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There was a Boy long years ago	A
Who hour by hour awake would lie	B
And watch the white moon gliding slow	A
Along her pathway in the sky	B
And every night as thus he lay	C
Entranced in lonely fantasy	D
Borne swiftly on a bright moon ray	C
There came to him a Golden Key	D
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And with that Golden Key the Boy	E
Oped every night a magic door	F
That to a melody of Joy	E
Turned on its hinges evermore	F
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Then trembling with delight and awe	G
When he the charm d threshold crossed	H
A radiant corridor he saw	I
Its end in dazzling distance lost	H
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Great windows shining in a row	A
Lit up the wondrous corridor	J
And each its own rich light did throw	A
In stream resplendent on the floor	F
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One window showed the Boy a scene	K
Within a forest old and dim	L
Where fairies danced upon the green	K
And kissed their little hands to him	L
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Sweet strains of elfin harp and horn	M
He heard so clearly sounding there	N
And he to Wonderland was borne	M
And breathed its soft enchanted air	N
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Then passing onward with the years	O
He turned his back on Elf and Fay	C
And sadly sweet as if in tears	P
The fairy music died away	C
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The second window held him long	Q
It looked upon a field of fight	R
Whereon the countless hordes of Wrong	Q
Fought fiercely with the friends of Right	R
	-
And lo upon that fateful field	S
Where cannon thundered banners streamed	T
And rushing squadrons rocked and reeled	S
His sword a star of battle gleamed	T
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And when the hordes of Wrong lay still	U
And that great fight was fought and won	V
He stood bright eyed upon a hill	U
His white plume shining in the sun	V
	-
A glorious vision yet behind	W
He left it with its scarlet glow	A
And faint and far upon the wind	W
He heard the martial trumpets blow	A
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For to his listening ear was borne	M
A music more entrancing far	X
Than strains of elfin harp or horn	M
More thrilling than the trump of war	F
	-
No longer as a dreamy boy	E
He trod the radiant corridor	J
His young man s heart presaged a joy	E
More dear than all the joys of yore	F
	-
To that third window half in awe	G
He moved and slowly raised his eyes	Y
And was it earth grown young he saw	I
Or was it man s lost Paradise	Z
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For all the flowers that ever bloomed	A2
Upon the earth and all the rare	N
Sweet Loveliness by Time entombed	A2
Seemed blushing blooming glowing there	N
	-
And every mellow throated bird	B2
That ever sang the trees among	C2
Seemed singing there with one sweet word	B2
Love Love on every little tongue	C2
	-
Then he by turns grew rosy red	D2
And he by turns grew passion pale	E2
Sweet Love the lark sang overhead	D2
Sweet Love sang Love s own nightingale	E2
	-
In mid heart of the hawthorn tree	D
The thrush sang all its buds to bloom	F2
Love Love Love Love Sweet Love sang he	D
Amidst the soft green sun flecked gloom	F2
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She stood upon a lilied lawn	G2
With dreamful eyes that gazed afar	X
A maiden tender as the Dawn	G2
And lovely as the Morning Star	X
She stooped and kissed him on the brow	H2
And in a low sweet voice said she	D
I am this country s queen and thou	H2
I am thy vassal murmured he	D
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She hid him with her hair gold red	D2
That flowed like sunshine to her knee	D
She kissed him on the lips and said	D2
Dear heart I ve waited long for thee	D
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And oh she was so fair so fair	N
So gracious was her beauty bright	R
Around her the enamoured air	N
Pulsed tremulously with delight	R
	-
In passionate melody did melt	I2
Bird voices scent of flower and tree	D
And he within his bosom felt	I2
The piercing thorn of ecstasy	D
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The years passed by in dark and light	R
In storm and shine the man grew old	J2
Yet never more by day or night	R
There came to him the Key of Gold	J2
But ever ere the great sun flowers	K2
In gold above the sky s blue rim	L
All in the dark and lonely hours	K2
There comes an Iron Key to him	L
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And with that key he opes a wide	L2
And gloomy door the Door of Fate	M2
That makes whene er it swings aside	L2
A music sad and desolate	N2
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A music sad from saddest source	O2
He sees beside the doorway set	P2
The chill gray figure of Remorse	O2
The pale cold image of Regret	P2
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For all the glory and the glow	A
Of Life are passed and dead and gone	G2
The Light and Life of Long Ago	A
Are memories only moonlight wan	Q2
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There is no man of woman born	M
So brave so good so wise but he	D
Must sometimes in a night forlorn	M
Take up and use the Iron Key	D

Victor James Daley

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