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I wonder can this be the world it was	A
At sunset I remember the sky fell	B
Green as pale meadows at the long street ends	C
But overhead the smoke wrack hugged the roofs	D
As if to shut the city from God's eyes	E
Till dawn should quench the laughter and the lights	F
Beneath the gas flare stolid faces passed	G
Too dull for sin old loosened lips set hard	H
To drain the stale lees from the cup of sense	I
Or if a young face yearned from out the mist	J
Made by its own bright hair the eyes were wan	K
With desolate fore knowledge of the end	L
My life lay waste about me as I walked	M
From the gross dark of unfrequented streets	N
The face of my own youth peered forth at me	O
Struck white with pity at the thing I was	A
And globed in ghostly fire thrice virginal	P
With lifted face star strong went one who sang	Q
Lost verses from my youth's gold canticle	P
Out of the void dark came my face and hers	R
One vivid moment then the street was there	S
Bloat shapes and mean eyes blotted the sear dusk	T
And in the curtained window of a house	U
Whence sin reeked on the night a shameful head	V
Was silhouetted black as Satan's face	W
Against eternal fires I stumbled on	K
Down the dark slope that reaches riverward	V
Stretching blind hands to find the throat of God	V
And crush Him in his lies The river lay	P
Coiled in its factory filth and few lean trees	X
All was too hateful I could not die there	S
I whom the Spring had strained unto her breast	V
Whose lips had felt the wet vague lips of dawn	Y
So under the thin willows' leprous shade	V
And through the tangled ranks of riverweed	V
I pushed till lo God heard me I came forth	Z
Where 'neath the shoreless hush of region light	V
Through a new world undreamed of undesired	V
Beyond imagining of man's weary heart	V
Far to the white marge of the wondering sea	O
This still plain widens and this moon rains down	A2
Insufferable ecstasy of peace	B2
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My heart is man's heart strong to bear this night's	F
Unspeakable affliction of mute love	C2
That crazes lesser things The rocks and clods	F
Dissemble feign a busy intercourse	F
The bushes deal in shadowy subterfuge	D2
Lurk dull dart spiteful out make heartless signs	F
Utter awestricken purpose of no sense	F
But I walk quiet crush aside the hands	F
Stretched furtively to drag me madmen's ways	F
I know the thing they suffer and the tricks	F
They must be at to help themselves endure	E2
I would not be too boastful I am weak	F2
Too weak to put aside the utter ache	G2
Of this lone splendor long enough to see	F
Whether the moon is still her white strange self	H2
Or something whiter stranger even the face	F
Which by the changed face of my risen youth	I2
Sang globed in fire her golden canticle	P
I dare not look again another gaze	F
Might drive me to the wavering coppice there	S
Where bat winged madness brushed me the wild laugh	J2
Of naked nature crashed across my blood	V
So rank it was with earthy presences	F
Faun shapes in goatish dance young witches' eyes	F
Slanting deep invitation whinnying calls	F
Ambiguous shocks and whirlwinds of wild mirth	K2
They had undone me in the darkness there	S
But that within me smiting through my lids	F
Lowered to shut in the thick whirl of sense	F
The dumb light ached and rummaged and with out	V
The soaring splendor summoned me aloud	V
To leave the low dank thickets of the flesh	L2
Where man meets beast and makes his lair with him	M2
For spirit reaches of the strenuous vast	V
Where stalwart stars reap grain to make the bread	V
God breaketh at his tables and is glad	V
I came out in the moonlight cleansed and strong	N2
And gazed up at the lyric face to see	F
All sweetness tasted of in earthen cups	F
Ere it be dashed and spilled all radiance flung	O2
Beyond experience every benison dream	P2
Treasured and mystically crescent there	S
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O who will shield me from her Who will place	F
A veil between me and the fierce in throng	N2
Of her inexorable benedicite	V
See I have loved her well and been with her	Q2
Through tragic twilights when the stricken sea	F
Groveled with fear or when she made her throne	R2
In imminent cities built of gorgeous winds	F
And paved with lightnings or when the sobering stars	F
Would lead her home 'mid wealth of plundered May	P
Along the violet slopes of evensong	N2
Of all the sights that starred the dreamy year	S2
For me one sight stood peerless and apart	V
Bright rivers tacit low hills prone and dumb	T2
Forests that hushed their tiniest voice to hear	U2
Skies for the unutterable advent robed	V
In purple like the opening iris buds	F
And by some lone expectant pool one tree	F
Whose gray boughs shivered with excess of awe	V2
As with preluding gush of amber light	V
And herald trumpets softly lifted through	W2
Across the palpitant horizon marge	X2
Crocus filleted came the singing moon	Y2
Out of her changing lights I wove my youth	I2
A place to dwell in sweet and spiritual	P
And all the bitter years of my exile	P
My heart has called afar off unto her	Q2
Lo after many days love finds its own	R2
The futile adorations the waste tears	F
The hymns that fluttered low in the false dawn	Y
She has uptreasured as a lover's gifts	F
They are the mystic garment that she wears	F
Against the bridal and the crocus flowers	F
She twined her brow with at the going forth	Z
They are the burden of the song she made	V
In coming through the quiet fields of space	F
And breathe between her passion parted lips	F
Calling me out along the flowering road	V
Which summers through the dimness of the sea	F
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Hark where the deep feels round its thousand shores	F
To find remembered respite and far drawn	Y
Through weed strewn shelves and crannies of the coast	V
The myriad silence yearns to myriad speech	Z2
O sea that yearns a day shall thy tongues be	F
So eloquent and heart shall all thy tongues	F
Be dumb to speak thy longing Say I hold	V
Life as a broken jewel in my hand	V
And fain would buy a little love with it	V
For comfort say I fain would make it shine	A3
Once in remembering eyes ere it be dust	V
Were life not worthy spent Then what of this	F
When all my spirit hungers to repay	P
The beauty that has drenched my soul with peace	F
Once at a simple turning of the way	P
I met God walking and although the dawn	Y
Was large behind Him and the morning stars	F
Circled and sang about his face as birds	F
About the fieldward morning cottager	Q2
My coward heart said faintly Let us haste	V
Day grows and it is far to market town	A2
Once where I lay in darkness after fight	V
Sore smitten thrilled a little thread of song	N2
Searching and searching at my muffled sense	F
Until it shook sweet pangs through all my blood	V
And I beheld one globed in ghostly fire	Q2
Singing star strong her golden canticle	P
And her mouth sang The hosts of Hate roll past	V
A dance of dust motes in the sliding sun	B3
Love's battle comes on the wide wings of storm	C3
From east to west one legion Wilt thou strive	D3
Then since the splendor of her sword bright gaze	F
Was heavy on me with yearning and with scorn	E3
My sick heart muttered Yea the little strife	F3
Yet see the grievous wounds I fain would sleep	G3
O heart shalt thou not once be strong to go	N2
Where all sweet throats are calling once be brave	H3
To slake with deed thy dumbness Let us go	N2
The path her singing face looms low to point	V
Pendulous blanched with longing shedding flame	I3
Of silver on the brown grope of the flood	V
For all my spirit's soilure is put by	J3
And all my body's soilure lacking now	K3
But the last lustral sacrament of death	L3
To make me clean for those near searching eyes	F
That question yonder whether all be well	P
And pause a little ere they dare rejoice	F
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Question and be thou answered passionate face	F
For I am worthy worthy now at last	V
After so long unworth strong now at last	V
To give myself to beauty and be saved	V
Now being man to give myself to thee	F
As once the tumult of my boyish heart	V
Companioned thee with rapture through the world	V
Forth from a land whereof no poet's lip	M3
Made mention how the leas were lily sprent	V
Into a land God's eyes had looked not on	K
To love the tender bloom upon the hills	F
To morrow when the fishers come at dawn	Y
Upon that shell of me the sea has tossed	V
To land as fit for earth to use again	N3
Men meeting at the shops and corner streets	F
Will speak a word of pity glossing o'er	Q2
With altered accent dubious sweep of hand	V
Their virile just contempt for one who failed	V
But they can never cast my earnings up	O3
Who know so well my losses Even you	W2
Who in the mild light of the spirit walk	N2
And hold yourselves acquainted with the truth	I2
Be not too swift to judge and cast me out	V
You shall find other nobler ways than mine	A3
To work your soul's redemption glorious noons	F
Of battle 'neath the heaven suspended sign	A3
And nightly refuge 'neath God's gis rim	M2
Increase of wisdom and acquaintance held	V
With the heart's austerities still governance	F
And ripening of the blood in the weekday sun	B3
To make the full orbed consecrated fruit	V
At life's end for the Sabbath supper meet	V
I shall not sit beside you at that feast	V
For ere a seedling of my golden tree	F
Pushed off its petals to get room to grow	N2
I stripped the boughs to make an April gaud	V
And wreathe a spendthrift garland for my hair	Q2
But mine is not the failure God deplores	F
For I of old am beauty's votarist	V
Long recreant often foiled and led astray	Q2
But resolute at last to seek her there	Q2
Where most she does abide and crave with tears	F
That she assoil me of my blemishment	V
Low looms her singing face to point the way	Q2
Pendulous blanched with longing shedding flame	I3
Of silver on the brown grope of the flood	V
The stars are for me the horizon wakes	F
Its pilgrim chanting and the little sand	V
Grows musical of hope beneath my feet	V
The waves that leap to meet my swimming breast	V
Gossip sweet secrets of the light drenched way	Q2
And when the deep throbs of the rising surge	P3
Pulse upward with me and a rain of wings	F
Blurs round the moon's pale place she stoops to reach	Z2
Still welcome of bright hands across the wave	H3
And sings low low globed all in ghostly fire	Q2
Lost verses from my youth's gold canticle	P