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A chant to which it is intended a group of children shall	A
dance and improvise pantomime led by their dancing teacher	B
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A master deep eyed	C
Ere his manhood was ripe	D
He sang like a thrush	E
He could play any pipe	D
So dull in the school	F
That he scarcely could spell	G
He read but a bit	H
And he figured not well	G
A bare footed fool	F
Shod only with grace	I
Long hair streaming down	J
Round a wind hardened face	I
He smiled like a girl	K
Or like clear winter skies	L
A virginal light	M
Making stars of his eyes	L
In swiftness and poise	N
A proud child of the deer	O
A white fawn he was	P
Yet a fawn without fear	O
No youth thought him vain	Q
Or made mock of his hair	R
Or laughed when his ways	S
Were most curiously fair	R
A mastiff at fight	M
He could strike to the earth	T
The envious one	U
Who would challenge his worth	T
However we bowed	V
To the schoolmaster mild	W
Our spirits went out	X
To the fawn footed child	W
His beckoning led	Y
Our troop to the brush	E
We found nothing there	R
But a wind and a hush	E
He sat by a stone	Z
And he looked on the ground	A2
As if in the weeds	B2
There was something profound	A2
His pipe seemed to neigh	C2
Then to bleat like a sheep	D2
Then sound like a stream	E2
Or a waterfall deep	D2
It whispered strange tales	F2
Human words it spoke not	G2
Told fair things to come	H2
And our marvellous lot	G2
If now with fawn steps	I2
Unshod we advanced	J2
To the midst of the grove	C2
And in reverence danced	J2
We obeyed as he piped	K2
Soft grass to young feet	L2
Was a medicine mighty	M2
A remedy meet	L2
Our thin blood awoke	N2
It grew dizzy and wild	W
Though scarcely a word	O2
Moved the lips of a child	W
Our dance gave allegiance	P2
It set us apart	Q2
We tripped a strange measure	B
Uplifted of heart	Q2
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II	-
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We thought to be proud	V
Of our fawn everywhere	R
We could hardly see how	R2
Simple books were a care	R
No rule of the school	F
This strange student could tame	S2
He was banished one day	T2
While we quivered with shame	S2
He piped back our love	C2
On a moon silvered night	M
Enticed us once more	U2
To the place of delight	M
A greeting he sang	V2
And it made our blood beat	L2
It tramped upon custom	H2
And mocked at defeat	L2
He builded a fire	B
And we tripped in a ring	W2
The embers our books	X2
And the fawn our good king	W2
And now we approached	Y2
All the mysteries rare	R
That shadowed his eyelids	Z2
And blew through his hair	R
That spell now was peace	A3
The deep strength of the trees	B3
The children of nature	B
We clambered her knees	B3
Our breath and our moods	C3
Were in tune with her own	Z
Tremendous her presence	P2
Eternal her throne	Z
The ostracized child	W
Our white foreheads kissed	D3
Our bodies and souls	E3
Became lighter than mist	D3
Sweet dresses like snow	F3
Our small lady loves wore	U2
Like moonlight the thoughts	G3
That our bosoms upbore	U2
Like a lily the touch	H3
Of each cold little hand	I3
The loves of the stars	J3
We could now understand	I3
O quivering air	U2
O the crystalline night	M
O pauses of awe	K3
And the faces swan white	M
O ferns in the dusk	L3
O forest shrined hour	U2
O earth that sent upward	O2
The thrill and the power	U2
To lift us like leaves	M3
A delirious whirl	K
The masterful boy	N3
And the delicate girl	K
What child that strange night time	O3
Can ever forget	P3
His fealty due	Q3
And his infinite debt	P3
To the folly divine	R3
To the exquisite rule	F
Of the perilous master	U2
The fawn footed fool	F
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Now soldiers we seem	E2
And night brings a new thing	W2
A terrible ire	U2
As of thunder awing	W2
A warrior power	U2
That old chivalry stirred	O2
When knights took up arms	S3
As the maidens gave word	O2
THE END OF OUR WAR	U2
WILL BE GLORY UNTOLD	T3
WHEN THE TOWN LIKE A GREAT	U3
BUDDING ROSE SHALL UNFOLD	T3
Near nearer that war	U2
And that ecstasy comes	V3
We hear the trees beating	W2
Invisible drums	V3
The fields of the night	M
Are starlit above	C2
Our girls are white torches	W3
Of conquest and love	C2
No nerve without will	X3
And no breast without breath	Y3
We whirl with the planets	Z3
That never know death	Y3

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