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WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS AT BATH	A
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When I lie musing on my bed alone	B
And listen to the wintry waterfall	C
And many moments that are past and gone	D
Moments of sunshine and of joy recall	C
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Though the long night is dark and damp around	E
And no still star hangs out its friendly flame	F
And the winds sweep the sash with sullen sound	E
And freezing palsy creeps o'er all my frame	F
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I catch consoling phantasies that spring	G
From the thick gloom and as the night airs beat	H
They touch my heart like wind swift wires that ring	G
In mournful modulations strange and sweet	H
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Was it the voice of thee my buried friend	I
Was it the whispered vow of faithful love	J
Do I in Knoyle's green shades thy steps attend	I
And hear the high pines murmur thus above	J
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'Twas not thy voice my buried friend Oh no	K
'Twas not O Knoyle the murmur of thy trees	L
But at the thought I feel my bosom glow	K
And woo the dream whose air drawn shadows please	L
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And I can think I see the groves again	M
The larches that yon peaceful roof embower	N
The airy down the cattle speckled plain	O
And the slant sunshine on the village tower	N
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And I can think I hear its Sabbath chime	P
Come smoothly softened down the woody vale	Q
Or mark on yon lone eminence sublime	P
Fast whirling in the wind the white mill's sail	Q
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Phantom that by my bed dost beckoning glide	R
Spectre of Death to the damp charnel hie	S
Thy dim pale hand thy festering visage hide	R
Thou com'st to say I with thy worms shall lie	T
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Thou com'st to say that my once vacant mind	U
Amid those scenes shall never more rejoice	V
Nor on the day of rest the hoary hind	U
Bend o'er his staff attentive to my voice	V
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Hast thou not visited that pleasant place	W
Where in this hard world I have happiest been	X
And shall I tremble at thy lifted mace	W
That hath pierced all on which life seemed to lean	Y
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But Hope might whisper Many a smiling day	Z
And many a cheerful eve may yet be mine	A2
Ere age's autumn strew my locks with gray	Z
And weary to the dust my steps decline	A2
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I argue not but uncomplaining bow	B2
To Heaven's high 'hest secure whate'er my lot	C2
Meek spirit of resigned Content that thou	B2
Wilt smooth my pillow and forsake me not	C2
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Thou to the turfy hut with pilgrim feet	H
Wanderest from halls of loud tumultuous joy	D2
Or on the naked down when the winds beat	H
Dost sing to the forsaken shepherd boy	D2
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Thou art the sick man's nurse the poor man's friend	I
And through each change of life thou hast been mine	A2
In every ill thou canst a comfort blend	I
And bid the eye though sad in sadness shine	A2
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Thee I have met on Cherwell's willowed side	R
And when our destined road far onward lay	Z
Thee I have found whatever chance betide	R
The kind companion of my devious way	Z
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With thee unwearied have I loved to roam	E2
By the smooth flowing Scheldt or rushing Rhine	A2
And thou hast gladdened my sequestered home	E2
And hung my peaceful porch with eglantine	A2
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When cares and crosses my tired spirits tried	R
When to the dust my father I resigned	U
Amidst the quiet shade unseen I sighed	R
And blest with thee forgot a world unkind	U
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Ev'n now while toiling through the sleepless night	F2
A tearful look to distant scenes I cast	G2
And the glad objects that once charmed my sight	F2
Remember like soft views of 'faerie' past	G2
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I see thee come half smiling to my bed	H2
With Fortitude more awfully severe	N
Whose arm sustaining holds my drooping head	H2
Who dries with her dark locks the tender tear	N
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O firmer Spirit on some craggy height	F2
Who when the tempest sails aloft dost stand	I2
And hear'st the ceaseless billows of the night	F2
Rolling upon the solitary strand	I2
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At this sad hour when no harsh thoughts intrude	J2
To mar the melancholy mind's repose	K2
When I am left to night and solitude	J2
And languid life seems verging to its close	L2
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Oh let me thy pervading influence feel	M2
Be every weak and wayward thought repressed	N2
And hide thou as with plates of coldest steel	M2
The faded aspect and the throbbing breast	N2
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Silent the motley pageant may retreat	H
And vain mortality's brief scenes remove	O2
Yet let my bosom whilst with life it beat	H
Breathe a last prayer for all on earth I love	J
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Slow creeping pain weighs down my heavy eye	T
A chiller faintness steals upon my breast	N2
'O gentle Muse with some sweet lullaby'	D2
Rock me in long forgetfulness to rest	N2

William Lisle Bowles

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