The Forest Sanctuary - Part Ii. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Forest Sanctuary - Part Ii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
Bring me the sounding of the torrent water	B
With yet a nearer swell fresh breeze awake	C
And river darkening ne'er with hues of slaughter	B
Thy wave's pure silvery green and shining lake	C
Spread far before my cabin with thy zone	D
Of ancient woods ye chainless things and lone	D
Send voices through the forest aisles and make	C
Glad music round me that my soul may dare	E
Cheer'd by such tones to look back on a dungeon's air	E
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II	A
Oh Indian hunter of the desert's race	F
That with the spear at times or bended bow	G
Dost cross my footsteps in thy fiery chase	F
Of the swift elk or blue hill's flying roe	H
Thou that beside the red night fire thou heapest	I
Beneath the cedars and the star light sleepest	I
Thou know'st not wanderer never may'st thou know	H
Of the dark holds wherewith man cumbers earth	J
To shut from human eyes the dancing seasons' mirth	J
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III	A
There fetter'd down from day to think the while	K
How bright in Heaven the festal sun is glowing	L
Making earth's loneliest places with his smile	K
Flush like the rose and how the streams are flowing	L
With sudden sparkles through the shadowy grass	M
And water flowers all trembling as they pass	M
And how the rich dark summer trees are bowing	L
With their full foliage this to know and pine	N
Bound unto midnight's heart seems a stern lot 'twas mine	N
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IV	O
Wherefore was this Because my soul had drawn	P
Light from the book whose words are grav'd in light	I
There at its well head had I found the dawn	P
And day and noon of freedom but too bright	I
It shines on that which man to man hath given	Q
And call'd the truth the very truth from Heaven	Q
And therefore seeks he in his brother's sight	I
To cast the mote and therefore strives to bind	I
With his strong chains to earth what is not earth's the mind	I
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V	O
It is a weary and a bitter task	R
Back from the lip the burning word to keep	S
And to shut out Heaven's air with falsehood's mask	R
And in the dark urn of the soul to heap	S
Indignant feelings making even of thought	I
A buried treasure which may but be sought	I
When shadows are abroad and night and sleep	S
I might not brook it long and thus was thrown	D
Into that grave like cell to wither there alone	D
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VI	O
And I a child of danger whose delights	T
Were on dark hills and many sounding seas	U
I that amidst the Cordillera heights	T
Had given Castilian banners to the breeze	U
And the full circle of the rainbow seen	V
There on the snows and in my country been	W
A mountain wanderer from the Pyrenees	U
To the Morena crags how left I not	I
Life or the soul's life quench'd on that sepulchral spot	I
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VII	O
Because Thou didst not leave me oh my God	I
Thou wert with those that bore the truth of old	I
Into the deserts from the oppressor's rod	I
And made the caverns of the rock their fold	I
And in the hidden chambers of the dead	I
Our guiding lamp with fire immortal fed	I
And met when stars met by their beams to hold	I
The free heart's communing with Thee and Thou	G
Wert in the midst felt own'd the strengthener then as now	G
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VIII	O
Yet once I sank Alas man's wavering mind	I
Wherefore and whence the gusts that o'er it blow	H
How they bear with them floating uncombin'd	I
The shadows of the past that come and go	H
As o'er the deep the old long buried things	X
Which a storm's working to the surface brings	X
Is the reed shaken and must we be so	H
With every wind So Father must we be	O
Till we can fix undimm'd our stedfast eyes on Thee	O
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IX	H
Once my soul died within me What had thrown	D
That sickness o'er it Even a passing thought	I
Of a clear spring whose side with flowers o'ergrown	D
Fondly and oft my boyish steps had sought	I
Perchance the damp roof's water drops that fell	Y
Just then low tinkling through my vaulted cell	Y
Intensely heard amidst the stillness caught	I
Some tone from memory of the music welling	L
Ever with that fresh rill from its deep rocky dwelling	L
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X	H
But so my spirit's fever'd longings wrought	I
Wakening it might be to the faint sad sound	I
That from the darkness of the walls they brought	I
A lov'd scene round me visibly around	I
Yes kindling spreading brightening hue by hue	Z
Like stars from midnight through the gloom it grew	Z
That haunt of youth hope manhood till the bound	I
Of my shut cavern seem'd dissolv'd and I	O
Girt by the solemn hills and burning pomp of sky	O
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XI	H
I look'd and lo the clear broad river flowing	L
Past the old Moorish ruin on the steep	S
The lone tower dark against a Heaven all glowing	L
Like seas of glass and fire I saw the sweep	S
Of glorious woods far down the mountain side	I
And their still shadows in the gleaming tide	I
And the red evening on its waves asleep	S
And midst the scene oh more than all there smil'd	I
My child's fair face and hers the mother of my child	I
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XII	H
With their soft eyes of love and gladness rais'd	I
Up to the flushing sky as when we stood	I
Last by that river and in silence gaz'd	I
On the rich world of sunset but a flood	I
Of sudden tenderness my soul oppress'd	I
And I rush'd forward with a yearning breast	I
To clasp alas a vision Wave and wood	I
And gentle faces lifted in the light	I
Of day's last hectic blush all melted from my sight	I
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XIII	H
Then darkness oh th' unutterable gloom	A2
That seem'd as narrowing round me making less	H
And less my dungeon when with all its bloom	A2
That bright dream vanish'd from my loneliness	H
It floated off the beautiful yet left	I
Such deep thirst in my soul that thus bereft	I
I lay down sick with passion's vain excess	H
And pray'd to die How oft would sorrow weep	S
Her weariness to death if he might come like sleep	S
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XIV	O
But I was rous'd and how It is no tale	B2
Even midst thy shades thou wilderness to tell	Y
I would not have my boy's young cheek made pale	B2
Nor haunt his sunny rest with what befel	B2
In that drear prison house His eye must grow	H
More dark with thought more earnest his fair brow	G
More high his heart in youthful strength must swell	B2
So shall it fitly burn when all is told	I
Let childhood's radiant mist the free child yet enfold	I
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XV	O
It is enough that through such heavy hours	H
As wring us by our fellowship of clay	B2
I liv'd and undegraded We have powers	H
To snatch th' oppressor's bitter joy away	B2
Shall the wild Indian for his savage fame	C2
Laugh and expire and shall not truth's high name	C2
Bear up her martyrs with all conquering sway	B2
It is enough that Torture may be vain	D
I had seen Alvar die the strife was won from Pain	D
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XVI	O
And faint not heart of man though years wane slow	H
There have been those that from the deepest caves	H
And cells of night and fastnesses below	H
The stormy dashing of the ocean waves	H
Down farther down than gold lies hid have nurs'd	I
A quenchless hope and watch'd their time and burst	I
On the bright day like wakeners from the graves	H
I was of such at last unchain'd I trod	I
This green earth taking back my freedom from my God	I
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XVII	O
That was an hour to send its fadeless trace	H
Down life's far sweeping tide A dim wild night	I
Like sorrow hung upon the soft moon's face	H
Yet how my heart leap'd in her blessed light	I
The shepherd's light the sailor's on the sea	H
The hunter's homeward from the mountains free	H
Where its lone smile makes tremulously bright	I
The thousand streams I could but gaze through tears	H
Oh what a sight is Heaven thus first beheld for years	H
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XVIII	O
The rolling clouds they have the whole blue space	H
Above to sail in all the dome of sky	O
My soul shot with them in their breezy race	H
O'er star and gloom but I had yet to fly	O
As flies the hunted wolf A secret spot	I
And strange I knew the sunbeam knew it not	I
Wildest of all the savage glens that lie	O
In far sierras hiding their deep springs	H
And travers'd but by storms or sounding eagles' wings	H
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XIX	H
Ay and I met the storm there I had gain'd	I
The covert's heart with swift and stealthy tread	I
A moan went past me and the dark trees rain'd	I
Their autumn	D