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Mother because thine eyes are sealed in sleep	A
And thy cheeks pale and thy lips cold and deep	A
In silence plunged so fathomlessly still	B
Thou liest and relaxest all thy will	B
Is it indeed thy spirit that is flown	C
And gazing on thy face am I alone	C
O wake and tell me it is false I fear	D
And yet my heart persuades me thou art near	D
With living love I cannot weep nor wail	E
Nor feel thee taken from me the tears fail	E
Within me and my lips their moan reject	F
Nay as I watch each instant I expect	F
Thine eyes will shine upon me unaware	G
And thy lips softly part and to thy hair	G
Laying one hand like those who come from dreams	H
So bright that the dim morning only seems	H
Thou wilt stretch forth the other into mine	I
And to thy tender gaze thy love resign	I
And speak as thou wast wont in thy low voice	J
Words wise and gentle and my heart rejoice	J
With comfort poured into a trusted ear	K
Mother thou hearest Surely thou dost hear	K
Though thy tired eyes blissfully closed defer	L
The heavy world the weight of human lot	M
A change has fallen and yet I know not what	N
The deep communion of thy calm enfolds	J
My spirit also and suspended holds	J
Lament that knows not why to weep yet yearns	J
For something missed a fear it dimly learns	J
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And yet time has not touched us the full glow	O
Salutes us even as when five eves ago	O
By this same window over the same seas	J
With thoughts of home brought by the shadowy breeze	J
From regions dearer than these golden skies	J
We looked and the same glory filled our eyes	J
Even so the sun transfiguring the land	P
Upon the outstretched waters and bright sand	P
Reclined the same faint odours floated sweet	Q
From the green garden flowering at our feet	Q
Silent we gazed and the serene large air	G
Appeased our thoughts the burden that they bare	G
Departed marvelling at our own release	J
We greeted wave and ray as kindred Peace	J
Descended then and touched us and we knew	R
Our joy attired in light and felt it true	R
Dust of the journey the hot din of Rome	S
Fell from us with an aspect kind like home	S
The silent and interminable sea	J
Our longing matched with his immensity	Q
We followed the far sails that one by one	T
Were drawn into the huge and burning sun	T
And our souls set to freedom and they cast	Q
Away the soiled remembrance of things past	Q
And to the things before with radiant speed	Q
Ran on as eager as a captive freed	Q
Far to the last horizon's utmost bound	Q
Onward and onward and no limit found	Q
	-
Then thou rememberest how regarding long	U
This lovely earth an inward vision strong	U
O'ercame us till terrestrial beauty took	V
An insubstantial seeming the far look	V
Of regions known in dream Forsaking fear	D
We rose together to that ampler sphere	D
Where the sun burns and in his train the moon	W
And myriad stars upon the darkness strewn	W
Illumine earth on splendour past access	J
Of fleshly eye revolving weariless	J
We gazed yet even as we gazed the pang	X
Of the eternal touched us then we sprang	X
From those bright circles and each boundary passed	Q
Of sense and into liberty at last	Q
To our own souls we came the haunted place	J
Of thought companionless as ancient space	J
Her lonely mirror and uplifted thence	J
Sighed upward to the eternal Effluence	J
Of life the intense glory that imbues	J
With far off sheddings of its radiant hues	J
Mortality that from the trees calls forth	Y
Young leaves and flowers from the untended earth	Z
And from the heart of man joy and despair	G
Rapture and adoration the dim prayer	G
Of troubled lips tears and ecstatic throes	J
And fearful love unfolding like the rose	J
And hymns of peace whose everlasting power	L
Draws up ten thousand spirits every hour	L
As the bright vapour from ten thousand streams	J
Back to their home of homes where thou with beams	J
Of living joy O Sun of humankind	Q
Feedest the fainting and world wounded mind	Q
And from remembrance burnest out all fear	D
Sustained a moment in that self same sphere	D
By wings of ecstasy we hung we drew	R
Into our trembling souls the very hue	R
Of Paradise permitted the dear breath	A2
Of truth us also ignorance of death	A2
Made mighty and joy beyond the need of peace	J
We of the certain light of blessedness	J
A moment tasted then since even desire	L
Perishes of its own exceeding fire	L
Sighing our spirits failed and fell away	B2
And sank into the tinge of alien day	B2
Unwillingly to memory and the weight	Q
Of hope on the unsure heart to arm d fate	Q
And prisoning time and to the obscuring sound	Q
Of human words O even to the ground	Q
	-
The flame that fledged to that remotest height	Q
Our spirits winged upon impassioned flight	Q
Sped us no more but yet the usurping press	J
Of mortal hours their wonted heaviness	J
Relaxed and on our rapture lightly leaned	Q
Now as we gazed a glory intervened	Q
We saw yet saw not our thoughts lingered where	G
The rays yet pierced them of celestial air	G
And with hearts hushed as children that have learned	Q
The meaning of some fear or joy we turned	Q
To one another and spoke softly and drew	R
Sighs when that light smote on our thoughts anew	R
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O could the tumult of the senses sleep	A
We murmured then the mutinous body keep	A
Due pace and this surrounding bath of light	Q
And these unwearying waves of day and night	Q
Following in beauty the bright death and birth	Z
Of suns the sweet apparel of the earth	Z
Awhile be dimmed could but the moon forgo	O
Her splendour and the winds forget to blow	O
Ocean no more his troubling water heave	C2
And air its many coloured web unweave	C2
Could but those visions pale that with affright	Q
Pierce us or unapproachable delight	Q
And all disturbing charm that at our eyes	J
Darts arrows and for ever laughs and flies	J
Could all be hushed and memory turn her face	J
And hope her low flute silence for a space	J
And the soul slip the clinging leash of thought	Q
And cast the raiment she herself hath wrought	Q
And as a flower springs upward unaware	G
Naked ascend into the eternal air	G
While he who all this lovely warp of earth	Z
With pomp of time inweaves and still from birth	Z
Moves his creation to death's other door	D2
If he through perishable mouths no more	D2
Should speak not dimly through the veil of sense	J
Reported nor conjectured influence	J
Of stars nor through the thunder nor by dream	E2
Nor by whatever of prophetic theme	E2
Angel or man melodiously hath sung	F2
But utter very words of his own tongue	F2
And hold communion with the mind he made	Q
As with the light such things as know not shade	Q
O were not this the joy of joy to win	G2
And Paradise indeed to enter in	G2
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I too I too in my own feverish youth	H2
That light desired and fainted after truth	H2
Unripe in fervour in a misty morn	I2
Of passion and unrestful ferment borne	I2
Hither and thither many uncertain flames	J
Did I pursue and stumbled among shames	J
And wandered where my own rash spirit drove	C2
Misleading to sad joys In love with Love	C2
I looked in many faces searching him	J2
And passionately embraced with phantoms dim	J2
Nor knew what my heart hungered for But thou	K2
Who understandest who beginnest now	K2
In glory visible to fill mine eyes	J
Thou that obscure desire didst authorise	J
And by degrees unto itself disclose	J
O by that beam how momentary shows	J
The world 'tis but the bush that burns with thee	J
And I the sandals of mortality	J
Long to put off and with these chains have done	T
That bind me and fly homeward to the sun	T
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Mother but thou O what a pang is this	J
That wounds me Mother of what cup of bliss	J
Hast thou partaken that I may not taste	Q
O could I penetrate thy peace and haste	Q
Thither where thou art gone For now in vain	L2
My heart swells with unconquerable pain	L2
My desolation now too well I know	O
I cannot come where my soul chafes to go	O
But lay my wet cheek down to thine and feel	M2
Thy cold cheek desolate my heart and steal	M2
Peace and delight away Dost thou not move	C2
Thou that wert used to weep sad tears of love	C2
For me that grieved thee Now thou weep'st no more	D2
But I with all the hurt I caused thee sore	D2
Weep all thy tears afresh The door is closed	Q
Upon me fast and darkness interposed	Q
Now terrible thy calm seems and this peace	J
Of night dismays me longing for release	J
That will not visit me On earth and skies	J
The hush of slumber falls on thy closed eyes	J
My mother on the shore and on the sea	J
All things the night appeases but not me	J

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