Love Letters Of A Violinist. Letter Vii. Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Letter VII HopeA
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O tears of mine Ye start I know not why-
Unless indeed to prove that I am gladB
Albeit fast wedded to a thought so sadB
I scarce can deem that my despair will die-
Or that the sun careering up the sky-
Will warm again a world that seem'd so madB
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And yet who knows The world is to the mindC
Much as we make it and the things we tendD
Wear for the nonce the liveries that we lendD
And some such things are fair though ill definedC
And some are scathing like the wintry windC
And some begin and some will never endD
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III-
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How can I think ye tears that I have beenE
The thing I was so doubting so unfitF
And so unblest with brows for ever knitF
And hair unkempt and face becoming leanG
And cold and pale as if I late had seenG
Medusa's head and all the scowls of itF
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IVH
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Oh why is this Oh why have I so longI
Brooded on grief and made myself a baneJ
To golden fields and all the happy plainJ
Where once I met the Lady of my SongI
The lady for whose sake I shall be strongI
But never weak or diffident againK
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VH
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I was too shorn of hope I did employL
Words like a mourner and to Her I bow'dM
As one might kneel to Glory in its shroudM
But I am crown'd to day and not so coyL
Crown'd with a kiss and sceptred with a joyL
And all the world shall see that I am proudM
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VIH
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I shall be sated now I shall receiveH
More than the guerdon of my wildest thoughtN
More than the most that ecstasy has taughtN
To saints in Heaven and more than poets weaveH
In madcap verse to warn us or deceiveH
And more than Adam knew ere Eve was broughtN
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VIIH
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I know the meaning now of all the signsO
And all the joys I dreamt of in my dreamsP
I realise the comfort of the streamsP
When they reflect the shadows of the pinesO
I know that there is hope for celandinesO
And that a tree is merrier than it seemsO
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VIIIH
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I know the mighty hills have much to tellQ
And that they quake at times in undertoneR
And talk to stars because so much aloneR
And so unlov'd I know that in the dellQ
Flowers are betroth'd and that a wedding bellQ
Rings in the breeze on which a moth has flownR
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IXO
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I know such things because to loving heartsO
Nature is keen and pleasures long delay'dS
Quicken the pulse and turn a truant shadeS
Into a sprite equipp'd with all the dartsO
That once were Cupid's and the day departsO
And sun and moon conjoin as man with maidS
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XO
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The lover knows how grand a thing is loveH
How grand how sweet a thing and how divineT
More than the pouring out of choicest wineT
More than the whiteness of the whitest doveH
More than the glittering of the stars aboveH
And such a love O Love is thine and mineT
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XIO
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To me the world to day has grown so fairU
I dare not trust myself to think of itF
Visions of light around me seem to flitF
And Phoebus loosens all his golden hairU
Right down the sky and daisies turn and stareU
At things we see not with our human witF
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XIIO
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And here beside me there are mosses greenG
In shelter'd nooks and gnats in bright arrayV
And lordly beetles out for holidayV
And spiders small that work in silver sheenG
To make a kirtle for the Fairy QueenG
That she may don it on the First of MayV
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XIIIO
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I hear in thought I hear the very wordsO
That Arethusa turn'd into a brookW
Spoke to Diana when her leave she tookW
Of all she lov'd low weeping as the birdsO
Shrill'd out of tune and all the frighten'd herdsO
Scamper'd to death in spite of pipe and crookW
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XIVH
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I know to day why winds were made to sighH
And why they hide themselves and why they gloatX
In some old ruin Mote confers with moteX
And shell with shell and corals live and dieH
And die and live below the deep And whyH
To make a necklace for my lady's throatX
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XVH
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And yet the world in all its varied girthY
Lacks what we look for There is something baseO
In mere existence something in the faceO
Of men and women which accepts the earthY
And all its havings as its right of birthY
But not its quittance not its resting placeO
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XVIH
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There have been moments at the set of sunZ
When I have long'd for wings upon the windC
That I might seek a planet to my mindC
More full develop'd than this present oneZ
With more of scope when all is said and doneZ
To satisfy the wants of human kindC
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XVIIH
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A world with thee a home in some remoteX
And unknown region which no sage's kenK
Has compass'd yet of which no human penK
Has traced the limits where no terrors floatX
In wind or wave and where the soul may noteX
A thousand raptures unreveal'd to menK
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XVIIIH
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To be transported in a magic carA2
On some transcendent night in early JuneB2
Beyond the horn'd projections of the moonB2
To have our being in a bridal starA2
In lands of light where only angels areA2
Athwart the spaces where the comets swoonB2
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XIXO
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To be all this to have in our estateC2
Worlds without stint and quit them for the clayV
Of some new planet where a summer's dayV
Lasts fifty years and there to celebrateC2
Our Golden Wedding by the will of FateC2
This were a subject for a seraph's layV
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XXO
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This were a life to live a life indeedD2
A thing to die for if in truth we dieH
When we but put our mortal vestments byH
This were a climax for a lover's needD2
Sweeter than songs and holier than the creedD2
Of half the zealots who have sought the skyH

Eric Mackay



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