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Robert Laurence Binyon

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I found my Love among the fern She slept	A
My shadow stole across her as I stept	A
More lightly and slowly seeing her pillowed so	B
In the short turfed and shelving green hollow	B
Upon a cushion of wild thyme amid	A
Tall bracken tufts that roughly luminous hid	A
Her hair in amber shadow Then I stopped	A
The light was in the West the wind had dropped	A
A burning fragrance breathed out of the ground	A
And the sea murmur rose remote around	A
But my Love slept My very heart was singing	C
With the sweet swarm of winged thoughts it was bringing	C
And she lay there with the just heaving breast	A
So still As a lark drops down to its nest	A
I sank beside her waiting for those eyes	D
To complete earth with light that nowhere lies	D
But in their depths for me and carry home	E
The flight of my full spirit I had come	F
From wandering wide beaches far beneath	G
This airy height of summer scented heath	G
I was alone and the shore solitary	H
And the sea glittered infinite and starry	H
As on the sands I paced that dazzling wet	A
Shone round until the tumbled rocks they met	A
At the gaunt cliff's root silvery runnels fed	A
From oozy levels draining to their bed	A
Wound flashing between smoothly furrowed slabs	I
Which the sky coloured there the youngling crabs	I
Had scrawled a trail and weeds dull rose and green	J
Lay by their shadows where old foam had been	K
Crusted with shells A mist of finest spray	L
Blew from the western glory and in the bay	L
The ever streaming surges gleamed and roared	A
Like a rejoicing Power for ever poured	A
For the mere splendour of its motion salt	A
The air came to the nostril and the vault	A
Of heaven had burnt its colours into one	M
Unfathomable clearness that the sun	M
Was soul of as it journeyed down the West	A
And in the leaping waters made each crest	A
A moment of live fire I breathed the immense	N
And shining silence It was to my sense	N
Like youth that's all horizon and misgives	N
Nothing and in the unbounded moment lives	N
And names not hope yet among things endured	A
And unamended being so assured	A
Of its desire and the long day and so	N
Ignorant of that swift Night saying No	N
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Ah why should peace and liberty most bring	C
Into the heart that loves them most the sting	C
Of Time's oppression and the thwarting thorns	N
The loss the want the many clouded morns	N
O for deliverance To untwist the bond	A
Of circumstance to breathe the blest Beyond	A
Where we would be to incarnate clean and true	O
All we were born and dedicated to	O
O Love how often have we shared that sigh	P
To me beside that boundless sea and sky	P
Intolerably came my briefness all	Q
The undone things Why into hearts so small	Q
Were crammed these hungering immensities	N
Thrust each day back to a prison that denies	N
Their native satisfaction I cast me down	R
On a great slope of rock that ribbed and brown	R
Was cloven at the top and in between	J
The hollowed ledges I could lightly lean	J
And see the deep cup of a pool it held	A
Its limpid leaving of the surge that swelled	A
A tide since over that sea buried reef	S
A round pool deeply clear beyond belief	S
Rough with minute white shells about its rim	T
Its crystal in the shadow gleamed how dim	T
And small while in my eye the homeless main	U
Its brine was of a splendid restless plain	U
Of water spread a path for any keel	V
To take the round world over and to feel	V
Pressures of every wind and haven far	W
Where it should choose mirroring mast and spar	W
In sultry smooth lagoon or under pines	N
Snow plumed on iron fiord or where lines	N
Of ships at a famed port with traffic hum	F
And chimes of foreign bells to sailors come	F
And strange towers over crowded wharfs look high	P
Ah such a drop of casual life was I	P
At evening left my simple scanted raw	X
Experience but the sipping of a straw	Y
Snatched from me soon I lifted up my gaze	N
Into the west and the spray misted blaze	N
Where the sun gloried and his glittering track	Z
Allured me on and on Then I looked back	Z
All was changed Something had transfigured each	A2
Of those hard cliffs that thrust into the beach	A2
Their bouldered ramparts Every narrow seam	B2
Brimmed with the opposite light and the warm gleam	B2
Found out small clusters of sea pink and many	H
A samphire tuft in its uneven cranny	H
And bloomed a burning orange on the stain	U
Of lichen and dissembled rosy grain	U
On the rock's blackness At the summit showed	A
A gemmy green where the grass patches glowed	A
Between those jutting crags The air was hush	C2
And the shore quivered with a phantom flush	C2
Of molten colours on far shining sand	A
All was as warm to sight as to the hand	A
Distinct yet insubstantial as if what	A
The eye saw had been created by a thought	A
Intenser than its vision Memory played	A
A music in the mind and Time delayed	A
To whisper names forgotten I saw no more	D2
The sculpture of those rocks that vivid shore	D2
But far off hours arose before me there	E2
Beautiful in a bright unearthly air	E2
Memory touched her stops and one by one	M
They came each with its own shadow and sun	M
And its peculiar perfume each a part	A
Of the quick blood and pulsing of my heart	A
I carried riches I was as a king	C
Clothed in a more than royal apparelling	C
Because of glories in the mind and light	A
In eyes I knew and the unended flight	A
Of thought and friendship warmer than the sun	M
And dateless joy and hope shared and things done	M
With all the soul's strength and still precious pain	U
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Youth O sweet careless Youth flooding the vein	U
With easy blood what time the body knows	N
Scarce that it is so brimmingly life glows	N
Within it and its motions are like words	N
Born happy on the lips and like the birds	N
On April blossomed boughs rich fancies throng	C
The mind's exuberance and spill in song	C
I think my heart back into all the bloom	F2
And feel it fresh As one that enters home	E
I am there the shyness and the secret flame	G2
Of ecstasy that knew not any name	G2
The wild heart eating fevers the young tears	N
The absorbed soul the trouble and the fears	N
Wide as the night the joy without a thought	A
Meeting the morning Time has never taught	A
My heart to lose them Still I smell that rose	N
Of so inscrutable sweetness and still glows	N
The glory of the wonder when I first	A
Heard the enchanted poets and they burst	A
In song upon my spirit as if before	D2
No one had ever passed that magic door	D2
But for me first in all the world they sang	C
Sweetest of all things Youth sweet in the pang	C
As in the pleasure you are in me yet	A
Changed as the grape to wine could I forget	A
Then were this hand dust In those yesterdays	N
Memory happy and familiar strays	N
Exploring hours that long in shadow lain	U
Come effortlessly all distinct again	H2
As in my light boat I would track the banks	N
Of narrow streams that rippled past the ranks	N
Of yellow flowered reeds and knew not where	E2
They led me for no human sound was there	E2
But the shy wings were near me and I to them	I2
And the wild earth was round me as in a dream	B2
And I was melted into it I can hear	J2
Lost in the green bright silence where I steer	K2
Beneath gold shadows wavering on my arm	L2
The water saying over its low charm	L2
Among the reeds and dreading to disturb	M2
The mirror of the blossomed willow herb	M2
Drink it into my heart O idle hours	N
Floating with motion like the summer towers	N
Of cloud in the blue noon I have not drained	A
Your fullness yet for all that care has rained	A
Upon defeated days of dark sundown	R
Like burial of all beauty and all renown	R
When the spirit sits within its fortalice	N
And watches mute One simple passionate kiss	N
Can alter earth for ever Out of what	A
Imagination or what far forethought	A
Of Time came Love in beauty new and strange	N2
With eyes of light my earth and sky to change	N2
And bring me vision of a promised land	A
As if long sunken centuries had planned	A
The meeting of our lips From far we came	G2
To one another ere we had a name	G2
Wonderful shape white ecstasy the cup	O2
That God with living wine has so filled up	O2
O body made like music like a word	A
Syllabled in spontaneous accord	A
Quick sensed with apprehension capable	P2
Of extreme joy of pangs far piercing full	Q2
Of divine wants like a wave moving through	O
The passionate and transparent soul of you	O
O mystery and power charged with unknown	R2
Futurities a lovely flame that's blown	R2
In the wind of life and sister'd to all fire	S2
That has in it the peril of all desire	S2
Dearer than breath what are you made of whence	N
Come you I know not the eluded sense	N
Only replies To name her is to tell	T2
The very name of Love '' It is to spell	T2
A language more profound than tongue can use	N
Written in the heart's blood of the world to lose	N
All that is worth the losing and to trust	A
In spite of withered leaf and charnel dust	A
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Who knows his own beginning Hour from hour	S2
Is born in secret buds and breaks to flower	S2
Within us Nothing we have ever been	K
Nothing we have endured nothing we have seen	J
Ay and before we came into this light	A
Were sacrificial hopes and exquisite	A
Fears and the jealous patience of the womb	F2
And throes of self consuming martyrdom	F
Imprinted on the fibre of our flesh	U2
Nothing is ended but is made afresh	U2
Into a subtler potency the eyes	N
See a more wondrous earth the senses prize	N
More its more pregnant meaning and we go	C
To enrich a world beyond us overflow	C
Into a mind of what thoughts who can tell	T2
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O Love we draw from an unfathomed well	T2
Where are the June nights that made heaven a whole	V2
Blue jewel throbbing through the very soul	V2
Where is the dizzying bloom and the perfume	F2
Earth ecstasy sighed up to starry gloom	F2
That in the touching lips' ineffable	P2
Communion was a spirit and a spell	T2
As if we had found within ourselves a being	C
More infinite than any shown to seeing	C
Where is the beauty that stole thought away	L
And moved to tears some one remembered day	L
Where is the laughter some sweet chance would start	A
To leave its summer warmth about the heart	A
Where are the places we shall see no more	D2
Are they not powers to haunt us at the core	D2
Of feeling and evoke the eternal Now	W2
Like music out of nothing Nay I vow	W2
Most perishable most immortal tastes	N
And the frail flame that touches us and hastes	N
Into the dark endures more than the build	A
Of proudest fortress We are found and filled	A
And it suffices For we pass among	C
Grandeurs and from a grandeur we are sprung	C
Marvellous in our destiny and know	C
Man is most man meeting a giant foe	C
Whether overcoming or defeated We	H
Who hear like moving rumour of the sea	H
And march of ocean waves the human sound	A
About us filled with meaning more profound	A
Who know what hearts beat by us and have shared	A
In all the mighty martyr names have dared	A
Who feel all earth beneath the stars the race	N
Of rivers and the mountains in their place	N
Faculties of our being and have a mind	A
Dyed in the ardent story of our kind	A
We in our briefness in our storm and ache	X2
Our loves magnificent in hearts that break	X2
We all our bonds and bounds exceeding ay	L
Burning a loftier flame because we die	P
We at Time's outpost we the thrust spear head	A
Against the opposing darkness of the dead	A
We are the world's adventure We speed on	Y2
Stay not but westward travel with the sun	M
Westward into the splendour that takes all	Q
And carry far into the great light's fall	Q
That infinite memory of the world we bear	E2
Within our spirits burning and aware	E2
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Wake Love awake Her eyes shone into mine	Z2
That moment In the air was light divine	Z2
Sinking and yet suspended still to hold	A
Rocks ocean heaven within one bath of gold	A
But in the soul that met me from those eyes	N
Impassioning the beauty of the skies	N
Was my completion Earth as newly made	A
Ev'n to the smallest shape of green grass blade	A
Lived and the thrilled bright silence sang to me	H
For in the hush I heard the boundless sea	H