Liberty

from Edward Thomas 2 by Toby Darling

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Liberty
Dm
The last light has gone out of the world, except Gm Dm
This moonlight lying on the grass like frost
C Dm
Beyond the brink of the tall elm’s shadow.
Gm
It is as if everything else had slept
Dm
Many an age, unforgotten and lost –

Dm
The men that were, the things done, long ago, Gm Dm
All I have thought; and but the moon and I
C Dm

Live yet and here stand idle over a grave
Gm

Where all is buried. Both have liberty Dm
To dream what we could do if we were free
To do some thing we had desired long, Dm
The moon and I. There’s none less free than who Gm Dm
Does nothing and has nothing else to do,
C Dm
Being free only for what is not to his mind,
Gm
And nothing is to his mind. If every hour
Like this one passing that I have spent among
Dm
The wiser others when I have forgot
To wonder whether I was free or not,
Gm
Were piled before me, and not lost behind,
Dm
And I could take and carry them away
Bb C
I should be rich; or if I had the power
Dm
To wipe out every one and not again
Bb C Dm
Regret, I should be rich to be so poor.
Gm
And yet I still am half in love with pain,
Dm
With what is imperfect, with both tears and mirth,
C
With things that have an end, with life and earth,
Dm
And this moon that leaves me dark within the door.
Edward Thomas

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from Edward Thomas 2, released April 21, 2016

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