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The Major And Elenor Murray At Nice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Elenor Murray and Petain the major	A
The Promenade des Anglais walked at Nice	B
A cloud was over him and in her heart	C
A growing grief	D
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He knew her at the hospital	E
First saw her face among a little group	F
Of faces at a grave when rain was falling	G
The burial of a nurse when Elenor's face	H
Was bathed in tears and strained with agony	I
And after that he saw her in the wards	J
Heard soldiers whom she nursed say as she passed	K
Dear little soul sweet soul or take her hand	L
In gratitude and kiss it	M
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But as a stream	N
Flows with clear water even with the filth	O
Of scum debris that drifts beside the current	P
Of crystal water nor corrupts it keeps	Q
Its poisoned heavier medium apart	C
So at the hospital where the nurses' hands	R
Poured sacrifice heroic love the filth	O
Of envy anger malice plots intrigue	S
Kept pace with pure devotion noble work	T
For suffering and the cause	U
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The major helped	V
To free the rules for Elenor Murray so	W
She might recuperate at Nice and said	X
Go and await me I shall join you there	Y
For in my trouble I must have a friend	Z
A woman to assuage me give me light	A2
And ever since I saw you by that grave	B2
And saw you cross yourself and bow your head	X
And watched your services along the wards	J
Among the sick and dying I have felt	C2
The soul of you its human tenderness	D2
Its prodigal power of giving pouring forth	E2
Itself for others And you seem a soul	F2
Where nothing of our human frailty	I
Has come to dim the flame that burns in you	G2
You are all light I think	H2
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And Elenor Murray	I
Looked down and said There is no soul like that	I2
This hospital the war itself reflects	J2
The good and bad together of our souls	K2
You are a boy oh such a boy to see	I
All good in me	I
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And Major Petain said	X
At least you have not found dishonor here	L2
As I have found it for a lust of flesh	M2
A weakness and a trespass	N2
	-
This was after	A
The hospital was noisy with the talk	O2
Of Major Petain and his shame the hand	L
Of discipline lay on him	P2
	-
Elenor Murray	I
Looked steadily in his eyes but only said	X
We mortals know each other but a little	E
Nor guess each other's secrets And she glanced	Q2
A moment at the tragedy that had come	R2
To her at Paris on her furlough there	Y
And of its train of sorrows even now	S2
Her broken health and failure in the work	T
As consequence to that and how it brought	T2
The breaking of her passionate will and dream	N
To serve and not to fail she glanced at this	U2
A moment as she faced him looked at him	P2
Then as she turned away There is one thing	G
That I must tell you it is fitting now	S2
I love and am beloved But if you come	R2
To Nice and I can help you come if talk	O2
And any poor advice of mine can help	V2
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So Major Petain Elenor Murray walked	W2
The Promenade at Nice arm fast in arm	X2
And Major Petain to relieve his heart	C
Told all the tragedy that had come to him	P2
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Duty to France was first with me where love	Y2
Was paramount with you if I divine	Z2
Your heart America's at least a love	Y2
Unmixed of other feelings as may be	I
What could you find here if you seek no husband	A3
Even in seeing France so partially	I
What in adventure lures to bring you here	L2
Where peril labor are You either came	B3
To expiate your soul or as you say	C3
To make more worthy of this man beloved	D3
Back in America your love for him	P2
Dear idealist I give my faith to you	G2
And all your words But as I said 'twas duty	I
Then dreams of freedom Europe's chains struck off	E3
The menace of the German crushed to earth	F3
That fired me as a soldier trained to go	W
When France should need me So it is you saw	G3
France go about this business calm and stern	H3
And patient for the prize or if 'twere lost	I3
Then brave to meet the future as France met	J3
The arduous years that followed Metz Sedan	K3
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But had I been American to the core	L3
Would I have put the sweet temptation by	M3
However flamed with zeal had I said no	W
When lips like hers were offered Oh you see	I
Whatever sun light gilds the mountain tops	N3
Rich grass grows in the valleys herds will feed	O3
Though rising suns put glories on the heights	P3
And herds will run and stumble over rocks	Q3
Break fences and encounter beasts of prey	C3
To get the grass that's sweetest	R3
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To begin	S3
I met her there in Paris In a trice	B
We loved each other wrote made vows she pledged	T3
The consummation There was danger here	L2
Great danger as you know for her and me	I
And yet it never stopped us gave us fear	U3
And then I schemed and got her through the lines	V3
Took all the chances	W3
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Danger was not all	X3
There was my knowledge of her husband's love	Y2
His life immaculate his daily letters	Y3
He put by woman chances that arose	Z3
With saying I am married am beloved	D3
I love my wife all said so earnestly	I
We could not joke him though behind his back	A4
Some said He trusts her but he'd better watch	B4
At least no sense of passing good things by	M3
I sat with him at mess I saw him read	X
The letters that she wrote him face of light	A2
Devouring eyes The others rallied him	P2
But I was like a man who knows a plot	C4
To take another's life but keeps the secret	D4
Eats with the victim does not warn him makes	E4
Himself thereby a party to the plot	C4
Or like a man who knows a fellow man	K3
Has some insidious disease beginning	G
And hears him speak with unconcern of it	M
And does not tell him what to do you know	W
And let him go to death And just for her	A
The rapture of a secret love I choked	F4
All risings of an honest manhood mercy	I
Honor with self and him Oh well you know	W
The isolation hunger of us soldiers	Y3
I only need to hint of these But now	S2
I see these well endured for sake of peace	G4
And quiet memory	I
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For here we stood	H4
Just 'round the corner in that long arcade	I4
That runs between our building next to yours	J4
And this is what I hear the husband's voice	K4
Which well I knew the officer's in command	L
'Why have you brought your wife here ' asked the officer	A
'Pardon I have not done so ' said the husband	A3
'You're adding falsehood to the offense you know	W
The rules forbid your wife to pass the lines '	-
'Pardon I have not brought her ' he exclaimed	L4
In passionate earnestness	D2
	-
Well there we stood	H4
My sweetheart but his wife was turned to snow	W
As white and cold I got in readiness	D2
To kill the husband How could we escape	M4
I thought the husband had been sent away	C3
Her coming had been timed with his departure	A
Arriving afterward and we had failed	N4
But as for that before our feet could stir	A
The officer said 'Come now I'll prove your lie '	-
And in a twinkling taking a dozen steps	O4
They turned into the arcade there they were	A
The officer was shaking him and saying	G
'You lie You lie '	-
	-
All happened in a moment	P
The humbled ruined fellow saw the truth	P4
And blew his brains out on the very spot	C4
And made a wonder gossip for you girls	Q4
And here I am	R4
	-
So Major Petain finished	S4
Then Elenor Murray said Let's watch the sea	I
And as they sat in silence as he turned	T4
To look upon her face he saw the tears	U4
Hanging like dew drops on her lashes drip	V4
And course her cheeks My friend you weep for me	I
The major said at last my gratitude	W4
For tears like these I weep said Elenor Murray	I
For you but for myself What can I say	C3
Nothing my friend your soul must find its way	C3
Only this word I'll go to mass with you	G2
I'll sit beside you pray with you for you	G2
And do you pray for me	I
	-
And then she paused	X4
The long wash of the sea filled in the silence	Y4
And then she said again I'll go with you	G2
Where we may pray each for the other pray	C3
I have a sorrow too as deep as yours	J4