The League Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHD I JJKKLL| There was never a hint when I was a boy | A |
| That the joy of the wilds might bring man joy | A |
| Never a thought that a wild thing slain | B |
| Might wake in the slayer pain for pain | B |
| We were savages all with the hunter's thrill | C |
| In the lure of the chase and the lust of the kill | C |
| And the bud on the bough and the bird in the nest | D |
| Were beautiful things to be possessed | D |
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| But a worthier thing comes now to the earth | E |
| Since pity in minds of the young has birth | E |
| 'Tis the glorious gift that wisdom brings | F |
| Of knowing and loving all lovely things | F |
| Of loving and sharing with all the boon | G |
| Of the glad free things that may teach us soon | G |
| The gift of living as glad and free | H |
| As bird and blossom in Arcady | D |
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| 'Oh youth is heedless ' the elders say | I |
| 'Youth is callous and cruel in play ' | - |
| Say they forgetting that all youth heeds | J |
| Comes down through lauding of elders' deeds | J |
| But the law of savage of fang and claw | K |
| Gives what was in the end to a worthier law | K |
| And man emerging from ways uncouth | L |
| Sees visions anew in the League of Youth | L |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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