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I	A
AS round the cliff I came alone	B
The whole bay bared its blaze to me	C
Loud sang the wind the wild sun shone	B
The tumbled clouds fled scattering on	D
Light shattered on wave and winking stone	B
And in the glassy midst stood one	E
Brighter than sun or cloud or sea	C
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She with flame vehement hair untied	F
Virginal in her fluttering dress	G
Watched deafened and all dazzle eyed	F
Each opulent breaker's crash and glide	F
And now flung arms up high and wide	F
As if possessing all she cried	F
Her beauty youth and happiness	H
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Loud rang the waves and higher higher	I
The surge in chains of light was flung	J
The wind as in a wild desire	I
Licked round her form she seemed a spire	K
Of sunny drift a fount of fire	I
The hymn of some triumphant lyre	K
Which sounded when the world was young	J
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Purified by the scalding glare	L
Swept clear by the salty sea wind's flow	M
My eyes knew you for what you are	N
The daemon thing for which we dare	L
Which breaks us which we bid not spare	L
The life the light the heavenly snare	L
The turretted city's overthrow	M
Helen I knew you standing there	L
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II	A
The long low wavelets of summer	I
Glide in and glitter along the sand	O
The fitful breezes of summer	I
Blow fragrantly from the land	O
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Side by side we lie silent	P
Between sunned cliffs and blown seas	Q
Our eyes more bright than sea ripples	R
Our breaths more light than the breeze	Q
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When a gust meets a wave that advances	S
The wave leaps flames falls with a hiss	T
So lightly so brightly each heart leaps	U
When our dumb lips touch in a kiss	T
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III	A
Foamless the gradual waters well	V
From the sheer deep where darkness lies	W
Till to the shoulder rock they swell	V
With a slow cumulance of sighs	W
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O waters gather up your strength	X
From the blind caves of your unrest	Y
Loose your load utterly at length	X
Over the moonlight marbled breast	Y
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There sleep diffused the long dim hours	Z
Nor let your love locks be withdrawn	A2
Till round the world horizon glowers	Z
The wrath and chaos of the dawn	A2
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IV	-
She picked a whorled shell from the beach	B2
And laid it close beside her ear	C2
Then held it frightened at full reach	B2
Toward my face that I might hear	C2
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And while she leaned and while I heard	D2
Our dumb eyes dared not meet for shame	E2
Our hearts within us sickly stirred	D2
Our limbs ran wax before the flame	E2
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For in the despairing voice and meek	F2
An echo to our hearts we found	G2
Who through love striving vainly seek	F2
To coop the infinite in bound	G2
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V	-
All is estranged to day	H2
Chastened and meek	F2
Side by side taking our way	H2
With what anguish we seek	F2
To dare each to face the other or even to speak	F2
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The sun like an opal drifts	Z
Through a vapourous shine	I2
Or overwhelms itself in dark rifts	Z
On the sea's far line	I2
Sheer light falls in a single sword like a sign	I2
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The sea striving in its bed	J2
Like a corpse that awakes	Z
Slowly heaves up its lustreless head	J2
Crowned with weeds and snakes	Z
To strike at the shore bareing fangs as it breaks	Z
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Something threatening earth	K2
Aims at our love	-
Gone is our ignorant mirth	K2
Love like speech of the dove	-
The Sword and the Snake have seen and proclaim now	L2
'Enough '	-
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VI	-
The narrow pathway winds its course	Z
Through dwarfish oaks and junipers	Z
Till suddenly beyond the gorse	Z
We glimpse the copse of stunted firs	Z
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That tops the headland round whose base	Z
The cold tide flings a drowned man's bones	Z
All day against the cliff's sheer face	Z
All night prolongs his lasting groans	Z
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The Drowned who in the copse once stood	M2
Waiting the Dead to end both vows	Z
Heard as we hear the split of wood	M2
And shrieking of the writhen boughs	Z
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Grow shrill and shriller Pass the spot	N2
The strained boughs arch toward collapse	Z
A whistle and CRACK there's the shot	N2
Or is it but a bough which snaps	Z
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Ever when we have left the gorse	Z
And through the copse each hastening hies	Z
We lovers on the self same course	Z
Dare not look in each other's eyes	Z
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VII	-
Before I woke I knew her gone	A2
Though nothing nigh had stirred	D2
Now by the curtain inward blown	B
She stood not seen but heard	D2
Where the faint moonlight dimmed or shone	B
And neither spoke a word	D2
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One hand against her mouth she pressed	Y
But could not staunch its cry	-
The other knocked upon her breast	Y
Impotently while I	-
Glared rigid labouring possessed	Y
And dared not ask her why	-
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VIII	-
Noon and now rocks the summer sea	Z
All idleness one gust alone	B
Skates afar off and soundlessly	V
Is gone from me as you are gone	A2
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No hull creeps on th' horizon's rim	O2
No pond of smoke wreathes the far sky	-
Only the dazzling sinuous swim	O2
Of the fierce tide maze scalds the eye	-
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Alone aloft unendingly	V
A peering gull on moveless wing	P2
Floats silent by and again by	-
In search for some indefinite thing	P2
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Each wave line glittering through its run	E
Gives in its plash where still pools lie	-
Upstaring at the downstaring sun	E
A single harsh and sudden sigh	-
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And Oh more lonely blows the breeze	Z
More empty shines the perfect sky	-
More solitary sound the seas	Z
Where two watched where now watch but I	-
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IX	Z
I love a flower which has no lover	I
The yellow sea poppy is its name	E2
Spined leaves its glaucous green stem cover	I
Its flower is a yellow fitful flame	E2
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Stung by the spray which leaps the shingle	V
Torn by the winds that scour the beach	B2
Its roots with the salt sea wrack mingle	V
Its leaves upon the bleached stones bleach	B2
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Its desperate growth but few remember	I
None misses it when it has died	F
Scorched by the sun to a scant ember	I
Or wholly ravaged by the tide	F
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Yet I elect this weed to cherish	Q2
Nor any other would desire	I
Than this which must so shortly perish	Q2
Tortured by sea foam or sky fire	I
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Above this flower we too once bended	R2
Drawn to it by a subtle spell	V
On whom the fire of heaven descended	S2
Over whom the wave arose from hell	V
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Frantic she snatched the ragged blossom	T2
Kissed it then with a wild fierce kiss	Z
Pressed spine and flame into her bosom	T2
Crying 'The flower our love is this '	-
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The grey waves crash The wind whirls over	I
The flower is withered from the beach	B2
Whose waves divide the loved and lover	I
Whose wind blows louder than their speech	B2
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X	Z
The moon behind high tranquil leaves	Z
Hides her sad head	J2
The dwindled water tinkles and grieves	Z
In the stream's black bed	J2
And where now where are you sleeping	P2
The shadowy nightjar hawking gnats	Z
Flickers or floats	Z
High in still air the flurrying bats	Z
Repeat their wee notes	Z
And where now where are you sleeping	P2
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Silent lightning flutters in heaven	E
Where quiet crowd	U2
By the toil of an upper whirlwind driven	E
Dark legions of cloud	U2
In whose arms now are you sleeping	P2
The cloud makes lidding the sky's wan hole	V
The world a tomb	V2
Far out at sea long thunders roll	V
From gloom to dim gloom	V2
In whose arms now are you sleeping	P2
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Rent clouds like boughs in darkness hang	W2
Close overhead	J2
The foreland's bell buoy begins to clang	W2
As if for the dead	J2
Awake they where you are sleeping	P2
The chasms crack the heavens revolt	X2
With tearing sound	G2
Bright bolt volleys on flaring bolt	X2
Wave and cloud clash through deep through vault	Y2
Huge thunders rebound	G2
But they wake not where you are sleeping	P2