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The Voice Of Things

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Forty Augusts - aye, and several more - ago,      When I paced the headlands loosed from dull employ,     The waves huzza'd like a multitude below      In the sway of an all-including joy         Without cloy.     Blankly I walked there a double decade after,      When thwarts had flung their toils in front of me,     And I heard the waters wagging in a long ironic laughter      At the lot of men, and all the vapoury         Things that be.     Wheeling change has set me again standing where      Once I heard the waves huzza at Lammas-tide;     But they supplicate now - like a congregation there      Who murmur the Confession - I outside,         Prayer denied.

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