Madeline In Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Here in the darkness where this plaster saintA
Stands nearer than God stands to our distressB
And one small candle shines but not so faintA
As the far lights of everlastingnessB
I'd rather kneel than over there in open dayC
Where Christ is hanging rather prayC
To something more like my own clayC
Not too divineD
For once perhaps my little saintA
Before he got his niche and crownE
Had one short stroll about the townE
It brings him closer just that taintA
And anyone can wash the paintA
Off our poor faces his and mineD
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Is that why I see Monty now equal to any saint poor boy as good as goldF
But still with just the proper traceB
Of earthliness on his shining wedding faceB
And then gone suddenly blank and oldF
The hateful day of the divorceB
Stuart got his hands down of courseB
Crowing like twenty cocks and grinning like a horseB
But Monty took it hard All said and done I liked him bestG
He was the first he stands out clearer than the restG
It seems too funny all we other ripsB
Should have immortal souls Monty and Redge quite damnablyC
Keep theirs afloat while we go down like scuttled shipsB
It's funny too how easily we sinkH
One might put up a monument I thinkH
To half the world and cut across it quot Lost at Sea quotG
I should drown Jim poor little sparrow if I netted him to nightG
No it's no use this penny lightG
Or my poor saint with his tin pot crownE
The trees of Calvary are where they wereI
When we are sure that we can spareJ
The tallest let us go and strike it downE
And leave the other two still standing thereJ
I too would ask Him to remember meK
If there were any Paradise beyond this earth that I could seeK
Oh quiet Christ who never knewL
The poisonous fangs that bite us throughL
And make us do the things we doL
See how we suffer and fight and dieG
How helpless and how low we lieG
God holds You and You hang so highG
Though no one looking long at YouL
Can think You do not suffer tooL
But up there from your still star lighted treeK
What can You know what can You really seeK
Of this dark ditch the soul of meK
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We are what we are when I was half a child I could not sitG
Watching black shadows on green lawns and red carnations burning in the sunM
Without paying so heavily for itG
That joy and pain like any mother and her unborn child were almost oneM
I could hardly bearJ
The dreams upon the eyes of white geraniums in the duskN
The thick close voice of muskN
The jessamine music on the thin night airJ
Or sometimes my own hands about me anywhereJ
The sight of my own face for it was lovely then even the scent of my own hairJ
Oh there was nothing nothing that did not sweep to the high seatG
Of laughing gods and then blow down and beatG
My soul into the highway dust as hoofs do the dropped roses of the streetG
I think my body was my soulC
And when we are made thusB
Who shall controlC
Our hands our eyes the wandering passion of our feetG
Who shall teach usB
To thrust the world out of our heart to say till perhaps in deathO
When the race is runM
And it is forced from us with our last breathO
quot Thy will be done quotG
If it is Your will that we should be content with the tame bloodless thingsB
As pale as angels smirking by with folded wingsB
Oh I know Virtue and the peace it bringsB
The temperate well worn smileC
The one man gives you when you are evermore his ownP
And afterwards the child's for a little whileC
With its unknowing and all seeing eyesB
So soon to change and make you feel how quickQ
The clock goes round If one had learned the trickQ
How does one though quite early onR
Of long green pastures under placid skiesB
One might be walking now with patient truthS
What did we ever care for it who have asked for youthS
When oh my God this is going or has goneT
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There is a portrait of my mother at nineteenU
With the black spaniel standing by the garden seatG
The dainty head held high against the painted greenU
And throwing out the youngest smile shy but half haughty and half sweetG
Her picture then but simply Youth or simply SpringV
To me to day a radiance on the wallC
So exquisite so heart breaking a thingV
Beside the mask that I remember shrunk and smallC
Sapless and lined like a dead leafW
All that was left of oh the loveliest face by time and griefW
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And in the glass last night I saw a ghost behind my chairJ
Yet why remember it when one can still go moderately gayC
Or could with any one of the old crewL
But oh these boys the solemn wayC
They take you and the things they sayC
This quot I have only as long as you quotG
When you remind them you are not precisely twenty twoL
Although at heart perhaps God if it wereI
Only the face only the hairJ
If Jim had written to me as he did to dayG
A year ago and now it leaves me coldG
I know what this means old old oldG
Et avec a mais on a v cu tout se paieX
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That is not always true there was my Mother well at least the dead are freeK
Yoked to the man that Father was yoked to the woman I am Monty tooL
The little portress at the Convent School stewing in hell so patientlyK
The poor fair boy who shot himself at Aix And what of me and what of meK
But I I paid for what I had and they for nothing No one cannot seeK
How it shall be made up to them in some serene eternityK
If there were fifty heavens God could not give us back the child who went or never cameY
Here on our little patch of this great earth the sun of any darkened dayG
Not one of all the starry buds hung on the hawthorn trees of last year's MayG
No shadow from the sloping fields of yesterdayG
For every hour they slant across the hedge a different wayG
The shadows are never the sameY
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quot Find rest iG

Charlotte Mary Mew



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