The Child Of The Islands - Conclusion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCDDA EFEFFGFGGA HIHIIJIJJK JLJLLJLJJK JMJMMNMNNK KOKOPQOQQK JRJSSKSKK K JTJTTUTUUT TTTTTITIIT VGVGGJGJJT JUJWWXWXXT JTJTTUTUYT ETETTJTJJK JJJJJWJUWK ZLZLLJLJJK A2TA2TTTTTTK TTTTTITIIK JJJJJJJJJT JJJW

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MY lay is ended closed the circling yearB
From Spring's first dawn to Winter's darkling nightC
The moan of sorrow and the sigh of fearB
The ringing chords of triumph and delightC
Have died away oh child of beauty brightC
And all unconscious of my song art thouD
With large blue eyes of Majesty and mightC
And red full lips and fair capacious browD
No Leader of the World but Life's Beginner nowD
IIA
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Oh tender human blossom thou art fairE
With such a beauty as the eye perceivesF
Watching a bud of promise rich and rareE
In the home shadow of surrounding leavesF
THOUGHT the great Dream bringer who joys and grievesF
Over the visions of her own creatingG
Resting by Thee a sigh of pleasure heavesF
The fever of her rapid flight abatingG
Amid the golden hopes around thy cradle waitingG
IIIA
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Thou thou at least art happy For thy sakeH
Heaven speaks reversal of the doom of painI
Set on our Nature when the Demon SnakeH
Hissed the first lie a woman's ear to gainI
And Eden was lamented for in vainI
THOU art not meant like other men to thirstJ
For benefits no effort can attainI
To struggle on by Hope's deceiving nurstJ
And linger still the last where thou wouldst fain be firstJ
IVK
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The royal canopy above thy headJ
Shall charm away the griefs that others knowL
Oh mocking dream Thy feet Life's path must treadJ
The Just God made not Happiness to growL
Out of condition fair the field flowers blowL
Fair as the richer flowers of garden groundJ
And far more equally are joy and woeL
Divided than they dream who gazing roundJ
See but that narrow plot their own life's selfish boundJ
VK
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True in thy Childhood's Spring thou shalt not tasteJ
The bitter toil of factory or mineM
Nor the Strong Summer of thy manhood wasteJ
In labour vain and want that bids thee pineM
The mellow Autumn of thy calm declineM
The sheltered Winter of thy happy AgeN
Shall see home faces still around thee shineM
No Workhouse threatening where the heart's sick rageN
Mopes like a prisoned bird within a cheerless cageN
VIK
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True that instead of all this weary griefK
This cutting off what joy our life affordsO
This endless pining for denied reliefK
All Luxury shall hail thee music's chordsO
Shall woo thee and sweet utterance of wordsP
In Minstrel singing Painting shall beguileQ
Thine eye with mimic battles dark with swordsO
Green sylvan landscapes beauty's imaged smileQ
And books thy leisure hours from worldly cares shall wileQ
VIIK
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There ends the sum of thy Life's holidayJ
WANT shall not enter near thee PLEASURE shallR
But Pomp hath wailed when Poverty looked gayJ
And SORROW claims an equal tax from allS
Tears have been known from Royal eyes to fallS
When harvest trudging clowns went singing byK
Sobs have woke echoes in the gilded hallS
And by that pledge of thine EqualityK
Men hail thee BROTHER still though thou art set so highK
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VIIIK
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DEATH too who heeds not poorer men's regretJ
Neither is subject to the will of KingsT
All Thrones all Empires of the Earth are setJ
Under the vaulted shadow of his wingsT
He blights our Summers chills our fairest springsT
Nips the fresh bloom of some uncertain flowerU
Yea where the fragile tendril closest clingsT
There doth his gaunt hand pluck with sudden powerU
Leaving green burial mounds where stood Affection's bowerU
IXT
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Where is young Orleans that fair Prince of FranceT
Who 'scaped a thousand threatening destiniesT
Only to perish by a vulgar chanceT
Lost is the light of the most lovely eyesT
That ever imaged back the summer skiesT
Widowed the hapless Wife who seeks to trainI
Childhood's frail thread of broken memoriesT
So that her Orphan may at least retainI
The haunting shadow of a Father's face in vainI
XT
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Oh Summer flowers which happy children cullV
How were ye stained that year by bitter weepingG
When he the stately and the beautifulV
Wrapped in his dismal shroud lay coldly sleepingG
The warm breeze through the rustling woods went creepingG
The birds with gladdening notes sang overheadJ
The peasant groups went laughing to their reapingG
But in the gorgeous Palace rose insteadJ
Sobs and lamenting Hymns and Masses for the DeadJ
XIT
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Where too is She the loved and lately wivedJ
The fair haired Daughter of an EmperorU
Born in the time of roses and who livedJ
A rose's life one Spring one Summer moreW
Dating from Girlhood's blushing days of yoreW
Fading in Autumn lost in Winter's gloomX
And with the opening year beheld no moreW
She and her babe lie buried in the tombX
The green bud on the stem both withered in the bloomX
XIIT
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Then RUSSIA wept Then bowing to the dustJ
That brow whereon proud Majesty and GraceT
Are chiselled as in some ideal bustJ
All vain appeared his power his realm's wide spaceT
And the high blood of his imperial raceT
He sank a grieving man a helpless SireU
Who could not call back to a pale sweet faceT
By might of rule or Love's intense desireU
The light that quivering sank in darkness to expireY
XIIT
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Where is the angel sent as Belgium's heirE
Renewing hopes so linked with bitter fearsT
When our own Charlotte perished young and fairE
The former love of long departed yearsT
That little One is gone from earth's cold tearsT
To smile in Heaven's clear sunshine with the BlestJ
And in his stead another bud appearsT
But when his gentle head was laid to restJ
Came there not boding dreams to sting his Father's breastJ
XIVK
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Of Claremont of that dark December nightJ
When pale with weary vigils vainly keptJ
Crushed by the destiny that looked so brightJ
Dark browed and beautiful he stood and weptJ
By one who heard him not but dumbly sleptJ
By one who loved him so that evermoreW
Her young heart with a fervent welcome leaptJ
To greet his presence But those pangs are o'erU
And Heaven in mercy keeps more smiling days in storeW
XVK
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God hath built up a bridge 'twixt man and manZ
Which mortal strength can never overthrowL
Over the world it stretches its dark spanZ
The keystone of that mighty arch is WOEL
Joy's rainbow glories visit earth and goL
Melting away to Heaven's far distant landJ
But Grief's foundations have been fixed belowL
PLEASURE divides us the Divine commandJ
Hath made of SORROW'S links a firm connecting bandJ
XVIK
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In the clear morning when I rose from sleepA2
And left my threshold for the fresh'ning breezeT
There I beheld a grieving woman weepA2
The shadow of a child was on her kneesT
The worn heir of her many miseriesT
'Save him ' was written in her suppliant glanceT
But I was weaker than its fell diseaseT
And ere towards noon the Dial could advanceT
Death indeed saved her babe from Life's most desperate chanceT
XVIIK
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The sunset of that day in splendid hallsT
Mourning a little child of Ducal raceT
How fair the picture Memory recallsT
I saw the sweetest and the palest faceT
That ever wore the stamp of Beauty's graceT
Bowed like a white rose beat by storms and rainI
And on her countenance my eyes could traceT
And on her soft cheek marked with tearful stainI
That she had prayed through many a midnight watch in vainI
XVIIIK
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In both those different homes the babe was deadJ
Life's early morning closed in sudden nightJ
In both the bitter tears were freely shedJ
Lips pressed on lids for ever closed from lightJ
And prayers sobbed forth to God the InfiniteJ
From both the little one was borne awayJ
And buried in the earth with solemn riteJ
One in a mound where no stone marked the clayJ
One in a vaulted tomb with funeral arrayJ
XIXT
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It was the last distinction of their lotJ
The same dull earth received their mortal mouldJ
The same high consecration marked the spotJ
A Christian burying place forW

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton



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