The Undying One - Canto Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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'TIS done the night has pass'd awayA
And basking in the sunny dayA
The laughing fountain's waters bearB
No record of each burning tearB
The silent echoes give no soundC
Of shriek or moan and nothing roundC
Can tell what breaking hearts have beenD
So lately in that quiet sceneE
But ere the evening falls againF
Many a step o'er mount and glenF
Shall hurry far and wide to seekG
Her of the pallid brow and cheekG
Proud is the eye of the bridegroom lordH
He hath girt him round with a trusty swordH
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And the horse that hath borne him to battle for yearsI
Gladly his angry summons hearsJ
His red nostrils snuffing the morning airB
Nothing he heeds their heavy careB
But waits till his high curving neck shall be freedK
To bound o'er the hills with an arrow's speedK
He is gone full swiftly he dashes byL
And many a bright and beautiful eyeL
Follows the rider's form and dreamsM
Of pleasant walks by the dancing streamsM
Of moonlight whisperings in the groveN
Of looks of ardour and vows of loveO
Fill those young hearts and they wonder whyL
Visions so happy should make them sighL
And more they wonder that any oneP
Of the numberless forms their eyes have knownQ
Should have stolen a heart which Carlos woo'dR
By the fount and the lone wood's solitudeR
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Oh love real love intoxicating dreamS
Of beauty and of happiness how vainT
Are our aspirings after thee which seemS
To bring thee near us doubt and causeless painT
And jealousies and most unconstant sighsU
For something fairer than this world suppliesU
And fondness which doth end in faint disgustV
And airy hopes that crumble down to dustV
These are not love though these too oft impartW
A false excitement to the swelling heartW
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To look upon the fairy one who standsX
Before you with her young hair's shining bandsX
And rosy lips half parted and to museY
Not on the features which you now peruseY
Not on the blushing bride but look beyondZ
Unto the aged wife nor feel less fondZ
To feel that while thy arm can strike them deadA2
No breathing soul shall harm that gentle headA2
To know that none with fierce and sudden strifeB2
Shall tear thee from her save with loss of lifeB2
To keep thee but to one and let that oneP
Be to thy home what warmth is to the sunP
To gaze and find no change when time hath madeC2
Youth's dazzling beauty darken into shadeC2
But fondly firmly cling to her nor fearD2
The fading touch of each declining yearD2
This is true love when it hath found a restE2
In the deep home of manhood's faithful breastE2
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To worship silently at some heart's shrineF2
And feel but paint not all its fire in thineF2
To pray for that heart's hopes when thine are goneG2
Nor let its after coldness chill thine ownQ
To hold that one with every fault more dearD2
Than all who whisper fondness in thine earH2
To joy thee in his joy and silentlyI2
Meet the upbraiding of his angry eyeL
To bear unshrinking all the blows of fateJ2
Save that which leaves thy sorrow desolateK2
Nor deem that woe which thou canst feel is stillL2
Borne with him and for him through every illL2
To smile on him nor weep save when apartW
God and God only looks into thy heartW
To keep unchanged thy calm pure quiet loveO
If he inconstant doth a new one proveM2
To love all round him as a part of himN2
Ev'n her he worships though thine eye be dimN2
With weeping for thyself to pray that notO2
One cloud may darken o'er their earthly lotO2
With the affection of true hearts to seeI2
His happiness which doth not hang on theeI2
Oh this is woman's love its joy its painT
And this it hath been felt and felt in vainT
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They are dancing again by the misty veilP2
Of the star lit sky and the moonlight paleP2
Laughing and murmuring voices riseU
With their gladsome tones to the peaceful skiesU
And no one voice hath a sadder toneQ
For the sake of her whose form is goneG2
Though her step was light in the dance and her browQ2
Fairer than any which gleam there nowQ2
Yet after the dance is done and faintR2
Each languid limb on the turf is thrownQ
Their gathering voices strive to paintR2
The stranger heart that Linda wonP
And still as his wasted form pale browQ2
And mournful looks to their thoughts appearD2
With his deep sad voice they wonder howQ2
He hath pleaded his tale in Linda's earH2
And some dream wildly of wizard bowerS2
Which hath tempted those fair young feet to strayA
And some of the sweet and charmed powerS2
Which lies in the moonlight's holy rayA
And some who love oh they fondly feelT2
In the hopeful heart of the promised brideU2
That her soul may be bound in the woe or wealT2
Of the stranger by the fountain's sideU2
And none be able to know or tellT2
How such a love in her young heart grewV2
Till the charm have bound their souls as wellT2
And the flame burn bright in their bosoms tooV2
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They travel fast the bridegroom lordH
With his prancing steed and his trusty swordH
And the brother tyrant by his sideU2
With marble brow and heart of prideU2
But vainly they follow o'er vale and hillT2
Through the tufted heath or the cool clear rillT2
That mournful pair are far beforeW2
Where the bleak sands lie and the billows roarW2
Far from the smiling land of her birthX2
Her early home on the boundless earthX2
Hath Linda with tears resolved to goY2
For her mother's son is her deadly foeY2
Stern as he was when she watch'd each lookZ2
And obey'd ere he spoke oh how shall he brookZ2
That her heart hath swerved and her vows are naughtA3
For the sake of the love which a stranger broughtA3
Oh far may her white foot seek and reachB3
A home on Erin's shingled beachB3
Where Miriam dwelt in their bless'd landC3
Of the free warm heart and the open handC3
Where no hypocrite sneer their wrath disguisesD3
But the sword springs out as the heart's blood risesE3
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There hath she chosen her home to beI2
And their bark bounds over the foaming seaI2
Silently watching by Isbal's sideU2
Sadly she looks on the curling tideU2
And gloomily as it roams o'er allT2
His eye is a guide where hers shall fallT2
Sudden a light shot o'er that eyeL
And a quivering through him cameF3
And Linda though she knows not whyL
Clings trembling to his frameF3
Hurriedly he spokeG3
As the deep flush brokeG3
O'er his faceH3
'There is a vessel would it were a wreckI3
I know it by the flag and on that deckI3
Are forms my soul can traceH3
Though yet I see them not I knowY2
That could we meet a bitter woeY2
Were thine their power beneathJ3
Though yet I hear them not I feelT2
Each voice would tear the polish'd steelT2
From out its idle sheathJ3
Curse on the sails whose lagging speedK
Doth leave us in our hour of needK
Is there no wind in heavenP
They come oh Linda cling to meI2
Come closer yet more strength will beI2
To love and vengeance given '-
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Vain wrath Young Linda gazes on the sightK3
Which thus hath conjured up a desperate fightK3
And in the distance she doth spy a sailT2
With its flag fluttering gently on the galeT2
White calm and peaceful strange in truth it seemsM
That such a sight hath power to wake such dreamsM
Yet doth she shudder as with vehement forceL3
He clasps her round and views the vessel's courseL3
It nears it nears and through the signal glassM3
The distant forms of crew and captain passM3
'Tis they 'tis they Her brother's haughty formN3
Proudly erect defies the coming stormN3
And seated near him in his mantle cladO3
With brow almost as haughty but more sadO3
Is he who woo'd her heart when love was yetP3
A dream which those who wake strive vainly to forgetP3
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She sees them but all unconscious theyA
Who tracks them thus on their distant wayA
They hail the vessel then turn to gazeQ3
Upon the sunset's parting raysQ3
And veering in their course they severS2
Careless if they should pI2

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton



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