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At midnight death's and truth's unlocking time	A
When far within the spirit's hearing rolls	B
The great soft rumble of the course of things	C
A bulk of silence in a mask of sound	D
When darkness clears our vision that by day	E
Is sun blind and the soul's a ravening owl	F
For truth and flitteth here and there about	G
Low lying woody tracts of time and oft	H
Is minded for to sit upon a bough	I
Dry dead and sharp of some long stricken tree	J
And muse in that gaunt place 'twas then my heart	K
Deep in the meditative dark cried out	G
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Ye companies of governor spirits grave	L
Bards and old bringers down of flaming news	M
From steep wall'd heavens holy malcontents	N
Sweet seers and stellar visionaries all	O
That brood about the skies of poesy	N
Full bright ye shine insuperable stars	N
Yet if a man look hard upon you none	P
With total lustre blazeth no not one	P
But hath some heinous freckle of the flesh	Q
Upon his shining cheek not one but winks	N
His ray opaqued with intermittent mist	R
Of defect yea you masters all must ask	S
Some sweet forgiveness which we leap to give	T
We lovers of you heavenly glad to meet	U
Your largesse so with love and interplight	U
Your geniuses with our mortalities	N
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Thus unto thee O sweetest Shakespeare sole	V
A hundred hurts a day I do forgive	T
'Tis little but enchantment 'tis for thee	J
Small curious quibble Juliet's prurient pun	P
In the poor pale face of Romeo's fancied death	W
Cold rant of Richard Henry's fustian roar	X
Which frights away that sleep he invocates	N
Wronged Valentine's unnatural haste to yield	U
Too silly shifts of maids that mask as men	Y
In faint disguises that could ne'er disguise	N
Viola Julia Portia Rosalind	U
Fatigues most drear and needless overtax	N
Of speech obscure that had as lief be plain	Z
Last I forgive with more delight because	N
'Tis more to do the labored lewd discourse	N
That e'en thy young invention's youngest heir	A2
Besmirched the world with	B2
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Father Homer thee	J
Thee also I forgive thy sandy wastes	N
Of prose and catalogue thy drear harangues	N
That tease the patience of the centuries	N
Thy sleazy scrap of story but a rogue's	N
Rape of a light o' love too soiled a patch	C2
To broider with the gods	N
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Thee Socrates	N
Thou dear and very strong one I forgive	T
Thy year worn cloak thine iron stringencies	N
That were but dandy upside down thy words	N
Of truth that mildlier spoke had mainlier wrought	U
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So Buddha beautiful I pardon thee	J
That all the All thou hadst for needy man	D2
Was Nothing and thy Best of being was	N
But not to be	J
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Worn Dante I forgive	T
The implacable hates that in thy horrid hells	N
Or burn or freeze thy fellows never loosed	U
By death nor time nor love	E2
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And I forgive	T
Thee Milton those thy comic dreadful wars	N
Where armed with gross and inconclusive steel	F2
Immortals smite immortals mortalwise	N
And fill all heaven with folly	J
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Also thee	J
Brave Aeschylus thee I forgive for that	U
Thine eye by bare bright justice basilisked	U
Turned not nor ever learned to look where Love	E2
Stands shining	G2
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So unto thee Lucretius mine	H2
For oh what heart hath loved thee like to this	N
That's now complaining freely I forgive	T
Thy logic poor thine error rich thine earth	I2
Whose graves eat souls and all	O
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Yea all you hearts	N
Of beauty and sweet righteous lovers large	J2
Aurelius fine oft superfine mild Saint	U
A Kempis overmild Epictetus	N
Whiles low in thought still with old slavery tinct	U
Rapt Behmen rapt too far high Swedenborg	G2
O'ertoppling Langley that with but a touch	K2
Of art hadst sung Piers Plowman to the top	L2
Of English songs whereof 'tis dearest now	I
And most adorable Caedmon in the morn	M2
A calling angels with the cow herd's call	O
That late brought up the cattle Emerson	P
Most wise that yet in finding Wisdom lost	U
Thy Self sometimes tense Keats with angels' nerves	N
Where men's were better Tennyson largest voice	N
Since Milton yet some register of wit	U
Wanting all all I pardon ere 'tis asked	U
Your more or less your little mole that marks	N
You brother and your kinship seals to man	D2
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But Thee but Thee O sovereign Seer of time	A
But Thee O poets' Poet Wisdom's Tongue	G2
But Thee O man's best Man O love's best Love	E2
O perfect life in perfect labor writ	U
O all men's Comrade Servant King or Priest	U
What 'if' or 'yet' what mole what flaw what lapse	N
What least defect or shadow of defect	U
What rumor tattled by an enemy	J
Of inference loose what lack of grace	N
Even in torture's grasp or sleep's or death's	N
Oh what amiss may I forgive in Thee	J
Jesus good Paragon thou Crystal Christ	U
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