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Windfall and Waterdrift - Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert · Timeless Henry David Thoreau Writings

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Windfall and Water Drift. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Windfall and Water Drift by Auberon Herbert, Section one, The
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  Speaker 1: New Comrade. If heart and tongue be true, be true,
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  Speaker 1: would scorn.
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  Speaker 2: To trick or trip?
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  Speaker 1: If heart be gay through the toil of day, and
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  Speaker 1: jest be ready on lip. If hand and eye be
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  Speaker 1: quick to guard, and foot be slow to flee, then
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  Speaker 1: fare with us and share with us. Beneath the greenwood tree,
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  Speaker 1: my feet are drawn, Oh mother, mother, soon your child
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  Speaker 1: no more, Your child will be for dusk and down.
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  Speaker 1: My feet are drawn towards the fairy with outstretched hand
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  Speaker 1: and flattering word. The path is all beset. My heart
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  Speaker 1: is like a poor lost bird that flutters in the
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  Speaker 1: net broken bridges. We have lived too long by hill
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  Speaker 1: and glen, and another home. Will search, will make our
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  Speaker 1: peace with the King's proud men, and be sained by
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  Speaker 1: holy Church, and will have no toil but to labor
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  Speaker 1: the soil and watch the good corn grow. For every
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  Speaker 1: drop of blood that is shed but brings its certain woe,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, sweet maid, For Church and King are as false,
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  Speaker 1: as false as hell. The life we have led must
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  Speaker 1: its own end bring, And the end, when it comes,
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  Speaker 1: is well by the camp fire, good cheer beneath the
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  Speaker 1: great tall tree, with the camp fire burning red as
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  Speaker 1: you lie and hear the creeping breeze and the green
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  Speaker 1: roof overhead. Pile up the broken wood, sweet maid, and
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  Speaker 1: make the night yield room. For who shall say in
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  Speaker 1: forest glade, what strange things walk the gloom? Yea and nay?
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  Speaker 1: For she said nay, and I said yea. And we
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  Speaker 1: parted with frown and tear. And I turned away on
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  Speaker 1: that very day and lost my only dear through the
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  Speaker 1: crowded street with downcast eyes. She creeps from place to place,
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  Speaker 1: And when we meet, love's sweet surprise no more lights
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  Speaker 1: up her face. A great white wave, a grace, a
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  Speaker 1: grace to night. I crave my heart. It bodes me ill,
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  Speaker 1: For Oh, I dreamt of a great white wave, and
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  Speaker 1: it grew greater. Still, there's never a need for thy
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  Speaker 1: poor heart's moan. Let be, sweet wife, Let be For
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  Speaker 1: a hundred times has the wild wind blown and blown
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  Speaker 1: no hurt to me? He touched her cheek, with his
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  Speaker 1: touch so light, and her hands as if in play.
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  Speaker 1: Then out he passed to the cruel night that raged
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  Speaker 1: to seize its prey, the mirror and the soul, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: my fair one. None to equal THEE in beauty could
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  Speaker 1: there be. Yet I wonder of the sequel what that
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  Speaker 1: beauty did for THEE. Was the self within thee, fashioned, purer,
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  Speaker 1: nobler than the rest, was the soul itself, impassioned by
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  Speaker 1: the face. We loved the best, the hills above the
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  Speaker 1: river frost, the plain beyond the wood where the russet
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  Speaker 1: heath was growing. Until she saw the hills that stood
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  Speaker 1: above the river, flowing flow on brave stream, with never
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  Speaker 1: a rest till thou findest the open sea. There's a
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  Speaker 1: hunger to wander within my breast, to wander and.
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  Speaker 2: Go with thee.
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  Speaker 1: The bitter hour, the storm has leapt on the forest,
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  Speaker 1: intent on its cruel end, and the strife is at
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  Speaker 1: its sorest, as the great trees toss and bend. But
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  Speaker 1: brother stands by brother in that wild and bitter hour,
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  Speaker 1: and each gives help to other against the mad fiend's power.
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  Speaker 1: Growing shadows, shadowy grows the world around me, things of
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  Speaker 1: joy and things of pain slowly fades their substance from them,
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  Speaker 1: losing hold upon the brain. Ghosts they seem just flitting
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  Speaker 1: past me seen an hour, but cannot stay, scarcely power
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  Speaker 1: to harm or help me as I glide my downward way,
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  Speaker 1: only still the half seen meanings souls of all these
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  Speaker 1: human things keep their form and keep their power undisturbed,
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  Speaker 1: like spirit kings.
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  Speaker 2: What luck?
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  Speaker 1: What luck shall be thine small boat to find as
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  Speaker 1: thou sailest into the night. Will the winds of the
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  Speaker 1: shore come tripping behind to hasten thy merry flight? Will
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  Speaker 1: the stars be kind and the laughing waves just dimple
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  Speaker 1: the moonlit sea? Or thy foes leap out from the
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  Speaker 1: great cloud caves to challenge a dance with thee one
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  Speaker 1: more Now, with gloomy brows, they sat at the board
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  Speaker 1: for small The hope could be when the fair haired lad,
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  Speaker 1: with his wooden sword, strode up to his father's knee.
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  Speaker 1: Oh here's a hand if you're all too few, Oh
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  Speaker 1: here's a sword for fight. And we've won more now,
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  Speaker 1: And there's little to do but to put yon foe
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  Speaker 1: to flight gaily onwards, careless of the hurt and slip
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  Speaker 1: heat of plaine or mountain snow, trust in heart and
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  Speaker 1: song on lip gayly onwards we two go fret of
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  Speaker 1: life away, we fling as from hill to hill we climb.
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  Speaker 1: We shall make him laugh and sing all the way,
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  Speaker 1: gray bearded time, old time things? Oh what have you
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  Speaker 1: done with the old time things? With our walk by
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  Speaker 1: the garden wall and the listening look where the faint
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  Speaker 1: smile clings, and the words which were sweeter than all?
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  Speaker 1: Are they lost and gone? Have you thrown them by
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  Speaker 1: as things too light to keep? Or is there a
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  Speaker 1: nook where there suffered to lie and wake for a
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  Speaker 1: while from their sleep? For Oh, in my heart it
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  Speaker 1: is as yesterday, and the years can't make it far.
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  Speaker 1: But there ever with me, as a breath of the
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  Speaker 1: sea to gladden the days that are.
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  Speaker 2: Is it worth your while for this?
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  Speaker 1: If I am to love, If so I must, I
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  Speaker 1: this perhaps might do. I could stamp my heart to
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  Speaker 1: the smallest dust and hide it away from you. You
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  Speaker 1: could have if you choose, as in a trance, a
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  Speaker 1: bride with lips that are white to kiss, and the
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  Speaker 1: touch of her hands as of one who has died.
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  Speaker 1: Is it worth your while for this? Eyes that flinch
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  Speaker 1: not and if you cross him as you go in
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  Speaker 1: many a form has he to some he's pain or shame,
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  Speaker 1: or woe, or death itself. May be you'll look him
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  Speaker 1: in the face with eyes that flinch, not his to
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  Speaker 1: meet until the bitterest shaft that flies falls harmless.
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  Speaker 2: At your feet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh much would I give, o, laddie, Bid me rise
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  Speaker 1: and come to travel afield with thee. I'll walk thy
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  Speaker 1: road and carry thy load, and weary.
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  Speaker 2: I'll never be.
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  Speaker 1: Now cease, little girl, and hold your peace. You must
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  Speaker 1: stay to sew and to spin. For how can you
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  Speaker 1: travel the world with me where lives are to lose
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  Speaker 1: and win. He's lying stricken on burning sand where grows
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  Speaker 1: the tall palm tree. Oh much would I give for
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  Speaker 1: that little hand to stanch the blood?
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  Speaker 2: For me?
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  Speaker 1: The years are not in wonder, spoke those sweet sweet lips.
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  Speaker 1: How many a year ago as she named the name
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  Speaker 1: of a stranger boy in a cadence soft and low.
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  Speaker 1: She has forgotten the passing thought, forgotten the passing name.
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  Speaker 1: But to me the years are not, are not, and
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  Speaker 1: the sweet voice sounds the same. And now my loving
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  Speaker 1: is done. Oh turn, oh, turn your horse's head, and
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  Speaker 1: ride again with me. I'll not draw rein nor turn
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  Speaker 1: again until I reach the sea. For your heart is
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  Speaker 1: light as a mocking bird that never can be won.
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  Speaker 1: It is not that the love of the years has brought,
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  Speaker 1: and now my loving is done. Changed times. Then up
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  Speaker 1: and spoke the bright eyed bird, read Robin. It was he, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: is it true the news I've heard? There's one to
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  Speaker 1: marry thee No more? I'll haunt your sunny lawn, the
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  Speaker 1: dainty bread to take, or singing near your bed at
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  Speaker 1: morn my carol for your sake, So fare you well,
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  Speaker 1: tis so sort apart. And yet the thing must be,
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  Speaker 1: you've taken another love to your heart and left no
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  Speaker 1: place for me with the measure that you measure. I
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  Speaker 1: have done a cruel thing, she cried, I've stricken a
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  Speaker 1: heart with pain. I have cast the old old love
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  Speaker 1: aside and broken the bond in twain. But wrong, perchance
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  Speaker 1: begets its wrong? And how sweet love shall it be
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  Speaker 1: in the years so far, in the years so long,
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  Speaker 1: if you are as false to me. Far away in Roseland,
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  Speaker 1: oh far away in Roseland is a cottage known to me,
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  Speaker 1: and the breezes blow about it from off the sunlit sea,
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  Speaker 1: and a maiden sits and watches at sunset and sunrise,
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  Speaker 1: and draws to herself the beauty of waves and changing skies.
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  Speaker 1: A word, Oh, there is a word that lightens it all,
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  Speaker 1: the trial and toil of the day, that helps us
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  Speaker 1: through whatever befall. But a word that is hard to say.
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  Speaker 1: It comes to our lips, and we lose it again
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of the world's wild fray. But oh,
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  Speaker 1: it would soften the strife of men, that word which
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  Speaker 1: is hard to say. John Smith's photograph line upon lying
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  Speaker 1: it was graven. There the tender heart and the courage true,
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  Speaker 1: the dreamer's dream of the future's fair, the will that
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  Speaker 1: could win its passage through. Yet he failed. You say,
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  Speaker 1: did nothing twas hard? And you stand for a while
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  Speaker 1: and wonder why the master potter should labor a shard,
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  Speaker 1: then fling it aside and let it lie. In a
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  Speaker 1: short half hour, Ah, Love, we may look it straight
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  Speaker 1: in the face. No force could stem the flow, and
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  Speaker 1: it soon must pass our time of grace in a
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  Speaker 1: short half hour or so.
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  Speaker 2: We need not grieve.
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  Speaker 1: We have loved too well. There is nothing we care
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  Speaker 1: to undo, and never a word to break Love's spell
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  Speaker 1: was spoken betwixt us too. But perhaps perhaps there is
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  Speaker 1: loss with the gain when lives so closely touch. And
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  Speaker 1: tis hardly meant in this world of pain, that hearts
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  Speaker 1: should love too much the secret of nature. There's a
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  Speaker 1: youth who leans at a window and looks o'er sea
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  Speaker 1: and sky, and his soul is filled with sweetness. Twere
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  Speaker 1: hardly pain to die. There's a maid who leans at
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  Speaker 1: a window. No lover or loved one is nigh, and
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  Speaker 1: her heart is drawn from her bosom. But she could
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  Speaker 1: not tell you why. The two hearts, O mine, he said,
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  Speaker 1: is the wanderer's heart that glanceth from spray to spray,
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  Speaker 1: that loveth here, that loveth there, and changeth every day,
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  Speaker 1: And such as it is tis yours to take and
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  Speaker 1: to keep, if so you may, O mine, she said.
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  Speaker 1: Is the heart that loves but once with a perfect trust,
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  Speaker 1: that never it can change, but still loves on till
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  Speaker 1: all things turn to dust. And such as it is
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  Speaker 1: tis yours to take, to have, and to hurt. If
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  Speaker 1: you must, let it carry it just where it will.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, let it carry our little boat on
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  Speaker 1: its waters, strong and still, and on and on till
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  Speaker 1: the day breaks. Wan let it carry it just where
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  Speaker 1: it will. We shall glide by the shallows that flash
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  Speaker 1: in the light, by the pools where the deep weeds drown,
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  Speaker 1: by the sloping lawns, till it comes into sight the
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  Speaker 1: glare of the mighty town. A young dane in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty four. It might have struck another that shell, not
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  Speaker 1: him so young and fair. There were plenty of us
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  Speaker 1: who had served as well, and little to say or
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  Speaker 1: care for. He was a joy and a light to us,
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  Speaker 1: all with his laugh and his merry eye. And he
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  Speaker 1: is the one who is first to fall, not useless
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  Speaker 1: you or I, and asking grant you me. Will you
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  Speaker 1: walk for a while in the garden fair, where the
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  Speaker 1: soft winds move with a sigh. Will you linger awhile
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  Speaker 1: in the deep wood, there where the lights with the
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  Speaker 1: shadows lie, from the wood to the plain, and the
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  Speaker 1: plain to the wood. Will you follow the distant sky?
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  Speaker 1: Will you wander away and away for good? Until the
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  Speaker 1: day we die unseen by thy side? Few few my
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  Speaker 1: words tis short, the grace and minutes pass so swift.
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  Speaker 1: We may no more talk face to face, or seek
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  Speaker 1: the veil to lift. Yet often by thy side I'll
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  Speaker 1: stand thou wilt not hear or see, and strive to
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  Speaker 1: share in pain and care, and take a part from thee.
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  Speaker 2: If ever.
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  Speaker 1: Thy race, and thy land and its sky above all
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  Speaker 1: thine mine too shall be. I will look no more
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  Speaker 1: in the faces I love, but rise and go with THEE.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing, one thou shalt promise and do. If
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  Speaker 1: thy love should weary of me, thou shalt drive thy
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  Speaker 1: knife to my heart right through or ever I know,
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  Speaker 1: and see a shadow that crosses the sea, we can
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  Speaker 1: almost laugh at the mocking part that fell for a
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  Speaker 1: while to us twain, though the tears of blood rose
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  Speaker 1: up in the heart and dropped in their bitter rain.
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  Speaker 1: For it seems so small. It can hardly count in
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  Speaker 1: the course of the things, to be just a grain
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  Speaker 1: out of place in the long life amount, just a
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  Speaker 1: shadow that crosses the sea. What would you say? We
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  Speaker 1: have finished our journey of many miles with hearts that
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  Speaker 1: were true, old friend, with days of tears and with
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  Speaker 1: days of smiles, and now we are close to the end.
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  Speaker 1: There was many a toy, and many a slip in
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  Speaker 1: many a day's wild weather, but we closed our hands
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  Speaker 1: in a firmer grip, and our hearts beat truer together.
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  Speaker 1: But what would you say if one should ask, as
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  Speaker 1: we stand here close at the end, would you live
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  Speaker 1: it again as you lived it?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what would you say, old friend? Cleft in Twain?
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  Speaker 1: In the west is the golden glory. As the great
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  Speaker 1: king goes to his rest. In the east, the purple
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  Speaker 1: staineth the hills from foot to crest, And I stand
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  Speaker 1: and look in wonder till my heart is cleft in Twain,
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  Speaker 1: half for the vision of glory and half for the
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  Speaker 1: dying pain. Never a time for sitting and sighing. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: to tread the mountain land, feel the world before one,
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  Speaker 1: pack on back and stick in hand. Never a care
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  Speaker 1: comes o'er one hour by hour the sweet day, flying mountains,
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  Speaker 1: open valleys, close life with hundred voices crying, while the
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  Speaker 1: young blood strongly flows, so far, so far, so far
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  Speaker 1: as it can go. My heart goes roving away while
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  Speaker 1: I sit alone, and the shadows grow close round where
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  Speaker 1: the red flames play, to the nestling valley that opens
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  Speaker 1: and dips, to the snow touched hills that gleam, to
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  Speaker 1: the great seas hushed at the foot of their cliffs,
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  Speaker 1: that lie so still and dream a butterfly's heart, Your love,
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  Speaker 1: sweet sir, you had better save till the end of
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  Speaker 1: time may be, or cast it abroad God on wind
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  Speaker 1: and waves. Then give it in charge to me. For
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  Speaker 1: this heart of mine is the lightest thing that ever
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  Speaker 1: breath did blow, just a butterfly's heart to dance and
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  Speaker 1: to sing as its fancies come and go. The rose
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  Speaker 1: and the lion. Oh, you have been nurtured in soft,
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  Speaker 1: smooth ways, where the rough wind never blows, and the
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  Speaker 1: air is hushed through the golden days, and sweet with
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  Speaker 1: the scent of the rose. And I am rude as
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  Speaker 1: the wave is rude when the storms on the great
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  Speaker 1: sea beat. But mine is the will and the conquering
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  Speaker 1: mood that can place the world at your feet. Didst
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  Speaker 1: laugh or cry? Oh, poor torn hulk in love's wild game,
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  Speaker 1: worn out, left almost dry, when that young boy told
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  Speaker 1: all his flame? Oh didst thou laugh or cry? Didst
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  Speaker 1: laugh forsake of such last gain?
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  Speaker 2: Or cry?
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  Speaker 1: Because that heart the world had not had time to stain,
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  Speaker 1: would soon be what thou art The two far offs.
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  Speaker 1: Forward we look and we gild it all riches the
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  Speaker 1: picture tender and fair. Backward we look and the blue
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  Speaker 1: mists fall, veiling the troubles that once were there. Ah well,
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  Speaker 1: and ah while and lighter the load. If heart thee
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  Speaker 1: enchanter weaves his web, if he tells love stories to
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  Speaker 1: cheat the road and binds in our dreams his purple thread,
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  Speaker 1: the shadowless face, Oh well for him the path who tries,
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  Speaker 1: if that his soul endure, if he may meet the
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  Speaker 1: stern dread eyes with constant will and sure but woe
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  Speaker 1: take heed before I call, If that thy cheek grow
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  Speaker 1: pale at clutch of fear, or eyes should fall and
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  Speaker 1: heart and purpose fail. Then came the face, as if
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  Speaker 1: I dreamed, no shadow and no sound. It hung and
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  Speaker 1: gazed on me and seemed to crush me to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: That face I count long hours, long days. It beats
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  Speaker 1: upon mine eyes, and still my soul thrusts back its
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  Speaker 1: gaze until the dread thing dies. For one short day,
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  Speaker 1: Love me, love for one short day.
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  Speaker 2: That is all I ask of you.
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  Speaker 1: You may send me then away, and your happy path pursue.
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  Speaker 1: Would you grant the thing I crave, tender word and
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  Speaker 1: heart's caress. You'd not miss the gift you can love
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  Speaker 1: sweet store.
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  Speaker 2: Would not be less?
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  Speaker 1: Would you smile and say me, yea lone of heart,
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  Speaker 1: this while to lend it would last me all the
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  Speaker 1: way till I reached my journey's end, more than the
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  Speaker 1: rest a mile or two and a mile away. And
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  Speaker 1: there old sea, thou art, And with each new day
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  Speaker 1: I walk to the bay to gladden and quicken my heart.
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  Speaker 1: O great world's soul, with thy mighty tides, thou art
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  Speaker 1: more than all the rest, With thy soft child's play
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  Speaker 1: in thy tender way, and the passion deep in thy breast.
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  Speaker 1: All had been well, O love, my love. But there
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  Speaker 1: was the loss. All had been well. Had we but
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  Speaker 1: held hands, the hill to climb, and the sea to cross,
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  Speaker 1: and the strange wild life in the strange new lands,
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  Speaker 1: all had been well. We had laughed at the toil,
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  Speaker 1: at the faults and mishaps, that the morrow would mend,
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  Speaker 1: met the smooth with the rough, whilst the light was enough,
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  Speaker 1: then slept on together when all.
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  Speaker 2: Was at end. They take no heed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, whether I'm dead, I hardly know, whatever dead may be.
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  Speaker 1: But they make no space, and they keep no place,
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  Speaker 1: and take no heed of me. I creep and I stand,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and I touch their hand as they speak to each other.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: There but the words that I say they can't understand,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and they fall on the empty air the human skin.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: The far lights gleam across the bay. They hold my
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: soul in trance, for they tell of life with its
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: grave and gay and its strangely mixed romance. Each star
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: point there means home and love, and strife and sorrow
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and pain. The threads from below and the threads from
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: above that mix in the humans gain an old friend.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I have waited, old friend, for your last command, and
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: now has come the day when we both understand we
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: must take in hand about of good sword play. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: shall hold my guard and look in your face, and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: am ready the worst to endure. And though you must win,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I shall ask no grace from your strokes. So keen
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and sure, restless and useless, For to night my heart
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: is a poor lost thing with a restless, useless pain,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and the pitying sky eyes no comfort bring. Their tender
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: touch is in vain, and I do not know what
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the pain may be, but this one thing alone, that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the heart must ache, like the troubled sea, in wayward
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: moods of its own, on the great waste heap. And still,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: she asked as she sat and lent, leaning and dreaming
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: half asleep. Were they only fit the years she had
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: spent just to be thrown on the great wist heap
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: in the desert behind. Of the things she has done,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: which of them all was worth its pain? In the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: desert in front? What good can be won from the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: purposeless years that still remain? My fingers, not my heart.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: My fingers traced the word tis true, my finger not
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: my heart. In all the wrong they did to you,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: it never took its part. They pressed on me like
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: hunted thing that's caught in mesh and line. Twas they
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: not I who spoke the lie. And still the heart
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: is thine a lost gift. It is hard to believe
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that such things be. You may take it for what
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: it is worth. For she that came and talked to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: me was not of the race of earth. But I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: stained my soul, and tis easy to see with the
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: touch of the common clay, and the earth and the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: sky grew empty for me, and their gift was taken
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: away a broken thread. That silence. Yes, twas yours, not mine.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: You dropped my hand that day. The long months passed,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you made no sign and found no word to say,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And yet I dreamed you stood last night in your
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: old pleasant way and talked of all the trifles, light,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and what the gossips say, your kind good self that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: once I knew, but that's no longer. So well, well,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: how fares it now with you? As on the swift
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: years go a strange new heart? And what did I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: do with my heart?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: You ask?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, never to pause and never to think. But hide
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: it away from myself was my task, And guard my
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: feet from nearing the brink. And slowly I made from
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the needful stuff a strange new heart that served as
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: my own, that laughed and talked and was good enough,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: except may be in the night alone. But can I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: return now? It is all o'er, so far away from myself.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I have strayed to the thing that I was in
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the days before. This strange new heart for myself I made.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: When the dead are standing by, twas a small bright
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: home those three his wife, poor Jack, and his well
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: tried friend. But the flesh is weak in the daily strife,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and the devil looks to the end. So it came
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: to pass through slip and slip that friend and wife
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: were untrue, and they lied to Jack till the day
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: he died with his constant trust in the two, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: now they are free to enjoy their bliss. But perchance,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: were it you or I, we might shudder and turn
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: from the sweet love kiss when the dead were standing by?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Would you take or pass the cup? Oh, the days,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the days so golden, bright as rivers in their flow, strength,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: so proud and unbeholden in the days of long ago.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Now the brain is cold and joyless, and the pulse
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: beats very slow, and the empty days are toilless, so
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: unlike the long ago gone, the fire, the joy, the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: pride gone, the spirits rush and flow gone, the life's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: blood surging tide gone with days of long ago. Yet,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and if they brought you waters, magic waters to drink
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: up youth again renewed, as then would you take or
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: pass the cup greater than ever would be? For the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: world that night had a beauty greater than ever could be,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: as the moon, in its silent passion, hung trembling over
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the sea. But my heart still kept a misgiving and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: whispered of sorrow to be that the clouds would come
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: stealing between us, to trouble my dream and me.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: The Madman's play.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: For Oh, the house is an evil house, where strange
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: things have their way, And when all is at rest,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: but the scampering mouse begins the madman's play. For a
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: breath is blown as you walk alone, and the candle
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: flickers out, and they pluck at your dress with a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: laugh or groan. Then away in their rabble rout a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: soul born again. For ah, those changes of soul, my friend,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: that are borne by a special grace when the old
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: life comes to its sudden end and the new slips
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: into its place. To the hall of pictures, he idly went,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: just one of the idlers he and little to him
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: their language meant for his soul was dead to see
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: when a woman and child, do you know it? There,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: with a sad far look in her face, just fixed
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: his listless, wandering stare and held him fast to his place.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And the while he looked, a new world rose from
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: which he had lived apart, and a strange soft light
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: grew out of the night and dawned on his careless heart,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that never I lose him more. Oh, who are you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: on this stormy night? And how shall I render you aid?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: For your hands are all too fine and white for
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the hands of a beggar maid, O little am I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: but a beggar maid. And I prayed to rest my
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: head where your dog and your horse in the stall
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: are laid with the crust of your broken bread. And
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: why are you here on the wide world tossed? And
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: why have you wandered away? I wander to find the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: love I have lost this many and many a day,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: For once my heart was a light, light heart, O,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: light as a wave of the sea. So he left
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: me to play my mocking part, and went on his
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: way from me and many's the town I have wandered through,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and ill and valley I have crossed, and often am
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: wet with the cold night dew, in search of the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: love I have lost. And I wander on till the
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: stars above shall guide my feet to his door, and
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: then I shall bind him in arms of love, that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: never I lose him more. You too, so you, too,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: stooped to the common dust, the commonest dust men tread you,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: whom I knew, with the frank, clear eyes and the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: fearless poise of the head. Oh strange that the hand
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: so strong to save should shatter my good and true,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: that you who lifted me out of the grave, your
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: own soul's work should undo by the unknown way. I
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: have said good bye to the friends of my race.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: The greetings are over and done, and I journey forth
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: to find me a place to take last leave of
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the sun. For I never could die where the fore
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: walls stand and hide the sun from me. But the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: sky must be bare on either hand, with the great
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: air moving free and dimmer and dimmer will grow the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: light as the pulses cease their play, till the soul
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: speeds forth on its homeward flight, far off by the
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: unknown way, where the far lights burnt. Ah love, so
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: sweet and patient and fond. I wandered far from thy sight,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: for I said to myself that the world beyond was
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a garden of rich delight. And there rose an image
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: from morn to morn of new, bewildering days, till my
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: heart grew proud, and I thought with scorn of the peaceful,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: homely ways, for the young are light, and I never
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: had learnt to know the false from the true. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: my feet were drawn where the far lights burnt, with
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: their wonders strange and new. And now how bitter to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: heart is the taste, And gone are the folly and pride,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and I save what I can from the years of waste,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and stand once more at thy side. Oh thin the line, say, masters,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: say how men shall learn the hidden truths, to speak,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: to feed the inward fires that burn, the far off knowledge.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Seek if ye would win the gift within, so toil
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: for many a day, and yet forsooth the truest truth
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: may come by other way. O thin the line, This
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: world that parts from other worlds, be sure, and strange
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: things drop within the hearts, the open hearts, and pure.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: The two bridles.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: The bridle was fixed for the coming day, and they
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: feasted late and deep. But the bride, she tossed on
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: her bed. As she lay that night, she could win
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: no sleep. She sees a face as there she lies,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and oh its eyes are sad, those honest, laughing, good
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: brown eyes that never sadness. Had Then rose a voice
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: that sang its song, and soft it sang, and low.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Oh better it were in the greenwood there, if you
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and I should go, Oh better it were by bracken
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and bush than in castle and castle hall. And to
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: wander at will or plain an hill and among the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: good trees, tall and better the breath of the woodland
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: air that is sweet as honey to lip, and to
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: loiter and stray through the summer day till the sun
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: begins to dip, and the fire at night that flings
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: its light on the tall stems wan and bare when
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the shadows press near, but shrink in fear like ghosts
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: from the ruddy glare. And better to wed in the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: mystic glade, where the dawn comes creeping through, and the
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: fern is laid, and the bed is made amongst the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: oak and the ewe. For the others shall wed in
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: silken dress, and in holy church, who will, But we
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: will wed with the trees o'erhead, when the birds are
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: hushed and still. Then leave it all and come with me.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: My forest rose to bloom, and the bridle shall be
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in the grist woods, free, where the green leaves clothed
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the room. Then forth she lent and sang her song
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: so soft in the air and low. Far better it
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: were in the greenwood there, if you and I should go.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: My soul is sick.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Of their dainty things. For others their gifts shall be.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: They have brought me all that the red gold brings,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: but never a heart for me. Oh, better to wed
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: where the great trees old shall sing in the wind
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: er head than to starve in the midst of their
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: silk and gold when the heart within is dead not
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: worth much. It wasn't worth much, as we understand the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: heart of a wild rash boy. And it wasn't worth
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: while to stretch your hand to trifle with such a toy.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: That heart has been lost and given oh many a
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: day since then, but will never be given on this
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: side of heaven in the same true way again the
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: loves that love the broad lands, Oh mother, why do
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: you urge me still to make my poor heart grieve?
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: For I have a bride in the fairy hill, and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: her I cannot leave. And these others of yours, who
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: are far above o small as their count of me,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: for they think it is sin to give their love
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: except where the broad lands be. But she loves not so,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: for her heart within is truer than gold can be,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: and she only cares my love to win and return
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: it in love to me.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: With the roses.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: For you and your home home, true love shall stay
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: where never the rough winds blow, and the roses that
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: gladden the summer day in your own sweet fashion grow
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and I'll come back from the storm and the strife,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and never again will stray, and will live with the
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: roses living their life that grow in your own sweet way,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the sea beneath the hills. Yes, I shall go, and
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: you will dream and drink the pale blue sky beneath
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the hills that hap you round as silver days go by,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: when others come your love to claim you, still you
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: pale blue sea. Oh, shall you mean for them the
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: same that once you meant for me? And shall they
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: look on you with eyes as tender true as mine,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and love each changing gleam that flies across that face
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: of thine the two worlds. You have called me twice,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: You have called me thrice, And what do you want
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: with me? For the world of the living the world
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: of the dead, the same can never be. I have
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: called you twice, I have called you thrice, and without
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you I cannot be. For the world of the dead
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: is my world of life, and the living are dead
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to me far out on the cold blue sea. Now,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: let your hand in mine be set, and make me
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: a promise true. If ever your heart should learn to
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: forget this thing for me, you'll do. You'll row me
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: out in yon small boat far out on the cold
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: blue sea, and you'll leave me there on the waves
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: afloat to make their sport of me. Through it all,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I could not love, and I could not trust, and
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I turned in my pride away, And oh, I would
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: humble myself in the dust if I might call back
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: that day, for I saw in his eyes the bitter pain.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Let it be, Let it be as you will, and
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the words they burned to this day in my brain.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Through it all, I shall love you.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Still.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Its heart is stirred, she sang. I'm like a poor
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: caged bird that hangs against the wall, and all day
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: long its heart is stirred to hear its wood mats
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: call alas no love. Its wild heart stills, it dreams
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: of woodlands free. So I would wander on the hills
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: and sail the enchanted sea. Then and now I loved
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: you then, and I sinned for you then, and the
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: love was more than the sin. But the past is
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the past, and never again, for the love is dead within.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: It saved my soul that sin of old. There's nothing
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I could recall but to sin again when the heart
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: is cold. Were the deadliest sin of all, Like the
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: king's own son, I loved that boy in his tasty
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: dress with a riband or two made gay. And I'd
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: see him wait each day at the gate as I
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: passed on my homeward way. He'd ride the horses when
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: work was done. And oh it was fine to see
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: perched up on his seat like the king's own son
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: in the way of a king, wrote he. One morning
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I missed that bright, wee face. I've seen it no
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: no more since then. And oh in my heart is
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: a hidden place which bleeds just now and again the
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: bread on the waters.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, the loving dead, they stand and stretch their hands
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: to you, And as you passed to that far land,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: their loves Your life renew sweet gifts of love. Your
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: steps pursue you, gather what you sow'd you lived for
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: love love waits for you in old or new abode.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: No truer comrade, With our lives in our hands. From
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: morn to morn, she watched and toiled with me till
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the scabbard grew thin and sorely worn, and the blade
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: flashed bare and free. I buried her there in the
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: desert space. No truer comrade than she to smile at
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: the storm and the worst to face whatever the worst
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: might be a cruel word. You might have taken the
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: molten lead and poured it on my breast, or the
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: naked sword which hangs by your bed, which ever had
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: pleased you best, and I would have kissed your hand,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: nor stirred, and I would have bowed the head. But oh,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: you have spoken. A cruel word hurts more than steel
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: or lead. So I leave your home, for I may
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: not stay if my love is all too light, and
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I'll break no more your bread by day, or sleep
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: at your side by night. A line of shadow the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: sea is at rest, for the storms are o'er just
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: touched with the hand of night. And a line of
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: shadow creeps to the shore, then flashes in silver light,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: like a note that stoops in its flight, and droops
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: and clings for a while to the ground, then trembles
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: and wakes from its trance and breaks into passion and
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: glory of sound. On the further side, only a bit
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: of landlocked bay with a haunting face on the further side,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Yet the ocean as well might bar the way. So
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: far from each other, our lives divide, for you jest
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: at times, and at times you pray, and you tread
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: a path that cannot be mine. And the world is
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: with you from day to day, and all that you are,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I dare not divine all right in the dog's hole.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Let them say what they will. Tis little we care.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: We laugh to each other and wink, for we know
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: how to settle our own affair. Whatever the wise ones think,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: they turn up the white of their eyes to the
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: sky with their mixture of pity and blame. Yet our
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: dog's holes all right by day and by night, and
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: our trust in each other the same rhymes learnt long ago,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: ay rough sir rough, For she'd often leak rough life
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: on those far off seas, and never a one who
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: cared to speak on dainty things like these. For to
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: tell you the truth, what helped me then was rhymes
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: learnt long ago. And I'd say them over and over
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: again when the worst of the winds did blow, just
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: broken bits of a maiden fair as she stood in
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: the summer light. But they gave me the heart to
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: do and to bear on many a stormy night. Three
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: short years. Thy hands are slipping, they hold so light.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: O stay the hour with me. I've thirsted so through
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: day and night for sight and touch of thee. Let go,
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  Speaker 1: dear heart, I may not stay. The power is ebbing fast.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: But love me still from day to day till three
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: short years are past. Then shall it end the pain,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: the loss to thee my hands. I'll reach and lightly
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: thou shalt step across, and each belong to each morning
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: and evening in the glory of youth. The young man went.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: His heart with pride was stirred. They should yield. He
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: cried to the message sent and the force of the
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: burning word. The long years past, and a wearied man
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: crept back to the old home door. I have spoken
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: my word, and none heard, And the great world rolls
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: as before. No tears are there. She cannot weep, The
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: springs are dry, no tears, the eyelids hold. She cannot feel.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: All feelings die, and soul lies dead and cold. Some day,
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  Speaker 1: perchance the spell may break, when long still years are
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: o'er from out the dust, her heart may wake to
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: feel and grieve once more. The bread of truth or lies?
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: He stood in my dream, and he pressed me sore
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: as he looked with his strong, stern eyes. When you
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: broke your bread as they cried to be fed, was
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: it bread of truth or lies? Oh, was it the
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: best of your heart and brain? A sacrament bread that
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: you gave, and the net that you spread for their souls?
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Was it set to gather, to keep and to save?
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Or was it yourself and the world and its worth?
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: For these?
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Did you turn from the true? Dear Master? I was
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: but a worm of the earth, and I did what
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: the other worms do. The shadows are lifted, for the
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: hurrying years were flying fast, and her image was dim
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: to see, and the shadows they lay so thick on
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: the past, it had almost ceased to be with her
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: pleading look in her eyes. To night she came, and
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: she stood by me, and the years and the shadows
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: that darkened my sight in that moment ceased to be
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: the cry that goes before trouble. I warned you twice
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: and then again, But heed ye, he would not pay
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: tis heart to reach. Is the heart of men as
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: they go on their daily way, your father and fathers
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: of old, I warned, oh, each in turn the same.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: But they laughed in their hearts, and my cry they scorned,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and to each the sorrow came beneath the surface. The
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: curtains are drawn, and the talk goes on where the lamp,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: its warm glow flings, and they sit and speak with
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: their faces wan of the world and its lightest things.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: But their eyes never meet in midst of their speech,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: for they know as they talk full well that a
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: fire burns low in the hearts of each, with the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: pain of a stifled hell, waiting to jog.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: It's all up now with the poor old dog.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: He's fought and finished his day, and he's tired and
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: worn and waiting to jog in peace on his homeward way.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: He carries his faults and his sins on his head,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: as thou must do with thine, and he's ready to
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: pay on the settling day, whatever the judge may assign.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: My heart's first choice just scene, just known, when we
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: both were young, yet bound by a strange heart, bond
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I shall find him at once, the crowd among in
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: that great new world beyond, so young he was when
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: the rose bloom failed, and the ring in his laughing voice.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: But the long long years have never availed to alter
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: my heart's first choice.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: The void.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: She stretches hands to midnight skies, so vast, so void
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: they seem, and back unanswer'd come her cries, and all
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: is as a dream. Oh where art thou. The far
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: stars yield no word to hopes or fears. From all
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: that vast, unmeasured field, no answering sign appears. Oh why
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: did you sleep? She glided in and stood by his bed,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: and gently the air was stirred. Oh why did you
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: sleep so deep? She said, that my cry you never heard.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I called on the heart, I called on the hand,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: so ready to do and dare. But the wind sped
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: by and laughed at my cry and flung it abroad
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: on the air. Then sleep on now till the hour
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: to wake and break. No rest for me tomorrow to
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: grieve for your lost love's sake. Oh, time enough will
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: be the days of old bonds, the hours and days
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: and months all fly. Each brings its own things new,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: They work their changeful will. But I no nearer am
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: to you. And yet some subtle bonds still hold, and
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: oh are hard to break, that were woven once in
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: the days of old, for many a sweet thing's sake.
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  Speaker 1: End of section one, Section two of windfall and water drift.
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• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Section two. An old comrade comes to his end. For
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: once we've been caught in bad weather, but little the
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: odds it makes. We've had many good days together and
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: cheated friend death of the stakes. There's one thing, the
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: little girl yonder. You must kiss her and take her
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: apart and tell her I ever grew fonder. It will
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: go like a knife to her heart. These women, it's
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: not easy mended. They never the chances can learn, and
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: they think that the world is just ended when the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: bad luck comes to their turn.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Bad luck it.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: Is easy to make it. It once nearly cost me
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: the game with the thought of how she would take
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: it whenever the straight shot came. She's just like the others,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: My Polly, all plain sense. She's somehow above, and she
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: never finds out tis a folly to pour out like
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: water her love. Now, heave me bits straighter and leave me.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to do. Could you stay?
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: They have drilled me the hole too neatly, and the
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: blood is just trickling away. The wind is the wind.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Thou hast been but thyself thou hast not sinned and
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: there is no blame for thee.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: For the wave is the wave.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: And the wind is the wind, and the heart as
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: the heart must be. And never a bond was woven
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: yet could bind thy flight. For a day, Thou must
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: gather and take or flitten forsake, Thou must wander at will,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: or stay the sword in the sky. The lines are crossed.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Tis hard to know, but this at least I see bright,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: hope shall kindle, strife shall flow, and hearts shall ache
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: for thee, and sorrow for thyself and pain. O duly
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: shalt thou reap and rash bold axe with hurt and
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: stain till comes the last, long sleep. A look and
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: a smile, art, weary lad, the old man said, hast
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: traveled a hundred mile. Nay, come within and break our
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: bread and rest thy heart the while. Oh, I'll not
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: tarry or come within, for what is a hundred mile?
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: If I see my sweet love pass and wind? But
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: a look and a bonny smile in the storm together
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: there are memories that shall bind us, as we both
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: have loved to tell. How we faced that day together
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: when the storm upon us fell. How you stood at
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: post of danger with clear eyes and fearless heart, how
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: I touched your hand and whispered twas right well you
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: played your part the procession of the atoms. And still
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: the long white hours of night will thread their silent way,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: and the lighted street where strange hearts beat, will gleam
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: across the bay, And still the wave will kiss the
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: rock beneath the midnight spell. Alone, my heart will find
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: no part in all it loved so well. For the
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: sweet day's sake, Oh, take me safe to your arms
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: at last, I've lived through the bitter worst, and the pain,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: and the shame and the wrong are past that hurt,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: like hunger and thirst. I bore it love, though my
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: heart should break with my foot against the wall, through
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: the long long years, for the sweet day's sake, that
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: today shall mend it. All the hands on the dial
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: for better twere spilt and wasted, when thin and poor
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: is the wine, and better were love untasted? From this
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: worn heart of mine? Can the joys come back that
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: are over? Can the pulses beat us before? Can the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: world grow young and recover the gladness that once it wore?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Which of the twain, and which of the twain is
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: the wiser? And which is the toiler in vain. Is
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: it he who has conquered all knowledge with the force
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: of his tireless brain, or she to whom earthly possessions
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: are shadows that pass and seem. Is it she who
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: knows only her heaven? Or he who hold hold it
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: a dream.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: Like ships at sea?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: For hearts are like the ships at sea. And some
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: sail fine and brave, and some are driven by winds
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: of heaven, and tossed from wave to wave, and o
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: to think through storm and dark, with hope grown, chill within,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and the hungry reef the wave beneath, how sore the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: way to win the blood of the wanderers, to wander
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: and wander while life remains and never defy me a
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: place of rest, For the blood of the race flows
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: through my veins that wandered away to the unknown west.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: They wandered and wandered, And so will I, reaching and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: touching the world's far ends, with the hill and the plain,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: and the wind and the rain, the sun and the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: stars as their earthly friends. When the years are gone,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: and strength is outworn, and never a crust, the good
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: chance ends, I shall curl me to sleep where the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: grasses grow deep and say good bye to the old
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: time friends.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: Might have been.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Had we fixed it, then beyond release, I might have
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: lowered and coarsened your life, have dimmed its glory and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: troubled its peace as you walked with me in the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: ways of strife. Or you might have braved the thing
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: and saved the lamp of soul that flickers and dies,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: have lightened and raised the sense that is dazed, the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: poor maimed heart, and the earth bound eyes. But we faltered,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: each at the edge of speech, and what might have
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: been is hid from the wise, for the better or worse,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: for the blessing or curse. Though I dream of you
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: still with the deep burning eyes, the real and the unreal.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: I hear men speak, and yet I fail the sense
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: of their words to know. I see them pass as
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: if through a veil, as they dimly come and go.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: But forms there are on either hand, and oh they
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: are plain to see. And each word that they speak
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I understand when they tarry the day with me a
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: page in a close sealed book. I never could read
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: that sweet, strange look or know what it meant to say.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Twas a page to me in a close sealed book.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Twill be to my dying day. But much would I
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: give when that look you wore, could a human breast
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: lie bare to have looked right through to the heart's
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: deep core, with its world that was imaged there? The
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: first to cross, perhaps, old friend, ye'll be the first
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: to cross the narrow way to learn what's there, the
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: best or worst? Whilst we still fighting, stay well well,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: perhaps same end, same war may be in that new land,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: and thou wilt bring thy help from far, and in
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: the old ranks stand, Oh what have you done? Oh
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: what have you done?
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: My heart?
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: It cries with the keen, bright, joyous face, with the
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: look of command, and the fearless eyes, with the easy,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: loving grace, And a thrill of pain goes through my heart.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Were they lost by the world's rough waar or bartered
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: away at the great gold mart and tossed in the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: world's dust? There one more heartache, one more heart ache
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: for the human race. So many have gone before, it
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: can hardly count in the great amount. Just one heart ache,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: the more, one more heart ache for you and for me,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: And some have gone before. Oh they come with the years,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: and they go with the years. Just one heart ache?
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: The more? Was it worth?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: No more was love of mine not true enough? Was
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: I not all to thee to laugh and to weep,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: to wake and to sleep, just as thy mood might be.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: And this fruit of the years that had grown and grown,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: was it worth no more than this to cast it
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: away in a single day for the sake of your light.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: Love's kiss.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: The torch bearers, such they were, who tried to know,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: brave hearts, fighting truly through the darkness, strove to go,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: paid their stake so duly climbed, and found that yet
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: there be hills above them, steeper, held aloft a light
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: to see darkness lying deeper. The very same still, I
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: know that one day I shall meet him, When walking
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: there under the hill, I shall lift up my eyes
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: and shall greet him the same and the very same still,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: the brow by its truth that was molded, the eyes
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: with their kindly play, and the smile that was gently unfolded,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: like the dawn of a summer day. Alone, where the
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: great ships go tis lightly sheds through heath and fern,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: and the sea blown rock has won and late she
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: stays through the dreaming days and sings to the westering sun.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Oh far out there my path shall be although the
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: rough winds blow. Alone in my boat, I'll sail the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: sea alone. Where the great ships go. My boat it
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: shall be so staunch and true. Not wind, not wave,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: shall it fear. And the lonely night, I'll trim my
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: light and watch for the dawn's good cheer, And through
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: calm and storm, the sea and the sky shall keep
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: me as a child of their own, while the speeding
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: ships come sailing by and greet me and leave me alone.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Star comrades, O, you of the skies and I of
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: the earth, through all the spaces that sever How often
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: we've trodden the pilgrim's path and taken sweet counsel together.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: How often you soothed the pain and the strife when
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: wood and plain were sleeping, And I gave you the
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: hopes and the loves of a life to take in
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: your tender keeping the men who learned to live. You'll
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: carry the flag, the old torn rag. You'll carry the
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: flag to the fore through the press and the strain
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: and the deadly rein where fathers passed before. And you'll
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: stand by the flag when the faint hearts fly. And
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: the best that you'll have you'll give for the men
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: who have learnt for a cause to die. Are the
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: men who learned to live.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Unhelped.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: She has borne the boy in her arms with speed
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: through the hours of day and night, and it never failed.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: In the time of need. Her woman's strength so slight.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: She has dug the grave where the trees gave space.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: And oh that minute sore when the last vain look
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: at the sweet, proud face, and the smile that the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: lips still wore the place of sleep. If I could choose,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: when comes the night, where the last long sleep should be,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: I choose the arrowy, windy height that parteth sea from sea.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: For on all this earth, there's never a place where
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: the breezes blow so free, or the heaven has looked
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: with such tender grace on wandering you and me. Thy
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: pride is great, o child, Thy pride is great. And
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: yet I stand and say no more, thy breast against
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: the world's edge set. Oh it shall hurt thee sore,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: and hast thou measured all the loss, the pain that
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: waits for thee canst bear till life's far end, the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: cross that falls to day on thee. T have guessed
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: at the riddle, good bye, old world, for good and
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: for ill o much thou hast been to me, Thou
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: hast filled the cup, and I've drunk it up, and
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: I have no blame for thee. Whatever thou art a
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: dream of the heart, some story the brain invents, or
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: a camping ground for the homeward bound who tarry a
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: day in thy tents. Tis little I've read whatever it
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: mean with this faltering brain of mine, But still old world.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: It is good to have been and guessed at this
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: riddle of thine. Oh what would it matter? Oh what
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: would it matter to night love? If our two hearts
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: should break? The earth would roll on all right, love
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: nor trouble for our poor sake. The stars would look
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: down from their giddy height, and the deep blue deeper
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: grow till the sun broke free from the clinging night
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: to waken his world below, Loving as the people do.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: There we sat and took our pleasure, ever old yet
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: ever new, with the changing crowd around us, loving as
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: the people do, sat upon the benches, watching rich and
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: pour their way, pursue holy lost in one another, loving
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: as the people do. Heard the hours of evening striking,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: saw the idlers growing few. Still we sat, and still
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: we chatted, loving, as the people do. Then there came
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: a time we parted. Something crept between us two, and
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: no more we met and lingered, loving as the people do,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: till again you went a courting was her heart as
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: good and true, And you sat again and chatted, loving
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: as the people do. So the bitter tears rose upwards
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: as I passed and looked at you. Thus it fares
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: with human loving, loving as the people do. The golden
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: stores that wane, the blue dips down on every side.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: We walk together I and you and mean to pierce
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: what ear betide, deeper and deeper in the blue, such
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: joyous strength, such hours unspent. Oh can it be, old friend?
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: These golden stores of life are meant to wane and
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: touch their end. A question in Saint George's Church, Oh
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: how will it be in twenty years? Will the gloss
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: be faded and threads be bare? Will scorn be borne
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: and weariness come? The love of today that shoes so
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: fair or deeper and fuller as life flows fast with
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: the passionate colors, grown more fine, with the dross burnt
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: out in the trial's past, and the pure gold left
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: of the love divine debt.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: To pay.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: But leave me now, and loose my hand, he said,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: as he dying lay. For the evil spirits around me stand,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: and the debt is due to pay. They stay by
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: me the old time deeds that never undone can be
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: too late, too late, thy spirit pleads. All help is
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: vain for me, A small stray part thou great strong sea,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: fast lock'd in dreams, cloud's journeying to and fro and
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: tender blue the stars come through. I can but love ye,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: So ye take possession of my heart and all my
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: life renew like grain of dust. I grow apart, a
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: small stray part in you a forest secret. Oh there
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: is a nook if ye will not tell, deep down
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: in forest glade, and nowhere in the land doth dwell
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: a sunnier hearted maid, For Oh, she's blithe as a
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: bird on bush that carols all day long, and morning
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: light till dewy night. Her heart goes out in song.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: Vainly set, go, weave your enchantments for others. Take all
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: that you can in your net. May it bring you
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: a host of new lovers. For me, it was vainly
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: set for the keen, pale lips and the delicate lines
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: that moved with the mouth's soft play and the eyes
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: that waited and watched were signs to scare away the prey.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: And I knew that the heart, in its passionate way,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: was ready to love or hate, to love its lover
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: for half a day, then sent him back to his fate, waiting.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: When the dull wave leapt at the cliff, it died
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: in an angry flash of wight. And we know there
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: is trouble far off outside, a trouble that comes with night.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: And we sit and listen while storm clouds fly till
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the low moan reaches the ear, which tells that the
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: hounds of strife are in cry, and the hour of
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: passion is here. Rest On, rest on, till peace thy
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: heart shall steep thou dear thing tempest tossed, thou hast
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: waded through the waters deep, where souls are well nigh lost.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: Rest On and place thy hand in mine, till peace
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: shall come to thee, and the sun once more in
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: thy heaven shall shine, and the great load lifted bee
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: the great world tide. There is never a word of
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: blame from me. You strove to be true to the past.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: And the little hands clung where the frail weeds hung
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: when the world tide swept so fast. It wasn't your fault,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: my sweet little girl, but only the fault of the
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: tide that is carried away with its mighty swirl so
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: many a heart beside? Do you call the living the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: dead the dead? Is it you who calleth the dead?
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: What you who wait for the birth, who wait to
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: pass hence from the prison of sense, from the body
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: and brain of earth?
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Why do you name the living the dead? Who think
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: and who move with the force of the light that
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: from far, that from star unto star, travels on in
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: its tireless course, away from the track of the world.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: You came to my lonely shelter, so far from the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: track of the world, where the maddest of winds hold
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: revel and the wave on the rock is hurled. You came,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: and there linger yet in that haunt of the wild
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: sea birds, sweet ghosts, of your kindly glances and joyous
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: sunny words, a language without a key of learning, a
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: store he has gathered and more. But his learning can't
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: help him to day, For to read is his part
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: in the book of the heart and spell. If he
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: may what its hieroglyphs say tis for him to divine
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: what thing in that shrine has molded at will the
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: sweet years of youth, some imp of mere pelf or
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: fashion and self, or a dear little god of love
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: and of truth, and the innocent way, with its smile
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: and love play can't help, because smiles are so easy
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: to wear. And a dress, as we know, though cut
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: rather low, has never as yet let any heart bear.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: Dreamers of dreams, Oh love, my love, but a moment, so,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: Oh love my love, but a moment more, and will
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: cast from our thought what the sweet days brought, and
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: will each return to what was before. For dreamers of dreams,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: we both have been never, oh never, the thing could be.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: For you is the peace of the bay within, and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: for me are the storms of the open sea. His
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: tired smile, Oh, bravely we christen the right and the
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: wrong to serve the needs of the day. The crookedest
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: path that gains our end we declare to be God's way,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: And the Great God smiles with his tired smile as
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: he hears what we mannikins say. We know whatever the
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: Great God thinks, as well as himself, I trust, so
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: we gild the thing with holy words for which in
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: our hearts we lust. And the great God smiles with
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: his tired smile as he watches us crawl in the dust.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: If once.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: He had wanted all the name and fame, all gifts
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: that the world could give. But there comes at last
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: the end of the game, and he knew that he
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: could not live. He touched my hand as I stood
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: at his side. His meanest of friends was I, Oh,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: if I had loved, But once he cried, tware easy
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: enough to die. The wandering race in the pampered town
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: for this weary while we've reeked and sweltered in dust
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: and din where the mincing women are dolls who smile
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: with never a soul that feels within. And the trade
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: of the men is the trade of words. To trick
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: each other and trip if they can, while their beards
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: grow gray and their life ebbs away. Ere ever they
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: come to the strength of a man. Oh, will not
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: stay till it's time to die, but pass on our
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: way and again be free, where the great hills stand
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: and speak with the sky, and the great plains, roll
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: with the joy of the sea, and on still on
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: through the wind and the sun, to share with the stars,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: the watches of night, till the soul finds room for
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: itself to be won with the sky and her children
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: of gloom and light. Our talk in the garden ground.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: I think of our talk, how it drifted as we
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: walked in your garden ground, with the hem of your
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: skirt just lifted to wade in some subject profound. How
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: the socialist clubs were proposing to manage the steeds of
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: the sun, and the psychical folk were disclosing a soul
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: and a life to come. And you talked on the
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: marble rail, leaning till you cried, we're ready for tea.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: And the thing was as full of meaning as a
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: thing in fine life can be. The rival worlds, the
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: blue in the sky with an undimmed sun, the blue
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: in the sea below. Like sister souls which grow into one,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: twill cost a pain to go, oh fine, into sight
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: when that new world breaks. And yet perhaps when there
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: I may wish to be back to the sins and
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: the aches of this world, so tender, fair, the joy
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: and pain of it all. Will you ride and ride
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: when the sun is high and the strong heat sickens
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: the brain, Will you lay to sleep beneath the sky
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: when the dews fall cold on the plain, Will you
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: keep the word like a faithful mate, that never it
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: pass your lip? And the small steeled thing, will you
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: hold it straight and press with the finger tip. Will
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: you bear to look with a calm, proud heart as
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: the best of the comrades fall. Then welcome, fair maid,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: to take your part in the joy and pain of
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: it all. Through the small panes, Though small, the pains
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: that I peer through, and grim the walls, I see
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: one fur that grows into the blue is good heart's
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: feast for me. Though dank mists creep like sorrows of
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: old and dim my picture o'er, Yet the bright winds
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: drive them back to their fold, and give me my sky.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: Once more a plea.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: It was but a moment, the hurt and the loss
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: for ever I loved you well? But how could I
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: fight with the stars in their course, with their mad
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: and their wanton spell. For the stars they made from
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: the earth's light dust a heart that should wander and stray,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: that should love and forget. As the stars rise and
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: set the stars in their changeful play, they touched it
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: with hues of leaping fire, with shadows and gleams from
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: the sea, with the flush of the dawn and its
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: sweet desire, and a kiss of the wind so free.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: Yet all my life I have loved you well as
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: a child in its play loves child. But a heart
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: that the stars have bound by a spell, must follow
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: their fancies wild, far and faint. Thy sounds o storm
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: are far and faint, as thou stridest o'er the sea,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: And we need thy breath from many a taint to
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: set us clean and free. But when thou comest on
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: mighty wings, deal gently with forest and tree. For my
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: heart is woe for the goodly things that to morrow
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: will cease to be. She of the scornful eyes, she
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: looked at all with level eyes, so fair, so proud,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: so calm, as though she were a god who look'd
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: and feared to take no harm from gifts of heart.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: She turn'd away, none brought the love she sought. She
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: held in scorn the earthly clay from which those hearts
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: were wrought. And yet, and yet, as years go on
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: till their revenge is due, will dreams outlived grow cold,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: and wan will clay grow warm? And true love hath
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: no part, not love, poor child, but passion wild that
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: in thy heart is set. Love hath no part in
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: thee thy heart has never loved as yet. Oh, there
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: is much to cast away, and much through pain to earn,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: and costly price for hearts to pay. Ere love's deep
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: truths they learn transformation. I once was a maid in
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: the far off days, with eyes that drooped and with
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: looks demure, And he who had watched her childlike ways
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: of the soul within would have felt quite sure.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: But the soul it is gone.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: It is shriveled away, and the childlike, innocent looks have died,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: and there only remain the scheming brain, the viper's tongueung,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: and the mask outside the roving men. Ye have tied
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: me down to the desk and the pen, the hurrying
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: pen all day. But my heart is in the tents
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: of the men who are roving far away. I picture
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: it all, and my blood is stirred as by unknown
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: lakes they go, the ring of the axe and the
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: leader's sword, where the stubborn forests grow. Oh, while not stay,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: or my heart will break tied down in this tame
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: sheep's pen. For I thirst for the strife and the
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: toiling life in the tents of the roving men, like
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: birds blown far away. The sea and its waves are sleeping,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: and the houses gleamed through the haze, And somewhere there
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: you are keeping your circle of happy days. And I
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: wonder if thoughts you don't utter, like birds that are
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: blown far away, down here on the rocks may flutter
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: their moment or two to stay so like Hell, Ah,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: the crowd that streams around me, endless through the weary street,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: beating out an iron music from the pavement at its feet,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: where the busy push and jostle, and the idol stare
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: and stroll with their glances that can't mingle, and that
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: only hurt the soul.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: That's city, with its passions, so like hell turned loose
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: to play rich and poor before their idols, giving life
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: and soul away.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: The bride who was fay.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Thou hast stolen my love with thy pretty face and
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: thy cheeks so pink to see. And he kissed you
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: there at the very same place that his kisses were
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: given to me. Thou hast stolen my love with thy
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: laugh so gay. But little the gain shall be from
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: the bridal dress that thou wearest today they shall fashion
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: the shroud for thee. A third, Oh, why are you
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: grown so strange and chill in days of loving? But
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: only three that no more? In your arms you fold
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: me still, but you stand as in fear away from me.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: I cannot fold you in arms of love, for there
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: something comes TwixT me and you. It is cold and white,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: and it clings all night, as lovers of old are
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: fain to do. The sail it flapped. The sail it
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: flapped as she slacked her course, and it flapped with
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: an evil sound, for the wind had dropped to gather
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: its force, and already was veering round. Then on it
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: came till the white lake hissed at the touch of
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: its short, sharp breath, and our words were few, for
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: the game we knew was a game of life and death.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: And the good boat lent till she seemed to strike
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: the water's face with her mast, and the mad waves
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: rose like hidden foes that seize on their prey. At last,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: but she shook them off and righted herself in the
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: teeth of the stress and the strain, and we smiled,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: for we knew, if we steered her true, that the
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: wind's wild rage was vain at the ball. Oh, beautiful
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: so as I saw her then, and beautiful so as
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: I see her still. While the stars that hold the
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: scales for men were wait, saying for us the good
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: and the ill. And I touched her hand. But down
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: the stair came the sweet dream notes and spoilt the charm.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: And I only said, though she looked so fair, will
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: you dance once more? Will you take my arm? Thy
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: kiss encloses, kiss me love, and let me live, live
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: and draw from life's full store. Kiss me love, and
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: let me die praying, craving nothing more. Kiss me love.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: Thy kiss encloses all sweet things and makes them mine.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: Duws of heaven and scent of roses, song of birds,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: and rich sunshine, with faint stars thinly sown. I look
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: into that tender blue, with faint star is thinly sown.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: I travel on through great plains new Yet do not
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: feel alone that tender blue. I watch and stand, and
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: I am safe. I know it arches down on either
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: hand and holds me.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: As I go.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: Without your hand, I cried in vain. I was too weak,
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: too weak to stand alone. Some natures are, by passing
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: breath so lightly overthrown, a cruel in your strength to
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: think that I, like you, was strong. Without your hand,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: I fail to stand and yield to bitter wrong things
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: far apart the fault of the past. Does it last
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: and last?
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: Tell me, tell me true is the love that we
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: had for each other on earth? Is it counted as
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: sin for you? Whatever I loved with loyal heart?
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: Oh? That is again to me.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: But the true and the false are far apart in
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: all the worlds that be, shall sin no more? Oh,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: turn again, but once again, these lips shall sin no more,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: these lips with words like cruel swords, which hurt thy
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: heart so sore. I'll seal them with a double seal,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: that they shall sin no more. I'll love thee so
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: that thou shalt feel I never loved before the hour
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: of wonder. The great strong hills their vantage keep, but
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: their pride shall be humbled tonight, and our foot shall
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: be set on the peak that holds the last of
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: the evening light. And when we have climbed and climbed,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: we will sleep or talk the hours away in the
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: silver light of the sweet June night, which is but
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: a dream of the day, till there comes like a
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: god to the waiting hill, the first rose flush from above,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: and the soul that watches is hushed and still in
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: that hour of wonder and love the answer. Then let
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: thine answer be confessed. If thou shouldst answer yea O,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: where two roses at thy breast, two loves, two lives
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: to say. But if thy heart should answer nay, no rose,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: then shalt thou wear no blood red gracious rose to
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: say love finds its sweet home there too fine for
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: eyes to see. Ay, nothing less than nothing could each
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: to the other be. Yet gossamer threads were woven, too
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: fine for eyes to see. Such threads as stretch through darkness,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: through time and far off space, and keep two lives
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: still touching when face is lost to face on tramp, Oh,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: place your hand, my lass in mine, and off and
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  Speaker 1: away will go. For little we care what serves for
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  Speaker 1: fair or makes the bed below. And we never are
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  Speaker 1: sad as we journey along, though smile or frown the day.
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  Speaker 1: For the worst of our luck, we turn to a
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  Speaker 1: song in our careless tramping way, the way no lovers knew. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let us love's sweethearts so true till hearts can love
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  Speaker 1: no more, till men shall say no lover's knew the
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  Speaker 1: way to love before. And when it's all worn out
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  Speaker 1: and done, and these few years are ore, we'll find
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  Speaker 1: some world beyond the sun where hearts can still love more.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the world, goodbye the hour its summons springs
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  Speaker 1: those moments few at end in which you talked of
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: strange new things with your chance wandering friend. And now
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: the world's swift, rushing stream has caught you, sweeps you
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: back from where we strayed by paths of dream, beyond
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  Speaker 1: life's daily track, the wonder world outside. O, Let me
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: come and sit by thee, for thou hast known and tried,
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  Speaker 1: and tell me what it holds for me that wonder
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  Speaker 1: world outside. Oh, Will there talk range far in bold
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: like flight of bird in sky, and pass o'er worlds
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  Speaker 1: the new the old, while soul to soul draws nigh.
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  Speaker 1: And shall we ever strive to know and turn from
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  Speaker 1: feast and rest? And will sweet talk still flow and
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  Speaker 1: flow while suns dip in the west, Will deeds to
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: do the pulses stir to save the race undone till
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: some low whisper fills the ear. Shall we two fight
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: as one? The blurred edges they are round me to
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: night in the gloaming. Their voices fall on my ear.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: They seem to hover and touch me. But I like
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: them and have no fear. And where one world beginneth
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: and where the other is done, I cannot tell, for
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: the edges are blurred and mixed in one. In the
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: years after the sail, she sits at her glass with
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: musing heart and thinks of the days that were before
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: she sould at the world's great mart that face so
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: passing fair, and she wonders what she would give and
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: give if out of that glass could rise a face
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  Speaker 1: that lies dead in the years that are fled with
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: the hope and the trust in its eyes. Back to
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: the sea, Mother, kindest of mothers from whom I have strayed,
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  Speaker 1: Back again. Tired, I come to thee chanting and crooning
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: the old wave song. Sing it, Oh, sing it again
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  Speaker 1: to me, Weary and spent, as the hour draws near,
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  Speaker 1: Hush me to sleep with that soft wave song. Wash
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: all the cares away, wash all the strifes away, all
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: the old pains that to living belong. Down at thy side,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: I place me to rest. Slowly, My senses are stealing
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: from me passions and pleadings, have ceased in my breast. Gently,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: my spirit floats away free. One breathless moment, the race
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: was for life and death. When we met, one breathless
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: moment to speak, and my hand against her breast, she set,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: and her lips just touched my cheek. Then the world
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: grew mine and was filled with delight as rare and
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: rich could be. Till on she passed and was lost
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  Speaker 1: in the night, and all was a dream to me.
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast won the right o my brave one. Thou
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: hast carried heart of steel and heart of gold. Now
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: thy road is sloping downward, Now the days are nearly told.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: Thou hast fought thy fight so truly, never flinched from
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: face of foe, faultless, courage, ceaseless loving, thou hast won
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: the right to go one who had traveled far. As
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: she entered the room, she claimed your heart, her beauty
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: so finely she wore, and you felt that to love
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  Speaker 1: her was just your part with the hope.
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  Speaker 2: Of nothing more.
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  Speaker 1: So I left my heart in the dust at her feet,
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: and I sailed across the sea. For I said to myself,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: perchance we should meet when the better time might be.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: And I saw her again. Strange dreams there are so
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: weary and wan to see with the look of one
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: who had traveled far from another world.
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  Speaker 2: May be.
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  Speaker 1: Husks ah, the craving that fills the heart, sense of emptiness,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: sense of loss, Never from touch of the world apart,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: changing the handfuls of dross for dross a to live
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: the shadows among, miss the touch of the infinite whole,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: never to win to the heart within, never be won
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: with nature's soul. Squire my in sunshine, Old Squire Mudge
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: is happy to day, and he whistles a stave as
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: he goes to his gait, for the rain has come
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: down on his neighbor's hay. That old fool Jenkins, who's
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: always late, and farmer Cox has his men on strike,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: and they've left the hay and have lost their pay.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: And rumor is rife that Sir Anthony's wife from her
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: lawful lord has tripped away, and the Smiths have a
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: daughter instead of a son, and Lord efes in debt
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: and must let the old hall and the world on
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: the whole makes capital fun when providence chastens our neighbors all.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: A wind to cross the sea. Oh, how shall I know?
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: If your heart be stirred by a love that is
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: not for me, Is there ever a wind to bring
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: me word across the far far sea? Oh nothing I
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: know of the winds of the sea. But love and
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: life are won. And whenever this heart thinks not of thee,
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: its thinking will be done a lesson in philosophy. The
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: summer was hot, and the flies were sore. They snatched
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: at the food and swarmed in the face, till my
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: patience at last was destroyed. And I swore that such
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: vile little wretches had no claims for grace. But philosophy
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: presently softened my speech. Poor things, I exclaimed, I will
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: wish you no harm, for providence means you a lesson
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: to teach in the midst of our worries, to keep
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: the soul calm. Some good folk, I know they are
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: just of your kind. They are gifted, like you, with
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: a scent for their game, and they gather and feed
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: on whatever they find, be it sweetmeat or carry on.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: It serves just the same. And yet good bye the
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: right and the wrong, the weal and the woe. Thy
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: word shall turn the scale. Shall we lose our hands
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: and let them go, or hold till all things fail. Oh,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: right and wrong are but words of a song, and
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: the life beyond but a lie. And you are my
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: all in this one real world.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: And yet and yet good bye.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: Thrice again, I turned from my friends and I left
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: my home. The ties were sore to break, and the
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: creed in my heart that was planted there, I tore
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: it up for your sake, But what did it count?
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: I would do it again, and thrice again for you.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: If the clay could stir, the dead could hear and
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: care what thing I do? Oh how will it be
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: to ride with me or yonder?
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: Plain? Fair maid?
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: Is that your mind cross rivers and hills and never
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: draw rein, but leave old worlds behind. And when the
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: rivers and hills are crossed, Oh how will it be
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: with me? If your heart to another maid be lost
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: and you let the old love be a last word?
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: There's summat I'd like you, chaps to tell. There's a
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: minute or two. May be if yeer has a heart
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: that loves your, well, don't throw it away from ye.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: The rest of the things ye may chuck as yer choose.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: There's nothing if am Valley's a pin but a heart
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: that loves yer should never lose, ye may never get
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: it again. Better, So it should be through the plain
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: and wood we will wander apart, and a part will
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: sail the sea. And no more will I speak from
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: an open heart, or journey the day with thee, and
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: will never hold hands in the coming time, for it's
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: only a grief to me. And the higher the hills
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: between us climb, oh better.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: It so should be sinking with you.
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  Speaker 1: So I fair, sir, your soul must redeem, and your
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: guardian angel grow and bear you up in the fierce
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: midstream where the great tides come and go. But how
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: would it be if the past were a past that
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: no human heart could undo, and my strength should fail?
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: And I found at the last that I could but
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: sink with you. There came a smile, as if to
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: the earth, so low he bowed. I go my way,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: cried he, and she curtsied deep, and she curtsied proud,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: too much of grace for me. Three steps on their way,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: and they pause, awhile, and each looked back. Just then
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: when through the tears there came a smile and made
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: them one again summary justice. He clenched his hand, he
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: stamped his foot, bright flushed, the little cheek. If I
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: were king, I'd do this thing, cut heads off every week. Oh,
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: in my realm, bad men no more should live thy
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: land or sea, And in all hearts I'd make a
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: law no wicked thoughts should be, and the true love waits.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: Then ride not in the vale at night, for an
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: evil thing is there. And if thou meetest the maiden
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: wight so close thine eyes in prayer, Oh, I'll not
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: stay for fiend or flood, But through the night I'll
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: ride for my true love of flesh and blood dwells
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: there on the further side. She stands in his path,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: so near, so clear, although the moonlight dies. Now, stay fair, sir,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: If thou hast no fear to look in a maiden's
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: eyes so long, so deep, she looks in his eyes
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: till over him comes the sleep, and the true love waits,
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: while the love time flies, will wait and wait and
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: weep the unknown shore. It falls on my ear, now faint,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: now strong, the thunderous note of the distant roar, the
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: surf of the sea I've sailed so long as it
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: beats at last on.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: The unknown shore.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, how will it be when the hour has come?
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: And like all hours that went before will help be
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: near or in pain and fear, shall I win my
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: way to the unknown shore in border Land, for strange,
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: deep longings move us as betwixt the two we stand
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: and share in the mystic meetings and partings in border Land,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: when day and night so gently touch hands and fall apart,
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: like those in life, forbidden hearts should be won with heart.
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  Speaker 1: End of Section two. End of Windfall and Water Drift
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  Speaker 1: by Auberon Herbert