Songs In Absence 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Farewell farewell Her vans the vessel tries	A
His iron might the potent engine plies	A
Haste winged words and ere 'tis useless tell	B
Farewell farewell yet once again farewell	B
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The docks the streets the houses past us fly	C
Without a strain the great ship marches by	C
Ye fleeting banks take up the words we tell	B
And say for us yet once again farewell	B
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The waters widen on without a strain	D
The strong ship moves upon the open main	D
She knows the seas she hears the true waves swell	B
She seems to say farewell again farewell	B
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The billows whiten and the deep seas heave	E
Fly once again sweet words to her I leave	E
With winds that blow return and seas that swell	B
Farewell farewell say once again farewell	B
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Fresh in my face and rippling to my feet	F
The winds and waves an answer soft repeat	F
In sweet sweet words far brought they seem to tell	B
Farewell farewell yet once again farewell	B
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Night gathers fast adieu thou fading shore	G
The land we look for next must lie before	G
Hence foolish tears weak thoughts no more rebel	H
Farewell farewell a last a last farewell	B
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Yet not indeed ah not till more than sea	I
And more than space divide my love and me	I
Till more than waves and winds between us swell	B
Farewell a last indeed a last farewell	B
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Ye flags of Piccadilly	I
Where I posted up and down	J
And wished myself so often	K
Well away from you and town	J
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Are the people walking quietly	I
And steady on their feet	F
Cabs and omnibuses plying	L
Just as usual in the street	F
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Do the houses look as upright	M
As of old they used to be	I
And does nothing seem affected	N
By the pitching of the sea	I
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Through the Green Park iron railings	O
Do the quick pedestrians pass	P
Are the little children playing	L
Round the plane tree in the grass	P
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This squally wild north wester	Q
With which our vessel fights	R
Does it merely serve with you to	S
Carry up some paper kites	R
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Ye flags of Piccadilly	I
Which I hated so I vow	T
I could wish with all my heart	U
You were underneath me now	T
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COME home come home and where is home for me	I
Whose ship is driving o'er the trackless sea	I
To the frail bark here plunging on its way	V
To the wild waters shall I turn and say	V
To the plunging bark or to the salt sea foam	W
You are my home	W
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Fields once I walked in faces once I knew	S
Familiar things so old my heart believed them true	S
These far far back behind me lie before	G
The dark clouds mutter and the deep seas roar	G
And speak to them that 'neath and o'er them roam	W
No words of home	W
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Beyond the clouds beyond the waves that roar	G
There may indeed or may not be a shore	G
Where fields as green and hands and hearts as true	S
The old forgotten semblance may renew	S
And offer exiles driven far o'er the salt sea foam	W
Another home	W
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But toil and pain must wear out many a day	V
And days bear weeks and weeks bear months away	V
Ere if at all the weary traveller hear	X
With accents whispered in his wayworn ear	X
A voice he dares to listen to say Come	Y
To thy true home	W
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Come home come home and where a home hath he	I
Whose ship is driving o'er the driving sea	I
Through clouds that mutter and o'er waves that roar	G
Say shall we find or shall we not a shore	G
That is as is not ship or ocean foam	W
Indeed our home	W
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GREEN fields of England wheresoe'er	G
Across this watery waste we fare	G
Your image at our hearts we bear	G
Green fields of England everywhere	G
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Sweet eyes in England I must flee	I
Past where the waves' last confines be	I
Ere your loved smile I cease to see	I
Sweet eyes in England dear to me	I
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Dear home in England safe and fast	Z
If but in thee my lot lie cast	Z
The past shall seem a nothing past	Z
To thee dear home if won at last	Z
Dear home in England won at last	Z
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COME back come back behold with straining mast	Z
And swelling sail behold her steaming fast	Z
With one new sun to see her voyage o'er	G
With morning light to touch her native shore	G
Come back come back	A2
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Come back come back while westward labouring by	C
With sailless yards a bare black hulk we fly	C
See how the gale we fight with sweeps her back	A2
To our lost home on our forsaken track	A2
Come back come back	A2
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Come back come back across the flying foam	W
We hear faint far off voices call us home	W
Come back ye seem to say ye seek in vain	D
We went we sought and homeward turned again	B2
Come back come back	A2
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Come back come back and whither back or why	C
To fan quenched hopes forsaken schemes to try	C
Walk the old fields pace the familiar street	F
Dream with the idlers with the bards compete	F
Come back come back	A2
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Come back come back and whither and for what	C2
To finger idly some old Gordian knot	D2
Unskilled to sunder and too weak to cleave	E
And with much toil attain to half believe	E
Come back come back	A2
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Come back come back yea back indeed do go	E2
Sighs panting thick and tears that want to flow	E2
Fond fluttering hopes upraise their useless wings	O
And wishes idly struggle in the strings	O
Come back come back	A2
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Come back come back more eager than the breeze	F2
The flying fancies sweep across the seas	F2
And lighter far than ocean's flying foam	W
The heart's fond message hurries to its home	W
Come back come back	A2
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Come back come back	A2
Back flies the foam the hoisted flag streams back	A2
The long smoke wavers on the homeward track	A2
Back fly with winds things which the winds obey	V
The strong ship follows its appointed way	V
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SOME future day when what is now is not	D2
When all old faults and follies are forgot	D2
And thoughts of difference passed like dreams away	V
We'll meet again upon some future day	V
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When all that hindered all that vexed our love	G2
As tall rank weeds will climb the blade above	G2
When all but it has yielded to decay	V
We'll meet again upon some future day	V
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When we have proved each on his course alone	H2
The wider world and learnt what's now unknown	H2
Have made life clear and worked out each a way	V
We'll meet again we shall have much to say	V
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With happier mood and feelings born anew	S
Our boyhood's bygone fancies we'll review	S
Talk o'er old talks play as we used to play	V
And meet again on many a future day	V
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Some day which oft our hearts shall yearn to see	I
In some far year though distant yet to be	I
Shall we indeed ye winds and waters say	V
Meet yet again upon some future day	V
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Where lies the land to which the ship would go	E2
Far far ahead is all her seamen know	E2
And where the land she travels from Away	V
Far far behind is all that they can say	V
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On sunny noons upon the deck's smooth face	I2
Linked arm in arm how pleasant here to pace	I2
Or o'er the stern reclining watch below	E2
The foaming wake far widening as we go	E2
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On stormy nights when wild north westers rave	J2
How proud a thing to fight with wind and wave	J2
The dripping sailor on the reeling mast	Z
Exults to bear and scorns to wish it past	Z
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Where lies the land to which the ship would go	E2
Far far ahead is all her seamen know	E2
And where the land she travels from Away	V
Far far behind is all that they can say	V
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The mighty ocean rolls and raves	K2
To part us with its angry waves	K2
But arch on arch from shore to shore	G
In a vast fabric reaching o'er	G
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With careful labours daily wrought	L2
By steady hope and tender thought	L2
The wide and weltering waste above	G2
Our hearts have bridged it with their love	G2
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There fond anticipations fly	C
To rear the growing structure high	C
Dear memories upon either side	M2
Combine to make it large and wide	M2
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There happy fancies day by day	V
New courses sedulously lay	V
There soft solicitudes sweet fears	N2
And doubts accumulate and tears	O2
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While the pure purpose of the soul	P2
To form of many parts a whole	P2
To make them strong and hold them true	S
From end to end is carried through	S
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Then when the waters war between	Q2
Upon the masonry unseen	Q2
Secure and swift from shore to shore	G
With silent footfall travelling o'er	G
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Our sundered spirits come and go	E2
Hither and thither to and fro	E2
Pass and repass now linger near	G
Now part anew to reappear	G
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With motions of a glad surprise	A
We meet each other's wondering eyes	A
At work at play when people talk	R2
And when we sleep and when we walk	R2
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Each dawning day my eyelids see	I
You come methinks across to me	I
And I at every hour anew	S
Could dream I travelled o'er to you	S
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That out of sight is out of mind	S2
Is true of most we leave behind	S2
It is not sure nor can be true	S
My own and only love of you	S
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They were my friends 'twas sad to part	U
Almost a tear began to start	U
But yet as things run on they find	S2
That out of sight is out of mind	S2
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For men that will not idlers be	I
Must lend their hearts to things they see	I
And friends who leave them far behind	S2
When out of sight are out of mind	S2
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I blame it not I think that when	B2
The cold and silent meet again	B2
Kind hearts will yet as erst be kind	S2
'Twas 'out of sight ' was 'out of mind '	-
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I knew it when we parted well	B
I knew it but was loth to tell	B
I felt before what now I find	S2
That 'out of sight' is 'out of mind '	-
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That friends however friends they were	G
Still deal with things as things occur	G
And that excepting for the blind	S2
What's out of sight is out of mind	S2
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But love the poets say is blind	S2
So out of sight and out of mind	S2
Need not nor will I think be true	S
My own and only love of you	S
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Were you with me or I with you	S
There's nought methinks I might not do	S
Could venture here and venture there	G
And never fear nor ever care	G
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To things before and things behind	S2
Could turn my thoughts and turn my mind	S2
On this and that day after day	V
Could dare to throw myself away	V
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Secure when all was o'er to find	S2
My proper thought my perfect mind	S2
And unimpaired receive anew	S
My own and better self in you	S
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Am I with you or you with me	I
Or in some blessed place above	G2
Where neither lands divide nor sea	I
Are we united in our love	G2
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Oft while in longing here I lie	C
That wasting ever still endures	T2
My soul out from me seems to fly	C
And half way somewhere meet with yours	T2
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Somewhere but where I cannot guess	U2
Beyond may be the bound of space	I2
The liberated spirits press	U2
And meet bless heaven and embrace	I2
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It seems not either here nor there	G
Somewhere between us up above	G2
A region of a clearer air	G
The dwelling of a purer love	G2
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Were I with you or you with me	I
My love how happy should we be	I
Day after day it is sad cheer	G
To have you there while I am here	G
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My darling's face I cannot see	I
My darling's voice is mute for me	I
My fingers vainly seek the hair	G
Of her that is not here but there	G
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In a strange land to her unknown	H2
I sit and think of her alone	H2
And in that happy chamber where	G
We sat she sits nor has me there	G
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Yet still the happy thought recurs	I
That she is mine as I am hers	I
That she is there as I am here	G
And loves me whether far or near	G
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The mere assurance that she lives	I
And loves me full contentment gives	I
I need not doubt despond or fear	G
For she is there and I am here	G
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Were you with me or I with you	S
There's nought methinks I could not do	S
And nothing that for your dear sake	V2
I might not dare to undertake	V2
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With thousands standing by as fit	W2
More keen perhaps more needing it	W2
To be the first some job to spy	C
And jump and call out Here am I	C
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O for one's miserable self	X2
To ask a pittance of the pelf	X2
To claim however small a share	G
Which other men might think so fair	G
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It was not worth it a first time	Y2
A thought upon it seemed a crime	Y2
To stoop and pick the dirty pence	I
A taint upon one's innocence	I
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My own with nothing sordid base	I
Or mean we would our love disgrace	I
Yet something I methinks could do	S
Were you with me or I with you	S
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Some misconstruction would sustain	D
Count some humiliation gain	D
Make unabashed a righteous claim	Z2
And profess merit without shame	Z2
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Apply for service day by day	V
Seek honest work for honest pay	V
Without a fear by any toil	A3
The over cleanly hand to soil	A3
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Secure in safety to return	B3
And every pettiness unlearn	B3
And unimpaired still find anew	B3
My own and better self in you	B3
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O ship ship ship	C3
That travellest over the sea	I
What are the tidings I pray thee	I
Thou bearest hither to me	I
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Are they tidings of comfort and joy	D3
That shall make me seem to see	I
The sweet lips softly moving	L
And whispering love to me	I
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Or are they of trouble and grief	X2
Estrangement sorrow and doubt	E3
To turn into torture my hopes	I
And drive me from Paradise out	E3
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O ship ship ship	C3
That comest over the sea	I
Whatever it be thou bringest	E3
Come quickly with it to me	I
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Arthur Hugh Clough

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