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The Clergyman's First Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Love is fellow service	A
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A youth and maid upon a summer night	B
Upon the lawn while yet the skies were light	B
Edmund and Emma let their names be these	C
Among the shrubs within the circling trees	C
Joined in a game with boys and girls at play	D
For games perhaps too old a little they	D
In April she her eighteenth year begun	E
And twenty he and near to twenty one	E
A game it was of running and of noise	F
He as a boy with other girls and boys	F
Her sisters and her brothers took the fun	E
And when her turn she marked not came to run	E
'Emma ' he called then knew that he was wrong	G
Knew that her name to him did not belong	G
Her look and manner proved his feeling true	H
A child no more her womanhood she knew	H
Half was the colour mounted on her face	I
Her tardy movement had an adult grace	I
Vexed with himself and shamed he felt the more	J
A kind of joy he ne'er had felt before	J
Something there was that from this date began	K
'Twas beautiful with her to be a man	K
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Two years elapsed and he who went and came	L
Changing in much in this appeared the same	L
The feeling if it did not greatly grow	M
Endured and was not wholly hid below	M
He now o'ertasked at school a serious boy	N
A sort of after boyhood to enjoy	N
Appeared in vigour and in spirit high	O
And manly grown but kept the boy's soft eye	O
And full of blood and strong and lithe of limb	P
To him 'twas pleasure now to ride to swim	P
The peaks the glens the torrents tempted him	P
Restless he seemed long distances would walk	Q
And lively was and vehement in talk	Q
A wandering life his life had lately been	R
Books he had read the world had little seen	S
One former frailty haunted him a touch	T
Of something introspective overmuch	T
With all his eager motions still there went	U
A self correcting and ascetic bent	U
That from the obvious good still led astray	D
And set him travelling on the longest way	D
Seen in these scattered notes their date that claim	L
When first his feeling conscious sought a name	L
'Beside the wishing gate which so they name	L
'Mid northern hills to me this fancy came	L
A wish I formed my wish I thus expressed	V
Would I could wish my wishes all to rest	V
And know to wish the wish that were the best	V
O for some winnowing wind to the empty air	W
This chaff of easy sympathies to bear	W
Far off and leave me of myself aware	W
While thus this over health deludes me still	X
So willing that I know not what I will	X
O for some friend or more than friend austere	Y
To make me know myself and make me fear	Y
O for some touch too noble to be kind	Z
To awake to life the mind within the mind '	-
'O charms seductions and divine delights	A2
All through the radiant yellow summer nights	A2
Dreams hardly dreams that yield or e'er they're done	E
To the bright fact my day my risen sun	E
O promise and fulfilment both in one	E
O bliss already bliss which nought has shared	B2
Whose glory no fruition has impaired	B2
And emblem of my state thou coming day	D
With all thy hours unspent to pass away	D
Why do I wait What more propose to know	M
Where the sweet mandate bids me let me go	M
My conscience in my impulse let me find	Z
Justification in the moving mind	Z
Law in the strong desire or yet behind	Z
Say is there aught the spell that has not heard	C2
A something that refuses to be stirred '	-
'In other regions has my being heard	C2
Of a strange language the diviner word	C2
Has some forgotten life the exemplar shown	D2
Elsewhere such high communion have I known	D2
As dooms me here in this to live alone	D2
Then love that shouldest blind me let me love	E2
Nothing behold beyond thee or above	E2
Ye impulses that should be strong and wild	F2
Beguile me if I am to be beguiled '	-
'Or are there modes of love and different kinds	G2
Proportioned to the sizes of our minds	G2
There are who say thus I held there was one	E
One love one deity one central sun	E
As he resistless brings the expanding day	D
So love should come on his victorious way	D
If light at all can light indeed be there	W
Yet only permeate half the ambient air	W
Can the high noon be regnant in the sky	O
Yet half the land in light and half in darkness lie	O
Can love if love be occupant in part	H2
Hold as it were some chambers in the heart	H2
Tenant at will of so much of the soul	I2
Not lord and mighty master of the whole	I2
There are who say and say that it is well	J2
Opinion all of knowledge none can tell	J2
'Montaigne I know in a realm high above	E2
Places the seat of friendship over love	E2
'Tis not in love that we should think to find	Z
The lofty fellowship of mind with mind	Z
Love 's not a joy where soul and soul unite	B
Rather a wondrous animal delight	B
And as in spring for one consummate hour	K2
The world of vegetation turns to flower	K2
The birds with liveliest plumage trim their wing	L2
And all the woodland listens as they sing	L2
When spring is o'er and summer days are sped	M2
The songs are silent and the blossoms dead	M2
E'en so of man and woman is the bliss	N2
O but I will not tamely yield to this	N2
I think it only shows us in the end	O2
Montaigne was happy in a noble friend	O2
Had not the fortune of a noble wife	P2
He lived I think a poor ignoble life	P2
And wrote of petty pleasures petty pain	Q2
I do not greatly think about Montaigne '	-
'How charming to be with her yet indeed	R2
After a while I find a blank succeed	R2
After a while she little has to say	D
I'm silent too although I wish to stay	D
What would it be all day day after day	D
Ah but I ask I do not doubt too much	T
I think of love as if it should be such	T
As to fulfil and occupy in whole	I2
The nought else seeking nought essaying soul	I2
Therefore it is my mind with doubts I urge	S2
Hence are these fears and shiverings on the verge	S2
By books not nature thus have we been schooled	T2
By poetry and novels been befooled	T2
Wiser tradition says the affections' claim	L
Will be supplied the rest will be the same	L
I think too much of love 'tis true I know	M
It is not all was ne'er intended so	M
Yet such a change so entire I feel 'twould be	U2
So potent so omnipotent with me	U2
My former self I never should recall	V2
Indeed I think it must be all in all '	-
'I thought that Love was winged without a sound	T2
His purple pinions bore him o'er the ground	T2
Wafted without an effort here or there	W
He came and we too trod as if in air	W
But panting toiling clambering up the hill	X
Am I to assist him I put forth my will	X
To upbear his lagging footsteps lame and slow	M
And help him on and tell him where to go	M
And ease him of his quiver and his bow '	-
'Erotion I saw it in a book	W2
Why did I notice it why did I look	W2
Yea is it so ye powers that see above	E2
I do not love I want I try to love	E2
This is not love but lack of love instead	T2
Merciless thought I would I had been dead	T2
Or e'er the phrase had come into my head '	-
She also wrote and here may find a place	I
Of her and of her thoughts some slender trace	I
'He is not vain if proud he quells his pride	T2
And somehow really likes to be defied	T2
Rejoices if you humble him indeed	T2
Gives way at once and leaves you to succeed '	-
'Easy it were with such a mind to play	D
And foolish not to do so some would say	D
One almost smiles to look and see the way	D
But come what will I will not play a part	T2
Indeed I dare not condescend to art '	-
Easy 'twere not perhaps with him to live	X2
He looks for more than any one can give	Y2
So dulled at times and disappointed still	X
Expecting what depends not of my will	X
My inspiration comes not at my call	V2
Seek me as I am if seek you do at all '	-
'Like him I do and think of him I must	T2
But more I dare not and I cannot trust	T2
This more he brings say is it more or less	Z2
Than that no fruitage ever came to bless	Z2
The old wild flower of love in idleness '	-
'Me when he leaves and others when he sees	C
What is my fate who am not there to please	C
Me he has left already may have seen	S
One who for me forgotten here has been	R
And he the while is balancing between	S
If the heart spoke the heart I knew were bound	T2
What if it utter an uncertain sound '	-
'So quick to vary so rejoiced to change	A3
From this to that his feelings surely range	A3
His fancies wander and his thoughts as well	J2
And if the heart be constant who can tell	J2
Far off to fly to abandon me and go	M
He seems returning then before I know	M
With every accident he seems to move	B3
Is now below me and is now above	E2
Now far aside O does he really love '	-
'Absence were hard yet let the trial be	U2
His nature's aim and purpose he would free	U2
And in the world his course of action see	U2
O should he lose not learn pervert his scope	C3
O should I lose and yet to win I hope	C3
I win not now his way if now I went	T2
Brief joy I gave for years of discontent '	-
'Gone is it true but oft he went before	J
And came again before a month was o'er	K2
Gone though I could not venture upon art	T2
It was perhaps a foolish pride in part	T2
He had such ready fancies in his head	T2
And really was so easy to be led	T2
One might have failed and yet I feel 'twas pride	T2
And can't but half repent I never tried	T2
Gone is it true but he again will come	D3
Wandering he loves and loves returning home '	-
Gone it was true nor came so soon again	E3
Came after travelling pleasure half half pain	Q2
Came but a half of Europe first o'erran	Q2
Arrived his father found a ruined man	Q2
Rich they had been and rich was Emma too	T2
Heiress of wealth she knew not Edmund knew	T2
Farewell to her In a new home obscure	F3
Food for his helpless parents to secure	F3
From early morning to advancing dark	G3
He toiled and laboured as a merchant's clerk	H3
Three years his heavy load he bore nor quailed	T2
Then all his health though scarce his spirit failed	T2
Friends interposed insisted it must be	U2
Enforced their help and sent him to the sea	U2
Wandering about with little here to do	T2
His old thoughts mingling dimly with his new	T2
Wandering one morn he met upon the shore	J
Her whom he quitted five long years before	J
Alas why quitted Say that charms are nought	T2
Nor grace nor beauty worth one serious thought	T2
Was there no mystic virtue in the sense	I3
That joined your boyish girlish innocence	J3
Is constancy a thing to throw away	D
And loving faithfulness a chance of every day	D
Alas why quitted is she changed but now	Q2
The weight of intellect is in her brow	Q2
Changed or but truer seen one sees in her	K2
Something to wake the soul the interior sense to stir	K2
Alone they met from alien eyes away	D
The high shore hid them in a tiny bay	D
Alone was he was she in sweet surprise	K3
They met before they knew it in their eyes	K3
In his a wondering admiration glowed	T2
In hers a world of tenderness o'erflowed	T2
In a brief moment all was known and seen	Q2
That of slow years the wearying work had been	Q2
Morn's early odorous breath perchance in sooth	D
Awoke the old natural feeling of their youth	D
The sea perchance and solitude had charms	L3
They met I know not in each other's arms	L3
Why linger now why waste the sands of life	P2
A few sweet weeks and they were man and wife	P2
To his old frailty do not be severe	Y
His latest theory with patience hear	M3
'I sought not truly would to seek disdain	Q2
A kind soft pillow for a wearying pain	Q2
Fatigues and cares to lighten to relieve	N3
But love is fellow service I believe '	-
'No truly no it was not to obtain	Q2
Though that alone were happiness were gain	Q2
A tender breast to fall upon and weep	O3
A heart the secrets of my heart to keep	O3
To share my hopes and in my griefs to grieve	N3
Yet love is fellow service I believe '	-
'Yet in the eye of life's all seeing sun	Q2
We shall behold a something we have done	Q2
Shall of the work together we have wrought	T2
Beyond our aspiration and our thought	T2
Some not unworthy issue yet receive	N3
For love is fellow service I believe '	-
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The tale we said instructive was but short	T2
Could he not give another of the sort	T2
He feared his second might his first repeat	T2
'And Aristotle teaches change is sweet	T2
But come our younger friend in this dim night	T2
Under his bushel must not hide his light '	-
I said I'd had but little time to live	X2
Experience none or confidence could give	Y2
'But I can tell to morrow if you please	C
My last year's journey towards the Pyrenees '	-
To morrow came and evening when it closed	T2
The penalty of speech on me imposed	T2