A Legend Of Christ's Nativity Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A Legend Of Christ's Nativity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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At Bethlehem upon the hill	A
The day was done the night was nigh	B
The dusk was deep and had its will	A
The stars were very small and still	A
Like unblown tapers faint and high	B
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The noises had begun to fall	C
And quiet stole upon the place	D
The howl of dogs along the wall	C
Voices that from the houstops call	C
And answer and the grace	D
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Of some low breath of even song	E
Grew faint apace between the rocks	F
In misty pastures and along	E
The dim hillside with crook and thong	E
The lonely shepherds watched their flocks	F
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The Inn master within the Inn	G
Called loudly out after this sort	H
'Draw no more water cease the din	G
Pile the loose fodder and begin	G
To turn the mules out of the court	H
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The time has come to shut the gate	I
Make way ' he cried and then began	J
To sweep and set the litter straight	I
And pile the saddle bags and freight	I
Of some belated caravan	J
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The drivers whirled their beasts about	K
And beat them on with shoutings great	I
The nosebags slipped the feed flew out	K
The water buckets reeled the rout	K
Went jostling onward to the gate	I
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Came one unto the master then	L
Hasting to find him through the gloom	M
'Give us a place to rest ' and when	L
He spake the master cried again	L
'There is no room there is no room '	-
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'But I have come from Nazareth	N
Full three days' toil to Bethlehem'	M
'What matters that ' the master saith	N
'For here is hardly room for breath	N
The guests curse me for crowding them '	-
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'Hold Sir leave me not so I pray'	O
He plucked him sudden by the sleeve	P
'My wife is with me and doth say	Q
Her hour hath come I beg you stay	Q
And make some plan for her relief '	-
	-
'Two hours ago you might have had	R
The chamber wherein stands the loom	M
But then to drive me wholly mad	R
Came this great merchant from Baghdad	R
And thrust himself into the room	M
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'There is no other shelf to call	C
A bed But just beyond the gate	I
You may find shelter in a stall	C
If there be shelter left at all	C
You may be even now too late '	-
	-
Beyond the gate within the night	S
A figure rested on the ground	T
About her all the rout took flight	S
The dizzy noise the flashing light	S
The mules were tramping all around	T
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Leaning in mute expectancy	U
Beneath a stunted sycamore	O
She added darkness utterly	U
To the dim light the shrouded tree	U
By her hands held her face before	O
	-
And yet to mock her eye's desire	O
The cavern into which she stared	V
Was lit with disks and lines of fire	O
When triple darkness did conspire	O
The secret founts of light were bared	V
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And all the wheeling fire was rife	W
With haunting fears her broken breath	N
Grew short with this prophetic strife	W
What was for one the dawn of life	W
Would be for one the dawn of death	N
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Meantime the stranger with a lamp	X
Which lit the darkness small and wan	Y
Searched where the mules did tramp and stamp	X
Amid the litter and the damp	X
For some small place to rest upon	Y
	-
And there against the furthest wall	C
Where the black shade was dense and deep	Z
He found a mean and meager stall	C
But there when the weak light did fall	C
He found a little lad asleep	Z
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He lifted up his childish head	A2
And smiled serenely at the light	S
'And have you found him then ' he said	A2
'My brother who I thought was dead	A2
I lost him in the crowd last night	S
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'His name is Ezra and he is	B2
So tall and strong that when I try	O
Standing on tiptoe for a kiss	C2
I could not reach except for this	C2
He lifts me up so easily	U
	-
'I had two little doves to take	D2
Up to the booths' he held his breath	N
'Peace child and for your mother's sake	D2
Yield me this place nay nay awake	D2
My weary wife is sick to death '	-
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'I will ' the little lad replied	E2
'I promised never to forget	F2
My mother years ago she died	E2
I will lie out on the hillside	E2
And I may find dear Ezra yet '	-
	-
And now she drooped her weary head	A2
Within that comfortless manger	O
It might have been a palace bed	A2
With canopy of gold instead	A2
So little did she know or care	O
	-
Gentle Jesus slumber mild	G2
Lullaby lullaby	O
Succored by a little child	G2
Lull lullaby	O
	-
You of children are the king	H2
Lullaby lullaby	O
Sovereign to all ministering	H2
Lull lullaby	O
	-
Grace you bring them from above	I2
Lullaby lullaby	O
They give promise lisping love	I2
Lull lullaby	O
	-
And out upon the darkened hill	A
With all the quiet pastured sheep	Z
Charmed by the falling of a rill	A
Where in the pool it cadenced still	A
The little lad was fallen asleep	Z
	-
All his young dreams were robed with power	O
And glad were all his vision folk	J2
He wandered on from hour to hour	O
With Ezra happy as a flower	O
That blooms safe shadowed by the oak	J2
	-
But once before his dreams were told	K2
He thought he saw within the deep	Z
Vault of the sky a rose unfold	K2
Made all of fire and lovely gold	K2
Whose petals seemed to glow and leap	Z
	-
As if each dewy crystal cell	L2
Were a great angel live with light	S
And trembling to the coronal	L2
Merging in sheen of pearl and shell	L2
With his great comrade equal bright	S
	-
Until the petals flashed and sprang	M2
And folded to the central heart	N2
Music there was that showered and rang	M2
As if each angel harped and sang	M2
Controlled by some celestial art	N2
	-
The child saw splendor without name	M
And turned and smiled and all the noise	O2
Of strings and singing sank it came	M
Faint and dream altered yet the same	M
Soft tempered to his mother's voice	P2
	-
Slumber slumber gentle child	G2
Lullaby lullaby	O
Sweet as henna dear and mild	G2
Lull lullaby	O
	-
You the first of all the race	D
Lullaby lullaby	O
Gave your master early grace	D
Lull lullaby	O
	-
Gave a shelter for his head	A2
Lullaby lullaby	O
Took the chilly earth instead	A2
Lull lullaby	O
	-
Now take comfort infant earth	N
Lullaby lullaby	O
Jesus Christ is come to birth	N
Lull lullaby	O
	-
For his principality	U
Lullaby lullaby	O
Children cluster at his knee	U
Lull lullaby	O
	-
Hail the heaven happy age	Q2
Lullaby lullaby	O
Love begins his pilgrimage	R2
Lull lullaby	O