Proem. To Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIFFJJKLFMNF FOPA QRSTUFVFQFWXYXZ FTA2KIZB2TC2FFD2FJE2 Z FUJUUF2FFIUUUFG2UH2F JQI2UFJ2FK2UL2UUAlice I need not tell you that the Art | A |
That copies Nature even at its best | B |
Is but the echo of a splendid tone | C |
Or like the answer of a little child | D |
To the deep question of some frosted sage | E |
For Nature in her grand magnificence | F |
Compared to Art must ever raise her head | G |
Beyond the cognizance of human minds | F |
This is the spirit merely that the soul | H |
We watch her passing like some gentle dream | I |
And catch sweet glimpses of her perfect face | F |
We see the flashing of her gorgeous robes | F |
And if her mantle ever falls at all | J |
How few Elishas wear it sacredly | J |
As if it were a valued gift from heaven | K |
God has created we but re create | L |
According to the temper of our minds | F |
According to the grace He has bequeathed | M |
According to the uses we have made | N |
Of His good pleasure given unto us | F |
And so I love my art chiefly because | F |
Through it I rev'rence Nature and improve | O |
The tone and tenor of the mind He gave | P |
God sends a Gift we crown it with high Art | A |
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And make it worthy the bestower when | Q |
The talent is not hidden in the dust | R |
Of pampered negligence and venial sin | S |
But put to studious use that it may work | T |
The end and aim for which it was bestowed | U |
All Good is God's all Love and Truth are His | F |
We are His workers and we dare not plead | V |
But that He gave us largely of all these | F |
Demanding a discreet return that when | Q |
The page of life is written to its close | F |
It may receive the seal and autograph | W |
Of His good pleasure the right royal sign | X |
And signet of approval to the end | Y |
That we were worthy of the gift divine | X |
And through it praised the Great Artificer | Z |
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In my long rambles through Orillian woods | F |
Out on the ever changing Couchiching | T |
By the rough margin of the Lake St John | A2 |
Down the steep Severn where the artist sun | K |
In dainty dalliance with the blushing stream | I |
Transcribes each tree branch leaf and rock and flower | Z |
Perfect in shape and colour clear distinct | B2 |
With all the panoramic change of sky | T |
Even as Youth's bright river toying with | C2 |
The fairy craft where Inexperience dreams | F |
And subtle Fancy builds its airy halls | F |
In blest imagination pictures most | D2 |
Of bright or lovely that adorn life's banks | F |
With the blue vault of heaven over all | J |
On that serene and wizard afternoon | E2 |
As hunters chase the wild and timid deer | Z |
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We chased the quiet of Medonte's shades | F |
Through the green windings of the forest road | U |
Past Nature's venerable rank and file | J |
Of primal woods her Old Guard sylvan plumed | U |
The far off Huron like a silver thread | U |
The clue to some enchanted labyrinth | F2 |
Dimly perceived beyond the stretch of woods | F |
Th' approaches tinted by a purple haze | F |
And softened into beauty like the dream | I |
Of some rapt seer's Apocalyptic mood | U |
And when at Rockridge we sat looking out | U |
Upon the softened shadows of the night | U |
And the wild glory of the throbbing stars | F |
Where'er we bent our Eden tinted way | G2 |
My brain was a weird wilderness of Thought | U |
My heart love's sea of passion tossed and torn | H2 |
Calmed by the presence of the loving souls | F |
By whom I was surrounded All the while | J |
They deemed me passing tame and wondered when | Q |
My dreamy castle would come toppling down | I2 |
I was but driving back the aching past | U |
And mirroring the future And these leaves | F |
Of meditation are but perfumes from | J2 |
The censer of my feelings honied drops | F |
Wrung from the busy hives of heart and brain | K2 |
Mere etchings of the artist grains of sand | U |
From the calm shores of that unsounded deep | L2 |
Of speculation where all thought is lost | U |
Amid the realms of Nature and of God | U |
Charles Sangster
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