Song Of The Pilgrims Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB BBB CDD EEE EEE FFF GGG BBB HHH III BBBJKJ BBB BBB BBB GGG JJK LLL III BBB III EEE| O Dwellers at the back of the North Wind | A |
| What have we done to you How have we sinned | B |
| Wandering the Earth from Orkney unto Ind | B |
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| With many deaths our fellowship is thinned | B |
| Our flesh is withered in the parching wind | B |
| Wandering the earth from Orkney unto Ind | B |
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| We have no rest We cannot turn again | C |
| Back to the world and all her fruitless pain | D |
| Having once sought the land where ye remain | D |
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| Some say ye are not But ah God we know | E |
| That somewhere somewhere past the Northern snow | E |
| Waiting for us the red rose gardens blow | E |
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| The red rose and the white rose gardens blow | E |
| In the green Northern land to which we go | E |
| Surely the ways are long and the years are slow | E |
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| We have forsaken all things sweet and fair | F |
| We have found nothing worth a moment's care | F |
| Because the real flowers are blowing there | F |
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| Land of the Lotus fallen from the sun | G |
| Land of the Lake from whence all rivers run | G |
| Land where the hope of all our dreams is won | G |
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| Shall we not somewhere see at close of day | B |
| The green walls of that country far away | B |
| And hear the music of her fountains play | B |
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| So long we have been wandering all this while | H |
| By many a perilous sea and drifting isle | H |
| We scarce shall dare to look thereon and smile | H |
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| Yea when we are drawing very near to thee | I |
| And when at last the ivory port we see | I |
| Our hearts will faint with mere felicity | I |
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| But we shall wake again in gardens bright | B |
| Of green and gold for infinite delight | B |
| Sleeping beneath the solemn mountains white | B |
| While from the flowery copses still unseen | J |
| Sing out the crooning birds that ne'er have been | K |
| Touched by the hand of winter frore and lean | J |
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| And ever living queens that grow not old | B |
| And poets wise in robes of faerie gold | B |
| Whisper a wild sweet song that first was told | B |
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| Ere God sat down to make the Milky Way | B |
| And in those gardens we shall sleep and play | B |
| For ever and for ever and a day | B |
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| Ah Dwellers at the back of the North Wind | B |
| What have we done to you How have we sinned | B |
| That yes should hide beyond the Northern wind | B |
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| Land of the Lotus fallen from the Sun | G |
| When shall your hidden flowery vales be won | G |
| And all the travail of our way be done | G |
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| Very far we have searched we have even seen | J |
| The Scythian waste that bears no soft nor green | J |
| And near the Hideous Pass our feet have been | K |
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| We have heard Syrens singing all night long | L |
| Beneath the unknown stars their lonely song | L |
| In friendless seas beyond the Pillars strong | L |
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| Nor by the dragon daughter of Hypocras | I |
| Nor the vale of the Devil's head we have feared to pass | I |
| Yet is our labour lost and vain alas | I |
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| Scouring the earth from Orkney unto Ind | B |
| Tossed on the seas and withered in the wind | B |
| We seek and seek your land How have we sinned | B |
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| Or is it all a folly of the wise | I |
| Bidding us walk these ways with blinded eyes | I |
| While all around us real flowers arise | I |
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| But by the very God we know we know | E |
| That somewhere still beyond the Northern snow | E |
| Waiting for us the red rose gardens blow | E |
C. S. Lewis
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