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I do not say the day is long and weary	A
For while thou art content to be away	B
Living in thee oh Love I live thy day	B
And reck not if mine own be sad and dreary	A
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I do not count its sorrows or its charms	C
It lies as cold as empty and as dead	D
As lay my wedding dress beside my bed	D
When I was clothed in thy dear arms	C
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Yet there is something here within this breast	E
Which like a flower that never blossoms lieth	F
And tho' in words and tears my sorrow crieth	F
I know that it hath never been exprest	E
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Something that blindly yearneth to be known	G
And doth not burn nor rage nor leap nor dart	E
But struggles in the sickness of my heart	E
As a root struggles in a vault of stone	G
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Now by my wedding ring	H
I charge thee do not move	I
That heavy stone that on the vault doth lie	J
I charge thee be of merry cheer my love	K
Nor ever let me know that thou dost sigh	J
For ah how light a thing	H
Would shake me with the sorrow I deny	J
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I am as one who hid a giant's child	E
In her deep prison and from year to year	L
He grew to his own stature fierce and wild	E
And what she took for love she kept for fear	L
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Oh thou enchanter who dost hold the spells	M
Of all my seal d cells	M
Oh Love that hast been silent all too long	N
A little longer Love oh silent be	A
My secret hath waxed strong	N
My giant hath grown up to angry age	O
Do thou but say the word that sets him free	A
And lo he tears me in his rage	O
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I do not say the day is sad and dreary	A
For while thou art content to be away	B
Living in thee oh Love I live thy day	B
And reck not if mine own be wan and weary	A
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I look down on it from my far love dream	P
As some drowned saint may see with musing eyes	Q
Her lifeless body float adown the stream	P
While she is smiling in her skies	Q
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But do thou silence keep	R
For I am one who walketh on the ledge	S
Of some great rock's sheer edge	S
I walk in beauty and in light	E
Self balanced on the height	E
A breath and I am breathless in the deep	R
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Oh my own Love I warn	T
Thy grief to be as still as they who tread	E
The snow of alpine peak	U
And see the pendulous avalanche o'erhead	E
Hang like a dew drop on a thorn	T
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I charge thee silence keep	R
My life stands breathless by her agony	A
Oh do not bid her leap	R
I am as calm as air	V
Before a summer storm	W
The ocean of my thoughts hath ceased to roll	X
This living heart that doth not beat is warm	W
I think the stillness of my face is fair	V
The cloud that fills my soul	X
Is not a cloud of pain	Y
Beware beware one rash	Z
Sweet glance may be the flash	Z
That brings it raving down in thunder and in rain	Y
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No do not speak	U
Nor oh let any tell of thy pale cheek	U
Nor paint the silent sorrow of thine eye	J
Nor tell me thou art fond or gay or glad	E
For ah so tuned and lightly strung am I	J
That howsoe'er thou stir I ring thereby	J
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Thy manly voice is deep	R
But if thou touch from sleep	R
The woman's treble of my shrill reply	J
Ah who shall say thine echoes may not weep	R
A jester's ghost is sad	E
The shades of merriest flowers do mow and creep	R
And oh the vocal shadows that should fly	J
About the simplest word that thou canst say	B
What after spell shall ever lay	B
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Hast thou forgot when I sat down to sing	H
To my forsaken harp long long ago	A2
How thou for sport wouldst strike a single string	H
And hark the hovering chorus come and go	A2
Low and high high and low	A2
Till round the throbbing wire	B2
Rose such a quivering quire	C2
As all King David's wives were echoing	H
The tenor of their king	H
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Like those dear strings my silent soul is full	D2
Of cries as a ripe fruit is full of wine	E2
The fruit is hanging fair and beautiful	F2
And dry eyed as a rose in the sunshine	E2
But try it with a single touch of thine	E2
And lo the drops that start	E
And all the golden vintage of its heart	E
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So thinking of thy debt to Love and me	A
In some dull hour beyond the sea	A
Do thou but only say	B
As carelessly as men do pay their debts	G2
'Oh weary day '	-
And that one sigh o'ersets	G2
The hive of my regrets	G2
'Ah weary weary day	B
Oh weary weary day	B
Oh day so weary oh day so dreary	A
Oh weary weary weary weary weary	A
Oh weary weary '	-

Sydney Thompson Dobell

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