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The master weavers at the enchanted loom	A
Of Legend weaving long ago those tales	B
Through which there wanders the grey thread of truth	C
Lost in the gorgeous arras of romance	D
Tell how King Vortigern resolved to build	E
A Tower of Safety 'mid the solitudes	D
That are the hem of the great druid robe	F
Of Snowdon Mount of Eagles So each day	G
The builders laboured marrying stone to stone	H
But ever in the night an adversary	I
Invisible as malevolent cancelled those	D
Cold nuptials and with impish wanton rage	J
Shattered the walls And thither from beyond	K
That congress of grave mountains met like seers	D
And bards august though in a rivalry	I
Of silence rather than of song from where	L
The vales are not so tranced with awe nor yet	M
So far below the hill tops as to feel	N
Aching estrangement fortune one day brought	O
A youth whoso very brow was a command	P
His name of Merlin had not clambered then	Q
To fearsome greatness like a dusty star	R
Yet ev'n thus early his subduing eyes	D
Seemed to have known all things in life but tears	D
And standing where wrecked hopes bestrewed the ground	S
He said to them whose toil was shards and dust	T
'Search underneath your tower's foundations there	L
Are the Unbuilders busy while you build	E
The Undoers are there ' And every man obeyed	U
And digging deep they found a hollow abysm	A
Where waters gnawed the ribs of the Earth and sapped	V
Her sinews till her frame tottered infirm	A
'Where also monsters heaved their tumid bulk	W
In ancient ambush and with tremors vast	X
Palsied those ramparts as they yearned to rise '	Y
Blind dragon shapes of blindest darkness born	Z
That save in darkness could not live an hour	A2
And touched by Light made their dull moan and died	B2
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Such is the tale which one who chronicled	C2
Old shadowy wars in sanctuaries of peace	D
Found amid crumbled pomps the hushed domain	D2
Of mildew and the empire of the moth	E2
Nigh on eight hundred years ago And now	F2
Out of that land where Snowdon night by night	G2
Receives the confidences of lonesome stars	D
And where Carnarvon's ruthless battlements	D
Magnificently oppress the daunted tide	B2
There comes no fabled Merlin son of mist	H2
And brother to the twilight but a man	I2
Who in a time terrifically real	N
Is real as the time formed for the time '	-
Not much beholden to the munificent Past	X
In mind or spirit but frankly of this hour	A2
No faggot of perfections angel or saint	J2
Created faultless and intolerable	K2
No meeting place of all the heavenlinesses	D
But eminently a man to stir and spur	A2
Men to afflict them with benign alarm	A
Harass their sluggish and uneager blood	L2
Till like himself they are hungry for the goal	M2
A man with something of the cragginess	D
Of his own mountains something of the force	D
That goads to their loud leap the mountain streams	D
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And he too comes to bid the builders probe	F
Deep underneath the Tower of Safety lest	N2
A pit lie cavernous and covert there	L
A long baulked ravening emptiness a grave	O2
That famishes for its expected food	P2
Nay in his hands he takes the delver's spade	U
Lays bare the hollow o'er which to build at all	Q2
Were to build woe and ruin and 'stablishes	D
A mightier tower bastioned so broad and firm	A
In life in manhood and in womanhood	R2
Founded upon so massy a human rock	S2
And with such living bulwarks against them	A
Who first poured death from where the lark strews bliss	D
That when at last ours shall be Triumph though	T2
Triumph perhaps too weary to rejoice	D
Save with a mournful jubilation when	Q
Hate shall reel back from these embattled walls	D
And having spent so long its hurtling bolts	D
With such' poor thrift shall stand before the star	R
Bankrupt of thunder then indeed shall Time	A
Add yet another name to those the world	U2
Salutes with an obeisance of the soul	M2
The name of him the man of Celtic blood	L2
Whom Powers Unknown in a divine caprice	D
Chose and did make their instrument wherewith	T2
To save the Saxon the man all eye and hand	P
The man who saw and grasped and gripped and held	V2
Then shall each morrow with its yesterday	G
Vie in the honour of nobly honouring him	A
Who found us blindfold by the slippery verge	W2
Of fathomless perdition and haled us back	X2
And poets shall dawn in pearl and gold of speech	Y2
Crowning his deed with not less homage here	Z2
On English ground than yonder whence he rose	D
Yonder where crash the cataracts through the chasms	D
And unto the dark tempests the dark hills	D
Offer their stubborn sides all gered but keep	A3
A heart invincible and impregnable	K2
While with long arm and piercing spear the sea	D
Thrusts far into the valleys that of old	B3
Heard the twin raptures of the harp and sword	C3
The heroic strife and the heroic strings	D
Amid the battling torrents and beneath	T2
The happier peaks that without strife prevail	D3

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