The Lawyer's Second Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Christian	A
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A highland inn among the western hills	B
A single parlour single bed that fills	B
With fisher or with tourist as may be	C
A waiting maid as fair as you can see	C
With hazel eyes and frequent blushing face	D
And ample brow and with a rustic grace	D
In all her easy quiet motions seen	E
Large of her age which haply is nineteen	E
Christian her name in full a pleasant name	F
Christian and Christie scarcely seem the same	F
A college fellow who has sent away	G
The pupils he has taught for many a day	G
And comes for fishing and for solitude	H
Perhaps a little pensive in his mood	H
An aspiration and a thought have failed	I
Where he had hoped another has prevailed	I
But to the joys of hill and stream alive	J
And in his boyhood yet at twenty five	J
A merry dance that made young people meet	K
And set them moving both with hands and feet	K
A dance in which he danced and nearer knew	L
The soft brown eyes and found them tender too	L
A dance that lit in two young hearts the fire	M
The low soft flame of loving sweet desire	M
And made him feel that he could feel again	N
The preface this what follows to explain	O
That night he kissed he held her in his arms	P
And felt the subtle virtue of her charms	P
Nor less bewildered on the following day	G
He kissed he found excuse near her to stay	G
Was it not love And yet the truth to speak	Q
Playing the fool for haply half a week	Q
He yet had fled so strong within him dwelt	R
The horror of the sin and such he felt	R
The miseries to the woman that ensue	L
He wearied long his brain with reasonings fine	S
But when at evening dusk he came to dine	S
In linsey petticoat and jacket blue	L
She stood so radiant and so modest too	L
All into air his strong conclusions flew	L
Now should he go But dim and drizzling too	L
For a night march to night will hardly do	L
A march of sixteen weary miles of way	G
No by the chances which our lives obey	G
No by the Heavens and this sweet face he'll stay	G
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A week he stayed and still was loth to go	T
But she grew anxious and would have it so	T
Her time of service shortly would be o'er	M
And she would leave her mistress knew before	U
Where would she go To Glasgow if she could	V
Her father's sister would be kind and good	V
An only child she was an orphan left	W
Of all her kindred save of this bereft	W
Said he 'Your guide to Glasgow let me be	C
You little know you have not tried the sea	C
Say at the ferry when are we to meet	K
Thither I guess you travel on your feet '	-
She would 'be there on Tuesday next at three	C
'O dear how glad and thankful she would be	C
But don't ' she said 'be troubled much for me '	-
Punctual they met a second class he took	X
More naturally to her wants to look	X
And from her side was seldom far away	G
So quiet so indifferent yet were they	G
As fellow servants travelling south they seemed	Y
And no one of a love relation dreamed	Y
At Oban where the stormy darkness fell	Z
He got two chambers in a cheap hotel	Z
At Oban of discomfort one is sure	A2
Little the difference whether rich or poor	B2
Around the Mull the passage now to make	C2
They go aboard and separate tickets take	C2
First class for him and second class for her	M
No other first class passengers there were	M
And with the captain walking soon alone	D2
This Highland girl he said to him was known	D2
He had engaged to take her to her kin	E2
Could she be put the ladies' cabin in	E2
The difference gladly he himself would pay	G
The weather seemed but menacing to day	G
She ne'er had travelled from her home before	U
He wished to be at hand to hear about her more	U
Curious it seemed but he had such a tone	D2
And kept at first so carefully alone	D2
And she so quiet was and so discreet	K
So heedful ne'er to seek him or to meet	K
The first small wonder quickly passed away	G
And so from Oban's little land locked bay	G
Forth out to Jura Jura pictured high	F2
With lofty peaks against the western sky	F2
Jura that far o'erlooks the Atlantic seas	G2
The loftiest of the Southern Hebrides	G2
Through the main sea to Jura when we reach	H2
Jura we turn to leftward to the breach	H2
And southward strain the narrow channel through	L
And Colonsay we pass and Islay too	L
Cantire is on the left and all the day	G
A dull dead calm upon the waters lay	G
Sitting below after some length of while	I2
He sought her and the tedium to beguile	I2
He ventured some experiments to make	C2
The measure of her intellect to take	C2
Upon the cabin table chanced to lie	F2
A book of popular astronomy	C
In this he tried her and discoursed away	G
Of Winter Summer and of Night and Day	G
Still to the task a reasoning power she brought	J2
And followed slowly followed with the thought	J2
How beautiful it was to see the stir	M
Of natural wonder waking thus in her	M
But loth was he to set on books to pore	U
An intellect so charming in the ore	U
And she perhaps had comprehended soon	K2
Even the nodes so puzzling of the moon	K2
But nearing now the Mull they met the gale	L2
Right in their teeth and should the fuel fail	L2
Thinking of her he grew a little pale	L2
But bravely she the terrors miseries took	X
And met him with a sweet courageous look	X
Once at the worst unto his side she drew	L
And said a little tremulously too	L
'If we must die please let me come to you '	-
I know not by what change of wind or tide	M2
Heading the Mull they gained the eastern side	M2
But stiller now and sunny e'en it grew	L
Arran's high peaks unmantled to the view	L
While to the north far seen from left to right	N2
The Highland range extended snowy white	N2
Now in the Clyde he asked what would be thought	J2
In Glasgow of the company she brought	J2
'You know ' he said 'how I desire to stay	G
We've played at strangers for so long a day	G
But for a while I yet would go away '	-
She said O no indeed they must not part	O2
Her father's sister had a kindly heart	O2
'I'll tell her all and O when you she sees	G2
I think she'll not be difficult to please '	-
Landed at Glasgow quickly they espied	O2
Macfarlane grocer by the river side	O2
To greet her niece the woman joyful ran	P2
But looked with wonder on the tall young man	P2
Into the house the women went and talked	O2
He with the grocer in the doorway walked	O2
He told him he was looking for a set	O2
Of lodgings had he any he could let	O2
The man was called to council with his wife	Q2
They took the thing as what will be in life	Q2
Half in a kind half in a worldly way	G
They said the lassie might play out her play	G
The gentleman should have the second floor	U
At thirty shillings for a week or more	U
Some days in this obscurity he stayed	O2
Happy with her and some inquiry made	O2
For friends he found and did his best to see	C
What hope of getting pupils there would be	C
This must he do 'twas evident 'twas clear	R2
Marry and seek a humble maintenance here	S2
Himself he had a hundred pounds a year	R2
To this plain business he would bend his life	Q2
And find his joy in children and in wife	Q2
A wife so good so tender and so true	L
Mother to be of glorious children too	L
Half to excuse his present lawless way	G
He to the grocer happened once to say	G
Marriage would cost him more than others dear	R2
Cost him indeed three hundred pounds a year	R2
''Deed ' said the man 'a heavy price no doubt	O2
For a bit form that one can do without '	-
And asked some questions pertinent and plain	O
Exacter information to obtain	O
He took a little trouble to explain	O
The College Audit now to last at least	O2
Three weeks ere ending with the College Feast	O2
He must attend a tedious dull affair	T2
But he as junior Bursar must be there	T2
Three weeks however quickly would be fled	O2
And then he'd come he didn't say to wed	O2
With plans of which he nothing yet would say	G
Preoccupied upon the parting day	G
He seemed a little absent and distrait	G
But she as knowing nothing was amiss	U2
Gave him her fondest smile her sweetest kiss	U2
A fortnight after or a little more	U
As at the Audit weary of the bore	U
He sat and of his future prospects thought	G
A letter in an unknown hand was brought	G
'Twas from Macfarlane and to let him know	T
To South Australia they proposed to go	T
'Rich friends we have who have advised us thus	V2
Occasion offers suitable for us	V2
Christie we take whate'er she find of new	L
She'll ne'er forget the joy she's had with you	L
'Tis an expensive pilgrimage to make	C2
You'll like to send a trifle for her sake '	-
Nothing he said of when the ship would sail	L2
That very night by swift returning mail	L2
Ten pounds he sent for what he did not know	T
And 'In no case ' he said 'let Christian go '	-
He in three days would come and for his life	Q2
Would claim her and declare her as his wife	Q2
Swift the night mail conveyed his missive on	W2
He followed in three days and found them gone	X2
All three had sailed he looked as though he dreamed	G
The money order had been cashed it seemed	G
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The Clergyman 'This story is mere pain '	-
Exclaimed 'for if the women don't sustain	O
The moral standard all we do is vain '	-
'But what we want ' the Yankee said 'to know	T
Is if the girl went willingly or no	T
Sufficient motive though one does not see	C
'Tis clear the grocer used some trickery '	-
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He judged himself so strong the clinging in	E2
This kind of people is to kith and kin	E2
For if they went and she remained behind	G
No one she had if him she failed to find	G
Alas this lawless loving was the cause	Y2
She did not dare to think how dear she was	Y2
Justly his guilty tardiness he curst	G
He should have owned her when he left her first	G
And something added how upon the sea	C
She perilled too a life that was to be	C
A child that born in far Australia there	T2
Would have no father and no father's care	T2
So to the South a lonely man returned	G
For other scenes and busier life he burned	G
College he left and settled soon in town	Z2
Wrote in the journals gained a swift renown	Z2
Soon into high society he came	F
And still where'er he went outdid his fame	F
All the more liked and more esteemed the less	A3
He seemed to make an object of success	A3
An active literary life he spent	G
Towards lofty points of public practice bent	G
Was never man so carefully who read	G
Whose plans so well were fashioned in his head	G
Nor one who truths so luminously said	G
Some years in various labours thus he passed	G
A spotless course maintaining to the last	G
Twice upon Government Commissions served	G
With honour place which he declined deserved	G
He married then a marriage fit and good	G
That kept him where his worth was understood	G
A widow wealthy and of noble blood	G
Mr and Lady Mary are they styled	G
One grief is theirs to be without a child	G
I did not tell you how he went before	U
To South Australia vainly to explore	U
The ship had come to Adelaide no doubt	G
Watching the papers he had made it out	G
But of themselves in country or in town	Z2
Nothing discovered travelling up and down	Z2
Only an entry of uncertain sound	G
In an imperfect register he found	G
His son he thought but could not prove it true	L
The surname of the girl it chanced he never knew	L
But this uneasy feeling gathered strength	B3
As years advanced and it became at length	B3
His secret torture and his secret joy	C3
To think about his lost Australian boy	C3
Somewhere in wild colonial lands has grown	D2
A child that is his true and very own	D2
This strong parental passion fills his mind	G
To all the dubious chances makes him blind	G
Still he will seek and still he hopes to find	G
Again will go	T
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Said I 'O let him stay	G
And in a London drawing room some day	G
Rings on her fingers brilliants in her hair	T2
The lady of the latest millionaire	T2
She'll come and with a gathering slow surprise	D3
On Lady Mary's husband turn her eyes	D3
The soft brown eyes that in a former day	G
From his discretion lured him all astray	G
At home six bouncing girls who more or less	A3
Are learning English of a governess	V2
Six boisterous boys as like as pear to pear	T2
Only the eldest has a different air '	-
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'You jest ' he said 'indeed it happened so '	-
From a great party just about to go	T
He saw he knew and ere she saw him said	G
Swift to his wife as for the door he made	G
'My Highland bride to escape a scene I go	T
Stay find her out great God and let me know '	-
The Lady Mary turned to scrutinise	V2
The lovely brow the beautiful brown eyes	V2
One moment then performed her perfect part	G
And did her spiriting with simplest art	G
Was introduced her former friends had known	D2
Say might she call to morrow afternoon	K2
At three O yes At three she made her call	E3
And told her who she was and told her all	E3
Her lady manners all she laid aside	G
Like women the two women kissed and cried	G
Half overwhelmed sat Christian by her side	G
While she 'You know he never knew the day	G
When you would sail but he believed you'd stay	G
Because he wrote you never knew you say	G
Wrote that in three days' time they need not fear	R2
He'd come and then would marry you my dear	R2
You never knew And he had planned to live	J
At Glasgow lessons had arranged to give	F3
Alas then to Australia he went out	G
All through the land to find you sought about	G
And found a trace which though it left a doubt	G
Sufficed to make it still his grief his joy	C3
To think he had a child a living boy	C3
Whom you my love '	-
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'His child is six foot high	F2
I've kept him as the apple of my eye '	-
Cried she 'he's riding or you'd see him here	S2
O joy that he at last should see his father dear	R2
As soon as he comes in I'll tell him all	E3
And on his father he shall go and call '	-
'And you ' she said 'my husband will you see '	-
'O no it is not possible for me	C
The boy I'll send this very afternoon	K2
O dear I know he cannot go too soon	K2
And something I must write to write will do '	-
So they embraced and sadly bade adieu	L
The boy came in his father went and saw	V2
We will not wait this interview to draw	V2
Ere long returned and to his mother ran	P2
His father was a wonderful fine man	P2
He said and looked at her the Lady too	L
Had done whatever it was kind to do	L
He loved his mother more than he could say	G
But if she wished he'd with his father stay	G
A little change she noticed in his face	V2
E'en now the father's influence she could trace	V2
From her the slight slight severance had begun	A
But simply she rejoiced that it was done	A
She smiled and kissed her boy and 'Long ago	T
When I was young I loved your father so	T
Together now we had been living too	L
Only the ship went sooner than he knew	L
In loving him you will be loving me	C
Father and mother are as one you see '	-
Her letter caught him on the following day	G
As to the club he started on his way	G
From her he guessed the hand indeed was new	L
Back to his room he went and read it through	L
'I know not how to write and dare not see	C
But it will take a load of grief from me	C
O what a load that you at last should know	T
The way in which I was compelled to go	T
Wretched I know and yet it seems 'twas more	U
Cruel and wretched than I knew before	U
So many years to think how on your day	G
Joyful you'd come and find me flown away	G
What would you think of me what would you say	G
O love this little let me call you so	T
What other name to use I do not know	T
O let me think that by your side I sit	G
And tell it you and weep a little bit	G
And you too weep with me for hearing it	G
Alone so long I've borne this dreadful weight	G
Such grief at times it almost turned to hate	G
O let me think you sit and listening long	G3
Comfort me still and say I wasn't wrong	G3
And pity me and far far hence again	N
Dismiss if haply any yet remain	O
Hard thoughts of me that in your heart have lain	O
O love to hear your voice I dare not go	T
But let me trust that you will judge me so	T
'I think no sooner were you gone away	G
My aunt began to tell me of some pay	G
More than three hundred pounds a year 'twould be	C
Which you she said would lose by marrying me	C
Was this a thing a man of sense would do	L
Was I a fool to look for it from you	L
You were a handsome gentleman and kind	G
And to do right were every way inclined	G
But to this truth I must submit my mind	G
You would not marry Speak and tell me true	L
Say has he ever said one word to you	L
That meant as much O love I knew you would	G
I've read it in your eyes so kind and good	G
Although you did not speak I understood	G
Though for myself indeed I sought it not	G
It seemed so high so undeserved a lot	G
But for the child when it should come I knew	L
O I was certain what you meant to do	L
She said We quit the land will it be right	G
Or kind to leave you for a single night	G
Just on the chance that he will come down here	S2
And sacrifice three hundred pounds a year	R2
And all his hopes and prospects fling away	G
And has already had his will as one may say	G
Go you with us and find beyond the seas	V2
Men by the score to choose from if you please	V2
I said my will and duty was to stay	G
Would they not help me to some decent way	G
To wait and surely near was now the day	G
Quite they refused had they to let you know	T
Written I asked to say we were to go	T
They told me yes they showed a letter too	L
Post office order that had come from you	L
Alas I could not read or write they knew	L
I think they meant me though they did not say	G
To think you wanted me to go away	G
O love I'm thankful nothing of the kind	G
Ever so much as came into my mind	G
'To morrow was the day that would not fail	L2
For Adelaide the vessel was to sail	L2
All night I hoped some dreadful wind would rise	V2
And lift the seas and rend the very skies	V2
All night I lay and listened hard for you	L
Twice to the door I went the bolt I drew	L
And called to you scarce what I did I knew	L
'Morning grew light the house was emptied clear	R2
The ship would go the boat was lying near	R2
They had my money how was I to stay	G
Who could I go to when they went away	G
Out in the streets I could not lie you know	T
O dear but it was terrible to go	T
Yet yet I looked I do not know what passed	G
I think they took and carried me at last	G
Twelve hours I lay and sobbed in my distress	V2
But in the night let be this idleness	V2
I said I'll bear it for my baby's sake	C2
Lest of my going mischief it should take	C2
Advice will seek and every caution use	V2
My love I've lost his child I must not lose	V2
'How oft I thought when sailing on the seas	V2
Of our dear journey through the Hebrides	V2
When you the kindest were and best of men	N
O love I did not love you right till then	N
O and myself how willingly I blamed	G
So simple who had been and was ashamed	G
So mindful only of the present joy	C3
When you had anxious cares your busy mind to employ	C3
Ah well I said but now at least he's free	C
He will not have to lower himself for me	C
He will not lose three hundred pounds a year	R2
In many ways my love has cost him dear	R2
'Upon the passage great was my delight	G
A lady taught me how to read and write	G
She saw me much and fond of me she grew	L
Only I durst not talk to her of you	L
'We had a quiet time upon the seas	V2
And reached our port of Adelaide with ease	V2
At Adelaide my lovely baby came	F
Philip he took his father's Christian name	F
And my poor maiden surname to my shame	F
O but I little cared I loved him so	T
'Twas such a joy to watch and see him grow	T
At Adelaide we made no length of stay	G
Our friends to Melbourne just had gone away	G
We followed shortly where they led before	U
To Melbourne went and flourished more and more	U
My aunt and uncle both are buried there	T2
I closed their eyes and I was left their heir	T2
They meant me well I loved them for their care	T2
'Ten years ago I married Robert dear	R2
And well he loved and waited many a year	R2
Selfish it seemed to turn from one so true	L
And I of course was desperate of you	L
I've borne him children six we've left behind	G
Three little ones whom soon I hope to find	G
To my dear boy he ever has been kind	G
'Next week we sail and I should be so glad	G
Only to leave my boy will make me sad	G
But yours he is by right the grief I'll bear	T2
And at his age more easy he can spare	T2
Perhaps a mother's than a father's care	T2
Indeed I think him like his father too	L
He will be happier probably with you	L
'Tis best I know nor will he quite forget	G
Some day he'll come perhaps and see his mother yet	G
O heaven farewell perhaps I've been to blame	F
To write as if it all were still the same	F
Farewell write not I will not seek to know	T
Whether you ever think of me or no '	-
O love love love too late the tears fell down	Z2
He dried them up and slowly walked to town	Z2
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To bed with busy thoughts the following day	G
Bore us expectant into Boston Bay	G
With dome and steeple on the yellow skies	V2
Upon the left we watched with curious eyes	V2
The Puritan great Mother City rise	V2
Among the islets winding in and round	G
The great ship moved to her appointed ground	G
We bade adieu shook hands and went ashore	U
I and my friend have seen our friends no more	U

Arthur Hugh Clough

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