The Dream By The Fountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGI JKEK LMLM NONO APAP LBLB QRQR STTT LTLT CTCT CUCU VWVW LXLW AYAY CTCT ETET LZLZ| Thought weary and sad I reclined by a fountain | A |
| At the head of a white cedar shaded ravine | B |
| And the breeze that fell over the high glooming mountain | A |
| Sang a lullaby low as I gazed o er the scene | B |
| Long I d reclined not till slumber came o er me | C |
| Grateful as balm to a suffering child | D |
| When a glorious maiden seemed standing before me | C |
| With a lyre in her hand O so sounding and wild | D |
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| Bright was her brow not the morning s brow brighter | E |
| But her eyes were two midnights of passionate thought | F |
| Light was her motion the breeze s not lighter | E |
| And her looks were like sunshine and shadow in wrought | F |
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| Never before did my bosom inherit | G |
| Emotion so thrilling such exquisite awe | H |
| Never such wonder exalted my spirit | G |
| Before as did now through the vision I saw | I |
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| Robed for the chase like a nymph of Diana | J |
| Her ivory limbs were half given below | K |
| Bare that the pure breath of heaven might fan her | E |
| Bare was her bosom of roseate snow | K |
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| Then lifting the lyre and with every feeling | L |
| Sublimed as with love she awakened the strings | M |
| And the while as it seemed into being came stealing | L |
| The motion and light of angelical wings | M |
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| Divine were the measure Each voice of the wold wood | N |
| Seemed gathering power in their musical thrills | O |
| The loud joy of streams in their strong mountain childhood | N |
| The shouting of echoes that break from the hills | O |
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| The moaning of trees all at midnight in motion | A |
| When the breezes seem lost in the dark with a rare | P |
| And sweet soaring spirit of human devotion | A |
| All blended and woven together were there | P |
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| Then she smiled with a look like the radiance of morning | L |
| When flushing the crystal of heaven s serene | B |
| Blent with that darkness of beauty adorning | L |
| The world when the moon just arising is seen | B |
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| And repressing it seemed many fonder suggestions | Q |
| Calmly she spake I arose to my knees | R |
| Expectantly glad while to quiet my questions | Q |
| The wild warbled words that she uttered were these | R |
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| I am the muse of the evergreen forest | S |
| I am the spouse of thy spirit lone bard | T |
| Ev n in the days when thy boyhood thou worest | T |
| Thy pastimes drew on thee my dearest regard | T |
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| For I knew thee ev n then in thy ecstacy musing | L |
| Of glory and grace by old Hawkesbury s side | T |
| Scenes that spread recordless round thee suffusing | L |
| With the purple of love I beheld thee and sighed | T |
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| Sighed for the fire robe of thought had enwound thee | C |
| Betok ning how much that the happy most dread | T |
| And whence there should follow howe er it renowned thee | C |
| What sorrows of heart and what labours of head | T |
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| Signed though thy dreams did the more but endear thee | C |
| It seemed of the breeze or a sigh of thine own | U |
| When I swept o er this lyre still unseen gliding near thee | C |
| To give thy emotions full measure and tone | U |
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| Since have I tracked thee through less lovely places | V |
| And seen thee with sorrow long herd with the vain | W |
| Lured into error by false smiling faces | V |
| Chained by dull fashion though scorning her chain | W |
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| Then would I prompt in the still hour of dreaming | L |
| Some thought of thy beautiful country again | X |
| Of her yet to be famed streams through dark woods far gleaming | L |
| Of her bold shores that throb to the beat of the main | W |
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| Till at last I beheld thee arise in devotion | A |
| To shake from thy heart the vile bondage it bore | Y |
| And my joy gloried out like a morning lit ocean | A |
| When thy footfall I heard in the mountains once more | Y |
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| Listen belov d one I promise thee glory | C |
| Such as shall rise like the day star apart | T |
| To brighten the source of Australia s broad story | C |
| But for this thou must give to the future thy heart | T |
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| Be then the bard of thy country O rather | E |
| Should such be thy choice than a monarchy wide | T |
| Lo Tis the land of the grave of thy father | E |
| Tis the cradle of liberty Think and decide | T |
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| Joy glowed in my heart as she ceased Unreplying | L |
| I gazed mute with love on her soul moulded charms | Z |
| Deeper they glowed her lips trembled and sighing | L |
| She rushed to my heart and dissolved in my arms | Z |
Charles Harpur
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