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These are the time words of Merlyn the voice of his age recorded	A
All his wisdom of life the fruit of tears in his youth of joy in his manhood hoarded	B
All the wit of his years unsealed to the witless alms awarded	A
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These are his time gifts of song his help to the heavy laden	C
Words of an expert of life who has gathered its sins in his sack its virtues to grieve and gladden	C
Speaking aloud as one who is strong to the heart of man wife and maiden	C
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For he is Merlyn of old the once young the still robed in glory	D
Ancient of days though he be with wisdom only for wealth and the crown of his locks grown hoary	D
Yet with the rage of his soul untamed the skill of his lips in story	D
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He dares not unhouselled die who has seen who has known who has tasted	A
What of the splendours of Time of the wise wild joys of the Earth of the newness of pleasures quested	A
All that is neither of then nor now Truth's naked self clean breasted	A
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Things of youth and of strength the Earth with its infinite pity	A
Glories of mountain and plain of streams that wind from the hills to the insolent human city	A
Dark with its traders of human woe enthroned in the seats of the mighty	A
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Fair things nobler than Man before the day of his ruling	E
Free in their ancient peace ere he came to change to destroy to hinder with his schooling	E
Asking naught that was his to give save freedom from his fooling	E
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Beautiful wonderful wise a consonant law ruled heaven	C
Garden ungardened yet in need yet hardly of God to walk there noon or even	F
Beast and bird and flower in its place Earth's wonders more than seven	C
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Of these he would speak and confess to the young who regard not their heirship	G
Of beauty to boys who are blind of might to the impotent strong to the women who crowd Time's fair ship	G
Of pearls deep hid in Love's Indian seas the name of the God they worship	G
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Thus let it be with Merlyn before his daylight is ended	A
One last psalm of his life the light of it lipped with laughter the might of it mixed and blended	A
Still with the subtle sweet need of tears than Pleasure's self more splendid	A
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Psalm and hymn of the Earth expounding what Time teaches	H
Creed no longer of wrath of silent issueless hopes of a thing which beyond Man's reach is	I
Hope deferred till the heart grows sick while the preacher vainly preaches	I
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Nay but a logic of life which needeth no deferring	E
Life with its birthright love the sun the wind and the rain in multiple pleasure stirring	E
Under the summer leaves at noon with no sad doubt of erring	E
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No sad legend of sin since his an innocent Eden	C
Is and a garden of grace its gateway clear of the sword its alleys not angel ridden	C
Its tree of life at the lips of all and never a fruit forbidden	C
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Merlyn is no vain singer to vex men's ears in the street	A
Nay nor a maid's unbidden He importuneth none with his song be it never so wild and sweet	A
She that hath ears to hear let her hear he will not follow her feet	A
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Merlyn makes no petition He asketh of no man alms	J
Prince and prophet is he a monarch a giver of gifts a lord of the open plams	J
Sueth he naught not at God's own hand though he laudeth the Lord in psalms	J
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Merlyn would speak his message only to hearts that are strong	K
To him that hath courage to climb who would gather time's samphire flowers who would venture the crags among	L
To her who would lesson her soul to fear with love for sermon and song	K
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Merlyn hath arms of pity the weak he would hold to his soul	M
Make them partakers of truth of the ancient weal of the Earth of the life throb from Pole to Pole	M
He would hold them close he would dry their tears with a kiss he would make them whole	M
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Thus would he sing and to thee thou child with the eyes of passion	C
Watching his face in the dark in the silent light of the stars while he in his godlike fashion	C
Maketh his mock at the fears of men nor spareth to lay the lash on	N
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Thus would thy Merlyn devise ere the days of his years be numbered	A
Now at threescore and ten He would leave his word to the world his soul of its load uncumbered	A
Then would he lay his ear to the grave and sleep as his childhood slumbered	A
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What is the fruit of Wisdom To learn the proportion of things	J
To know the ant from the lion the whale from the crest of the wave the ditty the grasshopper sings	J
From the chaunt of the full fledged Paradise bird as he shakes the dew from his wings	J
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There is one thing more than knowledge a harvest garnered by few	O
To tutor the heart to achieve to fashion the act to the hand to do and not yearn to do	O
To say to the wish of the soul I will '' to have gathered the flower where it grew	O
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I was young and they told me Tarry The rash in the nets are taken	C
If there be doubt of thy deed abstain lest the day of danger behold thee by these forsaken	C
Lest thou lie in the lion's den thou hast roused with the eyes thou hast dared to waken ''	-
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They spake but I answered Nay who waiteth shall take no quarry	A
Pleasure is fleet as the roe in the vales he feedeth to day but at nightwhen the eyes grow weary	A
Lo he hath passed to the desolate hills he is gone Nay he may not tarry ''	-
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For Joy too needeth a net He cometh tame to thy hand	A
Asketh an alms of thy life to serve thee thy jubilant slave if thou wouldst but understand	A
Then is thy moment O Man for the noose be it steel or a silken band	A
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Therefore where doubt is do Thou shalt stumble in thine endeavour	P
Ay till thy knees be sore thy back with the arrows of grief and thou stand with an empty quiver	P
Yet shall thy heart prevail through its pain for pain is a mastering lever	P
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Wouldst thou be wise O Man At the knees of a woman begin	F
Her eyes shall teach thee thy road the worth of the thing called pleasure the joy of the thing called sin	F
Else shalt thou go to thy grave in pain for the folly that might have been	F
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For know the knowledge of women the beginning of wisdom is	J
Who had seven hundred wives and concubines hundreds three as we read in the book of bliss	J
Solomon wisest of men and kings and all of them princesses ''	-
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Yet be thou stronger than they To be ruled of a woman is ill	Q
Life hath an hundred ways beside the way of her arms to give thee of joy thy fill	Q
Only is love of thy life the flower Be thine the ultimate will	Q
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A right way is to be happy a wrong way too Then beware	R
Leave the colt in his stall he shall grow to a thankless jade be he never so fat and fair	R
Sloth is a crime Rise up young fool and grasp thy joy by the hair	R
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What is the motto of youth There is only one Be thou strong	K
Do thy work and achieve with thy brain with thy hands with thy heart the deeds which to strength belong	K
Strike each day thy blow for the right or failing strike for the wrong	K
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He that would gain let him give The shut hand hardly shall win	F
Open thy palms to the poor O thou of the indigent heart There shall pleas ure be poured therein	F
Use thy soul to the cord of joy If thou sin must strongly sin	F
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Cast thy whole heart away The Earth philosophers tell	S
Leaps to a pebble thrown be it never so little it moved to the bidding of that which fell	S
Throw thy heart Thou shalt move the world though thou fall on the floor of Hell	S
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Few have the courage of loving Faint hearts The loss is theirs	J
Few of their idlest whims I would win to Rome ere I die '' one cried in his daily cares	J
Yet plods on on 'Change to his grave the slave of his stocks and shares	J
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Learn to appraise thy desires to weigh the wares of thy heart	A
If thou wouldst play with pleasure avoid Love's passionate tides its perilous Ocean chart	A
Hug the shores of Love's inland seas and buy thy joys in the mart	A
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Love lightly but marry at leisure Wild Love is a flower of the field	A
Waiting all hands to gather and ours If we leave it another will win it and kneel where we kneeled	A
Marriage is one tame garden rose in a garden fenced and sealed	A
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O thou who art sitting silent Youth	T

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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