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After Sixty Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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RING bells flags fly and let the great crowd roar	A
Its ecstasy Let the hid heart in prayer	B
Lift up your name God bless you evermore	A
Lady who have the noblest crown to wear	B
That ever woman wore	A
A jewel in the front of time shall blaze	C
This day of all your days commemorate	D
With Time's white bays your brows are laureate	E
And England's love shall garland all your days	C
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When England's crown to Love's acclaim was laid	F
On the soft brightness of a maiden's hair	B
Amid delight Love trembled half afraid	F
To give that little head such weight to bear	B
Bind on so slight a maid	F
A kingdom's purple bid her hands hold high	G
The sceptre and the heavy orb of power	H
To give to youth and beauty for a dower	I
Care and a crown sorrow and sovereignty	J
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But from our hearts sprang an intenser flame	K
When loyal Love met tender Love half way	L
And in love's script wrote on the scroll of fame	K
Entwined with all the splendour of that day	L
The letters of her name	K
Then as fair roses grow 'mid leaves of green	M
Love amid loyalty grew strong and close	N
To hedge a pleasaunce round our Royal rose	O
Our sovereign maiden flower our child our Queen	M
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The trumpets spake in sonorous triumph shout	P
Their speech found echo in the hundred guns	Q
From countless towers the answering bells rang out	P
And England's heart spoke clamorous through her sons	Q
The exulting land throughout	P
Down streets ablaze with light the flags unfurled	R
Along dark lonely hills the joy fires crept	S
And eager swords within their scabbards leapt	S
To guard our Lady and Queen against the world	R
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Those swords are rusted now Good men and true	T
Dust in the dust are laid who held her dear	U
But from their grave the bright flower springs anew	T
Which for her festival we bring her here	V
The long years' meed and due	T
The bud of homage grafted on chivalry	J
God took the souls that shrined the jewel of love	W
But made their sons inheritors thereof	W
In endless gold entail of loyalty	J
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Time compensating life the fruit bestowed	X
When in spent perfume passed the flower of youth	Y
Her feet were set upon the upward road	X
Her face was turned towards the star of truth	Y
That in her soul abode	X
With youth the maid's bright brow was garlanded	X
But richer crowns adorn the dear white hair	B
The gathered love of all the years lies there	B
In coronal benediction on her head	X
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She is of our blood for hath not she too met	X
The angels of delight and of despair	B
Does not she too remember and forget	X
How bitter or how bright the lost days were	H
Her eyes have tears made wet	X
She has seen joy unveil d even as we	J
Has laid upon cold clay the heart warm kiss	Z
She has known Sorrow for the king he is	A2
She has held little children on her knee	J
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Mother dear Mother these your children rise	B2
And call you bless d and shall we not too	X
Who are your children in the greater wise	B2
And love you for our land and her for you	X
The blessing sanctifies	B2
Your children as they breathe it at your knees	B2
And bringing little gifts from very far	C2
Where the great nurseries of your Empire are	C2
Your children's blessings throng from over seas	B2
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On Love's spread wings and over leagues of space	B2
Homage is borne from far off sun steeped lands	B2
From many a domed mysterious Eastern place	B2
Where Secresy holds Time between her hands	B2
The children of your race	B2
Reach English hands towards your English throne	D2
And from the far South turn blue English eyes	B2
That never saw the blue of English skies	B2
Yet call you Mother and your land their own	D2
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Where 'mid great trees the mighty waters flow	E2
In arrogant submission to your sway	L
In fur of price your northern hunters go	E2
And shafts of ardent greeting fly your way	L
Across the splendid snow	E2
And isles that with their coral safe and small	F2
Rock in the cradle of the tropic seas	B2
In soft strange speech join in the litanies	B2
That pride and prayer breathe at your festival	G2
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All round the world on every far off sea	B2
In wind ploughed oceans and in sun kissed bays	B2
By every busy wharf and chattering quay	B2
Some cantle of your Empire sails or stays	B2
Flaunts your supremacy	B2
Against the winds of all the world and flies	B2
Your flag triumphant between blue and blue	X
Blazons to sun and star the name of you	X
And spreads your glory between seas and skies	B2
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There is no cottage garden sunny sweet	X
There is no pasture where our shepherds tend	X
Their quiet flocks no red roofed village street	X
But holds for you the love wish of a friend	X
Blent with high homage meet	X
No little farm among the cornfields lone	D2
No little cot upon the uplands bare	B
But hears to day in blessing and in prayer	B
One name Victoria and that name your own	D2
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From the vast cities where the giant's might	X
Pauseless resistless moves by night and day	L
From hidden mines where day is one with night	X
From weary lives whose days and nights are grey	L
And empty of delight	X
From lives that rhyme to sunshine and the spring	H2
From happiness at flood and hope at ebb	I2
Rose the magnificent and mingled web	I2
That floats your banner at your thanksgiving	H2
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Throned on the surety of a splendid past	X
With present glory clothed as with the sun	J2
Crowned with the future's hopes you know at last	X
What treasure from the years your life has won	J2
Behold your hands hold fast	X
The moon of Empire and its sway controls	B2
The tides of war and peace while in those hands	B2
Lies tender homage out of all the lands	B2
Against whose feet your furthest ocean rolls	B2
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How seems your life looked back at through the years	B2
Much love much sorrow dead desires lost dreams	B2
A great life lived out greatly hidden tears	B2
And smiles for daily wear strong plans and schemes	B2
And mighty hopes and fears	B2
War in the South and murder in the East	X
And England's heart throbs echoed by your heart	X
When loss and labour and sorrow were her part	X
Or when Fate bade her to some flower crowned feast	X
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Red battle fields whereon your soldiers died	X
Green pastoral fields saved by the blood of these	B2
Duty that bade mere sorrow stand aside	X
And love transforming anguish into ease	B2
Long longing satisfied	X
Great secrets wrenched from Nature's grudging breast	X
The fruit of knowledge plucked for all to eat	X
These have you known Life's circle is complete	X
And knowing these you know what is Life's best	X
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The dear small secrets of our common life	K2
The English woods and hills the English home	L2
The common joys and griefs of Mother and wife	K2
Joy coming going griefs that go and come	M2
Soul's peace amid world's strife	K2
Hours when the Queen's cares leave the woman free	B2
Dear friendships where the friend forgets the Queen	M
And stoops to wear a dearer homelier mien	M
And be more loved than mere Queens rise to be	B2
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And in your hour of triumph when you shine	N2
The centre of our triumph's blazing star	C2
And gazing down your long life's lustrous line	N2
Behold how great your life long glories are	C2
Yet in your heart's veiled shrine	N2
No splendour of all splendours that have been	O2
Will brim your eyes with tremulous thanksgivings	B2
But little memories of little things	B2
The treasures of the woman not the Queen	M
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Yet Queen because the love of you hath wound	X
A golden girdle all about the earth	P2
Because your name is as a trumpet sound	X
To call toward you men of English birth	P2
From the world's outmost bound	X
Because old kinsmen long estranged from home	L2
Come with old foes to greet you friend and kin	O2
With kindly eyes behold your guests come in	O2
See from afar the long procession come	M2
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No Emperor in Rome's Imperial days	B2
Knew ever such a triumph day as this	B2
Though captive kings bore chains along his ways	B2
Though tribute from the furthest isles was his	B2
With pageant and with praise	B2
For you free kings and free republics grace	B2
Your triumph and across the conquered waves	B2
Come gifts from friends not tributes wrung from slaves	B2
And praise kneels clothed in love before y	-