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I	A
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Thy functions are ethereal	B
As if within thee dwelt a glancing mind	C
Organ of vision And a Spirit aerial	B
Informs the cell of Hearing dark and blind	C
Intricate labyrinth more dread for thought	D
To enter than oracular cave	E
Strict passage through which sighs are brought	D
And whispers for the heart their slave	E
And shrieks that revel in abuse	F
Of shivering flesh and warbled air	G
Whose piercing sweetness can unloose	F
The chains of frenzy or entice a smile	H
Into the ambush of despair	G
Hosannas pealing down the long drawn aisle	H
And requiems answered by the pulse that beats	F
Devoutly in life's last retreats	F
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II	A
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The headlong streams and fountains	F
Serve Thee invisible Spirit with untired powers	F
Cheering the wakeful tent on Syrian mountains	F
They lull perchance ten thousand thousand flowers	F
'That' roar the prowling lion's 'Here I am'	I
How fearful to the desert wide	J
That bleat how tender of the dam	I
Calling a straggler to her side	J
Shout cuckoo let the vernal soul	K
Go with thee to the frozen zone	L
Toll from thy loftiest perch lone bell bird toll	K
At the still hour to Mercy dear	M
Mercy from her twilight throne	L
Listening to nun's faint throb of holy fear	M
To sailor's prayer breathed from a darkening sea	F
Or widow's cottage lullaby	A
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III	A
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Ye Voices and ye Shadows	F
And Images of voice to hound and horn	N
From rocky steep and rock bestudded meadows	F
Flung back and in the sky's blue caves reborn	N
On with your pastime till the church tower bells	F
A greeting give of measured glee	F
And milder echoes from their cells	F
Repeat the bridal symphony	F
Then or far earlier let us rove	O
Where mists are breaking up or gone	P
And from aloft look down into a cove	O
Besprinkled with a careless quire	Q
Happy milk maids one by one	R
Scattering a ditty each to her desire	S
A liquid concert matchless by nice Art	T
A stream as if from one full heart	T
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IV	O
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Blest be the song that brightens	F
The blind man's gloom exalts the veteran's mirth	U
Unscorned the peasant's whistling breath that lightens	F
His duteous toil of furrowing the green earth	U
For the tired slave Song lifts the languid oar	V
And bids it aptly fall with chime	I
That beautifies the fairest shore	V
And mitigates the harshest clime	I
Yon pilgrims see in lagging file	H
They move but soon the appointed way	W
A choral 'Ave Marie' shall beguile	H
And to their hope the distant shrine	X
Glisten with a livelier ray	W
Nor friendless he the prisoner of the mine	X
Who from the well spring of his own clear breast	Y
Can draw and sing his griefs to rest	Y
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V	O
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When civic renovation	R
Dawns on a kingdom and for needful haste	Z
Best eloquence avails not Inspiration	R
Mounts with a tune that travels like a blast	A2
Piping through cave and battlemented tower	S
Then starts the sluggard pleased to meet	B2
That voice of Freedom in its power	S
Of promises shrill wild and sweet	B2
Who from a martial 'pageant' spreads	F
Incitements of a battle day	W
Thrilling the unweaponed crowd with plumeless heads	F
Even She whose Lydian airs inspire	Q
Peaceful striving gentle play	W
Of timid hope and innocent desire	S
Shot from the dancing Graces as they move	O
Fanned by the plausive wings of Love	O
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VI	O
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How oft along thy mazes	F
Regent of sound have dangerous Passions trod	C2
O Thou through whom the temple rings with praises	F
And blackening clouds in thunder speak of God	C2
Betray not by the cozenage of sense	F
Thy votaries wooingly resigned	C
To a voluptuous influence	F
That taints the purer better mind	C
But lead sick Fancy to a harp	D2
That hath in noble tasks been tried	J
And if the virtuous feel a pang too sharp	D2
Soothe it into patience stay	W
The uplifted arm of Suicide	J
And let some mood of thine in firm array	W
Knit every thought the impending issue needs	F
Ere martyr burns or patriot bleeds	F
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VII	O
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As Conscience to the centre	S
Of being smites with irresistible pain	E2
So shall a solemn cadence if it enter	S
The mouldy vaults of the dull idiot's brain	E2
Transmute him to a wretch from quiet hurled	F2
Convulsed as by a jarring din	G2
And then aghast as at the world	F2
Of reason partially let in	G2
By concords winding with a sway	W
Terrible for sense and soul	K
Or awed he weeps struggling to quell dismay	W
Point not these mysteries to an Art	T
Lodged above the starry pole	K
Pure modulations flowing from the heart	T
Of divine Love where Wisdom Beauty Truth	H2
With Order dwell in endless youth	H2
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VIII	O
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Oblivion may not cover	S
All treasures hoarded by the miser Time	I
Orphean Insight truth's undaunted lover	S
To the first leagues of tutored passion climb	I
When Music deigned within this grosser sphere	M
Her subtle essence to enfold	I2
And voice and shell drew forth a tear	G
Softer than Nature's self could mould	I2
Yet 'strenuous' was the infant Age	J2
Art daring because souls could feel	K2
Stirred nowhere but an urgent equipage	J2
Of rapt imagination sped her march	L2
Through the realms of woe and weal	K2
Hell to the lyre bowed low the upper arch	L2
Rejoiced that clamorous spell and magic verse	F
Her wan disasters could disperse	F
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IX	F
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The GIFT to king Amphion	G2
That walled a city with its melody	O
Was for belief no dream thy skill Arion	G2
Could humanise the creatures of the sea	O
Where men were monsters A last grace he craves	F
Leave for one chant the dulcet sound	M2
Steals from the deck o'er willing waves	F
And listening dolphins gather round	M2
Self cast as with a desperate course	F
'Mid that strange audience he bestrides	F
A proud One docile as a managed horse	F
And singing while the accordant hand	N2
Sweeps his harp the Master rides	F
So shall he touch at length a friendly strand	N2
And he with his preserver shine star bright	O2
In memory through silent night	O2
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X	F
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The pipe of Pan to shepherds	F
Couched in the shadow of Maenalian pines	F
Was passing sweet the eyeballs of the leopards	F
That in high triumph drew the Lord of vines	F
How did they sparkle to the cymbal's clang	P2
While Fauns and Satyrs beat the ground	M2
In cadence and Silenus swang	P2
This way and that with wild flowers crowned	M2
To life to 'life' give back thine ear	Q2
Ye who are longing to be rid	R2
Of fable though to truth subservient hear	Q2
The little sprinkling of cold earth that fell	K2
Echoed from the coffin lid	R2
The convict's summons in the steeple's knell	K2
The vain distress gun from a leeward shore	V
Repeated heard and heard no more	V
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XI	F
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For terror joy or pity	F
Vast is the compass and the swell of notes	F
From the babe's first cry to voice of regal city	F
Rolling a solemn sea like bass that floats	F
Far as the woodlands with the trill to blend	S2
Of that shy songstress whose love tale	K2
Might tempt an angel to descend	S2
While hovering o'er the moonlight vale	K2
Ye wandering Utterances has earth no scheme	I
No scale of moral music to unite	O2
Powers that survive but in the faintest dream	I
Of memory O that ye might stoop to bear	G
Chains such precious chains of sight	O2
As laboured minstrelsies through ages wear	G
O for a balance fit the truth to tell	K2
Of the Unsubstantial pondered well	K2
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XII	F
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By one pervading spirit	T2
Of tones and numbers all things are controlled	I2
As sages taught where faith was found to merit	T2
Initiation in that mystery old	I2
The heavens whose aspect makes our minds as still	K2
As they themselves appear to be	F
Innumerable voices fill	K2
With everlasting harmony	F
The towering headlands crowned with mist	U2
Their feet among the billows know	G2
That Ocean is a mighty harmonist	U2
Thy pinions universal Air	G
Ever waving to and fro	G2
Are delegates of harmony and bear	G
Strains that support the Seasons in their round	U2
Stern Winter loves a dirge like sound	U2
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XIII	F
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Break forth into thanksgiving	P2
Ye banded instruments of wind and chords	F
Unite to magnify the Ever living	P2
Your inarticulate notes with the voice of words	F
Nor hushed be service from the lowing mead	U2
Nor mute the forest hum of noon	G2
Thou too be heard lone eagle freed	U2
From snowy peak and cloud attune	G2
Thy hungry barkings to the hymn	G2
Of joy that from her utmost walls	F
The six days' Work by flaming Seraphim	I
Transmits to Heaven As Deep to Deep	V2
Shouting through one valley calls	F
All worlds all natures mood and measure keep	V2
For praise and ceaseless gratulation poured	U2
Into the ear of God their Lord	U2
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XIV	O
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A Voice to Light gave Being	P2
To Time and Man his earth born chronicler	S
A Voice shall finish doubt and dim foreseeing	P2
And sweep away life's visionary stir	S
The trumpet we intoxicate with pride	U2
Arm at its blast for deadly wars	F
To archangelic lips applied	U2
The grave shall open quench the stars	F
O Silence are Man's noisy years	F
No more than moments of thy life	O
Is Harmony blest queen of smiles and tears	F
With her smooth tones and discords just	U2
Tempered into rapturous strife	O
Thy destined bond slave No though earth be dust	U2
And vanish though the heavens dissolve her stay	U2
Is in the word that shall not pass away	U2