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I	A
Spirit who sweepest the wild harp of Time	B
It is most hard with an untroubled ear	C
Thy dark inwoven harmonies to hear	C
Yet mine eye fixed on Heaven's unchanging clime	B
Long had I listened free from mortal fear	D
With inward stillness and a bowed mind	E
When lo its folds far waving on the wind	E
I saw the train of the departing Year	D
Starting from my silent sadness	F
Then with no unholy madness	F
Ere yet the entered cloud foreclosed my sight	G
I raised the impetuous song and solemnised his flight	G
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II	A
Hither from the recent tomb	B
From the prison's direr gloom	B
From distemper's midnight anguish	H
And thence where poverty doth waste and languish	H
Or where his two bright torches blending	I
Love illuminates manhood's maze	J
Or where o'er cradled infants bending	I
Hope has fixed her wishful gaze	J
Hither in perplexed dance	K
Ye Woes ye young eyed Joys advance	K
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By Time's wild harp and by the hand	L
Whose indefatigable sweep	M
Raises its fateful strings from sleep	M
I bid you haste a mixed tumultuous band	L
From every private bower	N
And each domestic hearth	O
Haste for one solemn hour	N
And with a loud and yet a louder voice	P
O'er Nature struggling in portentous birth	Q
Weep and rejoice	P
Still echoes the dread name that o'er the earth	Q
Let slip the storm and woke the brood of Hell	R
And now advance in saintly jubilee	S
Justice and Truth They too have heard thy spell	R
They too obey thy name divinest Liberty	S
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III	A
I marked Ambition in his war array	T
I heard the mailed Monarch's troublous cry	A
' Ah wherefore does the Northern Conqueress stay	T
Groans not her chariot on its onward way '	-
Fly mailed monarch fly	A
Stunned by Death's twice mortal mace	U
No more on murder's lurid face	U
The insatiate hag shall gloat with drunken eye	A
Manes of the unnumbered slain	V
Ye that gasped on Warsaw's plain	V
Ye that erst at Ismail's tower	N
When human ruin choked the streams	W
Fell in conquest's glutted hour	N
Mid women's shrieks and infant's screams	W
Spirits of the uncoffined slain	V
Sudden blasts of triumph swelling	I
Oft at night in misty train	V
Rush around her narrow dwelling	I
The exterminating fiend is fled	X
Foul her life and dark her doom	B
Mighty armies of the dead	X
Dance like death fires round her tomb	B
Then with prophetic song relate	Y
Each some tyrant murderer's fate	Y
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IV	Z
Departing Year 'twas on no earthly shore	A2
My soul beheld thy vision Where alone	B2
Voiceless and stern before the cloudy throne	B2
Aye Memory sits thy robe inscribed with gore	A2
With many an unimaginable groan	B2
Thou storied'st thy sad hours Silence ensued	C2
Deep silence o'er the ethereal multitude	C2
Whose locks with wreaths whose wreaths with glories shone	B2
Then his eye wild ardors glancing	I
From the choired gods advancing	I
The Spirit of the Earth made reverence meet	D2
And stood up beautiful before the cloudy seat	D2
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V	Z
Throughout the blissful throng	E2
Hushed were harp and song	E2
Till wheeling round the throne the Lampads seven	F2
The mystic Words of Heaven	F2
Permissive signal make	G2
The fervent Spirit bowed then spread its wings ad spake	G2
'Thou in stormy blackness throning	G2
Love and uncreated Light	G
By the Earth's unsolaced groaning	G2
Seize thy terrors Arm of might	G
By peace with proffered insult scared	H2
Masked hate and envying scorn	I2
By years of havoc yet unborn	I2
And hunger's bosom to the frost winds bared	H2
But chief by Afric's wrongs	J2
Strange horrible and foul	K2
By what deep guilt belongs	J2
To the deaf Synod 'full of gifts and lies '	-
By wealth's insensate laugh by torture's howl	K2
Avenger rise	L2
Forever shall the thankless Island scowl	K2
Her quiver full and with unbroken bow	M2
Speak from thy storm black Heaven O speak aloud	N2
And on the darkling foe	Z
Open thine eye of fire from some uncertain cloud	N2
O dart the flash O rise and deal the blow	Z
The Past to thee to thee the Future cries	L2
Hark how wide Nature joins her groans below	Z
Rise God of Nature rise '	-
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VI	Z
The voice had ceased the vision fled	X
Yet still I gasped and reeled with dread	X
And ever when the dream of night	G
Renews the phantom to my sight	G
Cold sweat drops gather on my limbs	O2
My ears throb hot my eye balls start	P2
My brain with horrid tumult swims	O2
Wild is the tempest of my heart	P2
And my thick and struggling breath	Q2
Imitates the toil of death	Q2
No stranger agony confounds	R2
The soldier on the war field spread	X
When all foredone with toil and wounds	S2
Death like he dozes among heaps of dead	X
The strife is o'er the daylight fled	X
And the night wind clamors hoarse	T2
See the starting wretch's head	X
Lies pillowed on a brother's corse	T2
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VII	Z
Not yet enslaved not wholly vile	U2
O Albion O my mother Isle	U2
Thy valleys fair as Eden's bowers	V2
Glitter green with sunny showers	V2
Thy grassy uplands' gentle swells	W2
Echo to the bleat of flocks	X2
Those grassy hills those glittering dells	X2
Proudly ramparted with rocks	X2
And Ocean mid his uproar wild	Y2
Speaks safety to his island child	Y2
Hence for many a fearless age	Z2
Has social Quiet loved thy shore	A2
Nor ever proud invaders rage	Z2
Or sacked thy towers or stained thy fields with gore	A2
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VIII	Z
Abandoned of Heaven mad avarice thy guide	A3
At cowardly distance yet kindling with pride	A3
Mid thy herds and thy corn fields secure thou hast stood	B3
And joined the wild yelling of famine and blood	C3
The nations curse thee They with eager wondering	G2
Shall hear Destruction like a vulture scream	B
Strange eyed Destruction who with many a dream	B
Of central fires through neither seas upthundering	G2
Soothes her fierce solitude yet as she lies	X2
By livid fount or red volcanic stream	B
If ever to her lidless dragon eyes	X2
O Albion thy predestined ruins rise	X2
The fiend hag on her perilous couch doth leap	M
Muttering distempered triumph in her charmed sleep	M
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IX	X2
Away my soul away	T
In vain in vain the birds of warning sing	G2
And hark I hear the famished bird of prey	T
Flap their lank pennons on the groaning wind	E
Away my soul away	T
I unpartaking of the evil thing	G2
With daily prayer and daily toil	D3
Soliciting for food my scanty soil	D3
Have wailed my country with a loud Lament	E3
Now I recentre my immortal mind	E
In the deep sabbath of meek self content	E3
Cleansed from the vaporous passions that bedim	B
God's Image sister of the Seraphim	B

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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