Autumn - The Third Pastoral, Or Hylas And Ægon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Beneath the shade a spreading Beech displaysA
Hylas and Aegon sung their rural laysA
This mourn'd a faithless that an absent LoveB
And Delia's name and Doris' fill'd the GroveC
Ye Mantuan nymphs your sacred succour bringD
Hylas and gon's rural lays I singD
Thou whom the Nine with Plautus' wit inspireE
The art of Terence and Menander's fireF
Whose sense instructs us and whose humour charmsG
Whose judgement sways us and whose spirit warmsH
Oh skill'd in Nature see the hearts of SwainsH
Their artless passions and their tender painsH
Now setting Phoebus shone serenely brightI
And fleecy clouds were streak'd with purple lightI
When tuneful Hylas with melodious moanJ
Taught rocks to weep and made the mountains groanJ
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs awayK
To Delia's ear the tender notes conveyK
As some sad Turtle his lost love deploresH
And with deep murmurs fills the sounding shoresH
Thus far from Delia to the winds I mournL
Alike unheard unpity'd and forlornL
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs alongM
For her the feather'd quires neglect their songM
For her the limes their pleasing shades denyN
For her the lilies hang their heads and dieN
Ye flow'rs that droop forsaken by the springD
Ye birds that left by summer cease to singD
Ye trees that fade when autumn heats removeO
Say is not absence death to those who loveB
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs awayK
Curs'd be the fields that cause my Delia's stayK
Fade ev'ry blossom wither ev'ry treeP
Die ev'ry flow'r and perish all but sheP
What have I said where'er my Delia fliesH
Let spring attend and sudden flow'rs ariseH
Let op'ning roses knotted oaks adornL
And liquid amber drop from ev'ry thornL
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs alongM
The birds shall cease to tune their ev'ning songM
The winds to breathe the waving woods to moveO
And streams to murmur e'er I cease to loveB
Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swainQ
Not balmy sleep to lab'rers faint with painQ
Not show'rs to larks nor sun shine to the beeP
Are half so charming as thy sight to meP
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs awayK
Come Delia come ah why this long delayK
Thro' rocks and caves the name of Delia soundsH
Delia each cave and echoing rock reboundsH
Ye pow'rs what pleasing frenzy sooths my mindR
Do lovers dream or is my Delia kindR
She comes my Delia comes Now cease my layK
And cease ye gales to bear my sighs awayK
Next gon sung while Windsor groves admir'dS
Rehearse ye Muses what yourselves inspir'dS
Resound ye hills resound my mournful strainQ
Of perjur'd Doris dying I complainQ
Here where the mountains less'ning as they riseH
Lose the low vales and steal into the skiesH
While lab'ring oxen spent with toil and heatT
In their loose traces from the field retreatT
While curling smokes from village tops are seenU
And the fleet shades glide o'er the dusky greenU
Resound ye hills resound my mournful layK
Beneath yon' poplar oft we past the dayK
Oft' on the rind I carv'd her am'rous vowsH
While she with garlands hung the bending boughsH
The garlands fade the vows are worn awayK
So dies her love and so my hopes decayK
Resound ye hills resound my mournful strainQ
Now bright Arcturus glads the teeming grainQ
Now golden fruits on loaded branches shineV
And grateful clusters swell with floods of wineV
Now blushing berries paint the yellow groveC
Just Gods shall all things yield returns but loveB
Resound ye hills resound my mournful layK
The shepherds cry Thy flocks are left a preyK
Ah what avails it me the flocks to keepW
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheepW
Pan came and ask'd what magic caus'd my smartX
Or what ill eyes malignant glances dartX
What eyes but hers alas have pow'r to moveO
And is here magic but what dwells in loveB
Resound ye hills resound my mournful strainsH
I'll fly from shepherds flocks and flow'ry plainsH
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From shepherds flocks and plains I may removeO
Forsake mankind and all the world but loveB
I know thee Love on foreign Mountains bredY
Wolves gave thee suck and savage Tigers fedY
Thou wert from tna's burning entrails tornL
Got by fierce whirlwinds and in thunder bornL
Resound ye hills resound my mournful layK
Farewell ye woods adieu the light of dayK
One leap from yonder cliff shall end my painsH
No more ye hills no more resound my strainsH
Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of nightI
The skies yet blushing with departing lightI
When falling dews with spangles deck'd the gladeZ
And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shadeZ

Alexander Pope



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