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Locksley Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, so I bluoda Eager-hearted as a boy when first the leaves his father's field,

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And at night along the dusky highway near and
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Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like
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And his spirit leaps within him to be gone
before him then,
Underneath the light he looks at, in among
the throngs of men ;

Fob bluore I

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: bagong anscasol That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shallidobil 91s abaiw

could see,

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye
Jest zoro Hands
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder
that would be;
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Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,

Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales A-adtoM avohuow

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew strus 9 stol9d From the nations' airy navies grappling in the you to slumut

central blue;

Hall

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south Locksley wind rushing warm, ayoj filmov sid With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm; Se you & exil

Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the
battle-flags were furl'dia di no gail
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the
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world.

There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, →

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

So I triumph'd ere my passion sweeping, thrò' me left me dry,

Left me with the palsied

with the jaundiced eye

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heart, and left me

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Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint:

Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: gidas adila os

Slowly comes al hungry people, as a lion creep ing nigher,

Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. crised uswollara s

purpose runs,

Yet I doubt hot thro' the ages one increasing
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And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the
process of the suns.

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Locksley What is that to him that reaps not harvest of Half his youthful joys, wow gaiden batw Tho' the deep heart of existence beat for levet like a boy's?

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, now all-olund

And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. .blow

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he
bears a laden breast, s ni miner lufisit
Full of sadnexperience, moving toward bake
stillness of his rest. wal serving

Hark, my merry comrades call me, sounding on
the bugle-horn, yib sid fat am
They to whom my foolish passion were a target
for their scorn: Recibowej od: deiw

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? :tuiol to the vis

I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing. 2004 of finq mort

Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-edgia gai

Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain: aut griyb-ylwole

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,

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Hell

Here at least, where nature sickens, nothing. Locksley
Ah, for some retreat insand
Deep in yonder shining Orient, where my life
began to beat;

Where in wild Mahratta-battle fell my father evil-starr'd;

I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward.

Or to burst all links of habit there to wander

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island at the gateways of

Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies,

Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.

Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag,

Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag;

Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree—

Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.

There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind,

In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.

Hall

Locksley There the passion cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space o to,dA I will take some savage woman, she shall rear

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Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run,

Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun;

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Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,

Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books-

Fool, again the dream, the fancy! but I know
my words are wild,da ved bee
I count the gray barbarian lower than the
Christian child. seibens 1 to 2nd

But

I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains,

Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains! oh me

Mated with a squalid savage-what to me were sun or clime?

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time

I that rather held it better men should perish
one by one,

Than that earth should stand at gaze like
Joshua's moon in Ajalon!'indépend

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