The Undying One' - Canto I Poem Rhyme Scheme

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MOONLIGHT is o'er the dim and heaving sea	A
Moonlight is on the mountain's frowning brow	B
And by their silvery fountains merrily	A
The maids of Castaly are dancing now	B
Young hearts bright eyes and rosy lips are there	C
And fairy steps and light and laughing voices	D
Ringing like welcome music through the air	C
A sound at which the untroubled heart rejoices	D
But there are hearts o'er which that dancing measure	E
Heavily falls	D
And there are ears to which the voice of pleasure	E
Still vainly calls	D
There's not a scene on earth so full of lightness	D
That withering care	C
Sleeps not beneath the flowers and turns their brightness	D
To dark despair	C
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Oh Earth dim Earth thou canst not be our home	F
Or wherefore look we still for joys to come	G
The fairy steps are flown the scene is still	H
Nought mingles with the murmuring of the rill	H
Nay hush it is a sound a sigh again	I
It is a human voice the voice of pain	J
And beautiful is she who sighs alone	K
Now that her young and playful mates are gone	L
The dim moon shining on her statue face	D
Gives it a mournful and unearthly grace	D
And she hath bent her gentle knee to earth	M
And she hath raised her meek sad eyes to heaven	N
As if in such a breast sin could have birth	M
She clasps her hands and sues to be forgiven	N
Her prayer is over but her anxious glance	D
Into the blue transparency of night	O
Seems as it fain would read the book of chance	D
And fix the future hours dark or bright	O
A slow and heavy footstep strikes her ear	P
What ails the gentle maiden Is it fear	Q
Lo she hath lightly raised her from the ground	R
And turn'd her small and stag like head around	R
Her pale cheek paler and her lips apart	S
Her bosom heaving o'er her beating heart	S
And see those thin white hands she raises now	B
To press the throbbing fever from her brow	B
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In vain in vain for never more shall rest	T
Find place in that young fair but erring breast	T
He stands before her now and who is he	A
Into whose outspread arms confidingly	H
She flings her fairy self Unlike the forms	D
That woo and win a woman's love the storms	D
Of deep contending passions are not seen	U
Darkening the features where they once have been	V
Nor the bright workings of a generous soul	H
Of feelings half conceal'd explain the whole	H
But there is something words cannot express	D
A gloomy deep and quiet fixedness	D
A recklessness of all the blows of fate	W
A brow untouch'd by love undimm'd by hate	W
As if in all its stores of crime and care	C
Earth held no suffering now for him to bear	C
Yes all is passionless the hollow cheek	X
Those pale thin lips shall never wreathe with smiles	D
Ev'n now 'mid joy unmoved and sad they speak	X
In spite of all his Linda's winning wiles	D
Yet can we read what all the rest denies	D
That he hath feelings of a mortal birth	M
In the wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes	D
Bent on that form his one dear link to earth	M
He loves and he is loved then what avail	H
The scornful words which seek to brand with shame	Y
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Or bitterer still the wild and fearful tale	H
Which couples guilt and horror with that name	Y
What boots it that the few who know him shun	N
To speak or eat with that unworthy one	N
Were all their words of scorn and malice proved	Z
It matters not he loves and he is loved	A2
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'Linda my Linda ' thus the silence broke	B2
And slow and mournfully the stranger spoke	B2
'Seat we ourselves upon this mossy bed	C2
Where the glad airs of heaven wave o'er thy head	C2
And thou shalt hear the awful tale which ne'er	C
Hath yet been breathed save once to mortal ear	P
And if my Linda nay love tremble not	D2
Thou shudder'st to partake so dark a lot	D2
Go and be happy in forgetfulness	D
And take I'd bless thee if my tongue could bless '	-
There was that sudden sinking of the tone	K
That lingers in our memory when alone	K
And thrills the heart to think how deep the grief	E2
Which sues no pity looks for no relief	E2
Oh deep beyond the feeble power of tears	D
Such scene will dwell within our souls for years	D
And it will seem but yesterday we heard	F2
The faltering pause the calm but broken word	F2
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Saw the averted head where each blue vein	J
Swell'd in its agony of mental pain	J
And heard the grief confess'd no not confess'd	T
But struggling burst convulsive from the breast	T
'Isbal ' that gentle voice half murmuring said	C2
As from his shoulder she upraised her head	C2
'Thou knowest I love thee When I came to night	O
I had resolved thy future dark or bright	O
Should still be mine Beloved so must it be	A
For I have broke a fearful vow for thee	A
This morning he who calls himself my brother	E
Oh can he be the child of my sweet mother	E
Pleaded once more for him that hated friend	G2
Whose bride I was to be I could but bend	G2
To the cold earth my faint and trembling knee	A
And supplicate with woman's agony	A
That he would spare me but an hour a day	H2
I clasp'd my brother's knees that brother said me nay	H2
He held a poinard to my shrinking heart	S
And bade me breathe the vow	B
Never in life or death from him to part	S
Who is my husband now	B
Isbal we were betrothed my lips in fear	Q
Pronounced those words but oh my heart was here	P
Here in the calm cold moonlight by thy side	I2
Here where the dark blue waters gently glide	I2
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Here in my childhood's haunts now ev'n more dear	Q
Than in those happy days for thou art near	Q
Yes while the unheeded vow my faint lip spoke	B2
Recall'd the echo which thy tones awoke	B2
Thy image rose between me and the shrine	J2
Surely the vow before it breathed was thine	J2
To morrow's sun proud Carlos claims his wife	K2
To morrow's sun shall see my span of life	K2
Devoted unto thee thy tale can make	L2
No lot I would not share for thy sweet sake	L2
No Ere I hear it let love's fond vow be	A
To have no earth no heaven no hope but thee	A
Now tell me all ' Again that gentle head	C2
With dewy eyes and flushing cheek is laid	M2
Upon his arm and with a thrill of pain	J
The broken thread is thus renew'd again	I
'From the first hour I saw thee on that night	O
When dancing in the moonbeam's chequer'd light	O
With those young laughing ones who now are gone	L
By this same fountain which is murmuring on	N2
When my deep groan burst through the music's sound	R
And that soft eye went glancing startled round	R
From that sweet hour when pity seem'd to move	O2
I loved thee as the wretched only love	P2
Oft since when in the darkness of my day	H2
I sit and dream my wretched life away	H2
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In the deep silence of my night of tears	D
When Memory wakes to mourn for vanish'd years	D
Shunn'd scorn'd detested friendless and alone	K
I've thought of thee and stifled back my groan	K
I've come in daylight and have flung me down	Q2
By the bright fountain's side	I2
Chased with dear thoughts of thee each gloomy frown	Q2
And bless'd my promised bride	I2
I've come when stormy winds have howl'd around	R
Over the yielding flowers	D
Bending their gentle heads unto the ground	R
And thought of thee for hours	D
I've come my Linda knows that I have come	G
When the soft starlight told	R2
That she had left her haughty brother's home	F
And hearts as dead and cold	R2
As the chill waters of a moonless sea	A
For the light dance and music's revelry	A
With gay and loving maids and I have watch'd	S2
Till one by one those soft steps have departed	T2
And my young mournful Linda hath been snatch'd	U2
To the sear bosom of the broken hearted	T2
Linda there is a land a far dark land	V2
Where on this head the red avenging hand	V2
Fell with its heaviest bolts When watching by	W2
The bitter cross of Him of Calvary	A
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They stood who loved and did believe in Him	X2
I said while all around grew dark and dim '	-
'Isbal dear Isbal ' shriek'd the affrighted maid	M2
'For that dear Saviour's sake for him who said	C2
He died for sinners mock me not I pray	H2
Oh yet beloved those words of Death unsay '	-
She hung upon his bosom and look'd up	Y2
Into those dark wild eyes with grief and fear	Q
Alas poor maiden 'twas a bit	Z2

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

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