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<v Speaker 1>Section one of eight Harvard Poets. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 1>by Wooly B woolyb dot blog dot com. Eight Harvard Poets,

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<v Speaker 1>Section one Poems by e Estlen Cummings. Thou in whose sword,

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<v Speaker 1>great story shine the deeds? Thou, in whose sword, great

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<v Speaker 1>story shine the deeds of history her heroes sounds the

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<v Speaker 1>tread of those vast armies, of the marching dead, with

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<v Speaker 1>the standards, and the neighing of great steeds moving to

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<v Speaker 1>war across the smiling meads. Thou by whose page we

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<v Speaker 1>break the precious bread of dear communion with the past,

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<v Speaker 1>and wed to valor battle with heroic breeds. Thou fraisar

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<v Speaker 1>for that Thou didst love the pen, while others wrote

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<v Speaker 1>in steel, except all praise of after ages and of

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<v Speaker 1>hungering days, for whom the old glories move The old

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<v Speaker 1>trumpets cry, who gavest as one of those immortal men

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<v Speaker 1>his life, that his fair city might not die? A

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<v Speaker 1>chorus girl, when thou hast taken thy last applause and

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<v Speaker 1>when the final curtain strikes the world away, leaving to

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<v Speaker 1>shadowy silence and dismay that stage which shall not know

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<v Speaker 1>thy smile again, lingering a little while I see them,

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<v Speaker 1>then ponder a tinsel part they let thee play. I

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<v Speaker 1>see the red mouth tarnished, the face gray, and the smileless,

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<v Speaker 1>silent eyes of Magdalen. The lights have laughed their last.

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<v Speaker 1>Without the street darkling awaiteth her whose feet have trod

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<v Speaker 1>the silly souls of men to gold and dust. She

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<v Speaker 1>pauses on the lintle of defeat. Her heart breaks in

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<v Speaker 1>a smile, and she is lust mine also, little painted

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<v Speaker 1>poem of God. This is the garden. Colors come and go,

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<v Speaker 1>frail azures fluttering from night's outer wing, strong silent greens,

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<v Speaker 1>serenely lingering, absolute lights like baths of golden snow. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the garden. Purr's lips do blow upon cold flutes

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<v Speaker 1>within wide glooms, and sing apart celestial to the quivering

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<v Speaker 1>string invisible faces, hauntingly and slow. This is the garden.

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<v Speaker 1>Time shall surely reap, and on death's blade lie many

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<v Speaker 1>a flower curled in other lands where other songs be sung,

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<v Speaker 1>Yet stand they hear enraptured as among the slow, deep trees,

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<v Speaker 1>perpetual of sleep, some silver fingered fountain steals the world.

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<v Speaker 1>It may not always be so. And I say that,

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<v Speaker 1>if your lips, which I have loved, should touch another's,

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<v Speaker 1>and your dear fingers clutch his heart as mine in

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<v Speaker 1>time not far away, If on another's face your sweet

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<v Speaker 1>hair lay in such a silence as I know, or

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<v Speaker 1>such great writhing words as uttering over much stand helplessly

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<v Speaker 1>before the spirit at bay, if this should be, I say,

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<v Speaker 1>if this should be, you of my heart, send me

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<v Speaker 1>a little word, that I may go unto him and

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<v Speaker 1>take his hands, saying, accept all happiness from me. Then

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<v Speaker 1>shall I turn my face and hear one bird sing

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<v Speaker 1>terribly afar in the lost lands Crepuscule. I will wait

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<v Speaker 1>out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. I

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<v Speaker 1>will take the sun in my mouth and leap into

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<v Speaker 1>the ripe air, alive with closed eyes, to dash against darkness.

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<v Speaker 1>In the sleeping curves of my body, shall enter fingers

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<v Speaker 1>of smooth mastery with chasteness of sea girls. Will I

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<v Speaker 1>complete the mystery of my flesh. I will rise after

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<v Speaker 1>a thousand years lipping flowers, and set my teeth in

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<v Speaker 1>the silver of the moon, venus over silent waters, day

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<v Speaker 1>descending night, descending floods, the gentle glory of the sunset

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<v Speaker 1>in a golden greeting splendidly to westward, as pale twilight

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<v Speaker 1>trembles into darkness, comes the last light's gracious exhortation, lifting

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<v Speaker 1>up to peace. So when life shall falter, standing on

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<v Speaker 1>the shores of the eternal God, may I behold my

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<v Speaker 1>sunset flooding over silent waters. The lover speaks your little

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<v Speaker 1>voice over the wires, came leaping. I felt suddenly dizzy

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<v Speaker 1>with the jostling and shouting of merry flowers, we skipping,

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<v Speaker 1>high heeled flames courtesied before my eyes or twinkling over

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<v Speaker 1>to my side, looked up with impertinently exquisite faces. Floating

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<v Speaker 1>hands were laid upon me. I was whirled and tossed

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<v Speaker 1>into delicious dancing up up with the pale important stars

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<v Speaker 1>and the humorous moon. Dear girl, how I was crazy?

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<v Speaker 1>How I cried when I heard over time and tied

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<v Speaker 1>in death, leaping sweetly your voice epitaph, tumbling hair, picker

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<v Speaker 1>of buttercups, violets, dannedlions and the big bullying daisies through

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<v Speaker 1>the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry another cubs

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<v Speaker 1>also picking flowers. End of section one. Recording by WALLYB.

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<v Speaker 1>Wallyb dot blog dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>Section two of eight Harvard Poets. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 2>by Michelle Good Eight Harvard Poets. Section two poems by S.

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<v Speaker 2>Foster Damon in Ksu patuit deus. The little clattering stones

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<v Speaker 2>along the street dance with each other round my swimming feet.

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<v Speaker 2>The street itself, as in some crazy dream, streaks past

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<v Speaker 2>a half perceived material stream brighter than early dawn's most

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<v Speaker 2>brilliant dye are blown, clear bands of color through the

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<v Speaker 2>sky that swirl and sweep and meat to break and

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<v Speaker 2>foam like rainbow veills upon a bubble's dome. Yours are

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<v Speaker 2>the songs that burst about my ears, or blow away

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<v Speaker 2>as many colored spheres. You are the star that made

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<v Speaker 2>the skies all bright, yet tore itself away in flaming flight.

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<v Speaker 2>You are the tree that suddenly awoke. You are the

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<v Speaker 2>rose that came to life and spoke, guided by you,

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<v Speaker 2>how we might stroll towards death, our only music, one

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<v Speaker 2>another's breath. Through gardens intimate with hollyhocks, where silent poppies

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<v Speaker 2>burned between the rocks, by pools where birches bend to confidants,

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<v Speaker 2>above green waters scummed with lily plants. There we might wonder,

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<v Speaker 2>you and I alone, Through gardens filled with marble seats,

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<v Speaker 2>moss grown and fountains, water threads that winds disperse, while

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<v Speaker 2>in the spray the birds sit and converse, And when

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<v Speaker 2>the fire flies mixed their circling glow through the dark plants.

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<v Speaker 2>Then gently, might I know your lips light as the

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<v Speaker 2>wings of the dragon flies, merely dreams fluttering in my eyes.

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<v Speaker 2>You thought I had forgotten. You thought I had forgotten. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I had, although I never guessed I could forget those

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<v Speaker 2>few great moments when we both went mad. The other

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<v Speaker 2>day at some one's tea, we met, smiling, gaily bowed,

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<v Speaker 2>and went our several ways, complaisant with successful coldness. Yet

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<v Speaker 2>suddenly I was back in the old days, before you

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<v Speaker 2>felt we ought to drift apart. It was some trick

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<v Speaker 2>the way your eyebrows, raise your hands, some vivid trifle

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<v Speaker 2>with a start. Then I remembered how I lived alone,

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<v Speaker 2>writing bad poems and eating out my heart, all for

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<v Speaker 2>your beauty. How the time has flown Venice in a sunset,

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<v Speaker 2>glowing of crimson and gold. She lies the glory of

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<v Speaker 2>the world, a beached king's galley whose sails are furled.

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<v Speaker 2>Who is hung with tapestries, rich and old, beautiful as

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<v Speaker 2>a woman is she a woman whose autumn of fire

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<v Speaker 2>is here, proud and calm at the end of the year,

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<v Speaker 2>with the grace that now is majesty. The sleeping waters

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<v Speaker 2>bathe her sides, the warm blue streams of the Adrian Sea.

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<v Speaker 2>She dreams and drowses, and languorously swayed in the swaying

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<v Speaker 2>of the tides. She is a goddess left for us,

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<v Speaker 2>veiled with the softening veils of time. Her blue vein

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<v Speaker 2>breasts are now sublime, her molded torso glorious. The pity

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<v Speaker 2>that we must come and go, while the old gold

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<v Speaker 2>and the marble stays forever, gleaming its soft, strong blaze,

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<v Speaker 2>calm in the early evening glow, And still the sensitive

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<v Speaker 2>silhouettes of the gondolas pass and leave no track light

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<v Speaker 2>on the tides, as lilies and black in the rippling

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<v Speaker 2>waters of long sunsets the new macabre. The pleasant graveyard

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<v Speaker 2>of my soul, with sentimental ciple trees and flowers, is

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<v Speaker 2>filled that I may stroll in meditation at my ease.

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<v Speaker 2>The little marble stones are lost in flowers surging from

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<v Speaker 2>the dead, Nor is there any mournful goes to wait

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<v Speaker 2>until the night is sped. And while night rustles through

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<v Speaker 2>the trees, dragging the stars along, I know the moon

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<v Speaker 2>is rising on the breeze, quivering as in a river's flow.

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<v Speaker 2>And ah, that moon of silver sheen. It is my

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<v Speaker 2>heart hung in the sky, and no clouds ever float

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<v Speaker 2>between the grave flowers and my heart on high. I

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<v Speaker 2>do not read upon each stone the name that once

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<v Speaker 2>was carved there. I merely note new blossoms blown, and

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<v Speaker 2>breathe the perfume of the air. Thus walk I through

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<v Speaker 2>my wonderland, while all the evening is a tune beneath

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<v Speaker 2>the cypress trees that stand like candles to the barren

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<v Speaker 2>moon to war. The music beats up the chasmed street,

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<v Speaker 2>then flares from around the curve. The cheers break out

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<v Speaker 2>from the waving crowd. Our soldiers march superb over the

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<v Speaker 2>track lined city street. The young men, the grinning men pass.

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<v Speaker 2>Last night they danced to that very tune. To day

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<v Speaker 2>they march away tomorrow, perhaps no band at all, or

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<v Speaker 2>the band beside the grave above, in the long blue

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<v Speaker 2>strip of sky. The whirling pigeons, the thoughtless pigeons pass.

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<v Speaker 2>Another band beats down the street. Contending rhythms clash, new

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<v Speaker 2>melodies when place, then fade, and the flashing legs move

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<v Speaker 2>past down the cheering, gray paved street. The fringed flags,

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<v Speaker 2>the erect flags pass calm day with rollers always. The

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<v Speaker 2>ships that move in mystery on the dim horizon, shadow

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<v Speaker 2>filled sails of dreams, sliding over the blue gray ocean,

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<v Speaker 2>far from the rock edged shore, where willow green waves

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<v Speaker 2>are rushing and white foam. People leap to stand erect

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<v Speaker 2>for the moment. Ho Ye sails that seem to wander

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<v Speaker 2>in dream filled meadows, say, is the shore where I

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<v Speaker 2>stand the only field of struggle? Or are ye hit

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<v Speaker 2>and battered out there by waves and wind gusts as

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<v Speaker 2>ye tack over a clashing sea of watery echoes phonograph tango.

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<v Speaker 2>Old dances are simplified of their yearning, bleached by time.

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<v Speaker 2>Yet from one black disk we tasted again the bite

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<v Speaker 2>of crude Spanish passion. He had got into her courtyard.

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<v Speaker 2>She was alone that night. Through the black night rain.

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<v Speaker 2>He sang to her window bars, love me, love ah,

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<v Speaker 2>love me. If you will not, I can follow into

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<v Speaker 2>the highest of mountains, and there in the wooden cabin

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<v Speaker 2>I will strangle you for your lover. That was but

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<v Speaker 2>rustling of tripping plants in the dark. More tightly under

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<v Speaker 2>his cloak, he clasped his guitar. Love ah, love me,

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<v Speaker 2>love me. If you will do this, I can buy

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<v Speaker 2>a fringed silk scarf of yellow, a high comb carved

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<v Speaker 2>of tortoise. Then we will dance in the plaza. She

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<v Speaker 2>was alone that night. He had broken into her courtyard.

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<v Speaker 2>Above the gurgling gutters, he heard surely a door unchained.

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<v Speaker 2>The passage was black, but he risked it death in

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<v Speaker 2>the darkness, or her hot arms. Love love me ah,

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<v Speaker 2>A good old tune, she murmured, And I found we

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<v Speaker 2>were dancing decoration. A little pagan child God plays beyond

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<v Speaker 2>the far horizon haze, and underneath the twilight trees he

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<v Speaker 2>blows a bubble to the breeze, which is borne upward

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<v Speaker 2>in the night and makes the heavens shine with light.

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<v Speaker 2>But soon it sinks to Earth again, and hidding hills

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<v Speaker 2>it bursts, and then with foam the skies are splashed

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<v Speaker 2>and spray, And that's how all the stars are made. Thrinity,

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<v Speaker 2>she is lain with high things and with low She

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<v Speaker 2>lies with shut eyes, rocked in the eternal flow of silence.

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<v Speaker 2>Evermore desperately immortal she she stands with wide hands dim

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<v Speaker 2>through the veil of eternity, behind the supreme door. End

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<v Speaker 2>of section two. Recording by Michelle Good, Huntsville, Alabama.

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<v Speaker 3>Section three of eight Harvard Poets. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 3>Larry Wilson, Eight Harvard Poets, Section three poems by J. R.

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<v Speaker 3>Dos Passos. The Bridge, The lonely Bridge cuts dark across

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<v Speaker 3>the marsh, whose long pools glow with the light of

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<v Speaker 3>with the sunset, their faces glowing with its colors. Tramp

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<v Speaker 3>and the red sky glory fades. Salvation Army. A drum

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<v Speaker 3>crowd thins. The players are alone in their faith's raucous monotone,

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<v Speaker 3>loud with gaudy angel's tensil cherubim. A drum pounds out

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<v Speaker 3>the hymn incarnation incessantly. The long rainfalls slanting on black

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<v Speaker 3>of her ecstasy. So in some picture on which, as

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<v Speaker 3>incessantly the long rainfalls, slanting on black walls, but through

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<v Speaker 3>their solitude. The vision flames through my mood of that

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<v Speaker 3>rounded hills, white with patches of buckwheat, whose fragrance fills

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<v Speaker 3>the little breeze that makes the birch leaves quiver beside

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<v Speaker 3>a rollicking, swift river, light green in the deeps like

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<v Speaker 3>your eyes in sunshine winds the canal lazy and brown

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<v Speaker 3>as a water snake, full of dazzle and sheen. Where

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<v Speaker 3>the breeze sweeps the water with gossamer garments that shake

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<v Speaker 3>The water reeds wave and solemnly sway to the wash

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<v Speaker 3>and swell of our passing among the reeds. The ripples

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<v Speaker 3>sob and die away, till the canal is still again,

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<v Speaker 3>save for a kingfisher's flashing across the noon's shimmer. I

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<v Speaker 3>stood beside you in the bough, watched the sunlight lose

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<v Speaker 3>itself among your hair, that the breeze tugged at, bright

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<v Speaker 3>as the shattered sun rays. Where the prow cut the

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<v Speaker 3>still water, The warm light caught and tangled there red

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<v Speaker 3>gold amid your hair. You were very slim in your

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<v Speaker 3>blue serge dress. We talked of meaningless things. Education agreed

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<v Speaker 3>You smiled when I pointed where a group of birches

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<v Speaker 3>shivered in the greenwood shadow up to their knees in water,

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<v Speaker 3>white and fair as dryads bathing. A row of flat

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<v Speaker 3>white houses, and a wharf glided in sight. The hoarse

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<v Speaker 3>whistle shrieked for landing bells jangled. You were standing a

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<v Speaker 3>slim blue figure amid the wharf's crowd. The little steamer

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<v Speaker 3>creaked against the side loud screamed the whistle again monotonously.

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<v Speaker 3>The solemn reeds waved to our Passing ahead. The canal shimmered,

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<v Speaker 3>blotched green by the water weeds, with a grinding swing

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<v Speaker 3>and seesaw of sound. The steamer slunk down the canal.

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<v Speaker 3>I never even knew your name. That night, From a

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<v Speaker 3>dingy hotel room, I saw the moon like a golden gong,

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<v Speaker 3>redly loom across the lake, like a golden gong in

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<v Speaker 3>a temple which a priest ere long will strike into

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<v Speaker 3>throbbing song to wake some silent, twinkling city to prayer.

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<v Speaker 3>The lake waves were flakes of red gold burnished to

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<v Speaker 3>copper gold, red as the tangled gleam of sunlight in

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<v Speaker 3>your hair, Saturnalia in Earth's womb, the old gods stir

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<v Speaker 3>fierce Thonian deities of old time, with cymbals and rattle

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<v Speaker 3>of castanets and shriek of slughorns. The north wind bows

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<v Speaker 3>the oak, and the moaning fir on russet hills and

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<v Speaker 3>by roadsides stiff with rime in nature dead, the life

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<v Speaker 3>god's stir from Rhadamanthus in the isles where Saturn rules

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<v Speaker 3>the age of gold come old old ghosts of bygone gods,

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<v Speaker 3>while dim mists Earth's outline blur and drip all night

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<v Speaker 3>from lichen green roof tiles in men's hearts. The mad

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<v Speaker 3>gods rise and fill the streets with reveling, with torchlight

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<v Speaker 3>that glances on frozen pools, with tapers starring the thick

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<v Speaker 3>fogged night, a dance like strayed fireflies, meddim mad throngs,

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<v Speaker 3>whose Saturn's oriasons sing in driven clouds. The old gods

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<v Speaker 3>come when fogs the face of Apollo have veiled, a

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<v Speaker 3>fear of things unhallowed, strange, and a fierce free joy

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<v Speaker 3>flares in the land men mutter runs in a language

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<v Speaker 3>dead by night, with rumbling drum in quaking grows, where

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<v Speaker 3>the woodland spirits are hailed to Earth's brood of souls

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<v Speaker 3>of old. With covered heads and aspen wands, mist shrouded

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<v Speaker 3>priests do ancient rites. The black ram's fleece is stained

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<v Speaker 3>with blood that steams dull red on the frozen ground,

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<v Speaker 3>and pale votaries shiver with the cold that numbs the

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<v Speaker 3>earth and etches pattern mirrors on the ponds when that april.

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<v Speaker 3>Is it the song of the meadow lark off the

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<v Speaker 3>brown sere salt marshes, or the eager patches in dooryards

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<v Speaker 3>of yellow and pale lily crocuses, or else the suburban

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<v Speaker 3>street golden with sunlight and bare branches of elm trees

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<v Speaker 3>twined in the delicate sky. Or is it the merry

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<v Speaker 3>piping of a distant hurdy gurdy that makes me so

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<v Speaker 3>weary and faint with desire for strange lands and new scents,

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<v Speaker 3>For the rough rhythm clank of train couplings at night,

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<v Speaker 3>and the stormy, gay tinted sunrises that shade with purple

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<v Speaker 3>the contours of far off, unfamiliar hills, night piece. A

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<v Speaker 3>silver web. Has the moon spun a silver web upon

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<v Speaker 3>all the sky, where the frail stars quiver everyone like

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<v Speaker 3>tangled gnats that hum and die. The Moon has tangled

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<v Speaker 3>the dull night in her silver skein, and set alight

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<v Speaker 3>each dew damp branch with milky flame and huge The

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<v Speaker 3>moon broods on the night. My soul is caught in

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<v Speaker 3>the web of the moon, like a shrilling gnat, and

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<v Speaker 3>a spider's web, importunate memory shrill on my ears, like

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<v Speaker 3>the gnats that die in the spider's web, lovely as death.

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<v Speaker 3>In the moon's shroud were town streets, gray houses, dim,

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<v Speaker 3>full of strange peace in the silent night. As we walked,

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<v Speaker 3>our footsteps clattered loud. We felt the night as a

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<v Speaker 3>troubled song. Oh, the triumphing sense of life, a throb

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<v Speaker 3>behind those walls in the dark streets, Like the sound

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<v Speaker 3>of a river, swift unseen, flowing in darkness. Oh, the

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<v Speaker 3>hoarse half heard murmur swirling beneath the snowy beauty of moonlight.

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<v Speaker 3>And that other night when the river rippled with faint

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<v Speaker 3>spears of street lights vaguely reflected gray, the evening like

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<v Speaker 3>an opal low a gray moon, shrouded in sea fog, air,

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<v Speaker 3>pregnant with spring, rasp of my steps beside the lapping water,

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<v Speaker 3>within the dark, down the worn out years, a sob

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<v Speaker 3>of broken loves, old pain, of dead farewells, and one

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<v Speaker 3>face fading into gray. A silver web has the moon

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<v Speaker 3>spun a silver web over all the sky in her

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<v Speaker 3>flooding glory. One by one, like gnats in a web,

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<v Speaker 4>Section four of eight Harvard Poets. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 4>Recordings are in the public domain. For more information or

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<v Speaker 4>to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Ellen Preckle,

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<v Speaker 4>Eight Harvard Poets, Section four poems by Robert Pillier. Four

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<v Speaker 4>sonnets from a sonnet sequence one quickly and pleasantly, The

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<v Speaker 4>seasons blow over the meadows of eternity, as wave on wave,

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<v Speaker 4>the pulsings of the sea merge and are lost each

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<v Speaker 4>and the others flow. Time is no lover. It is

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<v Speaker 4>only he that is the one unconquerable foe. He is

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<v Speaker 4>the sudden tempest none can know. Wing it with swift winds,

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<v Speaker 4>the nun may hope to flee, fair child of loveliness,

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<v Speaker 4>These endless fears are nought to us. Let us be

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<v Speaker 4>gods of stone, and set our images beyond the years,

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<v Speaker 4>on some high mount where we can be alone, and

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<v Speaker 4>thou shalt ever be as now thou art, and I

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<v Speaker 4>shall watch THEE with untroubled heart. Two, Then judge me

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<v Speaker 4>as thou wilt. I cannot flee. I cannot turn away

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<v Speaker 4>from THEE forever, for there are bonds that wisdom cannot sever,

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<v Speaker 4>and slaves with souls far freer than the free. Such

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<v Speaker 4>strong desires the universal Giver, with unknown plan has buried

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<v Speaker 4>deep in me, that the exquisite joy of watching THEE

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<v Speaker 4>has dominated all my life's endeavor. Thou weariest of having

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<v Speaker 4>me so near, I feel the scorn thou hast within

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<v Speaker 4>thy heart, And yet thy face has never seemed so

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<v Speaker 4>dear as now when I am minded to depart, though

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<v Speaker 4>thou shouldst drive me. Hence I love THEE so that

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<v Speaker 4>I would watch THEE when thou dost not know. Three,

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<v Speaker 4>Fly joyous wind through all the wakened earth. Now, when

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<v Speaker 4>the portals of the dawn outpour a myriad of wonders

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<v Speaker 4>from the radiant store of springs, deep passion and loud

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<v Speaker 4>ringing mirth. Cry to the world that I despair no more.

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<v Speaker 4>Heart greets my heart, and hope has proved its worth.

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<v Speaker 4>Fly where the legions of the sun have birth. Chant

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<v Speaker 4>everywhere and everywhere, adore, circle the basking hills in fragrant flight,

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<v Speaker 4>shout rapture, rapture. If sweet sorrow passes, and whisper low

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<v Speaker 4>in intimate delight, my love song to the undulating grasses.

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<v Speaker 4>Grief is no more. Love rises with the spring, Oh,

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<v Speaker 4>fly free, wind and rapture, rapture, sing four long after

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<v Speaker 4>both of us are scattered dust, and some strange souls

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<v Speaker 4>perchance shall read of thee finding the yearnings that have

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<v Speaker 4>crushed from me these poor confessions of my love and

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<v Speaker 4>trust I know how misinterpreted will be these lines, or

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<v Speaker 4>men will laugh, or more unjust thinking, not once of love,

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<v Speaker 4>but only lust will stain the vesture of our memory.

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<v Speaker 4>And yet a few there may be who will feel

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<v Speaker 4>my deep devotion and my true desires, and know that

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<v Speaker 4>these unhappy words reveal only new images in changeless fires.

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<v Speaker 4>And they perchance will linger with a sigh to think

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<v Speaker 4>that beauty such as thine must die. A sea gull

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<v Speaker 4>gray wings, o gray wings against a cloud, over the

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<v Speaker 4>rough waves flashing. Whose was the scream startling and loud

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<v Speaker 4>keen through the skies. Was it thine over the moaning

405
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<v Speaker 4>wind and the whine of the wide seas dashing? Whose

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<v Speaker 4>was the scream that I heard in the midst of

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<v Speaker 4>the hurrying air? Was it thine lost bird? Or the

408
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<v Speaker 4>voice of an old despair chanting from years long dead

409
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<v Speaker 4>inexorable spirit flying on tempest, wings that passed and fled

410
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<v Speaker 4>through the storm, crying doomsday. The garlands and the songs

411
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<v Speaker 4>of May shall welcome in the judgment day. About the

412
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<v Speaker 4>basking country side blossoms, the souls of them that died,

413
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<v Speaker 4>oh dead, awake, arise in bloom upon the joyous dawn

414
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<v Speaker 4>of doom. They rise up from the bleeding earth in

415
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<v Speaker 4>gracious legions of rebirth, each as a flower or a

416
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<v Speaker 4>tree of verdant immortality, and host of glad voiced angels

417
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<v Speaker 4>sing in the rippling groves of spring. From the grave

418
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<v Speaker 4>of youth there grows a passionately petalled rose, where the

419
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<v Speaker 4>virgin whitely lies a lily fair as paradise. And in

420
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<v Speaker 4>that old oak's leafy glee, some gouty sire makes sport

421
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<v Speaker 4>of me o dead of yore and yesterday, all hail,

422
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<v Speaker 4>the resurrecting may beside you in the flowering grass. The

423
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<v Speaker 4>feet of youth and love shall pass, and we that

424
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<v Speaker 4>greet you with a smile shall join you in a

425
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<v Speaker 4>little while to a pass piers by Scarlattie, strange little tune,

426
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<v Speaker 4>so thin and rare, like scents of roses long ago,

427
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:21.079
<v Speaker 4>quavering lightly upon the strings of a violin, and dying

428
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:25.639
<v Speaker 4>there with a dancing flutter of delicate wings. Thy courtly joy,

429
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:30.760
<v Speaker 4>thy gentle woe, thy gracious gladness, and plaintive fears are

430
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<v Speaker 4>lost in the clamorous age we know, and pale like

431
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:38.239
<v Speaker 4>a moon in the lurid day. A phantom of music

432
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:42.519
<v Speaker 4>strangely fled from the princely halls of the quiet dead,

433
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<v Speaker 4>down the long lanes of the vanished years, echoing frailly

434
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<v Speaker 4>and far away elegy for antinous come. Let us hasten

435
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<v Speaker 4>hence and weep no more. The sinking sea flows on

436
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<v Speaker 4>its tranquil ways, night looms so greenly at the eastern door,

437
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:07.000
<v Speaker 4>and trails the last cloud into lifeless haze. Antinuous is dead.

438
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<v Speaker 4>We kneel before the portals of our past in vain

439
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<v Speaker 4>nor raise the laughing phantoms of our yesterdays. Upon this

440
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:20.199
<v Speaker 4>desolate and empty shore. Now deepening pools of shadow overflow

441
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:24.079
<v Speaker 4>into the sea of dark afar off bell sobs with

442
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:30.639
<v Speaker 4>a sweet vibration, long and low, a last farewell for evermore, farewell,

443
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<v Speaker 4>And will he wake and hear? We cannot tell and

444
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:41.639
<v Speaker 4>will he answer? Ah, we do not know. Song, Oh

445
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<v Speaker 4>Crimson Rose, Oh Crimson Rose, crushed lightly into little hands.

446
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:49.679
<v Speaker 4>A child's soft kiss was in your heart, A child's

447
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:52.800
<v Speaker 4>warm breath was in your soul. The child is gone,

448
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:56.119
<v Speaker 4>oh Crimson Rose. And stained and hardened are the hands.

449
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.440
<v Speaker 4>And who shall find your golden heart? And who shall

450
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<v Speaker 4>kiss your withered soul? Happy are you, o, Crimson Rose?

451
00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:07.239
<v Speaker 4>But I have stains upon my hands. You died with

452
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:11.159
<v Speaker 4>kisses in your heart. I live with sorrow in my soul.

453
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<v Speaker 4>My peace I leave with you. He pondered long and

454
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<v Speaker 4>watched the darkening space close the red portals. Whence the

455
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.639
<v Speaker 4>hours had run as like young wistful angels. One by

456
00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:29.239
<v Speaker 4>one the stars cast timid flowers about his face. YEA,

457
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.639
<v Speaker 4>now another scarlet day is done. He cried in anguish,

458
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:36.239
<v Speaker 4>and with sudden grace, stretched forth his arms as though

459
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:40.599
<v Speaker 4>he would erase the few dim embers of the scattered sun.

460
00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:44.559
<v Speaker 4>The scarlet day is done, and soon the light will

461
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:49.159
<v Speaker 4>wake again, My desecrated skies, Oh that another dawn might

462
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:53.280
<v Speaker 4>never rise, My foolish children, through the vast of night.

463
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:57.039
<v Speaker 4>The young stars shivered in a silver hoard before the

464
00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:03.480
<v Speaker 4>infinite sorrow of their lord. The recompense. When the last

465
00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:06.679
<v Speaker 4>song is sung and the last spark of light dies

466
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:10.840
<v Speaker 4>out forever and the dark, the voiceless, dark, eternal, shrouds

467
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:14.159
<v Speaker 4>the earth, when the last cries of pain and shouts

468
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:18.199
<v Speaker 4>of mirth sink in the desolate silences of space. Where

469
00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:21.440
<v Speaker 4>then shall flower the beauty of your face, O love,

470
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:25.440
<v Speaker 4>the laughing youth, the rose in hand. In what unknown

471
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:29.119
<v Speaker 4>and undiscovered land shall flower then the beauty of your face.

472
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:34.159
<v Speaker 4>I know not, but I know that all returns at last, unchanged,

473
00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.440
<v Speaker 4>and to the heart that yearns shall be repaid all

474
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:41.880
<v Speaker 4>loneliness and loss. Some time, with the shadowy sails shall

475
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:46.159
<v Speaker 4>fly across the shoreless ocean of infinity. A ship from

476
00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:48.960
<v Speaker 4>out the past, and the great sea of life shall

477
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.960
<v Speaker 4>bear you from the strange worlds, over the waves and

478
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:55.840
<v Speaker 4>back again to the old lover. Yes, in some future

479
00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:59.719
<v Speaker 4>far beyond surmise. You will dream here with half remembering eyes,

480
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<v Speaker 4>and I shall write these words content but while in

481
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<v Speaker 4>the slow round of time to see you smile. End

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<v Speaker 4>of section four.

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<v Speaker 5>Section five of eight Harvard Poets. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 5>All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more

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<v Speaker 5>information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Eight

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<v Speaker 5>Harvard Poets, Section five Poems by R. S. Mitchell. Poppy

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<v Speaker 5>song one footsteps soft as fall the roses petals on

488
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<v Speaker 5>a dewy lawn, shaken when the wind uncloses golden gateways

489
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:53.039
<v Speaker 5>for the dawn. Laughter light as is a swallows chatter

490
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:57.159
<v Speaker 5>in the evening sky, lafted upward from the hollows where

491
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<v Speaker 5>the limpid waters lie. Faint, as is the willows by

492
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:05.079
<v Speaker 5>the margin of the lake, trembling into tiny billows, that

493
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:09.760
<v Speaker 5>the silent tear drops make phantoms fitful and uncertain, as

494
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:14.159
<v Speaker 5>the pearly autumn rain sweeping on in cloudy curtain down

495
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:21.000
<v Speaker 5>the wide way of the plain. Two Oh, unhappy now

496
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:24.800
<v Speaker 5>to waken, when the dream had scarce begun out of

497
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:30.760
<v Speaker 5>gentle twilight, taken into realms of burning sun. Oh unhappy

498
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:33.400
<v Speaker 5>now to find me lost neath heavens hot with noon,

499
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:39.119
<v Speaker 5>all that fairy land behind me, poppy fields and rising moon,

500
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:43.920
<v Speaker 5>dropbridge and port color, screeching bugles braying soon and late.

501
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:47.840
<v Speaker 5>Who are they that come beseeching calling at my castle gate?

502
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.599
<v Speaker 5>Drive them hence, for they encumber days and nights with

503
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.119
<v Speaker 5>waking pain. Tell them that I lie and slumber under

504
00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:00.320
<v Speaker 5>poppies wet with rain. Who art thou that bendest raying

505
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:04.519
<v Speaker 5>over me with claspid palms, dim through searching darkness, saying

506
00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:08.480
<v Speaker 5>words of prayer and murmured psalms. Who art thou that

507
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:12.519
<v Speaker 5>kneelest weeping by the border of my bed? Seest thou,

508
00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:16.880
<v Speaker 5>for I was but sleeping, dreaming only, and not dead.

509
00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:24.519
<v Speaker 5>Three phantoms flitting and uncertain, sweeping round the endless playing

510
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:33.719
<v Speaker 5>autumn twilight's dusky curtain, drowsy poppies drenched with rain, love,

511
00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:38.800
<v Speaker 5>dream strange that on warp and wolf of dreams, fancy

512
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:42.119
<v Speaker 5>should weave the web of truth. And yet this very

513
00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:46.559
<v Speaker 5>figment seems part of a half forgotten youth, stolen from

514
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<v Speaker 5>days I thought were sped out of the world beyond

515
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<v Speaker 5>the dead. Smiled she not when at the edge of

516
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:58.519
<v Speaker 5>evening we walked alone, plucking spring's blossoms from the hedge,

517
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<v Speaker 5>that she might wear them as her own. Or do

518
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:05.039
<v Speaker 5>I hold a hopeless tryst here with a shadow made

519
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:10.159
<v Speaker 5>of mist? Now as will crumple rose leaves pent by

520
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:13.239
<v Speaker 5>fingers we can never know, rouse with the richness of

521
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.440
<v Speaker 5>their scent, thoughts of a summer long ago. All the

522
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.320
<v Speaker 5>expanse of land and sea speaks with a thousand tongues

523
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:25.639
<v Speaker 5>to me. Twas from coast we watched slow form out

524
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<v Speaker 5>of the frosty ocean's breath, the blue gray ramparts of

525
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:33.159
<v Speaker 5>the storm, flashing with signal fires of death, whilst with

526
00:41:33.239 --> 00:41:36.119
<v Speaker 5>a murmur far and wide, swept in the low wind

527
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:40.440
<v Speaker 5>with the tide. Then, at last, when lips were dumb

528
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:43.519
<v Speaker 5>with fear of parting, did we wend along the meadow

529
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:49.119
<v Speaker 5>lanes that come from nowhere and nothing end, and smiling kiss,

530
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:53.599
<v Speaker 5>though ill at ease under the rustling orchard trees. But

531
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:56.679
<v Speaker 5>will the promise give and keep? Can the heart love

532
00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:00.639
<v Speaker 5>still went? Tis dead? What if the spirit wake from sleep,

533
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:04.880
<v Speaker 5>never recall the words it said? Dwell in a dreamland,

534
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:12.119
<v Speaker 5>or else be lost in life's eternity, the island of

535
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<v Speaker 5>death There is an island in a silent sea that

536
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:21.199
<v Speaker 5>rises four rough, rugged walls on high above the ocean,

537
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:25.440
<v Speaker 5>in calm majesty, a mountain of despair against the sky.

538
00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:29.800
<v Speaker 5>About its summit, soaring seagulls fly or rest them in

539
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<v Speaker 5>its lofty cypress trees, and greet the black barge bearing

540
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:38.440
<v Speaker 5>those who die upon our earth to everlasting ease and

541
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<v Speaker 5>pleasant lives that know not man's eternities. White halls and

542
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:48.800
<v Speaker 5>palaces their dwellings stand. These shadowy souls are all unknown

543
00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:52.000
<v Speaker 5>to graves, and live faint phantoms in a fairy land

544
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:56.440
<v Speaker 5>of dreams and idleness. They hear the waves sing, and

545
00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:59.639
<v Speaker 5>the winds come calling from the caves of night beyond

546
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:03.960
<v Speaker 5>the ocean, and the cry of screaming gulls stare at

547
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.239
<v Speaker 5>each ship that braves this wilderness of waters, and glides

548
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:12.480
<v Speaker 5>by in awe struck silence, ever fearing to draw high.

549
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:17.880
<v Speaker 5>The sun descending sows the sea with gold and shower

550
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:21.840
<v Speaker 5>splendor through the fading skies, whilst from the murky waters

551
00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:25.480
<v Speaker 5>they behold the moon, a shape of silver. Slow arise,

552
00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:29.719
<v Speaker 5>and every evening, as the daylight dies, there comes that

553
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<v Speaker 5>bark of death, whose white sail seems an angel in

554
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:36.199
<v Speaker 5>the dark a while it lies below them in the harbor.

555
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.719
<v Speaker 5>Then there gleams a new shape on the stairs up

556
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:47.639
<v Speaker 5>to that land of dreams from the Arabian nights. Then

557
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.760
<v Speaker 5>as the whispering evening crossed the sea, sweeping the waters

558
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:54.599
<v Speaker 5>with her veil of gray, wave worn and weary of

559
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:59.599
<v Speaker 5>the ocean, we beheld the inchanted island far away, half

560
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<v Speaker 5>hidden in the twilight.

561
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<v Speaker 1>Low.

562
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<v Speaker 5>It lay on the horizon like a lazy cloud, its

563
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<v Speaker 5>coast encompassed with long lines of spray. We spread the sails,

564
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.880
<v Speaker 5>and swiftly the ship plowed the purple path ahead until

565
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:18.800
<v Speaker 5>the surf sang loud between the cliffs. By the faint stars,

566
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:22.599
<v Speaker 5>we found a gloomy gait, and boldly sailing in, watched

567
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<v Speaker 5>the dark mountains slowly chasing round, and heard faint echoes

568
00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:30.519
<v Speaker 5>of the ocean's din melting like spirit's voices, fleet and thin.

569
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:34.880
<v Speaker 5>When of a sudden, as we faltered nigh out of

570
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<v Speaker 5>the hills where only night had been a mist of

571
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:41.199
<v Speaker 5>minarets and towers high rose like the yellow light of morning.

572
00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:47.599
<v Speaker 5>In the sun gazing, we drifted towards that golden bloom

573
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:51.559
<v Speaker 5>of palaces whose light glowed on our sail. There we floated,

574
00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:54.719
<v Speaker 5>rapt in wild perfume. Then music burst upon us in

575
00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:59.199
<v Speaker 5>a gale, grave deep toned trumpets, and the lyres long wail,

576
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:03.880
<v Speaker 5>and farther the faint sound of singing men. We grasped

577
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:07.480
<v Speaker 5>our oars, but slowly, as will pale the morning star.

578
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:11.840
<v Speaker 5>The vision faded. Then the empty dark swept in, and

579
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:20.679
<v Speaker 5>all was night again. Threnodie, have you forgotten me? O,

580
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:24.599
<v Speaker 5>my beloved, have you deserted me? Now? In the autumn,

581
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<v Speaker 5>See where the swallows fly south over the ocean. Soon

582
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:33.480
<v Speaker 5>will the winter wind sweep the aegean Up from the

583
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<v Speaker 5>vineyard comes music of laughter. Far through the valleys they

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<v Speaker 5>gather the harvest. Westward, the evening star sinks in the mountains.

585
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:48.320
<v Speaker 5>Pale neth rising moon lies mytilene here where the headland

586
00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:51.760
<v Speaker 5>looks wide o'er the water. I have brought laurel leaves

587
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:58.079
<v Speaker 5>decking your barrel. Why do I linger now vainly lamenting? Oh?

588
00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:08.000
<v Speaker 5>It is lonely, love, lonely in lavaux helen Again the

589
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<v Speaker 5>voices of the hunting horns and the new moon low

590
00:46:11.480 --> 00:46:14.480
<v Speaker 5>lying on the hills tell that the summer night is

591
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<v Speaker 5>on its way. O languid heart, shalt thou much longer

592
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<v Speaker 5>watch this pale procession of the silent hours melt into

593
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:26.880
<v Speaker 5>shadows of unending years, much longer feed on jeurning and despair,

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<v Speaker 5>and all the anguish of departed time. Tomorrow is as

595
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<v Speaker 5>yesterday to day, no nearer than the morning when there

596
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<v Speaker 5>stood in Lydda's palace asking for my hand, tall Menelaeus

597
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:43.159
<v Speaker 5>with his yellow hair. No nearer now than the first

598
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<v Speaker 5>time these hands dared linger in caress upon the curls

599
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.320
<v Speaker 5>of him whose dark eyes laughed their love to mine.

600
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:53.400
<v Speaker 5>Tis only as if one short, restless sleep lay over

601
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<v Speaker 5>the wide chasm of the years, beyond which loom lost

602
00:46:56.880 --> 00:47:01.960
<v Speaker 5>faith and ruined Troy. The night wind brings as twenty

603
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:05.719
<v Speaker 5>summers since the silver breasted swallows from the Nile to

604
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<v Speaker 5>quiet Sparta, nestled in her hills, locked inland, from the

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<v Speaker 5>voices of the sea, and far across the porticoes. I

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<v Speaker 5>hear the ivory shuttle singing in the loom midst maiden's

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<v Speaker 5>chatter as in olden daze, and men still murmur as

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<v Speaker 5>they pass me by. Lo look at her, the wonder

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<v Speaker 5>of the world beauteous, helen less Amodian's queen. I watched

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<v Speaker 5>them gaze intently on my face, as they would keep

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<v Speaker 5>it in their memory forever, and the very while they gaze,

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<v Speaker 5>I see the flame of Troy gleam in their eyes.

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<v Speaker 5>I think sometimes I have already passed into the kingdom

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<v Speaker 5>of untroubled death, and wandering lonely amongst them I knew

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<v Speaker 5>in Hylas, or in land beyond the seas. Behold each

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<v Speaker 5>shadow as it passes by, shrink half involuntarily, and turn

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<v Speaker 5>and veil its face, and vanish in the gloom. Whilst

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<v Speaker 5>out of that dim distance, whence my steps are moving,

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<v Speaker 5>and to which they shall return after an interval of

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<v Speaker 5>endless years. There comes a voice that calls me from

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<v Speaker 5>afar Art thou not Helen doward of the gods with

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<v Speaker 5>all that man can covet wert thou not created the

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<v Speaker 5>most beautiful of earth? And is not beauty, wisdom, wisdom, power?

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<v Speaker 5>What hast thou done with their almighty gift? And then

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<v Speaker 5>ere I would answer? Silence falls around me, and the

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<v Speaker 5>dark divides, and I see the blue twilight on the

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<v Speaker 5>Spartan hills. Largo Thou only from this sorrow wert relief

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<v Speaker 5>in violent death, grave deity of rest, wherein all things

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<v Speaker 5>to pass somehow seem the best that ever could have

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<v Speaker 5>come to be. Proud grief, her lustrous torch hath lighted

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<v Speaker 5>in this brief, dim time before the dark, when the

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<v Speaker 5>wide west fades, where illimitable skies suggest days vanished in

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<v Speaker 5>the beauty of belief. As one unto a battle come

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<v Speaker 5>that stands aloof a while, beholding friend and foe, clashing

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<v Speaker 5>in conflict till his soul commands, He too, pressed on

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<v Speaker 5>whither the bugles blow, lifting his eye sees over wasted lands,

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<v Speaker 5>life's dust and shadow drifting too and fro Lazarus. At

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<v Speaker 5>morn we passed a hall where song and dance had been,

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<v Speaker 5>and wine flowed free, and where mid recks of revelry

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<v Speaker 5>had laid the feasters all night long. They saw us

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<v Speaker 5>through the midst of dawn, and turning, called us to

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<v Speaker 5>their feast. The sound of lutes and symbols ceased, but

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<v Speaker 5>one he fixed his gaze upon, in whose wide eyes

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<v Speaker 5>there seemed to be behind the laughing wine flushed face

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<v Speaker 5>and tilted ivy Crown's gay grace, faint glimpses of eternity,

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<v Speaker 5>then sad the master bowed his head, and through the

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<v Speaker 5>rosy twilight, Dim walked up and softly spake to him,

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<v Speaker 5>art thou not he that late was dead? The drinker

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<v Speaker 5>raised his cup on high and murmured, Priest of Nazareth,

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<v Speaker 5>I am he thou didst raise from death? Lo thus

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<v Speaker 5>I wait again to die a crucifix. This was the

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<v Speaker 5>cross of God on which men's eyes dwelt with the

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<v Speaker 5>love of dead divinity. As they who by the desolate

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<v Speaker 5>orient sea in battle made their sainted sacrifice, dreaming their

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<v Speaker 5>boundless striving, should devise a symbol whereby men might know

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<v Speaker 5>that he who wins his way on earth to victory, thus,

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<v Speaker 5>in his consummated sorrow dies. All things are sacred to

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<v Speaker 5>that tender sight times ancient altars, whence strange incense curled

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<v Speaker 5>innocent to the unknown gods. The light of love is thine.

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<v Speaker 5>Faith's manner is unfurled, even where the furthest watchmen through

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<v Speaker 5>the night call on the cloud wrapped ramparts of the world.

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<v Speaker 4>Neath.

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<v Speaker 5>Somehow the spirit of that day, rain, cloud, streets and

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<v Speaker 5>brooding air determined me to live and dare living to

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<v Speaker 5>laugh the world away. As in a crystal dreamers see

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<v Speaker 5>out of unwinding midst a rise the splendors of some paradise,

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<v Speaker 5>woven of gold and ivory. Deep in the globe of thought,

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<v Speaker 5>I saw dawn from tempestuous dust that formed, towards which

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<v Speaker 5>the endless age's storm uproarious to break with awe of

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<v Speaker 5>all things ignorant yet wise, sitting enthroned at life's last goal,

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<v Speaker 5>dividing body from the soul, looking at each with flameless eyes, immutable, unknown,

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<v Speaker 5>unsung through triumph and delight unearned through sorrow undeserved, I

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<v Speaker 5>learned salvation from thy wordless tongue. Then, flying the embracing

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<v Speaker 5>gloom of burnt out days and parted desire, I built

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<v Speaker 5>my soul and altar fire of laughter in the face

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<v Speaker 5>of doom. A farewell, nay, by this desolate sea, our

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<v Speaker 5>troubled ways shall separate forever. Swift hath sped the hour

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<v Speaker 5>of youth, and yet to hang the head lamenting lost

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<v Speaker 5>things of departed days were only from that shadowland to

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<v Speaker 5>rise a wraith, that whispering of the quiet dead would

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<v Speaker 5>mimic the strange life of love. Instead, let us relent

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<v Speaker 5>and hail the past with praise. Go then, and should

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<v Speaker 5>inevitable fate lead us at last beyond the world of men,

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<v Speaker 5>where laurel and applause contend no more. Whether the soul

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<v Speaker 5>takes silence for its mate, there might we meet, and,

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<v Speaker 5>smiling once again, clasp hands and part upon some windy shore.

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<v Speaker 5>End of section five. Recording by Todd.

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<v Speaker 6>Section six of eight Harvard Poets. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 6>All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more

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<v Speaker 6>information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording

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<v Speaker 6>by Phil Shamp eight Harvard Poets, Section six Poems by

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<v Speaker 6>William A. Norris of too much song? Sedges? Have you

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<v Speaker 6>sung too much? Sedges? Gray along the shore? Can this

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<v Speaker 6>autumn tempest touch answering chords? And you no more? Is

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<v Speaker 6>the summer all forgot?

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<v Speaker 1>Now?

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<v Speaker 6>The ice is dark and strong, that has bound you

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<v Speaker 6>to the spot. Did you die of too much song?

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<v Speaker 6>Something in me is a heart played by every wanton breeze,

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<v Speaker 6>Moaning soft and piping sharp are its wondrous melodies? Is

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<v Speaker 6>the playing overfast? Though the answer now is strong, like

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<v Speaker 6>the sedges at the last, Will it die of too

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<v Speaker 6>much song? Wherever my dreams go, wherever my dreams go.

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<v Speaker 6>You are always there. And you and I have gone

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<v Speaker 6>to many a land, seeing high hills at dawn, and

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00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:58.559
<v Speaker 6>desert sand temples and mosques and people bowed in prayer.

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<v Speaker 6>We too have preyed in many places where beauty is come.

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<v Speaker 6>As I have clasped your hand, and through long silence

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00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:09.880
<v Speaker 6>learned to understand the dumb, sweet language of your eyes

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<v Speaker 6>and hair. We have been lovers in all fair romances.

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<v Speaker 6>Beyond the rising nor the sunken sun. There have been

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<v Speaker 6>foes to meet, and I have done great deeds beneath

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<v Speaker 6>the splendor of your glances. And yet I dreamed alone.

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<v Speaker 6>You could not guess what joy you brought into my loneliness.

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<v Speaker 6>Out of the littleness, out of the littleness that wraps

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<v Speaker 6>my days, the oppressive mist of gray and common things.

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<v Speaker 6>Sometimes my dream, on its audacious wings, dripping with golden

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<v Speaker 6>fire above the haze, flashes and veers against the sudden

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<v Speaker 6>blaze of sunlight. There no other wings may gleam, but

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<v Speaker 6>only yours, companioning my dream in its strange flight up

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<v Speaker 6>new and radiant ways. And once I thought, in a

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<v Speaker 6>far solid tude, the black waves moaned and broke unutterably

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<v Speaker 6>on a stern cliff, where hand in hand we stood.

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<v Speaker 6>There were none near us when the dark had gone,

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<v Speaker 6>only the clean wind of a sailless sea, and you

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<v Speaker 6>and I alone in the great dawn nahunt last night.

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<v Speaker 6>The sea was an enchanted moan, and a pale pathway

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<v Speaker 6>that the moonlight made all night. It sorrowed in the dark, alone,

729
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<v Speaker 6>groping with ghostly fingers, half afraid up the great rocks,

730
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<v Speaker 6>and sobbing back again, weary of search, yet still unsatisfied.

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<v Speaker 6>It seemed to have the voice of all dead men

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<v Speaker 6>and all fair women who had ever died. But now

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<v Speaker 6>the sun has risen, and the spray leaps into the

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<v Speaker 6>sudden light. Along the shore, each little waves caught a

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<v Speaker 6>golden ray, as if the dawn had never come before.

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<v Speaker 6>Beyond the cliffs, brown fishing boats go by under the

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<v Speaker 6>reach of the wide laughing sky, quisoub luna errant in

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<v Speaker 6>a strange land. They dwell, too far away from sunlight

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<v Speaker 6>and the common mirth of men ever to come with

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<v Speaker 6>an arc casual kin. We see them not, But if

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<v Speaker 6>by chance we stray down Cypress Isles, where the wan

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<v Speaker 6>summer day draws to a thin and sickly close we

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<v Speaker 6>hear murmur of mad speech by some watery weir, or

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<v Speaker 6>languid laughter and faint sound of play. They never see

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<v Speaker 6>the dawn, like the pale moths that haunt lugubrious shadows

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<v Speaker 6>of dim trees. They celebrate their lunar mysteries at woodland shrines,

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<v Speaker 6>where with green thyris rods and weak limbs wrapped in

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<v Speaker 6>silken sensuous cloths, they chant the names of their dead

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<v Speaker 6>pagan gods across the taut strings, Across the taut strings

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<v Speaker 6>of my yearning soul, pass fingers of all fleet and

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<v Speaker 6>beautiful things, comings of dawn and moonlight, glimmerings, midsummer hush

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<v Speaker 6>and sabbath bells that toll over road fields, a sound

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<v Speaker 6>of thrushes wings near sunset hour, a girl with lips apart,

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<v Speaker 6>wonder and laughter. These things have touched my heart and

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<v Speaker 6>left their music lingering on its strings. At twilight of

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<v Speaker 6>some gray, eventual year, a few late friends will turn

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<v Speaker 6>with trembling breath from the raw mound of earth that

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<v Speaker 6>hides my face. Yet I shall still find beauty even

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<v Speaker 6>in death. And some lone traveler of the night will

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<v Speaker 6>hear an echo of music in that quiet place escape.

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<v Speaker 6>They danced beneath the stars, a crazy rout with antic

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<v Speaker 6>steps that had some little grace, and one leapt high

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<v Speaker 6>with song in frenzied shout, and one ran silent with

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<v Speaker 6>a gleaming face. They danced until the shy moon, looking down,

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<v Speaker 6>deemed herself lost above some Grecian glade a mile away.

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<v Speaker 6>The trim New England town echoed the bacchanalien din they made,

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<v Speaker 6>and still they danced until the moon sank low, blushing

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<v Speaker 6>a little, and night's diadem of stars grew pale before

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<v Speaker 6>the eastern glow, And with the dawn their keepers came

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<v Speaker 6>for them on a street corner. But all the time

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<v Speaker 6>you spoke, I did not hear the words you said.

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<v Speaker 6>I only heard a far faint sound of summer waters,

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<v Speaker 6>and a clear calling of music from some lonely star.

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<v Speaker 6>I thought I heard the lisp of falling dew in

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<v Speaker 6>a dark meadow where no breezes stirred. Then all at once,

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<v Speaker 6>the noisy street, and you smiling at me, because I

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<v Speaker 6>had not heard sea burial over the sands. The swollen

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<v Speaker 6>tide came creeping over the sands beneath the gleaming moon.

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<v Speaker 6>At first it seemed a child's uncertain croon, and then

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<v Speaker 6>a sound of many mourners weeping. Then all at once

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<v Speaker 6>a crested wave was sweeping around the still form in

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<v Speaker 6>the moonlight, there, twining its silver fingers in her hair,

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<v Speaker 6>And yet it could not rouse her from her sleeping.

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<v Speaker 6>With dawn, the tide went seaward, burying her in its

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<v Speaker 6>strong arms that clung so tenderly, and laid her in

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<v Speaker 6>a strange place far away, where the tall seaweeds rise

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<v Speaker 6>and never stir. And there she sleeps, while pass alternately

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<v Speaker 6>the brooding night and the green luminous day.

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<v Speaker 4>End of Chapter six, Section seven of eight Harvard Poets.

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<v Speaker 4>This is a lubrivox recording. All Lubervox recordings were in

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<v Speaker 4>the public domain. For more information or to volunteer his

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<v Speaker 4>visitly revoxtt worg recording by Ellen Prepple, Eight Harvard Poets,

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<v Speaker 4>Section seven Poems by Dudley Poor. A Renaissance picture, calm,

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<v Speaker 4>little figure ivy crowned. How long beneath the barren trade

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<v Speaker 4>where this pale, martyred god has found surcease from his

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<v Speaker 4>long agony. You watch with an untroubled gaze, life moved

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<v Speaker 4>on its accustomed ways. Within your childish heart, there dwells

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<v Speaker 4>no sorrow that uprising dims your eye. Whence not a

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<v Speaker 4>tear drop wells for pity of those rhythm limbs, or

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<v Speaker 4>for the travail of a race consummate in one lifeless face.

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<v Speaker 4>Though tinkling caravans go by forever over twilight sands, with

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<v Speaker 4>Myrrh and Cassia laden high for other shrines in other lands.

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<v Speaker 4>No weight of grief thereat you know, but softly on

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<v Speaker 4>your handpipes blow from what dim mountain have you strayed?

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<v Speaker 4>Where ringed by the Hellenic seas, you dwelt in an

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<v Speaker 4>untrodden glade sacred to woodland deities along whose faint paths

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<v Speaker 4>went at dawn and dymion, Or a dancing fawn from

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<v Speaker 4>groves where sacrificing throngs called you by some fair Grecian name,

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<v Speaker 4>with ritual meat and charric songs. Strange that to this

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01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:32.400
<v Speaker 4>dark hill you came to seek, unmindful of their loss,

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01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:36.719
<v Speaker 4>a refuge underneath the cross. There is some deeper secret

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01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:40.880
<v Speaker 4>lies hidden out of human sight. In keeping of those

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01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:45.159
<v Speaker 4>tranquil eyes that shine with such immortal light, and in

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01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:49.159
<v Speaker 4>their shadows gleam and glow. While still upon your pipes

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01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:55.039
<v Speaker 4>you blow all but inscrutable. Your gaze declares your place

816
01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:59.400
<v Speaker 4>is even here, sharing this martyr's cup of praise, and

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01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:03.960
<v Speaker 4>yere I sadly westering year till the last altar lights

818
01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:11.880
<v Speaker 4>grow dim, dividing sovereignty with him the philosopher's garden. Some

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01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:16.679
<v Speaker 4>strange and exquisite desire has thrilled this flowering almond tree,

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01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.800
<v Speaker 4>whose branches shake so wistfully. Else Wherefore does a gloom

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<v Speaker 4>in fire? Why scatter pollen on the air, marry its

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01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:30.000
<v Speaker 4>pale buds, each to each the year's unkindly tempests bear,

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<v Speaker 4>or to the calm, clear sunlight reach. Yet I can

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<v Speaker 4>give that hope no name, nor that divine emotion share,

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01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:42.239
<v Speaker 4>for though I see it flowering there, because our speech

826
01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:46.039
<v Speaker 4>is not the same, the passionate secret must lie hid,

827
01:03:46.639 --> 01:03:51.039
<v Speaker 4>burdened with unexpressed delight, where none of all man's race

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<v Speaker 4>can bid it forth or voice its beauty. Right. There's

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01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:58.480
<v Speaker 4>naught in Earth or Heaven knows that hope for which

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01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:02.280
<v Speaker 4>our being longs. The stars are busied with their songs.

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<v Speaker 4>The universal springtime flows from sun to sun in scorn

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<v Speaker 4>of man, careless if he be quick or dead, or

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01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:15.239
<v Speaker 4>if this earth as it began, be voiceless and untenanted.

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<v Speaker 4>The Tree of Stars there stands a tree where no

835
01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:24.079
<v Speaker 4>man knows, and like an earthly tree it grows, save

836
01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:27.840
<v Speaker 4>that upon its branches wide the earth and all the stars,

837
01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:32.000
<v Speaker 4>beside the chilly moon and the great sun. The little planets,

838
01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:35.440
<v Speaker 4>one by one are hung like fruit to redden there

839
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:39.679
<v Speaker 4>and ripen in the heavenly air. And when the seeds

840
01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:42.639
<v Speaker 4>are round and full, the watchful gods will come and

841
01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:45.599
<v Speaker 4>pull the ripened fruit from off the tree. And then

842
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:49.360
<v Speaker 4>that heavenly company will bear the shining planets in and

843
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<v Speaker 4>garner them in a deep bin, and sort them out,

844
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<v Speaker 4>and save the seed to plant new trees in time

845
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<v Speaker 4>of need. After rain all day, the heavy skies have lowered,

846
01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:07.400
<v Speaker 4>long beaten by autumnal rain. The lilac's withered leaves lie showered,

847
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:11.360
<v Speaker 4>where little rain pools star the plain. All things that

848
01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:16.480
<v Speaker 4>for a season flowered sink back to earth again. Strange

849
01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:20.079
<v Speaker 4>then that with the years decrease, and out of gathering dusk,

850
01:05:20.280 --> 01:05:25.840
<v Speaker 4>you rise, seeking loves, ultimate surcease. Phantom whose memory haunted

851
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:29.800
<v Speaker 4>eyes know that there never can be peace. Hooked for

852
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:35.159
<v Speaker 4>till memory dies in vain, where these dead leaves lie strown,

853
01:05:35.719 --> 01:05:40.360
<v Speaker 4>where all things bending earthward fail. Like a young spirit,

854
01:05:40.559 --> 01:05:45.800
<v Speaker 4>newly flown flower, fragile blossom, like and pale, you search

855
01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:49.199
<v Speaker 4>and must fly back a blown rose leaf on the

856
01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:53.280
<v Speaker 4>cold gale. You might have rested, But for this that

857
01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:58.079
<v Speaker 4>love's intense flame, burning through the shuddering body with a kiss,

858
01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:02.519
<v Speaker 4>woke in the prisoned spirit too, so keen an ecstasy

859
01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:06.719
<v Speaker 4>of bliss, as could for all they made amiss, nor

860
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:13.119
<v Speaker 4>life nor death undo cor cordium. Deep in a heart,

861
01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:17.280
<v Speaker 4>beneath or hanging boughs, Love built himself a house, And

862
01:06:17.320 --> 01:06:20.880
<v Speaker 4>whoso entered in love bade him stay, nor ever from

863
01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:24.440
<v Speaker 4>that feast, to come away dissatisfied or weary of the

864
01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:29.519
<v Speaker 4>fair Love set him there forever through the groves and blades,

865
01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:32.800
<v Speaker 4>kind thoughts went softly to and fro, and memories, like

866
01:06:32.840 --> 01:06:36.119
<v Speaker 4>white footed maids with gentle tread, would come and go

867
01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:40.639
<v Speaker 4>among the ever garrulous trees and through the branches overhead.

868
01:06:41.039 --> 01:06:45.199
<v Speaker 4>I know not what spirits strayed, or what commandment spirits

869
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:49.320
<v Speaker 4>led their maize dances, but one blade so deftly on

870
01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:53.119
<v Speaker 4>the psaltery, that they for joy must needs keep singing.

871
01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:58.280
<v Speaker 4>All the chambers of Love's house with that sweet minstrelsy

872
01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:02.880
<v Speaker 4>were ringing. Faces to the windows, came tears to happy eyelids,

873
01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:06.719
<v Speaker 4>started feeling as by sudden flame their cares and their

874
01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:12.440
<v Speaker 4>sad hearts disparted, each old, clinging, sorrow dead, All whoever

875
01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:16.280
<v Speaker 4>guested there to each other, murmuring said, in this heart

876
01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:19.920
<v Speaker 4>breathe purer air. The thoughts that move across the sky

877
01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:24.320
<v Speaker 4>have had a more mysterious birth. Our lovelier float, more

878
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:29.320
<v Speaker 4>state lily, then clouds across the sky of earth. All

879
01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:33.039
<v Speaker 4>guests within that heart's deep wood, all friends together in

880
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:37.760
<v Speaker 4>that house high converse, held with an aerial brood, with spirit,

881
01:07:37.880 --> 01:07:43.320
<v Speaker 4>folk kept delicate, caroused. None ever turned ungreeted from that door.

882
01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:48.320
<v Speaker 4>Sorrow himself was guessed a weary while. But yesterday, when

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01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:52.000
<v Speaker 4>I passed by, once more met me no welcoming smile,

884
01:07:52.519 --> 01:07:56.280
<v Speaker 4>nor any breath, the unwavering branch to stir silent, each

885
01:07:56.360 --> 01:08:01.360
<v Speaker 4>glad aerial chorister. Three darsy poppies rooted by the wall,

886
01:08:01.960 --> 01:08:06.920
<v Speaker 4>lonely and tall. Then as I leaned above their crimson bloom,

887
01:08:07.239 --> 01:08:10.920
<v Speaker 4>the flower of day grew old and withered. Night with

888
01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:14.360
<v Speaker 4>a sigh, sat down beside her loom, winding her shuttle

889
01:08:14.440 --> 01:08:19.479
<v Speaker 4>with a silver thread. Suddenly from the starlit planes of air, ethereal,

890
01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:25.800
<v Speaker 4>tumult airy tempest, blue, immortal music, showering everywhere, flashed to

891
01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:29.840
<v Speaker 4>the earth in an harmonious dew leaped, jubilant from cloud

892
01:08:29.880 --> 01:08:33.319
<v Speaker 4>to craggy cloud, binding the moon in a melodious chain,

893
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:37.800
<v Speaker 4>storming the troubled stars, a luminous crowd, dropping in fiery

894
01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:41.680
<v Speaker 4>streaks to Earth again from out the windows of God's house,

895
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.600
<v Speaker 4>faint as a far echoing wave, the angels, bending their

896
01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:49.880
<v Speaker 4>calm brows, song for song in answer, gave and faster

897
01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:54.199
<v Speaker 4>than a falcon, flies thronging spirits in a cluster, passed

898
01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:59.119
<v Speaker 4>before my dazzled eyes, shedding in aerial luster, burning with

899
01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:04.600
<v Speaker 4>translucent fire, shaking from their dewy wings, wild, ineffable desire

900
01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:10.479
<v Speaker 4>of starry and immortal things, torturing with delicious pain, past

901
01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:14.439
<v Speaker 4>telling sweet the bewildered heart, piercing the poor mortal brain

902
01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:18.800
<v Speaker 4>with beauty, a keen, fiery dart ah, even as an

903
01:09:18.880 --> 01:09:23.399
<v Speaker 4>oracle whose soul a God has breathed upon the beauteousness

904
01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:28.600
<v Speaker 4>unbearable possessed me so all strength was gone. Smitten by

905
01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:32.800
<v Speaker 4>a barbed joy, My sense, with rapturous pain, grew dim

906
01:09:33.119 --> 01:09:37.239
<v Speaker 4>joy pierced me as it would destroy. Still higher rose

907
01:09:37.279 --> 01:09:41.119
<v Speaker 4>the celestial hymn. And then of all that starry throng

908
01:09:41.399 --> 01:09:45.680
<v Speaker 4>that streamed toward the upper sky, one spirit darted down

909
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:49.479
<v Speaker 4>again and stood upon a bough near by. Even I

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01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:53.359
<v Speaker 4>unsealed thy sight, he said, alas that shape I did

911
01:09:53.359 --> 01:09:57.039
<v Speaker 4>not know, for he was so transfigured, so circled by

912
01:09:57.079 --> 01:10:01.319
<v Speaker 4>the unearthly glow of his pulsating ori. All I, who

913
01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:04.439
<v Speaker 4>so well the flesh had known, I did not know

914
01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:08.119
<v Speaker 4>the soul. With troubled eyes, he bended down, and all

915
01:10:08.159 --> 01:10:12.239
<v Speaker 4>about me where I stood, every blossom, every tree, all

916
01:10:12.279 --> 01:10:15.720
<v Speaker 4>the branches of that wood were trembling in their ecstasy.

917
01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:19.560
<v Speaker 4>They knew ere I had half divined. But at his voice,

918
01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:23.399
<v Speaker 4>old dreams awoke in dusty chambers of the mind. And

919
01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:27.039
<v Speaker 4>when again he softly spoke, with sudden tears, mine eyes

920
01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:31.039
<v Speaker 4>were wet and lowlier still. He bent his head. Dost thou,

921
01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:34.560
<v Speaker 4>dear friend, not know me? Yet? Yes, for I know

922
01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:38.560
<v Speaker 4>thy voice, I said, dear phantom, this immortal guise, this

923
01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:43.760
<v Speaker 4>disembodied self of thine hath dazed my unacquainted eyes. Thou

924
01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:47.920
<v Speaker 4>dweller on the steps divine, Thou image of a God's desire,

925
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:52.000
<v Speaker 4>Thou spark of the celestial flame. Art fashioned out of

926
01:10:52.039 --> 01:10:56.680
<v Speaker 4>wind and fire and elements without a name, What sacred

927
01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:00.920
<v Speaker 4>fingers mingled them and trembled with a god's delightight. Thy

928
01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:04.399
<v Speaker 4>body is a burning gem. Thy limbs are crest a light.

929
01:11:05.079 --> 01:11:08.079
<v Speaker 4>A glory hands about thy head. For thou in thine

930
01:11:08.199 --> 01:11:12.960
<v Speaker 4>immortal lot, in Heaven's own light, Art garmented, I know THEE,

931
01:11:13.079 --> 01:11:16.560
<v Speaker 4>Yet I know THEE not. Then he with shining eyes

932
01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:20.800
<v Speaker 4>half shut, radiantly standing there, I did but change my

933
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:24.880
<v Speaker 4>leafy hut or a mansion in the air, the eerie wood,

934
01:11:25.119 --> 01:11:28.960
<v Speaker 4>the enchanted ground, the dim bird, haunted blades. We trod

935
01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:32.159
<v Speaker 4>grew all untuneful. When I found a dwelling in the

936
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:35.560
<v Speaker 4>heart of God, I latched the gate of dawn of day.

937
01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:38.880
<v Speaker 4>I planted poppies by the door to his retreats. I

938
01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:42.399
<v Speaker 4>came away, and I shall wander thence no more. The

939
01:11:42.479 --> 01:11:45.840
<v Speaker 4>windy heights are all my love, the sphirial lights, the

940
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:49.960
<v Speaker 4>spiral chimes, the trailing fires, the hosts that move in

941
01:11:50.079 --> 01:11:55.119
<v Speaker 4>concourse through sidereal climes. I trooped with the celestial choirs.

942
01:11:55.359 --> 01:11:58.760
<v Speaker 4>We have not any wish to thee sad pilgrims torn

943
01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:03.800
<v Speaker 4>by sad desire, wayfarers of mortality. The husk of flesh

944
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:06.960
<v Speaker 4>we have put by the dark seed, planted in the earth,

945
01:12:07.279 --> 01:12:11.119
<v Speaker 4>have blossomed in the upper sky in airy gardens, have

946
01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:15.159
<v Speaker 4>new birth. There did he make an end for Oh

947
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:19.479
<v Speaker 4>those spirits singing darted by again, and at the showering

948
01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:23.279
<v Speaker 4>sound he trembled. So I saw his earthly dalliance give

949
01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:27.279
<v Speaker 4>him pain, and cried in sorrow, Oh, my friend, farewell

950
01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:34.760
<v Speaker 4>Now from the luminous paradisal bands, Gabriel israepel Ithuriel beckoned

951
01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:39.560
<v Speaker 4>to you with their exulting hands. The withered leaf, the

952
01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:43.960
<v Speaker 4>faded flower, be mine. The withered leaf, the faded flower

953
01:12:44.039 --> 01:12:47.800
<v Speaker 4>be mine. The broken shrine, all things that, knowing beauty

954
01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:51.000
<v Speaker 4>for a day, have passed away to dwell in the

955
01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:57.920
<v Speaker 4>illimitable wood of quietude, undying, radiant, young past years among

956
01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:02.840
<v Speaker 4>no blighting wind on their beauty blows. The altar glows

957
01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:08.640
<v Speaker 4>with flames, unquenchable and bright by day by night, Secure

958
01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:14.479
<v Speaker 4>from envious time's deflowering breath, they know no death, but silently,

959
01:13:14.840 --> 01:13:20.000
<v Speaker 4>imperishably fair, grow lovelier. There he who adores too much

960
01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:24.039
<v Speaker 4>the impending hour, the budding flower, who knows not with

961
01:13:24.119 --> 01:13:28.359
<v Speaker 4>what dies. An hour that's dead, is garmented, who walks

962
01:13:28.359 --> 01:13:33.119
<v Speaker 4>with glimmering shapes companion us. He cannot guess with how

963
01:13:33.159 --> 01:13:40.199
<v Speaker 4>great love and thankfulness I praise the yesterdays. End of

964
01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:41.479
<v Speaker 4>section seven.

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<v Speaker 3>Section eight of eight Harvard Poets. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 3>All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more

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<v Speaker 3>information or to volunteer, please visit brivox dot org. Recording

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<v Speaker 3>by Larry Wilson, Eight Harvard Poets, Section eight Poems by

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<v Speaker 3>Cuthbert Wright. The end of it we met, and on

970
01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:22.880
<v Speaker 3>the decorous drive touched hands. Goodbye. A pleasant trip to you,

971
01:14:23.159 --> 01:14:28.279
<v Speaker 3>I said. The sunlight slept upon the still uplands, your

972
01:14:28.359 --> 01:14:32.199
<v Speaker 3>figure fading in the dusty red. I watched a while,

973
01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:37.000
<v Speaker 3>then turned with casual face to where a torrent glimmered

974
01:14:37.039 --> 01:14:41.199
<v Speaker 3>down a glade. No human voice troubled the lovely place,

975
01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:46.119
<v Speaker 3>only the fall a cruel music made a time. I

976
01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:50.319
<v Speaker 3>lay and marked with curious stare the keen sun lances

977
01:14:50.439 --> 01:14:54.800
<v Speaker 3>quiver on the lawn and thought on shrines, all voiceless

978
01:14:54.840 --> 01:14:59.079
<v Speaker 3>now and there the holy genius of their boughs withdrawn

979
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:02.119
<v Speaker 3>till with hoarse cry the train that you were on

980
01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:07.399
<v Speaker 3>stabbed the indifference of the empty air. Then I awoke

981
01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:17.119
<v Speaker 3>and knew that you were gone. The New Platonist circa.

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01:15:17.239 --> 01:15:22.439
<v Speaker 3>Sixteen forty. Our loves as flowers fall to dust, the

983
01:15:22.520 --> 01:15:26.359
<v Speaker 3>noblest singing hath an end. No man to his own

984
01:15:26.479 --> 01:15:30.640
<v Speaker 3>soul may trust, nor to the kind arms of his friend.

985
01:15:32.039 --> 01:15:37.159
<v Speaker 3>Yet I have glimpsed by lonely tree, bright baths of immortality.

986
01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:41.680
<v Speaker 3>My faultless teachers bid me fair the cypress path of

987
01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:45.199
<v Speaker 3>blood and tears, treading the thorny world to where the

988
01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:50.319
<v Speaker 3>painful cross of Christ appears. Twas on another summer hill.

989
01:15:50.920 --> 01:15:54.720
<v Speaker 3>I met you first, my miracle. The painted windows burn

990
01:15:54.840 --> 01:15:58.680
<v Speaker 3>and flame up through the music haunted air. These were

991
01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:02.479
<v Speaker 3>my gods. And then you came, with flowers crowned and

992
01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:06.720
<v Speaker 3>sun kissed hair, making this northern river seem some laughter

993
01:16:06.840 --> 01:16:10.880
<v Speaker 3>girdled Grecian stream. When the fierce foreman of our race

994
01:16:11.000 --> 01:16:14.560
<v Speaker 3>marshals his lords of lust and pride, you spring within

995
01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:18.840
<v Speaker 3>a moment's space, full armed and smiling, to my side. Oh,

996
01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:22.359
<v Speaker 3>golden heart. The love you gave me alone has saved

997
01:16:22.680 --> 01:16:27.000
<v Speaker 3>and yet will save me perchance. We have no perfect

998
01:16:27.039 --> 01:16:31.000
<v Speaker 3>city beyond the rack of these Our wars till death

999
01:16:31.039 --> 01:16:34.439
<v Speaker 3>alone and sacred pity wash with long sleep our wounds

1000
01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:38.720
<v Speaker 3>and scars. So much the more I praise in measure

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01:16:39.119 --> 01:16:48.840
<v Speaker 3>the generous gods for you, my treasure. The room over

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01:16:48.880 --> 01:16:55.960
<v Speaker 3>the river, good night, my love, Good night. The wan

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01:16:56.119 --> 01:17:00.840
<v Speaker 3>moon holds her lantern high and softly, threads with nodding light,

1004
01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:05.119
<v Speaker 3>the violet posterns of the sky below. The tides run

1005
01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:09.479
<v Speaker 3>swift and bright into the sea. Odors and sounds come

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01:17:09.560 --> 01:17:13.119
<v Speaker 3>in to us faint with the passion of this night.

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01:17:14.520 --> 01:17:18.840
<v Speaker 3>One little dream hangs luminous above you in the scented light.

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01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:24.600
<v Speaker 3>Roses and mist, stars and bright dew draw down to you.

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01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:28.720
<v Speaker 3>How often in the dewy break I've heard above the

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01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:32.680
<v Speaker 3>sigh weirs, the night birds singing for your sake, his

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01:17:32.880 --> 01:17:38.279
<v Speaker 3>lonely song of love and tears. He too, sad heart

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01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:43.479
<v Speaker 3>hath turned to rest, and sleep is best flower of

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01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:47.039
<v Speaker 3>my soul. Let us be true to youth and love

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01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:51.319
<v Speaker 3>and all delight, clean and refreshed, and one with you.

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01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:55.199
<v Speaker 3>I would be ever as to night, and heed not

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01:17:55.399 --> 01:17:59.600
<v Speaker 3>what the day will bring, nor anything. And now the

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01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:04.159
<v Speaker 3>moon is safe away, far off her carriage. Lampion's flare

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01:18:04.720 --> 01:18:08.439
<v Speaker 3>lost in the sunken roads of day, they vanish in

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01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:14.560
<v Speaker 3>the icy air. Good Night, my love, good night, good

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01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:23.920
<v Speaker 3>night the fiddler. Once more, I thought I heard him plain,

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01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:28.199
<v Speaker 3>that unseen fiddler in the lane, under the timid twilight moon,

1022
01:18:28.840 --> 01:18:33.399
<v Speaker 3>playing his visionary strain. No other soul was in the place,

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01:18:33.439 --> 01:18:36.000
<v Speaker 3>as up the hill I came apace. Though once I

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01:18:36.039 --> 01:18:39.359
<v Speaker 3>heard him every day, I never once have seen his face.

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01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:44.520
<v Speaker 3>It was my immemorial year when rhymes came fast and

1026
01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:50.880
<v Speaker 3>blood beat clear, He too, perchance, was then alive. Now

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01:18:51.039 --> 01:18:56.439
<v Speaker 3>separate ghosts we wander here. Sometimes his ghostly rondolais broke

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01:18:56.560 --> 01:19:00.479
<v Speaker 3>on my dream at dawn of day, and through my

1029
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:05.279
<v Speaker 3>open windows stole the perfumed marvel of the may. Sometimes

1030
01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:08.359
<v Speaker 3>at midnight lanes I heard the twitter of a darkling bird,

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01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:11.880
<v Speaker 3>as hidden from the ashen moon. The pathos of his

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01:19:12.039 --> 01:19:16.960
<v Speaker 3>music stirred, Oh, happy time, How goodly seemed the dauntless,

1033
01:19:17.000 --> 01:19:21.760
<v Speaker 3>timeless dream I dreamed, those dear imaginary sins, the joys

1034
01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:26.000
<v Speaker 3>that in one torrent streamed when the moon and stars

1035
01:19:26.079 --> 01:19:29.680
<v Speaker 3>go out for a I am dead and cast away.

1036
01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:32.840
<v Speaker 3>This autumn city I have loved will know me not,

1037
01:19:33.439 --> 01:19:37.640
<v Speaker 3>but he will stay in faded suburbs. He will play

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01:19:37.720 --> 01:19:42.199
<v Speaker 3>some other boy's brief morn away till sapphire windows palely

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01:19:42.319 --> 01:19:48.520
<v Speaker 3>burn amid the undefeated gray. And yet sometimes I seem

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01:19:48.600 --> 01:19:53.079
<v Speaker 3>to know I shall not scape his phantom bow. More

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01:19:53.159 --> 01:19:56.800
<v Speaker 3>paramount than death or pain, This ghost will follow me

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01:19:56.880 --> 01:20:01.319
<v Speaker 3>where I go, in some well kept, untrouble hell, where

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01:20:01.439 --> 01:20:05.039
<v Speaker 3>frustrate souls like mine may dwell. I shall look up

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01:20:05.079 --> 01:20:10.560
<v Speaker 3>and hear his note coming across the asphodel. No shades

1045
01:20:10.640 --> 01:20:14.319
<v Speaker 3>will gather at his tune to dance their ghostly rigged doon.

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01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:23.159
<v Speaker 3>Only that lonely voice will cleave the everlasting afternoon. Falstaff's

1047
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:29.119
<v Speaker 3>page to Reginald Sheffield. In blaze of curls and cowslip

1048
01:20:29.159 --> 01:20:33.239
<v Speaker 3>colored coat, he pranks away before the wheezy night tall

1049
01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:37.720
<v Speaker 3>windsor shows no blossom like this white by park, or

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01:20:37.800 --> 01:20:42.640
<v Speaker 3>sedgy pool, or bearded moat. A skylark burbles in that

1051
01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:45.920
<v Speaker 3>milk white throat, And I have heard him down a

1052
01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:49.399
<v Speaker 3>singing stream. Ere the brute morn shattered by happy dream

1053
01:20:49.520 --> 01:20:54.079
<v Speaker 3>upon the sill and weeping. I awoke. We had a

1054
01:20:54.159 --> 01:20:58.399
<v Speaker 3>music once, a poesy, sweet as a maiden, lisom as

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01:20:58.399 --> 01:21:02.840
<v Speaker 3>this lad full of merriment and gentle joy, that other

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01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:07.199
<v Speaker 3>England lives and laughs in thee a peal of Morris music,

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01:21:07.399 --> 01:21:11.760
<v Speaker 3>blithe and glad, Thou spray of a bloom, thou flower

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01:21:11.880 --> 01:21:22.800
<v Speaker 3>of a boy. A dull Sunday after w C. It

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01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:27.560
<v Speaker 3>has been a long day, a long long day, And

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01:21:27.640 --> 01:21:31.720
<v Speaker 3>now in floods of twilight, in long green waves of sunset,

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01:21:31.800 --> 01:21:36.560
<v Speaker 3>softly flowing evening. It is evening over the great towns.

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01:21:37.199 --> 01:21:41.479
<v Speaker 3>It is evening in our hearts. And though the last rail,

1063
01:21:41.640 --> 01:21:46.119
<v Speaker 3>tendrils and flowers of incense have long ago uncurled themselves.

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01:21:46.119 --> 01:21:50.800
<v Speaker 3>Around the cynical cathedral, I hear the thin white voices

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01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:55.039
<v Speaker 3>of children, little girls and little boys, calling the name

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01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:58.680
<v Speaker 3>of Jesus and his most sacred heart, singing about a

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01:21:58.760 --> 01:22:02.680
<v Speaker 3>kind of perish heaven, a little walled city, all golden

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01:22:02.760 --> 01:22:06.399
<v Speaker 3>and laelac, like the one seen by Francois Villon's mother

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01:22:06.960 --> 01:22:11.039
<v Speaker 3>in an old, bituminous, smoke bitten painting of the Middle Ages.

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01:22:11.640 --> 01:22:17.239
<v Speaker 3>And in this faith she wished to live and die.

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<v Speaker 3>End of Section eight end of eight Harvard Poets