The Lady Of La Garaye - Part Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A FIRST walk after sickness the sweet breeze	A
That murmurs welcome in the bending trees	A
When the cold shadowy foe of life departs	B
And the warm blood flows freely through our hearts	B
The smell of roses sound of trickling streams	C
The elastic turf cross barred with golden gleams	C
That seems to lift and meet our faltering tread	D
The happy birds loud singing overhead	D
The glorious range of distant shade and light	E
In blue perspective rapturous to our sight	E
Weary of draperied curtains folding round	F
And the monotonous chamber's narrow bound	F
With best of all the consciousness at length	G
In every nerve of sure returning strength	G
	-
Long the dream stayed to cheer that darkened room	H
That this should be the end of all that gloom	H
	-
Long as the vacant life trained idly by	I
She pressed her pillow with a restless sigh	I
'To morrow surely I shall stronger feel '	-
To morrow but the slow days onward steal	J
And find her still with feverish aching head	D
Still cramped with pain still lingering in her bed	D
Still sighing out the tedium of the time	K
Still listening to the clock's recurring chime	K
As though the very hours that struck were foes	L
And might but would not grant complete respose	L
Until the skilled physician sadly bold	M
From frequent questioning her sentence told	M
That no good end could come to her faint yearning	N
That no bright hour should see her health returning	N
That changeful seasons not for one dark year	O
But on through life must teach her how to bear	P
For through all Springs with rainbow tinted showers	L
And through all Summers with their wealth of flowers	L
And every Autumn with its harvest home	Q
And all white Winters of the time to come	R
Crooked and sick for ever she must be	S
Her life of wild activity and glee	S
Was with the past the future was a life	T
Dismal and feeble full of suffering rife	T
With chill denials of accustomed joy	U
Continual torment and obscure annoy	U
Blighted in all her bloom her withered frame	V
Must now inherit age young but in name	V
Never could she at close of some long day	W
Of pain that strove with hope exulting lay	W
A tiny new born infant on her breast	X
And in the soft lamp's glimmer sink to rest	X
The strange corporeal weakness sweetly blent	X
With a delicious dream of full content	X
With pride of motherhood and thankful prayers	L
And a confused glad sense of novel cares	L
And peeps into the future brightly given	Y
As though her babe's blue eyes turned earth to heaven	Y
Never again could she when Claud returned	X
After brief absence and her fond heart yearned	X
To see his earnest eyes with upward glancing	N
Greet her known windows even while yet advancing	N
Fly with light footsteps down the great hall stair	P
And give him welcome in the open air	P
As though she were too glad to see him come	R
To wait till he should enter happy home	Q
And there quick breathing glowing sparkling stand	X
His arm round her slim waist hand locked in hand	X
The mutual kiss exchanged of happy greeting	N
That needs no secrecy of lovers' meeting	N
While giving welcome also in their way	W
Her dogs barked rustling round him wild with play	W
And voices called and hasty steps replied	X
And the sleek fiery steed was led aside	X
And the grey seneschal came forth and smiled	X
Who held him in his arms while yet a child	X
And cheery jinglings from unfastened doors	L
And vaulted echoes through long corridors	L
And distant bells that thrill along the wires	L
And stir of logs that heap up autumn fires	L
Crowned the glad eager bustle that makes known	Z
The Master's step is on his threshold stone	Z
	-
Never again those rides so gladly shared	X
So much enjoyed in which so much was dared	X
To prove no peril from the gate or brook	A2
Need bring the shadow of an anxious look	A2
To mar the pleasant ray of proud surprise	L
That shone from out those dear protecting eyes	L
No more swift hurrying through the summer rain	B2
That showered light silver on the freshened plain	B2
Hung on the tassels of the hazel bough	C2
And plashed the azure of the river's flow	D2
No more glad climbing of the mountain height	X
From whence a map drawn out in lines of light	X
Showed dotting villages and distant spires	L
And the red rows of metal burning fires	L
And purple covering woods within which stand	X
White mansions of the nobles of the land	X
	-
No more sweet wanderings far from tread of men	E2
In the deep thickets of the sunny glen	E2
To see the vanished Spring bud forth again	E2
Its well remembered tufts of primrose set	X
Among the sheltered banks of violet	X
Or in thatched summer houses sit and dream	F2
Through gurgling gushes of the woodland stream	F2
Then rested rise and by the sunset ray	W
Saunter at will along the homeward way	W
Pausing at each delight the singing loud	X
Of some sweet thrush e'er lingering eve be done	Y
Or the pink shining of some casual cloud	X
That blushes deeper as it nears the sun	Y
	-
The rough woodpath the little rocky burn	G2
Nothing of this can ever now return	G2
The life of joy is over what is left	X
Is a half life a life of strength bereft	X
The body broken from the yearning soul	H2
Never again to make a perfect whole	H2
Helpless desires and cravings unfulfilled	X
Bitter regret in stormy weepings stilled	X
Strivings whose easy effort used to bless	L
Grown full of danger and sharp weariness	L
This is the life whose dreadful dawn must rise	L
When the night lifts within whose gloom she lies	L
Hope on whose lingering help she leaned so late	X
Struck from her clinging by the sword of fate	X
That wild word NEVER to her shrinking gaze	L
Seems written on the wall in fiery rays	L
	-
Never our helpless changeful natures shrink	I2
Before that word as from the grave's cold brink	I2
Set us a term whereto we must endure	J2
And you shall find our crown of patience sure	J2
But the irrevocable smites us down	K2
Helpless we lie before the eternal frown	K2
Waters of Marah whelm the blinded soul	H2
Stifle the heart and drown our self control	H2
So when she heard the grave physician speak	L2
Horror crept through her veins who faint and weak	L2
And tortured by all motion yet had lain	B2
With a meek cheerfulness that conquered pain	B2
Hoping till that dark hour Give back the hope	M2
Though years rise sad with intervening scope	M2
Scarce can those radiant eyes with sickly stare	P
Yet comprehend that sentence of despair	P
Crooked and sick for ever Crooked and sick	N2
She in whose veins the passionate blood ran quick	N2
As leaps the rivulet from the mountain height	X
That dances rippling into Summer light	X
She in whose cheek the rich bloom always stayed	X
And only deepened to a lovelier shade	X
She whose fleet limbs no exercise could tire	O2
When wild hill climbing wooed her spirit higher	O2
Knell not above her bed this funeral chime	K
Bid her be prisoner for a certain time	K
Tell her blank years must waste in that changed home	Q
But not for ever not for life to come	R
Let infinite torture be her daily guest	X
But set a term beyond which shall be rest	X
	-
In vain she sees that trembling fountain rise	L
Tears of compassion in an old man's eyes	L
And in low pitying tones again he tells	L
The doom that sounds to her like funeral bells	L
Long on his face her wistful gaze she kept	X
Then dropped her head and wildly moaned and wept	X
Shivering through every limb as lightning thought	X
Smote her with all the endless ruin wrought	X
Never to be a mother Never give	P2
Another life beyond her own to live	Q2
Never to see her husband bless their child	X
Thinking dear bless d thought like him it smiled	X
Never again with Claud to walk or ride	X
Partake his pleasures with a playful pride	X
But cease from all companionship so shared	X
And only have the hours his pity spared	X
His pity ah his pity would it prove	R2
As warm and lasting as admiring love	S2
Or would her petty joys' late spoken doom	H
Carry the great joy with them to joy's tomb	H
Would all the hopes of life at once take wing	N
The thought went through her wi	W

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

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