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It was a little island where he dwelt	A
Or rather a lone rock barren and bleak	B
Short scanty herbage spotting with dark spots	C
Its gray stone surface Never mariner	D
Approach'd that rude and uninviting coast	E
Nor ever fisherman his lonely bark	F
Anchored beside its shore It was a place	G
Befitting well a rigid anchoret	E
Dead to the hopes and vanities and joys	H
And purposes of life and he had dwelt	E
Many long years upon that lonely isle	I
For in ripe manhood he abandoned arms	J
Honours and friends and country and the world	E
And had grown old in solitude That isle	I
Some solitary man in other times	K
Had made his dwelling place and Henry found	E
The little chapel that his toil had built	E
Now by the storms unroofed his bed of leaves	L
Wind scattered and his grave o'ergrown with grass	M
And thistles whose white seeds winged in vain	N
Withered on rocks or in the waves were lost	E
So he repaired the chapel's ruined roof	O
Clear'd the grey lichens from the altar stone	P
And underneath a rock that shelter'd him	Q
From the sea blasts he built his hermitage	R
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The peasants from the shore would bring him food	E
And beg his prayers but human converse else	S
He knew not in that utter solitude	E
Nor ever visited the haunts of men	T
Save when some sinful wretch on a sick bed	E
Implored his blessing and his aid in death	U
That summons he delayed not to obey	V
Tho' the night tempest or autumnal wind	E
Maddened the waves and tho' the mariner	D
Albeit relying on his saintly load	E
Grew pale to see the peril So he lived	E
A most austere and self denying man	W
Till abstinence and age and watchfulness	S
Exhausted him and it was pain at last	E
To rise at midnight from his bed of leaves	S
And bend his knees in prayer Yet not the less	S
Tho' with reluctance of infirmity	E
He rose at midnight from his bed of leaves	S
And bent his knees in prayer but with more zeal	X
More self condemning fervour rais'd his voice	S
For pardon for that sin 'till that the sin	Y
Repented was a joy like a good deed	E
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One night upon the shore his chapel bell	Z
Was heard the air was calm and its far sounds	S
Over the water came distinct and loud	E
Alarmed at that unusual hour to hear	A2
Its toll irregular a monk arose	S
The boatmen bore him willingly across	S
For well the hermit Henry was beloved	E
He hastened to the chapel on a stone	P
Henry was sitting there cold stiff and dead	E
The bell rope in his band and at his feet	E
The lamp that stream'd a long unsteady light	E
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Footnote This story is related in the English Martyrology	R

Robert Southey

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