Into The Silent Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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Oh for a pen of light a tongue of fire	B
That every word might burn in living flame	C
Upon the age's brow and leave one name	C
Engraven on the future One desire	B
Fills every nook and cranny of my heart	D
One hope one sorrow one belov d aim	C
She whose pure life was of my life a part	D
As light is of the day could she inspire	E
My unmelodious muse or tune the lyre	E
To diapasons worthy of the theme	F
How would her joy put on its robes of light	G
And nestle in my bosom once again	H
As when life like an Oriental dream	F
Fanned by Arabian airs glode down the stream	F
To music whose remembrance is a pain	I
The foot of time might trample on my strain	I
But could not quench its essence There was might	G
And majesty and greatness in the love	J
She blest me with a blessing without stain	I
And that was earthly since her spirit sight	G
Looked through the veil and learned love's true delight	G
Which sainted ministrants alone can prove	K
Who taste the waters of eternal love	J
I pause to think how wonderful has grown	L
The love that was to me so wondrous here	M
Chained as I am to this terrestrial sphere	N
Groping my way through darkness and alone	L
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Like a blind eaglet soaring towards the sun	O
How would her full experience lift and cheer	N
The heart that never feels its duty done	O
And with a girdle of pure light enzone	O
My flowery world of thought and make it all her own	O
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Thus mused the Minstrel for his heart was sad	P
Death had bereaved him of his bride while youth	Q
And looming years of future trust and truth	Q
Knit them together till their souls were clad	P
With joy ineffable Love's great High Priest	R
Sacrificed in their hearts to Him that doeth	Q
All things well and such rare perpetual feast	R
Of love and truth no mortals ever had	P
To keep their memories green their lives serene and glad	P
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He sat again within the quiet room	S
Where Death had snapped one golden thread of life	T
And the pale hand of Sickness sorrow rife	T
Robbed the plump cheek of childhood of its bloom	S
Where she another Philomena moved	U
Like a fond Charity the coming wife	T
Ordained to crown his being And he loved	V
The future rose before him joy and gloom	S
For where the sunlight shone there waved the sable plume	S
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And yet he failed not for the coming pain	O
The coming bliss would counterbalance all	W
The sight prophetic that perceived the pall	X
Looked far beyond for the celestial gain	O
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They do not truly love who cannot yield	Y
The mortal up at the Immortal's call	W
Or fail to triumph for the soul that's sealed	Y
His mind was strung to one harmonious strain	O
To give when God should ask and not resign in vain	O
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Love was to him life's chiefest victory	Z
He knew no greater and he sought no less	A2
Like a green isle surrounded by the sea	Z
That gives it health and vigour so was he	Z
The centre of love's sphere of perfectness	Z
He breathed its heavenly atmosphere the key	Z
That opened every chamber in love's court	B2
Was in his hand love's mystery was his sport	B2
He knelt within love's fane and worshipped there	C2
But not alone for one was by his side	D2
Whose love refined his being filled the air	C2
Of life's irradiated sky with light	G
As the sun floods the heavens with a tide	D2
Of renovating freshness as the night	G
Is mellowed by the ample moon	O
And hoping for the recompense	Z
That would be theirs in life's approaching noon	O
They built on hope's high eminence	Z
Their airy palaces whose magnificence	Z
Surpassed the dreams that fancy drew	E2
So fair the promised land that lay within their view	E2
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And here they lived just within reach of heaven	O
They could put forth their hands and touch the skies	Z
That brooded o'er the walls of chrysolite	G
The airy minarets and golden domes	Z
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Of their new home by Love the Maker given	O
Steeped in his brightest dyes	Z
All nature opened up her ponderous tomes	Z
Whereby they had new knowledge and new sight	G
Learned greater truths and saw the paths of light	G
Mosaic paven which to Duty led	G
And there were secrets written overhead	G
In burning hieroglyphs of thought	G
From which they gleaned such lessons as are taught	G
Only to those whom heaven in graciousness	Z
Lifts in her arms with a divine caress	Z
Earth like a joyous maiden whose pure soul	F2
Is filled with sudden ecstacy became	C
A fruitful Eden and the golden bowl	F2
That held their elixir of life was filled	G
To overflowing with the rarest draught	G
Ever by gods or men in rapture quaffed	G
Till from the altar of their hearts love's flame	C
Passed through the veins of the world and thrilled	G
The soul of the rejoicing universe	Z
Which became theirs and like true neophytes	Z
They drained the sweet nepenthe and love's rites	Z
Wiped from their hearts all trace of the primeval curse	Z
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The happy months rolled on each wedded day	G
A bridal and each calm and holy eve	G2
Strewed with rare blessings all the sunny way	G
Through which they passed with so divine a joy	H2
That in his brain would meditation weave	G2
Love's roses into garlands of sweet song	I2
To deck the brow of his devoted wife	T
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In this their El Dorado no alloy	H2
Mixed with the coinage of their wedded life	T
The workmen in the mint an honest throng	I2
No wonder then that with go fine a bliss	Z
Informing every fibre of his brain	O
His thoughts begat impressions such as this	Z
Linking their lives together with a chain	O
Of melody as rare as some divine refrain	O
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Like dew to the thirsty flower	B
Like sweets to the hungry bee	Z
Is love's divinest dower	J2
Its tenderness and power	B
To thee dear Wife to thee	Z
	-
Like light to the darkened spirit	G
Like oil to the turbid sea	Z
Like truthful words to merit	G
Are the blessings I inherit	G
With thee dear Wife with thee	Z
	-
Afar in the distant ages	Z
Soul ransomed and spirit free	Z
I'll read all being's pages	Z
Unread by mortal sages	Z
With thee dear Wife with thee	Z
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None but the happy heart could carol thus	Z
A feather stolen from Devotion's wing	K2
To keep as a memento of the time	L2
When earth met heaven in life's duteous	Z
And prayerful journey towards the shadowy clime	L2
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Ere they descended from their height sublime	L2
Where at Love's well filled table banqueting	K2
They sat and watched the first glad year	N
Earthlike revolving round the sun	O
Of their true life Within that sphere	N
Was the new Eden One by one	O
The precious moments dropped like golden sands	Z
And formed the solid hours No perilous strands	Z
Delayed life's blissful current as it sped	G
Through flowery realms with blue skies overhead	G
To songs and laughter musically sweet	G
As if all sorrow had forever fled	G
And idylls sung with cheerful tone	O
Haunted the calm enchanted zone	O
That hemmed them in	O
Where like a stately queen	O
Sate Peace beatified serene	O
The guardian heaven sent of this their fair demesne	O
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LOVE'S ANNIVERSARY	Z
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Like a bold adventurous swain	O
Just a year ago to day	G
I launched my bark on a radiant main	O
And Hymen led the way	G
Breakers ahead he cried	G
As he sought to overwhelm	L2
My daring craft in the shrieking tide	G
But Love like a pilot bold and tried	G
Sat watchful at the helm	L2
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And we passed the treacherous shoals	Z
Where many a hope lay dead	G
And splendid wrecks were piled like the ghouls	Z
Of joys forever fled	G
Once safely over these	Z
We sped by a fairy realm	L2
Across the bluest and calmest seas	Z
That were ever kissed by a truant breeze	Z
With Love still at the helm	L2
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We sailed by sweet odorous isles	Z
Where the flowers and trees were one	O
Through lakes that vied with the golden smiles	Z
Of heaven's unclouded sun	O
Still speeds our merry bark	K2
Threading life's peaceful realm	L2
And 'tis ever morn with our marriage lark	K2
For the Pilot Love of our safety ark	K2
Stands watchful at the helm	L2
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II	A
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A beautiful land is the Land of Dreams	Z
Green hills and valleys and deep lagoons	Z
Swift rushing torrents and gentle streams	Z
Glassing a myriad silver moons	Z
Mirror like lakelets with lovely isles	Z
And verdurous headlands looking down	O
On the Neread shapes whose smiles	Z
Were worth the price of a peaceful crown	O
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We clutch at the silvery bars	Z
Flung from the motionless stars	Z
And climb far into space	Z
Defying the race	Z
Who ride in a rial cars	Z
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We take up the harp of the mind	G
And finger its delicate strings	Z
The notes soft and light	G
As a moonbeam's flight	G
Departing on viewless wings	Z
Afar in some fanciful bower	B
Some region of exquisite calm	L2
Where the starlight falls in a gleaming shower	B
We sink to repose	Z
On our couch of rose	Z
Inhaling no mortal balm	L2
The worlds are no longer unknown	O
We pass through the uttermost sky	K2
Our eyelids are kissed	G
By a gentle mist	G
And we feel the tone	O
Of a calmer zone	O
As if heaven were wondrous nigh	K2
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A fanciful land is the Land of Dreams	Z
Where earth and heaven are clasping hands	Z
No heaven no earth	Q
But one wide new birth	Q
Where Beauty and Goodness and human worth	Q
Make earth of heaven and heaven of earth	Q
And angels are walking on golden strands	Z
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And the pearly gates of the universe	Z
Of mind and fancy opening	K2
To the touch of the dainty finger tips	Z
Of elegant Peris with rose bud lips	Z
Delicate weird like sounds are born	O
From the amber depths of odorous morn	O
And spirits of beauty and light rehearse	Z
Such strains as the young immortals sing	K2
When the souls of the blest	G
Are borne to their rest	G
On luminous pinions of light serene	O
To the fragrant bowers of evergreen	O
O'er the rosy plains where the dying hours	Z
Are changed by a spell to celestial flowers	Z
Where the skies have a hue no name can express	Z
For the tone of their passionate loveliness	Z
Surpasseth all human imagining	K2
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Such was their beautiful Dream of Life	T
Each stern reality softened down	O
Earth seemed to have ended her age of Strife	T
And Harmony reigned her olive crown	O
Besting on the Parian brow	M2
Of the fair victor like the gleam	L2
Of the silvery moon on waves that flow	N2
Thoughtfully down the summer stream	L2
Such was their earnest Dream of Life	T
Was it some angel with jealous eye	K2
Seeing such love beneath the sky	K2
As never yet in world or star	O2
Or spheral height that reached so far	O2
'Twas never beheld by mortal sight	G
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Or elsewhere save in highest heaven	O
Was duly earned or truly given	O
That leagued with the usurper Death	Q
To quench the light that shone so bright	G
That in all the earth there was not a breath	Q
So foul as to change their day to night	G
	-
Alone alone Oh word of fearful tone	O
Well might the moon withhold her light	G
The stars withdraw from human sight	G
When Love was overthrown	O
The Minstrel's heart how changed	G
Love's principalities	Z
O'er which he reigned supreme	L2
Usurped by earth's realities	Z
The realm through which he ranged	G
Become a vanished dream	L2
And yet he sung as sings	Z
The dying swan that droops its wings	Z
And drifts along the stream	L2
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THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW PANE	O
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A joy from my soul's departed	G
A bliss from my heart is flown	O
As weary weary hearted	G
I wander alone alone	O
The night wind sadly sigheth	Q
A withering wild refrain	O
And my heart within me dieth	Q
For the light in the window pane	O
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The stars overhead are shining	K2
As brightly as e'er they shone	O
As heartless sad repining	K2
I wander alone alone	O
A sudden flash comes streaming	K2
And flickers adown the lane	O
But no more for me is gleaming	K2
The light in the window pane	O
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The voices that pass are cheerful	P2
Men laugh as the night winds moan	O
They cannot tell how fearful	P2
'Tis to wander alone alone	O
For them with each night's returning	K2
Life singeth its tenderest strain	O
Where the beacon of love is burning	K2
The light in the window pane	O
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Oh sorrow beyond all sorrows	Z
To which human life is prone	O
Without thee through all the morrows	Z
To wander alone alone	O
Oh dark deserted dwelling	K2
Where Hope like a lamb was slain	O
No voice from thy lone walls welling	K2
No light in thy window pane	O
	-
But memory sainted angel	P2
Rolls back the sepulchral stone	O
And sings like a sweet evangel	P2
No never never alone	O
	-
True grief has its royal palace	Z
Each loss is a greater gain	O
And Sorrow ne'er filled a chalice	Z
That Joy did not wait to drain	O
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Man must be perfected	G
By suffering he said	G
And Death is but the stepping stone whereby	K2
We mount towards the gate	G
Of heaven soon or late	G
Death is the penalty of life we die	K2
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Because we live and life	T
Is but a constant strife	T
With the immortal Impulse that within	O
Our bodies seeks control	P2
The time abiding Soul	P2
That wrestles with us yet we fain would win	O
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And what the victory	Z
Would make us slaves and we	Z
Who in our blindness struggle for the prize	Z
Of this illusive state	G
Called Life do but frustrate	G
The higher law refusing to be wise	Z
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Rightly he knew indeed	G
Earth's brightest paths but lead	G
To the true wisdom of that perfect state	G
Where Knowledge heaven born	O
And Love's eternal morn	O
Awaiteth those who would be truly great	G
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With what abiding trust	G
He rose from out the dust	G
As Death's swift chariot passed him by the way	G
No visionary dream	L2
Was his no trifling theme	L2
The Soul's great Mystery before him lay	G
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THE SOUL	P2
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All my mind has sat in state	G
Pond'ring on the deathless Soul	P2
What must be the Perfect Whole	P2
When the atom is so great	G
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God I fall in spirit down	O
Low as Persian to the sun	O
All my senses one by one	O
In the stream of Thought must drown	O
	-
On the tide of mystery	Z
Like a waif I'm seaward borne	O
Ever looking for the morn	O
That will yet interpret Thee	Z
	-
Opening my blinded eyes	Z
That have strove to look within	O
'Whelmed in clouds of doubt and sin	O
Sinking where I dared to rise	Z
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Could I trace one Spirit's flight	G
Track it to its final goal	P2
Know that 'Spirit' meant 'the Soul '	-
I must perish in the light	G
	-
All in vain I search and cry	K2
What O Soul and whence art thou	Q
Lower than the earth I bow	Q
Stricken with the grave reply	K2
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Wouldst thou ope what God has sealed	G
Sealed in mercy here below	P2
What is best for man to know	P2
Shall most surely be revealed	G
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Deep on deep of mystery	Z
Ask the sage he knows no more	Q2
Of the soul's unspoken lore	Q2
Than the child upon his knee	Z
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Cannot tell me whence the thought	G
That is passing through my mind	G
Where the mystic soul is shrined	G
Wherewith all my life is fraught	G
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Knows not how the brain conceives	Z
Images almost divine	O
Cannot work my mental mine	O
Cannot bind my golden sheaves	Z
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Is he wiser then than I	K2
Seeing he can read the stars	Z
I have rode in fancy's oars	Z
Leagues beyond his farthest sky	K2
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Some old Rabbi dreaming o'er	B
The sweet legends of his race	Z
Ask him for some certain trace	Z
Of the far eternal shore	Q2
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No The Talmud page is dark	K2
Though it burn with quenchless fire	B
And the insight must pierce higher	B
That would find the vital spark	K2
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O my Soul be firm and wait	G
Hoping with the zealous few	E2
Till the Shekinah of the True	E2
Lead thee through the Golden Gate	G

Charles Sangster

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