Ho Thëos Meta Sou -- God Be With You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGF HHBBIIJJGF| Farewell my Highland lassie when the year returns around | A |
| Be it Greece or be it Norway where my vagrant feet are found | A |
| I shall call to mind the place I shall call to mind the day | B |
| The day that's gone for ever and the glen that's far away | B |
| I shall mind me be it Rhine or Rhone Italian land or France | C |
| Of the laughings and the whispers of the pipings and the dance | C |
| I shall see thy soft brown eyes dilate to wakening woman thought | D |
| And whiter still the white cheek grow to which the blush was brought | D |
| And oh with mine commixing I thy breath of life shall feel | E |
| And clasp thy shyly passive hands in joyous Highland reel | E |
| I shall hear and see and feel and in sequence sadly true | F |
| Shall repeat the bitter sweet of the lingering last adieu | F |
| I shall seem as now to leave thee with the kiss upon the brow | G |
| And the fervent benediction of 'O Ho Th os meta sou God be with you | F |
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| Ah me my Highland lassie though in winter drear and long | H |
| Deep arose the heavy snows and the stormy winds were strong | H |
| Though the rain in summer's brightest it were raining every day | B |
| With worldly comforts few and far how glad were I to stay | B |
| I fall to sleep with dreams of life in some black bothie spent | I |
| Coarse poortith's ware thou changing there to gold of pure content | I |
| With barefoot lads and lassies round and thee the cheery wife | J |
| In the braes of old Lochaber a laborious homely life | J |
| But I wake to leave thee smiling with the kiss upon the brow | G |
| And the peaceful benediction of 'O Ho Th os meta sou God be with you | F |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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