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When I am dead a few poor souls shall grieve	A
As I grieved for my brother long ago	B
Scarce did my eyes grow dim	C
I had forgotten him	C
I was far off hearing the spring winds blow	B
And many summers burned	D
When though still reeling with my eyes aflame	E
I heard that faded name	E
Whispered one Spring amid the hurrying world	F
From which years gone he turned	D
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I looked up at my windows and I saw	G
The trees thin spectres sucked forth by the moon	H
The air was very still	I
Above a distant hill	I
It was the hour of night's full silver moon	H
'O are thou there my brother ' my soul cried	J
And all the pale stars down bright rivers wept	K
As my heart sadly crept	K
About the empty hills bathed in that light	L
That lapped him when he died	J
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Ah it was cold so cold do I not know	B
How dead my heart on that remembered day	M
Clear in a far away place	N
I see his delicate face	N
Just as he called me from my solitary play	M
Giving into my hands a tiny tree	O
We planted it in the dark blossomless ground	P
Gravely without a sound	P
Then back I went and left him standing by	Q
His birthday gift to me	O
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In that far land perchance it quietly grows	R
Drinking the rain making a pleasant shade	S
Birds in its branches fly	Q
Out of the fathomless sky	Q
Where worlds of circling light arise and fade	S
Blindly it quivers in the bright flood of day	M
Or drowned in multitudinous shouts of rain	T
Glooms o'er the dark veiled plain	T
Buried below the ghost that's in his bones	U
Dreams in the sodden clay	M
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And while he faded drunk with beauty's eyes	V
I kissed bright girls and laughed deep in dumb trees	W
That stared fixt in the air	X
Like madmen in despair	X
Gaped up from earth with the escaping breeze	W
I saw earth's exaltation slowly creep	Y
Out of their myriad sky embracing veins	Z
I laughed along the lanes	Z
Meeting Death riding in from the hollow seas	W
Through black wreathed woods asleep	Y
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I laughed I swaggered on the cold hard ground	P
Through the grey air trembled a falling wave	A2
'Thou'rt pale O Death ' I cried	J
Mocking him in my pride	J
And passing I dreamed not of that lonely grave	A2
But of leaf maidens whose pale moon like hands	B2
Above the tree foam waved in the icy air	X
Sweeping with shining hair	X
Through the green tinted sky one moment fled	C2
Out of immortal lands	B2
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One windless Autumn night the Moon came out	D2
In a white sea of cloud a field of snow	B
In darkness shaped of trees	W
I sank upon my knees	W
And watched her shining from the small wood below	B
Faintly Death flickered in an owl's far cry	Q
We floated soundless in the great gulf of space	N
Her light upon my face	N
Immortal shining in that dark wood I knelt	E2
And knew I could not die	Q
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And knew I could not die O Death didst thou	F2
Heed my vain glory standing pale by thy dead	C2
There is a spirit who grieves	G2
Amid earth's dying leaves	G2
Was't thou that wept beside my brother's bed	C2
For I did never mourn nor heed at all	H2
Him passing on his temporal elm wood bier	I2
I never shed a tear	X
The drooping sky spread grey winged through my soul	J2
While stones and earth did fall	H2
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That sound rings down the years I hear it yet	K2
All earthly life's a winding funeral	L2
And though I never wept	K
But into the dark coach stept	K
Dreaming by night to answer the blood's sweet call	H2
She who stood there high breasted with small wise lips	M2
And gave me wine to drink and bread to eat	K
Has not more steadfast feet	K
But fades from my arms as fade from mariners' eyes	V
The sea's most beauteous ships	M2
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The trees and hills of earth were once as close	N2
As my own brother they are becoming dreams	O2
And shadows in my eyes	V
More dimly lies	V
Guaya deep in my soul the coastline gleams	O2
Faintly along the darkening crystalline seas	W
Glimmering and lovely still 'twill one day go	B
The surging dark will flow	B
Over my hopes and joys and blot out all	H2
Earth's hills and skies and trees	W
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I shall look up one night and see the Moon	H
For the last time shining above the hills	P2
And thou silent wilt ride	K
Over the dark hillside	K
'Twill be perchance the time of daffodils	P2
'How come those bright immortals in the woods	Q2
Their joy being young didst thou not drag them all	H2
Into dark graves ere Fall '	-
Shall life thus haunt me wondering as I go	B
To thy deep solitudes	Q2
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There is a figure with a down turned torch	R2
Carved on a pillar in an olden time	S2
A calm and lovely boy	T2
Who comes not to destroy	T2
But to lead age back to its golden prime	S2
Thus did an antique sculptor draw thee Death	U2
With smooth and beauteous brow and faint sweet smile	V2
Not haggard gaunt and vile	V2
And thou perhaps art thus to whom men may	M
Unvexed give up their breath	U2
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But in my soul thou sittest like a dream	W2
Among earth's mountains by her dim coloured seas	Q2
A wild unearthly Shape	X2
In thy dark glimmering cape	X2
Piping a tune of wavering melodies	Q2
Thou sittest ay thou sittest at the feast	K
Of my brief life among earth's bright wreathed flowers	Q2
Staining the dancing hours	Q2
With sombre gleams until abrupt thou risest	K
And all at once is ceased	K

W.j. Turner

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