The Higher Courage 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEE AFAFGGHH AIJIKKLL AMAMNNLL AOAOPPQQ ARARSSTT FIFIUUOO| Come back again my olden heart | A |
| Ah fickle spirit and untrue | B |
| I bade the only guide depart | A |
| Whose faithfulness I surely knew | B |
| I said my heart is all too soft | C |
| He who would climb and soar aloft | D |
| Must needs keep ever at his side | E |
| The tonic of a wholesome pride | E |
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| Come back again my olden heart | A |
| Alas I called not then for thee | F |
| I called for Courage and apart | A |
| From Pride if Courage could not be | F |
| Then welcome Pride and I shall find | G |
| In thee a power to lift the mind | G |
| This low and grovelling joy above | H |
| 'Tis but the proud can truly love | H |
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| Come back again my olden heart | A |
| With incrustations of the years | I |
| Uncased as yet as then thou wert | J |
| Full filled with shame and coward fears | I |
| Wherewith amidst a jostling throng | K |
| Of deeds that each and all were wrong | K |
| The doubting soul from day to day | L |
| Uneasy paralytic lay | L |
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| Come back again my olden heart | A |
| I said Perceptions contradict | M |
| Convictions come anon depart | A |
| And but themselves as false convict | M |
| Assumptions hasty crude and vain | N |
| Full oft to use will Science deign | N |
| The corks the novice plies to day | L |
| The swimmer soon shall cast away | L |
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| Come back again my olden heart | A |
| I said Behold I perish quite | O |
| Unless to give me strength to start | A |
| I make myself my rule of right | O |
| It must be if I act at all | P |
| To save my shame I have at call | P |
| The plea of all men understood | Q |
| Because I willed it it is good | Q |
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| Come back again my olden heart | A |
| I know not if in very deed | R |
| This means alone could aid impart | A |
| To serve my sickly spirit's need | R |
| But clear alike of wild self will | S |
| And fear that faltered paltered still | S |
| Remorseful thoughts of after days | T |
| A way espy betwixt the ways | T |
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| Come back again old heart Ah me | F |
| Methinks in those thy coward fears | I |
| There might perchance a courage be | F |
| That fails in these the manlier years | I |
| Courage to let the courage sink | U |
| Itself a coward base to think | U |
| Rather than not for heavenly light | O |
| Wait on to show the truly right | O |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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