Reply Of The Messenger Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED F BGBG DFDF BHBI JKJK LMLM NENC JKJK FOFO| Thou art come from the spirits' land thou bird | A |
| Thou art come from the spirits' land | B |
| Through the dark pine grove let thy voice be heard | A |
| And tell of the shadowy band | B |
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| But tell us thou bird of the solemn strain | C |
| Can those who have loved forget | D |
| We call and they answer not again | E |
| Do they love do they love us yet | D |
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| F HEMANS | F |
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| Yes yes I have come from the spirits' land | B |
| From the land that is bright and fair | G |
| I come with a voice from the shadowy band | B |
| To tell that they love you there | G |
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| To say if a wish or a fond regret | D |
| Could live in Elysian bowers | F |
| 'Twould be for the friends they could ne'er forget | D |
| The loved of their youthful hours | F |
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| To whisper the dear deserted band | B |
| Who smiled on their tarriance here | H |
| That a faithful guard in the dreamless land | B |
| Are the friends they have loved so dear | I |
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| They have gone to be seen of men no more | J |
| But oft on a shadowy hill | K |
| Or the crest of a wave where the moonbeams pour | J |
| They are watching around you still | K |
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| And oft on a fleecy cloud they sail | L |
| And oft on the hurrying blast | M |
| When slumber her light and magic veil | L |
| O'er man and his woes has cast | M |
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| 'Tis true in the silent night you call | N |
| And they answer you not again | E |
| For the spirits of bliss are voiceless all | N |
| Sound only was made for pain | C |
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| That their land is bright and they weep no more | J |
| I have warbled from hill to hill | K |
| But my plaintive strains should have told before | J |
| They love oh they love you still | K |
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| They bid me say that unfading flowers | F |
| You'll find in the path they trod | O |
| And a welcome true to their deathless bowers | F |
| Pronounced by the voice of God | O |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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