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“ALONE AND PALELY LOITERING”
What comfort can you teach them,
Who have followed Love so far
That never a foot can reach them,
Nor ever a hand unbar
Who have followed Love so far
That never a foot can reach them,
Nor ever a hand unbar
The gates of darkness and distance
They traversed, one joy to gain,
In their madness of persistence
And their disregard of pain?
They traversed, one joy to gain,
In their madness of persistence
And their disregard of pain?
You cannot hear their wailing,
They are out of human ken;
And pity is unavailing;
They are deaf as murdered men;
They are out of human ken;
And pity is unavailing;
They are deaf as murdered men;
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Their ears are stopped with straining
For Love's remembered song;
They are dumb with fierce complaining
And blind with tears of wrong.
For Love's remembered song;
They are dumb with fierce complaining
And blind with tears of wrong.
Not damned, nor yet forgiven,
But bound beneath a spell,
They are not cheered by heaven,
They are not helped by hell;
But bound beneath a spell,
They are not cheered by heaven,
They are not helped by hell;
Poised in the sullen places
Where the force of life is sped,
Aloof from living faces,
Unfellowed by the dead.
Where the force of life is sped,
Aloof from living faces,
Unfellowed by the dead.
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