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I	A
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Because I do not hope to turn again	B
Because I do not hope	C
Because I do not hope to turn	D
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope	C
I no longer strive to strive towards such things	E
Why should the ag egrave d eagle stretch its wings	E
Why should I mourn	F
The vanished power of the usual reign	G
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Because I do not hope to know	H
The infirm glory of the positive hour	I
Because I do not think	J
Because I know I shall not know	H
The one veritable transitory power	I
Because I cannot drink	J
There where trees flower and springs flow for there is	K
nothing again	B
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Because I know that time is always time	L
And place is always and only place	M
And what is actual is actual only for one time	L
And only for one place	M
I rejoice that things are as they are and	N
I renounce the bless egrave d face	M
And renounce the voice	O
Because I cannot hope to turn again	B
Consequently I rejoice having to construct something	P
Upon which to rejoice	O
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And pray to God to have mercy upon us	Q
And pray that I may forget	R
These matters that with myself I too much discuss	Q
Too much explain	G
Because I do not hope to turn again	B
Let these words answer	I
For what is done not to be done again	B
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us	Q
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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly	A
But merely vans to beat the air	S
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry	A
Smaller and dryer than the will	T
Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still	T
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Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death	U
Pray for us now and at the hour of our death	U
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II	A
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Lady three white leopards sat under a juniper tree	V
In the cool of the day having fed to sateity	R
On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained	R
In the hollow round of my skull And God said	R
Shall these bones live shall these	W
Bones live And that which had been contained	R
In the bones which were already dry said chirping	P
Because of the goodness of this Lady	R
And because of her loveliness and because	X
She honours the Virgin in meditation	Y
We shine with brightness And I who am here dissembled	R
Proffer my deeds to oblivion and my love	Z
To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd	R
It is this which recovers	A2
My guts the strings of my eyes and the indigestible portions	B2
Which the leopards reject The Lady is withdrawn	C2
In a white gown to contemplation in a white gown	D2
Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness	B2
There is no life in them As I am forgotten	Y
And would be forgotten so I would forget	R
Thus devoted concentrated in purpose And God said	R
Prophesy to the wind to the wind only for only	R
The wind will listen And the bones sang chirping	P
With the burden of the grasshopper saying	P
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Lady of silences	B2
Calm and distressed	R
Torn and most whole	E2
Rose of memory	R
Rose of forgetfulness	B2
Exhausted and life giving	P
Worried reposeful	E2
The single Rose	B2
Is now the Garden	Y
Where all loves end	R
Terminate torment	R
Of love unsatisfied	R
The greater torment	R
Of love satisfied	R
End of the endless	B2
Journey to no end	R
Conclusion of all that	R
Is inconclusible	E2
Speech without word and	R
Word of no speech	F2
Grace to the Mother	I
For the Garden	Y
Where all love ends	B2
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Under a juniper tree the bones sang scattered and shining	P
We are glad to be scattered we did little good to each other	I
Under a tree in the cool of day with the blessing of sand	R
Forgetting themselves and each other united	R
In the quiet of the desert This is the land which ye	R
Shall divide by lot And neither division nor unity	R
Matters This is the land We have our inheritance	B2
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III	A
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At the first turning of the second stair	S
I turned and saw below	E2
The same shape twisted on the banister	I
Under the vapour in the fetid air	S
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears	B2
The deceitul face of hope and of despair	S
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At the second turning of the second stair	S
I left them twisting turning below	E2
There were no more faces and the stair was dark	G2
Damp jagg egrave d like an old man's mouth drivelling beyond repair	S
Or the toothed gullet of an ag egrave d shark	G2
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At the first turning of the third stair	S
Was a slotted window bellied like the figs's fruit	R
And beyond the hawthorn blossom and a pasture scene	H2
The broadbacked figure drest in blue and green	H2
Enchanted the maytime with an antique flute	R
Blown hair is sweet brown hair over the mouth blown	I2
Lilac and brown hair	S
Distraction music of the flute stops and steps of the mind	R
over the third stair	S
Fading fading strength beyond hope and despair	S
Climbing the third stair	S
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Lord I am not worthy	R
Lord I am not worthy	R
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but speak the word only	R
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IV	Z
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Who walked between the violet and the violet	R
Whe walked between	H2
The various ranks of varied green	H2
Going in white and blue in Mary's colour	S
Talking of trivial things	B2
In ignorance and knowledge of eternal dolour	S
Who moved among the others as they walked	R
Who then made strong the fountains and made fresh the springs	B2
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Made cool the dry rock and made firm the sand	R
In blue of larkspur blue of Mary's colour	S
Sovegna vos	B2
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Here are the years that walk between bearing	P
Away the fiddles and the flutes restoring	P
One who moves in the time between sleep and waking wearing	P
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White light folded sheathing about her folded	R
The new years walk restoring	P
Through a bright cloud of tears the years restoring	P
With a new verse the ancient rhyme Redeem	J2
The time Redeem	J2
The unread vision in the higher dream	J2
While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse	B2
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The silent sister veiled in white and blue	E2
Between the yews behind the garden god	R
Whose flute is breathless bent her head and signed but spoke	K2
no word	R
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But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang down	D2
Redeem the time redeem the dream	J2
The token of the word unheard unspoken	Y
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Till the wind shake a thousand whispers from the yew	E2
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And after this our exile	E2
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V	Z
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If the lost word is lost if the spent word is spent	R
If the unheard unspoken	Y
Word is unspoken unheard	R
Still is the unspoken word the Word unheard	R
The Word without a word the Word within	L2
The world and for the world	R
And the light shone in darkness and	R
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled	R
About the centre of the silent Word	R
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O my people what have I done unto thee	Z
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Where shall the word be found where will the word	R
Resound Not here there is not enough silence	B2
Not on the sea or on the islands not	R
On the mainland in the desert or the rain land	R
For those who walk in darkness	B2
Both in the day time and in the night time	L
The right time and the right place are not here	S
No place of grace for those who avoid the face	B2
No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and	R
deny the voice	B2
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Will the veiled sister pray for	S
Those who walk in darkness who chose thee and oppose thee	Z
Those who are torn on the horn between season and season	Y
time and time between	H2
Hour and hour word and word power and power those who wait	R
In darkness Will the veiled sister pray	S
For children at the gate	R
Who will not go away and cannot pray	S
Pray for those who chose and oppose	B2
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O my people what have I done unto thee	Z
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Will the veiled sister between the slender	S
Yew trees pray for those who offend her	S
And are terrified and cannot surrender	S
And affirm before the world and deny between the rocks	B2
In the last desert before the last blue rocks	B2
The desert in the garden the garden in the desert	R
Of drouth spitting from the mouth the withered apple seed	R
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O my people	E2
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VI	Z
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Although I do not hope to turn again	B
Although I do not hope	C
Although I do not hope to turn	D
	-
Wavering between the profit and the loss	B2
In this brief transit where the dreams cross	B2
The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying	P
Bless me father though I do not wish to wish these things	B2
From the wide window towards the granite shore	S
The white sails still fly seaward seaward flying	P
Unbroken wings	B2
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And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices	B2
In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices	B2
And the weak spirit quickens to rebel	E2
For the bent golden rod and the lost sea smell	E2
Quickens to recover	S
The cry of quail and the whirling plover	S
And the blind eye creates	B2
The empty forms between the ivory gates	B2
And smell renews the salt savour of the sandy earth	M2
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This is the time of tension between dying and birth	M2
The place of solitude where three dreams cross	B2
Between blue rocks	B2
But when the voices shaken from the yew tree drift away	S
Let the other yew be shaken and reply	Z
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Bless egrave d sister holy mother spirit of the fountain spirit	R
of the garden	Y
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood	R
Teach us to care and not to care	S
Teach us to sit still	E2
Even among these rocks	B2
Our peace in His will	E2
And even among these rocks	B2
Sister mother	S
And spirit of the river spirit of the sea	B2
Suffer me not to be separated	R
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And let my cry come unto Thee	B2