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The irresponsive silence of the land, / The irresponsive sounding of the sea, / Speak both one message of one sense to me: -- / Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof, so stand / Thou too aloof bound with the flawless band / Of inner solitude; we bind not thee; / But who from thy self-chain shall set thee free? / What heart shall touch thy heart? what hand thy hand? -- / And I am sometimes proud and sometimes meek, / And sometimes I remember days of old / When fellowship seemed not so far to seek / And all the world and I seemed much less cold, / And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold, / And hope felt strong and life itself not weak.