A
Moisten your mouth then ere you begin	N2
I pledge you friends Your health and yours	R2
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Michael	T
May you be merry while breath endures	R2
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Tony	H
May you be merry whatever befall	S2
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Annie	H
Good luck	T2
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Madge	I
Good luck	T2
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Host	A
Good luck to you all	S2
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Michael	T
singing	U2
Wander with me wander with me	H
Care to the devil be free be free	H
Who but a fool would scrape and save	V2
To heap up a molehill and live in a grave	V2
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Roger	F
quavering	U2
Wander with me wander with me	H
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Michael	T
I saw the old landlord the miser gray	P
Gather his greedy rents to day	P
The old gray rat with fiery eyes	W2
He stamped with his stick and he snuffed for a prize	W2
Lord how the starveling tenants shivered	X2
And into his ravening claws delivered	X2
Death pulls at his foot with a right good will	N
But he fleshes his teeth with a relish still	N
What prayers and excuses I laughed to hear	Y2
I that owed nothing had nothing to fear	V
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Madge	I
O men are cruel I've seen them go	E2
And turn folks houseless into the snow	E2
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Michael	T
singing	U2
What rent pay I to the air and the sun	Z2
The days and the nights are mine every one	Z2
When I've finished with one there's another begun	Z2
Wander with me wander with me	H
Care to the devil be free be free	H
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All	S2
Wander with me wander with me	H
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Michael	T
Yes I tell you sir I tell you my friend	A3
I drink your good luck but be sure of the end	A3
You never can tell you won't come to the cold	O
And the bed from under your body be sold	O
You smile at your ease you pay no heed	B3
You think to lay hands on all that you need	B3
And still you go piling your riches high	H2
But where is the use of it all say I	H2
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Host	A
Well said my friend you've a heart in your breast	P2
And a brave heart beating is worth all the rest	P2
Where is the use of it all 'Tis true	Q2
But we walk in the way we're accustomed to	Q2
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Michael	T
He with his riches he dares not believe me	H
With banquets and couches he thinks to deceive me	H
Give me a glass of the bright stuff there	C3
And you that sit so straight in your chair	C3
What are you thinking so sadly of yonder	F
You dreamer of dreams To be merry and wander	F
Over the world is it wiser say	P
Than to sit and grow fat and let life slip away	P
Till your blood turns chill and your hair turns gray	P
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Averill	R
I think I have wandered the whole earth round	Z
An endless errand nowhere bound	Z
I look straight and nothing see	H
In the world and no man looks on me	H
What have I with men to do	Q2
I hear them laugh as I pass them through	Q2
In the street I feel them stop and stare	C3
At the boards that over my shoulder flare	C3
What matters my ragged and grimy coat	D3
My aching back my parching throat	D3
I am a beacon to laughter and leisure	F
I point all day the path to pleasure	F
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A pause	E3
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Madge	I
How strange we look in the mirror tall	S2
It casts a brightness about us all	S2
Here are we round a table set	S
And until this night we had never met	S
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Roger	F
Your mirth soon flags When I was young	F3
We'd have been merry the whole night long	O2
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Michael	T
Ay mates we're wasting our pleasure Drink	G3
We came not here to be sad and to think	G3
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Madge	I
'Tis all day toiling that clouds the head	E
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Host	A
What do you do for daily bread	E
	-
Madge	I
I sell my matches along the street	H3
I see the young with nimble feet	H3
The fair and the foolish the feeble and old	O
That crawl along in the mire and the cold	O
And the sound is always in my ears	I3
O the long long crowding trampling years	I3
Since I was young and followed after	F
The lights the faces the glee the laughter	F
But now I watch them hurry and pass	G2
As I see you all now there in the glass	G2
Annie so pale What ails you lass	G2
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Annie	H
I am faint I am tired but soon 'twill go	E2
On the pavement I never felt it so	E2
All is so strange here I am afraid	W
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Host	A
Afraid What grief my girl has made	W
Such foolish fears come into your thought	J3
We are all friends and friends or not	J
None should harm you within these doors	K3
Outside is the world that raves and roars	K3
But you I marvel how you so slight	M
Endure alone so vast a fight	M
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Annie	H
	-
I know not how but down in the street	H3
'Tis not so heavy a task to meet	H3
A power beyond me bears me along	O2
The faint with the eager the weak with the strong	O2
'Tis like an army with marching sound	Z
I march and my feet forget the ground	Z
I have no thought no wish no fear	V
And the others are brave for me But here	Y2
I know not why I long to rest	P2
I have an aching in my breast	P2
O I am tired how sweet 'twould be	H
To yield and to struggle no more and be free	H
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Michael	T
Courage lass hold up your head	E
Never give in till it's time to be dead	E
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Host	A
Nay rest if you will Yet taste this wine	M2
The cordial juice of a golden vine	M2
'Twill cheer your spirit 'tis ripe and good	I2
And it goes like sunshine into the blood	J2
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Madge	I
Eat this fruit too that looks so rich	L3
So smooth and rosy Is it a peach	M3
'Tis soft as the cheek of a child I swear	C3
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Annie	H
absently As the cheek of a child	N3
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Michael	T
Come never despair	C3
But the sad man what is he mumbling there	C3
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Averill	R
To the lost to the fresh	O3
To the sweet to the vain	D
Turn again Time	P3
And bring me again	Q3
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I feel it from afar	R3
Like the scent of a leaf	S3
I see and I hear	Y2
It is joy it is grief	S3
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What have we done	Z2
With our youth with the flowers	T3
With the breeze with the sun	Z2
With the dream that was ours	T3
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Our thoughts that blossomed	U3
Young and wet	S
What have we drunken	Z2
Quite to forget	S
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Where have we buried	B3
Our dead delight	M
We could not endure it	V3
It shone too bright	M
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O it comes over me	H
Keener than pain	D
All is yet possible	T
Once once again	Q3
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A silence	W3
Annie	H
starting up What am I doing	U2
Eating and drinking	U2
I strangle I choke	X3
With the pain of my thinking	U2
He wants me he cries for me	H
Somewhere my boy	Y3
My baby my own one joy	Y3
They said 'twas a sin to have borne him	Z3
My sin was to desert him	Z3
He that hung at my breast and trusted me	H
How had I heart to hurt him	Z3
I must go through the night through the cold through the rain	D
I must seek I must toil till I find him again	Q3
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Host	A
Stay stay	P
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Madge	I
O Annie how can you bear	C3
To tell your shame where all can hear	Y2
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Annie	H
I wish that I were lying	U2
In my love's arms again	Q3
My body to him was precious	A4
As now it is worthless and vain	D
What matters to me what you say Let me go	E2
But you O why did you wake my woe	E2
I wanted not feasting nor mirth nor wine	M2
Nor the things that I know shall never be mine	M2
I wanted only to sleep and forget	S
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Host	A
She's gone	B4
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Madge	I
The night's wild	N3
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Averill	R
Wild and wet	S
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Tony	H
Hark how the wind in the chimney hums	C4
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Averill	R
It beats and threatens like distant drums	C4
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Host	A
Come to the fire Fill once more	L
Your glasses	B
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Michael	T
It is not now as before	L
The good drink tastes no longer well	D4
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Madge	I
I am full of fears that I cannot tell	D4
Why am I weak and lonely and old	O
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Roger	F
Where is it gone I seemed to behold	O
For a moment but now the blessed light	M
Alas again it is black black night	M
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Tony	H
I once was loved by a lass I see	H
Her smile I hear her calling to me	H
Could I feel her kiss on my mouth again	Q3
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Roger	F
O could I see for a moment plain	D
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Michael	T
I had a friend he was dearer than brother	F
I loved him as I loved none other	F
I struck him in drink he left me for ever	F
I shall grasp his hand again never never	F
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Averill	R
What have you done to us Why have you brought	J3
All sad thoughts that ever we thought	J3
And this evil spell around us cast	E4
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Madge	I
We were all merry a moment past	E4
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Host	A
What will you have friends What shall I do	Q2
For your comfort What shall I give to you	Q2
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Averill	R
My youth	F4
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Roger	F
My sight	M
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Tony	H
My love	G4
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Michael	T
My friend	A3
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Madge	I
O make me sure of peace in the end	A3
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Host	A
I gave you freely of all I had	H4
It is not my doing you are not glad	H4
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Averill	R
We want	I4
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Tony	H
We hunger	F
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Averill	R
Ah once more	L
Let us hope let us love let us live	J4
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Michael	T
Restore	L
What we have lost what you possess	K4
You that are stronger for our distress	K4
You that have wakened our hearts this day	P
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Host	A
My friend you know not what you say	P
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Roger	F
in a low voice	L4
Why did he ask us hither to night	M
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Madge	I
And question too of our evil plight	M
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Tony	H
Why did he drive us to be glad	H4
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Roger	F
To make us remember what once we had	H4
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Madge	I
Youth and happiness well forgot	J
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Tony	H
To spy on our trouble	T
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Michael A devil's plot	J
Damn the poison Drink no more	L
I wish I had split my glass on the floor	L
Ere I made merry with him His guest	P2
To watch us befooled 'twas an excellent jest	P2
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Roger	F
I wish I could see his face	M4
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Michael	T
He stands	N4
Pale and angry with twitching hands	N4
O his sport is spoiled he's vext to know	E2
That we've found him out	O4
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Madge	I
Let us go let us go	E2
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Michael	T
Ay we've our pride as well as he	H
Come out to the street in the street we are free	H
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Tony	H
Curse the light that dazzled our eyes	W2
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Michael	T
Curse the drink that taught us lies	W2
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Madge	I
Say no more but let's begone	H
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Curse the mocker that lured us on	H
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Michael	T
May your pleasure perish your grief increase	P4
Your heart dry up	Q4
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Averill	R
breaking in	H
Peace friends peace	P4
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Host	A
astonished and struggling with himself Ungrateful	T
	-
Averill	R
You know not sir perchance	R4
How misery turns the mind askance	R4
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Host	A
I pitied you	Q2
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Averill	R
Pity sir 'tis well	D4
But it will not hold men up from hell	D4
Silence friends you have had your way	P
Now 'tis for me to say my say	P
Listen well our host my youth	F4
Comes back I burn with the fire of the truth	F4
It lights my thoughts and kindles my tongue	F3
And he must speak whose heart is wrung	F3
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Behold us who ask not pity	H
We were not what we are	R3
For a moment now we remember	F
Oh we have fallen far	R3
	-
We are Necessity's children	H
Our Mother that bore us of old	O
Has her mark on us all she brings us	A4
All in the end to her fold	O
	-
We have wandered in meadow and sun	H
But she calls us up from the flowers	T3
She is our will our purpose	A4
The aching flesh is ours	T3
	-
Hark in the lullest tempest	S4
Close on the wild wind's heels	T4
The sound that makes men tremble	T
The sound of her chariot wheels	T4
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She calls We must not tarry	H
We must take up our yoke again	H
With labouring feet for ever	F
To follow her triumph's train	H
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To follow her sleepless course	U4
And to fall when she decrees	V4
With wailings that no man hearkens	W4
With tramplings that no man sees	V4
	-
With the great world glorying round us	A4
As the dying soldier hears	X4
Far off in the ebb of battle	T
His conquering comrades' cheers	I3
	-
Is your heart grown tender toward us	A4
Would you lift us up from the mire	Y4
Would you set our feet in the way	P
To follow our far desire	F
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Oh you must have strength to fashion	H
Our bones and bowels anew	Q2
With fresh blood fill these bodies	V4
Ere we may have part with you	Q2
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Farewell for our Mother calls	Z4
We go but we thank you friend	A3
Who have lifted us up for a moment
To behold our beginning and end	A3
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We are clothed with youth and riches	B
We are givers of feasts to night	M
We spread our plenteous table	T
And heap it in your sight	M
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You need not to sharpen hunger	F
All shall be well appeased
If you find our fare to your pleasure	F
You shall depart well pleased
	-
Have you tasted a relish keener	F
Than the pang of useless pain	H
Know you a spice more rare	C3
Than the tears of wisdom rain	H
	-
Come eat of the mad desires	T3
That rend us we know not why	H2
The terrors that hunt us the torment
That will not let us die	H2
	-
Taste it is ripe to bursting	U2
The sorrow scented fruit
That weakness sowed in darkness	A4
That found in the night its root
	-
That blossomed in great despairs
And is trodden to earth in scorn	H
By the ignorant feet that trample	T
The faces of babes unborn	H
	-
The laughter of men that mock
The silence of women that fear	V
The shrinking of children's hands	N4
Come taste all these are here	Y2
	-
Drink drink of the blood red wine	H
That the smilers and scorners have pressed	P2
From the wrongs of the helpless the rending	U2
And sobs of the fatherless breast	P2
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We heap our table before you	Q2
Eat and be filled we go	E2
O friend that had pity on us	A4
It is we that have pity on you	Q2
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Host	A
Alone after a long silence raising his head	E
O what furious serpent's nest	P2
Have I found in my own breast	P2
Like flames my thoughts upon me leap
To eat my joy to kill my sleep
How dreadful is the silence here	Y2
It weighs like terror on my ear	Y2
Soon will the dawn be shining in	H
And men awake and birds begin	H
And I must face the world afresh	O3
I faint I fear it in my flesh	O3
I thought that I could love my kind
Love is vast and I was blind
O mighty world my weakness spare	C3
This love is more than I can dare	C3

Robert Laurence Binyon

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