The Crusader's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDF GHGHIJIJ KLMLNONO PQROSTST UVUVOWOW XTXTBYBY RZRZA2OA2O B2C2B2D2CE2CF2

Rest pilgrim rest thou'rt from the Syrian landA
Thou'rt from the wild and wondrous east I knowB
By the long withered palm branch in thy handA
And by the darkness of thy sunburnt browC
Alas the bright the beautiful who partD
So full of hope for that far country's bourneE
Alas the weary and the chang'd in heartD
And dimm'd in aspect who like thee returnF
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Thou'rt faint stay rest thee from thy toils at lastG
Through the high chesnuts lightly plays the breezeH
The stars gleam out the Ave hour is pass'dG
The sailor's hymn hath died along the seasH
Thou 'rt faint and worn hear'st thou the fountain wellingI
By the grey pillars of yon ruin'd shrineJ
Seest thou the dewy grapes before thee swellingI
He that hath left me train'd that loaded vineJ
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He was a child when thus the bower he woveK
Oh hath a day fled since his childhood's timeL
That I might sit and hear the sound I loveM
Beneath its shade the convent's vesper chimeL
And sit thou there for he was gentle everN
With his glad voice he would have welcomed theeO
And brought fresh fruits to cool thy parch'd lips' feverN
There in his place thou 'rt resting where is heO
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If I could hear that laughing voice againP
But once again how oft it wanders byQ
In the still hours like some remember'd strainR
Troubling the heart with its wild melodyO
Thou hast seen much tired pilgrim hast thou seenS
In that far land the chosen land of yoreT
A youth my Guido with the fiery mienS
And the dark eye of this Italian shoreT
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The dark clear lightning eye on Heaven and earthU
It smiled as if man were not dust it smiledV
The very air seem'd kindling with his mirthU
And I my heart grew young before my childV
My blessed child I had but him yet heO
Fill'd all my home ev'n with o'erflowing joyW
Sweet laughter and wild song and footstep freeO
Where is he now my pride my flower my boyW
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His sunny childhood melted from my sightX
Like a spring dew drop then his forehead woreT
A prouder look his eye a keener lightX
I knew these woods might be his world no moreT
He loved me but he left me thus they goB
Whom we have rear'd watch'd bless'd too much adoredY
He heard the trumpet of the red cross blowB
And bounded from me with his father's swordY
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Thou weep'st I tremble thou hast seen the slainR
Pressing a bloody turf the young and fairZ
With their pale beauty strewing o'er the plainR
Where hosts have met speak answer was he thereZ
Oh hath his smile departed Could the graveA2
Shut o'er those bursts of bright and tameless gleeO
No I shall yet behold his dark locks waveA2
That look gives hope I knew it could not beO
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Still weep'st thou wanderer some fond mother's glanceB2
O'er thee too brooded in thine early yearsC2
Think'st thou of her whose gentle eye perchanceB2
Bath'd all thy faded hair with parting tearsD2
Speak for thy tears disturb me what art thouC
Why dost thou hide thy face yet weeping onE2
Look up oh is it that wan cheek and browC
Is it alas yet joy my son my sonF2

Felicia Dorothea Hemans



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