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May January	A
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Sceptre and orb and crown	B
High ensigns of a sovranty containing	C
The beauty and strength and state of half a World	D
Pass from her and she fades	E
Into the old inviolable peace	F
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I	-
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She had been ours so long	G
She seemed a piece of ENGLAND spirit and blood	H
And message ENGLAND'S self	I
Home coloured ENGLAND in look and deed and dream	J
Like the rich meadows and woods the serene rivers	K
And sea charmed cliffs and beaches that still bring	C
A rush of tender pride to the heart	L
That beats in ENGLAND'S airs to ENGLAND'S ends	M
August familiar irremovable	N
Like the good stars that shine	O
In the good skies that only ENGLAND knows	P
So that we held it sure	Q
GOD'S aim GOD'S will GOD'S way	R
When Empire from her footstool realm on realm	S
Spread even as from her notable womb	T
Sprang line on line of Kings	U
For she was ENGLAND ENGLAND and our Queen	V
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II	-
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O she was ours And she had aimed	W
And known and done the best	X
And highest in time greatly rejoiced	Y
Ruled greatly greatly endured Love had been hers	K
And widowhood glory and grief increase	F
In wisdom and power and pride	Z
Dominion honour children reverence	A2
So that in peace and war	B2
Innumerably victorious she lay down	B
To die in a world renewed	C2
Cleared in her luminous umbrage beautified	C2
For Man and changing fast	C2
Into so gracious an inheritance	A2
As Man had never dared	C2
Imagine Think when she passed	C2
Think what a pageant of immortal acts	D2
Done in the unapproachable face	E2
Of Time by the high transcending human mind	C2
Shone and acclaimed	C2
And triumphed in her advent Think of the ghosts	F2
Think of the mighty ghosts soldiers and priests	G2
Artists and captains of discovery	A
GOD'S chosen His adventurers up the heights	H2
Of thought and deed how many of them that led	C2
The forlorn hopes of the World	C2
Her peers and servants made the air	I2
Of her death chamber glorious Think how they thronged	C2
About her bed and with what pride	C2
They took this sister ghost	C2
Tenderly into the night O think	J2
And thinking bow the head	C2
In sorrow but in the reverence that makes	K2
The strong man stronger this true maid	C2
True wife true mother tried and found	C2
An hundred times true steel	N
This unforgettable woman was your Queen	V
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III	-
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Tears for her tears Tears and the mighty rites	H2
Of an everlasting and immense farewell	N
ENGLAND green heart of the world and you	L2
Dear demi ENGLANDS far away isles of home	M2
Where the old speech is native and the old flag	N2
Floats and the old irresistible call	N
The watch word of so many ages of years	O2
Makes men in love	P2
With toil for the race and pain and peril and death	Q2
Tears and the dread tremendous dirge	R2
Of her brooding battleships and hosts	F2
Processional with trailing arms the plaint	C2
Measured enormous terrible of her guns	S2
The slow heart breaking throb	T2
Of bells the trouble of drums the blare	I2
Of mourning trumpets the discomforting pomp	U2
Of silent crowds black streets and banners royal	N
Obsequious Then these high things done	V2
Rise heartened of your passion Rise to the height	C2
Of her so lofty life Kneel if you must	C2
But kneeling win to those great altitudes	W2
On which she sought and did	C2
Her clear supernal errand unperturbed	C2
Let the new memory	A
Be as the old long love So when the hour	X2
Strikes as it must for valour of heart	C2
Virtue and patience and unblenching hope	Y2
And the inflexible resolve	Z2
That come the World in arms	A3
This breeder of nations ENGLAND keeping the seas	B3
Hers as from GOD shall in the sight of GOD	C2
Stand justified of herself	I
Wherever her unretreating bugles blow	N
Remember that she lived	C2
That this magnificent Power might still perdure	X2
Your friend your passionate servant counsellor Queen	V
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IV	I
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Be that your chief of mourning that	C2
ENGLAND O Mother and you	L2
The daughter Kingdoms born and reared	C2
Of ENGLAND'S travail and sweet blood	C2
And never will you lands	C3
The live Earth over and round	C2
Wherethrough for sixty royal and radiant years	O2
Her drum tap made the dawns	D3
English Never will you	L2
So fittingly and well have paid your debt	C2
Of grief and gratitude to the souls	E3
That sink in ENGLAND'S harness into the dream	J
'I die for ENGLAND'S sake and it is well'	N
As now to this valiant wonderful piece of earth	F3
To which the assembling nations bare the head	C2
And bend the knee	A
In absolute veneration once your Queen	V
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Sceptre and orb and crown	B
High ensigns of a sovranty empaling	N2
The glory and love and praise of a whole half world	C2
Fall from her and preceding she departs	G3
Into the old indissoluble Peace	F
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EPILOGUE	N2
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Into a land	C2
Storm wrought a place of quakes all thunder scarred	C2
Helpless degraded desolate	C2
Peace the White Angel comes	H3
Her eyes are as a mother's Her good hands	C3
Are comforting and helping and her voice	I3
Falls on the heart as after Winter Spring	N2
Falls on the World and there is no more pain	J3
And in her influence hope returns and life	I
And the passion of endeavour so that soon	K3
The idle ports are insolent with keels	L3
The stithies roar and the mills thrum	J
With energy and achievement weald and wold	C2
Exult the cottage garden teems	M3
With innocent hues and odours boy and girl	N
Mate prosperously there are sweet women to kiss	N3
There are good women to breed In a golden fog	N2
A large full stomached faith in kindliness	N3
All over the world the nation in a dream	J
Of money and love and sport hangs at the paps	N3
Of well being and so	N3
Goes fattening mellowing dozing rotting down	B
Into a rich deliquium of decay	N2
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Then if the Gods be good	C2
Then if the Gods be other than mischievous	N3
Down from their footstools down	B
With a million throated shouting swoops and storms	N3
War the Red Angel the Awakener	X2
The Shaker of Souls and Thrones and at her heel	N
Trail grief and ruin and shame	J
The woman weeps her man the mother her son	V2
The tenderling its father In wild hours	N3
A people haggard with defeat	C2
Asks if there be a God yet sets its teeth	O3
Faces calamity and goes into the fire	X2
Another than it was And in wild hours	N3
A people roaring ripe	P3
With victory rises menaces stands renewed	C2
Sheds its old piddling aims	N3
Approves its virtue puts behind itself	I
The comfortable dream and goes	N3
Armoured and militant	C2
New pithed new souled new visioned up the steeps	N3
To those great altitudes whereat the weak	N2
Live not But only the strong	N2
Have leave to strive and suffer and achieve	I
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WORTHING	N2

William Ernest Henley

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