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Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into
the younger day:
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of
Cathay.

Mother-Age (for mine I knew not) help me as
when life begun:

Rift the hills, and roll the waters, flash the lightnings, weigh the Sun

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O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath

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Ancient founts of inspiration well thro' all my
fancy yet. Four old ba

Howsoever these things be, a long farewell to
Locksley Hall!

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Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the roof-tree fall.

Comes a vapour from the margin, blackening over heath and holt,

Cramming all the blast before it, in its breast a thunderbolt.

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Let it fall on Locksley Hall, with rain or hail, or fire or snow;

For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward,

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Godiva I waited for the train at Coventry;

I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge,
To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped
The city's ancient legend into this :

Not only we, the latest seed of Time,

New men, that in the flying of a wheel

Cry down the past, not only we, that prate col Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people sarewell,

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And loathed to see them overtax'd; but she
Did more, and underwent, and overcame,
The woman of a thousand summers back,
Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled
In Coventry: for when he laid a tax
Upon his town, and all the mothers brought
Their children, clamouring, "If we pay, we
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She sought her lord, and found him, where he
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About the hall, among his dogs, alone, ed
His beard a foot before him, and his hair
A yard behind. She told him of their tears,
And pray'd him, 'If they pay this tax, they
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Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed,
You would not let

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your little finger ache For such as these? But I would die,' said

she.

He laugh'd, and swore by Peter and by Paul:
Then fillip'd at the diamond in her ear,

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'Oh ay, ay, ay, you talk!' Alas!' she said, Godiva
'But prove me what it is I would not do.'
And from a heart as rough as Esau's hand,
He answer'd, Ride you naked thro' the town,
And I repeal it ;' and nodding, as in scorn,
He parted, with great strides among his dogs.
So left alone, the passions of her mind,
As winds from all the compass shift and blow,
Made war upon each other for an hour,
Till pity won.

She sent a herald forth,

And bad him cry, with sound of trumpet, all
The hard condition; but that she would loose
The people therefore, as they loved her well,
From then till noon no foot should pace the
street,

No eye look down, she passing; but that all
Should keep within, door shut, and window
barr'd.

Then fled she to her inmost bower, and there
Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt,
The grim Earl's gift; but ever at a breath
She linger'd, looking like a summer moon
Half-dipt in cloud: anon she shook her head,
And shower'd the rippled ringlets to her knee;
Unclad herself in haste; adown the stair
Stole on; and, like a creeping sunbeam, slid
From pillar unto pillar, until she reach'd
The gateway; there she found her palfrey trapt
In purple blazon'd with armorial gold.

Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.
The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout
Had cunning eyes to see: the barking cur

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Godiva Made her cheek flame: her palfrey's foot-fall

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Light horrors thro' her pulses: the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: but she
Not less thro' all bore up, till, last, she saw
The white-flower'd elder-thicket from the field
Gleam thro' the Gothic archways in the wall,

Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity:
And one low churl, compact of thankless earth,
The fatal byword of all years to come, ba A
Boring a little auger-hole in fear,nos biud edi
Peep'd but his eyes, before they had their

will,
Good bit mis inord
Were shrivell'd into darkness in his head, a
And dropt before him. So the Powers, who

wait
agad blood?
On noble deeds, cancell'd a sense misused;
And she, that knew not, pass'd and all at

once,

:

With twelve great shocks of sound, the shame

less noon

Was clash'd and hammer'd from a hundred

997 towers,

One after one: but even then she gain'd

Her bower; whence reissuing, robed and

crown'd,

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To meet her lord, she took the tax away, and And built herself an everlasting name. sipping af no budtolo di

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To which the voice did urge reply;
To-day I saw the dragon-fly

Come from the wells where he did lie.

'An inner impulse rent the veil

Of his old husk: from head to tail
Came out clear plates of sapphire mail.

'He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;
Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew
A living flash of light he flew.'

I said, 'When first the world began,
Young Nature thro' five cycles ran,
And in the sixth she moulded man.

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gave him mind, the lordliest Proportion, and, above the rest,

Dominion in the head and breast.”betted

The Two

Voices

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