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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven That slid into my soul.

Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!

For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before, And closes from behind.

The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

And the spring comes slowly up this way.

Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?

Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.

All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing-- And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy; When I was young! When I was young?--Ah, woful when!