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I	A
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Many ingenious lovely things are gone	B
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude	C
protected from the circle of the moon	D
That pitches common things about There stood	E
Amid the ornamental bronze and stone	F
An ancient image made of olive wood	E
And gone are phidias' famous ivories	G
And all the golden grasshoppers and bees	G
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We too had many pretty toys when young	H
A law indifferent to blame or praise	G
To bribe or threat habits that made old wrong	I
Melt down as it were wax in the sun's rays	G
Public opinion ripening for so long	I
We thought it would outlive all future days	G
O what fine thought we had because we thought	J
That the worst rogues and rascals had died out	K
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All teeth were drawn all ancient tricks unlearned	K
And a great army but a showy thing	L
What matter that no cannon had been turned	K
Into a ploughshare Parliament and king	L
Thought that unless a little powder burned	K
The trumpeters might burst with trumpeting	L
And yet it lack all glory and perchance	G
The guardsmen's drowsy chargers would not prance	G
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Now days are dragon ridden the nightmare	M
Rides upon sleep a drunken soldiery	M
Can leave the mother murdered at her door	M
To crawl in her own blood and go scot free	M
The night can sweat with terror as before	M
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy	M
And planned to bring the world under a rule	N
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole	O
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He who can read the signs nor sink unmanned	K
Into the half deceit of some intoxicant	K
From shallow wits who knows no work can stand	K
Whether health wealth or peace of mind were spent	K
On master work of intellect or hand	K
No honour leave its mighty monument	K
Has but one comfort left all triumph would	K
But break upon his ghostly solitude	K
But is there any comfort to be found	K
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes	G
What more is there to say That country round	K
None dared admit if Such a thought were his	G
Incendiary or bigot could be found	K
To burn that stump on the Acropolis	G
Or break in bits the famous ivories	G
Or traffic in the grasshoppers or bees	G
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II	A
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When Loie Fuller's Chinese dancers enwound	K
A shining web a floating ribbon of cloth	P
It seemed that a dragon of air	M
Had fallen among dancers had whirled them round	K
Or hurried them off on its own furious path	Q
So the platonic Year	M
Whirls out new right and wrong	I
Whirls in the old instead	K
All men are dancers and their tread	K
Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong	I
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III	A
	-
Some moralist or mythological poet	K
Compares the solitary soul to a swan	R
I am satisfied with that	K
Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it	K
Before that brief gleam of its life be gone	B
An image of its state	K
The wings half spread for flight	K
The breast thrust out in pride	K
Whether to play or to ride	K
Those winds that clamour of approaching night	K
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A man in his own secret meditation	S
Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made	K
In art or politics	G
Some platonist affirms that in the station	S
Where we should cast off body and trade	K
The ancient habit sticks	G
And that if our works could	K
But vanish with our breath	T
That were a lucky death	T
For triumph can but mar our solitude	K
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The swan has leaped into the desolate heaven	S
That image can bring wildness bring a rage	U
To end all things to end	K
What my laborious life imagined even	V
The half imagined the half written page	U
O but we dreamed to mend	K
Whatever mischief seemed	K
To afflict mankind but now	W
That winds of winter blow	X
Learn that we were crack pated when we dreamed	K
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IV	M
	-
We who seven yeats ago	X
Talked of honour and of truth	Y
Shriek with pleasure if we show	X
The weasel's twist the weasel's tooth	Y
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V	M
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Come let us mock at the great	K
That had such burdens on the mind	K
And toiled so hard and late	K
To leave some monument behind	K
Nor thought of the levelling wind	K
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Come let us mock at the wise	G
With all those calendars whereon	W
They fixed old aching eyes	G
They never saw how seasons run	W
And now but gape at the sun	W
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Come let us mock at the good	K
That fancied goodness might be gay	Z
And sick of solitude	K
Might proclaim a holiday	Z
Wind shrieked and where are they	Z
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Mock mockers after that	K
That would not lift a hand maybe	M
To help good wise or great	K
To bar that foul storm out for we	M
Traffic in mockery	M
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VI	M
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Violence upon the roads violence of horses	G
Some few have handsome riders are garlanded	K
On delicate sensitive ear or tossing mane	W
But wearied running round and round in their courses	G
All break and vanish and evil gathers head	K
Herodias' daughters have returned again	W
A sudden blast of dusty wind and after	M
Thunder of feet tumult of images	G
Their purpose in the labyrinth of the wind	K
And should some crazy hand dare touch a daughter	M
All turn with amorous cries or angry cries	G
According to the wind for all are blind	K
But now wind drops dust settles thereupon	W
There lurches past his great eyes without thought	K
Under the shadow of stupid straw pale locks	G
That insolent fiend Robert Artisson	W
To whom the love lorn Lady Kyteler brought	K
Bronzed peacock feathers red combs of her cocks	G

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