Almae Matres'(st. Andrews, 1862. Oxford, 1865) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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St Andrews by the Northern sea	A
A haunted town it is to me	A
A little city worn and grey	B
The grey North Ocean girds it round	C
And o'er the rocks and up the bay	B
The long sea rollers surge and sound	C
And still the thin and biting spray	B
Drives down the melancholy street	D
And still endure and still decay	B
Towers that the salt winds vainly beat	D
Ghost like and shadowy they stand	E
Dim mirrored in the wet sea sand	E
	-
St Leonard's chapel long ago	F
We loitered idly where the tall	G
Fresh budded mountain ashes blow	F
Within thy desecrated wall	G
The tough roots rent the tomb below	F
The April birds sang clamorous	A
We did not dream we could not know	F
How hardly Fate would deal with us	A
	-
O broken minster looking forth	H
Beyond the bay above the town	I
O winter of the kindly North	H
O college of the scarlet gown	I
And shining sands beside the sea	A
And stretch of links beyond the sand	E
Once more I watch you and to me	A
It is as if I touched his hand	E
	-
And therefore art thou yet more dear	J
O little city grey and sere	J
Though shrunken from thine ancient pride	K
And lonely by thy lonely sea	A
Than these fair halls on Isis' side	K
Where Youth an hour came back to me	A
	-
A land of waters green and clear	J
Of willows and of poplars tall	G
And in the spring time of the year	J
The white may breaking over all	G
And Pleasure quick to come at call	G
And summer rides by marsh and wold	L
And Autumn with her crimson pall	M
About the towers of Magdalen rolled	L
And strange enchantments from the past	N
And memories of the friends of old	L
And strong Tradition binding fast	N
The flying terms with bands of gold	L
	-
All these hath Oxford all are dear	J
But dearer far the little town	I
The drifting surf the wintry year	J
The college of the scarlet gown	I
St Andrews by the Northern sea	A
That is a haunted town to me	A

Andrew Lang

Almae Matres'(st. Andrews, 1862. Oxford, 1865) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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