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My Soul I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
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"NEVER shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
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BLESSED be this place,
More blessed still this tower;
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THE unpurged images of day recede;
The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed;
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NOR dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
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THROUGH intricate motions ran
Stream and gliding sun
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WHAT they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
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I ASKED if I should pray.
But the Brahmin said,
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THE threefold terror of love; a fallen flare
Through the hollow of an ear;
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IN tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
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WHERE had her sweetness gone?
What fanatics invent
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I ranted to the knave and fool,
But outgrew that school,
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ACQUAINTANCE; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
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WE that have done and thought,
That have thought and done,
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"THOSE Platonists are a curse,' he said,
"God's fire upon the wane,
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SWIFT has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
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A STORM BEATEN old watch-tower,
A blind hermit rings the hour.
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THOUGH the great song return no more
There's keen delight in what we have:
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The intellect of man is forced to choose
perfection of the life, or of the work,
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CRAZED through much child-bearing
The moon is staggering in the sky;
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i{The First.} My great-grandfather spoke to Edmund Burke
In Grattan's house.
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SHAKESPEAREAN fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand;
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THE Heavenly Circuit; Berenice's Hair;
Tent-pole of Eden; the tent's drapery;
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Earth in beauty dressed
Awaits returning spring.
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I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
All night's fathomless wisdom come,
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'She will change,' I cried.
'Into a withered crone.'
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Sang old Tom the lunatic
That sleeps under the canopy:
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Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,
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I admit the briar
Entangled in my hair
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What lively lad most pleasured me
Of all that with me lay?
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The heron-billed pale cattle-birds
That feed on some foul parasite
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If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
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The lot of love is chosen. I learnt that much
Struggling for an image on the track
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O but there is wisdom
In what the sages said;
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Under my window-ledge the waters race,
Otters below and moor-hens on the top,
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I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
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Bring me to the blasted oak
That I, midnight upon the stroke,
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I found that ivory image there
Dancing with her chosen youth,
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That lover of a night
Came when he would,
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'Love is all
Unsatisfied
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I care not what the sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
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I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
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She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
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Overcome -- O bitter sweetness,
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl --
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I went out alone
To sing a song or two,
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I did the dragon's will until you came
Because I had fancied love a casual
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Dry timber under that rich foliage,
At wine-dark midnight in the sacred wood,
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Who talks of Plato's spindle;
What set it whirling round?
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Undying love to buy
I wrote upon
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'I am of Ireland,
And the Holy Land of Ireland,
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The light of evening, Lissadell,
Great windows open to the south,
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Old fathers, great-grandfathers,
Rise as kindred should.
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Beloved, may your sleep be sound
That have found it where you fed.
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Bolt and bar the shutter,
For the foul winds blow:
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Hidden by old age awhile
In masker's cloak and hood,
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Things out of perfection sail,
And all their swelling canvas wear,
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He. Dear, I must be gone
While night Shuts the eyes
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I, proclaiming that there is
Among birds or beasts or men
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Behold that great Plotinus swim,
Buffeted by such seas;
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Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,
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`O cruel Death, give three things back,'
Sang a bone upon the shore;
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On Cruachan's plain slept he
That must sing in a rhyme
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My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
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