Epilogue: 1908 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The droning tram swings westward shrill	A
the wire sings overhead and chill	A
midwinter draughts rattle the glass	B
that shows the dusking way I pass	B
to yon four turreted square tower	C
that still exalts the golden hour	C
where youth initiate once endears	B
a treasure richer with the years	B
	-
Dim seen the upper stories fleet	D
along the twisting shabby street	D
beneath the shop fronts' cover'd ways	B
bask in their lampions' orange blaze	B
or stare phantasmal weirdly new	E
in the electrics' ghastly blue	E
and up and down I see them go	F
along the windows pleas'd and slow	F
but hurrying where the darkness falls	B
the city's drift of pavement thralls	B
whom the poor pleasures of the street	D
lure from their niggard homes to meet	D
and mix unknown and feel the bright	G
banality 'twixt them and night	G
so in my youth I saw them flit	H
where their delusive dream was lit	H
so now I see them and can read	I
the urge of their unwitting need	J
one with my own however dark	K
and questing towards one mother ark	K
But past the gin shop's ochrous flare	L
sudden a gap of quiet air	L
and gather'd dark where set a pace	B
beyond the pavement's coiling race	B
and mask'd by bulk of sober leaves	B
the plain obtruncate chancel heaves	B
whose lancet windows faintly show	F
suffusion of a ruddy glow	F
the lamp of adoration dim	M
and rich with unction kept for Him	M
whom Bethlehem's manger first made warm	N
the sweetest god in human form	N
love's prisoner in the Eucharist	O
man's pleading patient amorist	O
and there the sacring laver stands	B
where I was brought in pious hands	B
a chrisom child that I might be	P
accepted of that company	P
who thro' their journeying behold	Q
beyond the apparent heavens controu'd	Q
to likeness of a candid rose	B
ascending where the gold heart glows	B
cirque within cirque the blessed host	Q
their kin their comfort and their boast	Q
	-
With them I walk'd in love and awe	R
till I was ware of that grim maw	S
and lazar pit that reek'd beneath	T
what outcast howlings these what teeth	T
gnashing in vain and was that bliss	B
whose counter hemisphere was this	B
and could it be when times fulfill'd	Q
had made the tally of either guild	Q
that this mid world dredged clean in both	U
should no more bar their gruesome troth	U
So from beneath that choiring tent	Q
I stepp'd and tho' my spirit's bent	Q
was dark to me as yet I sought	Q
a sphere appeas'd and undistraught	Q
and found viaticum and goal	V
in that hard atom of the soul	V
that final grain of deathless mind	Q
which Satan's watch fiends shall not find	Q
nor the seven mills of darkness bruise	B
for all permission to abuse	B
stubborn yet if one seek aright	Q
translucent all within and bright	Q
with sheen that bath no paradigm	W
not where our proud Golcondas brim	M
tho' sky and sea and leaf and flower	C
in each rare mood of virtual power	C
sleep in their gems' excepted day	Q
and so nor long the guarded ray	Q
broke on my eagerness who brought	Q
the lucid diamond probe of thought	Q
and driving it behind the extreme	X
blind vehemence of travailing dream	X
against the inhibitory shell	Y
and found no grim eternal cell	Y
and presence of the shrouded Norn	P
but Eden clad in nuptial mom	Z
young fair and radiant with delight	Q
remorse nor sickness shall requite	Q
	-
Yes Eden was my own my bride	Q
whatever malices denied	Q
faithful and found again nor long	A2
absent from aura of wooing song	A2
but promis'd only while the sun	P
must travel yet thro' times undone	P
and life must guard the prize of youth	B2
and thought must steward into truth	B2
the mines of magian ore divined	Q
in rich Cipangos of the mind	Q
and I that made my high attempt	Q
no bliss whence any were exempt	Q
their fellow pilgrim I must greet	Q
these listless captives of the street	Q
these fragments of an orphan'd drift	Q
whose dower was our mother's thrift	Q
and tho' they know it not have care	L
of what would be their loving prayer	L
if skill bestow'd might help them heed	Q
their craving for the simple meed	Q
to be together in the light	Q
when loneliness and dark incite	Q
long is the way till we are met	Q
where Eden pays her hoarded debt	Q
and we are orb'd in her and she	P
hath still'd her hungering to be	P
with plentitude beyond impeach	C2
single distinct and whole in each	C2
and many an evening hour shall bring	D2
the dark crowd's dreary loitering	D2
to me who pass and see the tale	E2
of all my striving bliss or bale	E2
dated from either spire that strives	B
clear of the shoal of shiftless lives	B
and promise in all years' despite	Q
fidelity to old delight	Q

Christopher John Brennan

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