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An Ode	A
I walked beside full flooding Thames to night	B
Westward upon my face the sunset fell	C
The hour the spacious evening pleased me well	C
Buoyant the air breathed after rain and kind	D
To senses flattered with soft sound and light	B
Of merry waves that leapt against the wind	D
Where broadly heaving barge and boat at rest	E
The River came at flood from golden skies	F
Issuing through arches black upon the West	E
To flame before the sunset's mysteries	G
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Far off to night as a remembered dream	H
That different Thames familiar as a friend	I
That youthful Thames to whom his willows bend	I
With private whisper where my boat would come	J
Heaped with fresh flowers and down the cool smooth stream	H
Follow his green banks through the twilight home	K
Far from these paven shores these haughty towers	L
Where wave and beam glorying together run	M
As though they would disown those cradling bowers	L
And gushed immediate from the molten sun	M
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Dazzled I turn and lo the solemn East	N
Before me comes Soft to my eyes yet bright	B
London her vastness stretches in hushed light	B
Murmuring wharf and terrace curve afar	O
Past bridge and steeple thronging great with least	N
To Paul's high cross that sparkles like a star	O
The distant windows glitter and high o'er them	P
Clouds unapproachable illumined snows	Q
Tinged with calm fire that blushes like a gem	P
As though themselves burned inwardly repose	Q
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All things methought that inward glory shared	R
A radiant strangeness nothing I beheld	R
But spoke in a new tongue to me or spelled	R
New meanings and within me a deep sense	S
Of portals opening of an hour prepared	R
Prophesied and a light transported thence	S
Of expectation on me also came	T
Glowing the city waits what shall arrive	U
The steep clouds smoulder as to sudden flame	T
They would burst forth and the wave leaps alive	U
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Immediately stole over me the thought	R
Of this age ending painful and oppressed	R
Its cry entreating still rejected rest	R
Echoed behind me But I seemed to stand	R
Beyond and over the near threshold brought	R
Of days to be the air blew strong and bland	R
I listened and a voice wherein bore part	R
Cloud light and wind and water thus began	V
Aerial tones a voice from the deep heart	R
Of all things speaking to the heart of man	V
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Say troubled one what sorrow is it keeps	W
Thy spirit Because thy latest dream is shed	R
Is the root sapped and the strong branches dead	R
Forget'st thou that thy generations have	X
Their seasons and for them her due term sleeps	W
Spring with her buds dreaming in Autumn's grave	Y
Because 'twas Autumn with thee thou sit'st mute	R
To the fall of the leaf consenting yet thine eyes	F
Cast round thee and consider what fair fruit	R
The full seeds bear in charge Wake and arise	F
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Wake and for blither energy remit	R
This tedious questing in the inscrutable past	R
This pondering the before and after vast	R
O couldst thou take like us Time's quiet bloom	Z
On life alone expend thy freshened wit	R
The burden and the joy alone resume	Z
The mountains groan not that the streams devour	A2
With thievish tongue their ancient high estate	R
Nor of her pining leaf complains the flower	A2
But thou enjoy'st not nor reject'st thy fate	R
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Pitying thee the Powers that on thee cast	R
Thy destiny 'mid labour solace sent	R
For veiled they keep that infinite ascent	R
Of years and by degrees the pathway show	B2
Up which thou mountest deemest still the last	R
Step won and numbered all the stones of woe	B2
And easily triumphant thou lean'st forth	C2
To grasp the final palm when that eludes	D2
As easily dejected placid Earth	E2
Remains a mirror for thy hundred moods	D2
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Dream builder for whose dreams thy lips invent	R
Names of sweet sound freedom and peace and truth	F2
Upon the bright fermenting mists of youth	F2
Projecting a foredoomed reality	R
Happy if gross joys could thy brain content	R
Or could thy faith match thy credulity	R
Ever inweaving Earth's plain warp with thread	R
Of thy deep wishes thine own heart's strong hue	G2
The mind thy prison thought thy narrow bed	R
With truth with freedom what hast thou to do	G2
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O yet I answered not in vain desire	A2
Spurs us to gaze into the infinity	R
To dip our hands in that wide whispering sea	R
How shall one flower the whole wood's voices tell	C
Or one small sphere interpret that full choir	A2
Of orb with orb music ineffable	H2
From all worlds mingled Yet since our best joy	I2
Not in possession but beyond us lies	F
Our hearts at last weary of earth's annoy	I2
Only that far off music satisfies	F
	-
Name beyond names Heart of the Eternal Life	J2
Whom our faint thought hardly at times conceives	F
Who hear'st but as the oak his fluttered leaves	F
The cry of parting spirits who in the pang	K2
For children born rejoicest from whose strife	J2
And travail issuing the bright worlds outsprang	K2
If the wide thought of thee my childish grief	L2
Ever effaced accept my manhood's vow	M2
O sweet and insupportable O chief	L2
And first and last of all loves hear me now	M2
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Me whom this living vastness once appalled	R
And this uproar disheartened and oppressed	R
Now larger thoughts enfranchise with sweet zest	R
Nourish and this immensity sustains	F
Buoyed as a swimmer upon ocean called	R
From time to the eternal my due pains	F
Accepting in thy bosom I repose	F
Of joys and griefs together make my bed	R
In longing to set sure against all foes	F
My spirit freed and with thy spirit wed	R
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Thou thou remainest ever in lovely power	A2
Triumphant whom beginning never knew	G2
'Tis we alone that our own strength undo	G2
'Tis we alone that to thy ardour lame	T
Often defeated miserably deflower	A2
The joy thou gavest quench the imparted flame	T
And native sweet sourly to ashes turn	N2
O help inspire Us with thyself endow	M2
Through our brief actions let thy greatness burn	N2
As through the clouds the light is burning now	M2
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For me since thou this hour to see thee whole	O2
Vouchsafest no more shall my heart deny	P2
That thou proceed'st because I fail and cry	P2
Henceforth will I endure to walk right on	Q2
Nor my bliss too much ponder nor my dole	O2
And since dear peace fortifies faith alone	R2
I trust thee and not loth resign my heart	R
Nor though thou shouldst betray me wound and rend	R
Would my course alter that the better part	R
Have chosen enduring to the unknown end	R
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So inwardly my lifted spirit sang	K2
And lo that solemn joy to authorize	F
With answering bloom before my lifted eyes	F
The clouds moved softly the far western fires	F
A moment o'er the steeples paused and sprang	K2
Now on the eye the fading light expires	F
But 'tis to me as if Earth cast off Day	R
Assuming her own glory and her flight	R
Unwearied urging on the eternal way	R
Already glowed among the lamps of Night	R

Robert Laurence Binyon

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