Proem. To Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Alice I need not tell you that the ArtA
That copies Nature even at its bestB
Is but the echo of a splendid toneC
Or like the answer of a little childD
To the deep question of some frosted sageE
For Nature in her grand magnificenceF
Compared to Art must ever raise her headG
Beyond the cognizance of human mindsF
This is the spirit merely that the soulH
We watch her passing like some gentle dreamI
And catch sweet glimpses of her perfect faceF
We see the flashing of her gorgeous robesF
And if her mantle ever falls at allJ
How few Elishas wear it sacredlyJ
As if it were a valued gift from heavenK
God has created we but re createL
According to the temper of our mindsF
According to the grace He has bequeathedM
According to the uses we have madeN
Of His good pleasure given unto usF
And so I love my art chiefly becauseF
Through it I rev'rence Nature and improveO
The tone and tenor of the mind He gaveP
God sends a Gift we crown it with high ArtA
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And make it worthy the bestower whenQ
The talent is not hidden in the dustR
Of pampered negligence and venial sinS
But put to studious use that it may workT
The end and aim for which it was bestowedU
All Good is God's all Love and Truth are HisF
We are His workers and we dare not pleadV
But that He gave us largely of all theseF
Demanding a discreet return that whenQ
The page of life is written to its closeF
It may receive the seal and autographW
Of His good pleasure the right royal signX
And signet of approval to the endY
That we were worthy of the gift divineX
And through it praised the Great ArtificerZ
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In my long rambles through Orillian woodsF
Out on the ever changing CouchichingT
By the rough margin of the Lake St JohnA2
Down the steep Severn where the artist sunK
In dainty dalliance with the blushing streamI
Transcribes each tree branch leaf and rock and flowerZ
Perfect in shape and colour clear distinctB2
With all the panoramic change of skyT
Even as Youth's bright river toying withC2
The fairy craft where Inexperience dreamsF
And subtle Fancy builds its airy hallsF
In blest imagination pictures mostD2
Of bright or lovely that adorn life's banksF
With the blue vault of heaven over allJ
On that serene and wizard afternoonE2
As hunters chase the wild and timid deerZ
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We chased the quiet of Medonte's shadesF
Through the green windings of the forest roadU
Past Nature's venerable rank and fileJ
Of primal woods her Old Guard sylvan plumedU
The far off Huron like a silver threadU
The clue to some enchanted labyrinthF2
Dimly perceived beyond the stretch of woodsF
Th' approaches tinted by a purple hazeF
And softened into beauty like the dreamI
Of some rapt seer's Apocalyptic moodU
And when at Rockridge we sat looking outU
Upon the softened shadows of the nightU
And the wild glory of the throbbing starsF
Where'er we bent our Eden tinted wayG2
My brain was a weird wilderness of ThoughtU
My heart love's sea of passion tossed and tornH2
Calmed by the presence of the loving soulsF
By whom I was surrounded All the whileJ
They deemed me passing tame and wondered whenQ
My dreamy castle would come toppling downI2
I was but driving back the aching pastU
And mirroring the future And these leavesF
Of meditation are but perfumes fromJ2
The censer of my feelings honied dropsF
Wrung from the busy hives of heart and brainK2
Mere etchings of the artist grains of sandU
From the calm shores of that unsounded deepL2
Of speculation where all thought is lostU
Amid the realms of Nature and of GodU

Charles Sangster



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