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Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Blue-flag In The Bog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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God had called us and we came	A
Our loved Earth to ashes left	B
Heaven was a neighbor's house	C
Open to us bereft	B
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Gay the lights of Heaven showed	D
And 'twas God who walked ahead	E
Yet I wept along the road	D
Wanting my own house instead	E
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Wept unseen unheeded cried	F
All you things my eyes have kissed	G
Fare you well We meet no more	H
Lovely lovely tattered mist	G
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Weary wings that rise and fall	I
All day long above the fire	J
Red with heat was every wall	I
Rough with heat was every wire	J
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Fare you well you little winds	K
That the flying embers chase	L
Fare you well you shuddering day	M
With your hands before your face	L
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And ah blackened by strange blight	N
Or to a false sun unfurled	O
Now forevermore goodbye	P
All the gardens in the world	O
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On the windless hills of Heaven	Q
That I have no wish to see	R
White eternal lilies stand	S
By a lake of ebony	R
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But the Earth forevermore	J
Is a place where nothing grows	T
Dawn will come and no bud break	U
Evening and no blossom close	V
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Spring will come and wander slow	W
Over an indifferent land	S
Stand beside an empty creek	X
Hold a dead seed in her hand	S
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God had called us and we came	A
But the blessed road I trod	Y
Was a bitter road to me	R
And at heart I questioned God	Y
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Though in Heaven I said be all	I
That the heart would most desire	J
Held Earth naught save souls of sinners	Z
Worth the saving from a fire	J
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Withered grass the wasted growing	A2
Aimless ache of laden boughs	B2
Little things God had forgotten	Q
Called me from my burning house	C
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Though in Heaven I said be all	I
That the eye could ask to see	R
All the things I ever knew	C2
Are this blaze in back of me	R
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Though in Heaven I said be all	I
That the ear could think to lack	D2
All the things I ever knew	C2
Are this roaring at my back	D2
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It was God who walked ahead	E
Like a shepherd to the fold	E2
In his footsteps fared the weak	X
And the weary and the old	E2
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Glad enough of gladness over	J
Ready for the peace to be	R
But a thing God had forgotten	Q
Was the growing bones of me	R
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And I drew a bit apart	F2
And I lagged a bit behind	G2
And I thought on Peace Eternal	H2
Lest He look into my mind	G2
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And I gazed upon the sky	P
And I thought of Heavenly Rest	I2
And I slipped away like water	J
Through the fingers of the blest	I2
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All their eyes were fixed on Glory	R
Not a glance brushed over me	R
Alleluia Alleluia	H2
Up the road and I was free	R
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And my heart rose like a freshet	I2
And it swept me on before	J
Giddy as a whirling stick	J2
Till I felt the earth once more	J
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All the earth was charred and black	D2
Fire had swept from pole to pole	H2
And the bottom of the sea	R
Was as brittle as a bowl	H2
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And the timbered mountain top	K2
Was as naked as a skull	H2
Nothing left nothing left	I2
Of the Earth so beautiful	H2
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Earth I said how can I leave you	C2
You are all I have I said	I2
What is left to take my mind up	L2
Living always and you dead	I2
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Speak I said Oh tell me something	A2
Make a sign that I can see	R
For a keepsake To keep always	M2
Quick before God misses me	R
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And I listened for a voice	N2
But my heart was all I heard	I2
Not a screech owl not a loon	O2
Not a tree toad said a word	I2
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And I waited for a sign	P2
Coals and cinders nothing more	J
And a little cloud of smoke	Q2
Floating on a valley floor	J
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And I peered into the smoke	Q2
Till it rotted like a fog	R2
There encompassed round by fire	J
Stood a blue flag in a bog	R2
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Little flames came wading out	I2
Straining straining towards its stem	S2
But it was so blue and tall	H2
That it scorned to think of them	S2
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Red and thirsty were their tongues	T2
As the tongues of wolves must be	R
But it was so blue and tall	H2
Oh I laughed I cried to see	R
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All my heart became a tear	J
All my soul became a tower	J
Never loved I anything	A2
As I loved that tall blue flower	J
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It was all the little boats	U2
That had ever sailed the sea	R
It was all the little books	V2
That had gone to school with me	R
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On its roots like iron claws	W2
Rearing up so blue and tall	H2
It was all the gallant Earth	X2
With its back against a wall	H2
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In a breath ere I had breathed	I2
Oh I laughed I cried to see	R
I was kneeling at its side	I2
And it leaned its head on me	R
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Crumbling stones and sliding sand	I2
Is the road to Heaven now	Y2
Icy at my straining knees	Z2
Drags the awful under tow	I2
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Soon but stepping stones of dust	I2
Will the road to Heaven be	R
Father Son and Holy Ghost	I2
Reach a hand and rescue me	R
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There there my blue flag flower	J
Hush hush go to sleep	A3
That is only God you hear	J
Counting up His folded sheep	A3
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Lullabye lullabye	C2
That is only God that calls	B3
Missing me seeking me	R
Ere the road to nothing falls	B3
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He will set His mighty feet	I2
Firmly on the sliding sand	I2
Like a little frightened bird	I2
I will creep into His hand	I2
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I will tell Him all my grief	C3
I will tell Him all my sin	D3
He will give me half His robe	E3
For a cloak to wrap you in	D3
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Lullabye lullabye	C2
Rocks the burnt out planet free	R
Father Son and Holy Ghost	I2
Reach a hand and rescue me	R
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Ah the voice of love at last	I2
Lo at last the face of light	I2
And the whole of His white robe	E3
For a cloak against the night	I2
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And upon my heart asleep	A3
All the things I ever knew	C2
Holds Heaven not some cranny Lord	I2
For a flower so tall and blue	C2
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All's well and all's well	H2
Gay the lights of Heaven show	I2
In some moist and Heavenly place	L
We will set it out to grow	I2