Henry George. (melbourne.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNKOPQRS NSTUNVWXYS ZA2B2PC2KB2D2E2F2G2H 2I2J2G2F2BG2K2L2W| I came to buy a book It was a shop | A |
| Down in a narrow quiet street and here | B |
| They kept I knew these socialistic books | C |
| I entered All was bare but clean and neat | D |
| The shelves were ranged with unsold wares the counter | E |
| Held a few sheets and papers Here and there | F |
| Hung prints and calendars I rapped and straight | G |
| A young girl came out through the inner door | H |
| She had a clear and simple face I saw | I |
| She had no beauty loveliness nor charm | J |
| But as your eyes met those grey light lit eyes | K |
| Like to a mountain spring so pure you thought | L |
| He'd be a clever man who looked and lied | M |
| I asked her for the book We spoke a little | N |
| Her words were as her face was as her eyes | K |
| Yes she'd read many books like this of mine | O |
| Also some poets Shelley Byron too | P |
| And Tennyson but 'poets only dreamed ' | Q |
| Thus then we talked until by chance I spoke | R |
| A phrase and then a name 'Twas Henry George | S |
| Her face lit up O it was beautiful | N |
| Or never woman's face was Henry George | S |
| She said And then a look a flush a smile | T |
| Such as sprung up in Magdalene's cheek | U |
| When some voice uttered Jesus made her angel | N |
| She turned and pointed up the counter I | V |
| Loosing mine eyes from that ensainted face | W |
| Looked also 'Twas a print a common print | X |
| The head and shoulders of some man She said | Y |
| Quite in a whisper That's him Henry George | S |
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| Darling that in this life of wrong and woe | Z |
| The lovely woman soul within you brooded | A2 |
| And wept and loved and hated and pitied | B2 |
| And knew not what its helplessness could do | P |
| Its helplessness its sheer bewilderment | C2 |
| That then those eyes should fall those angel eyes | K |
| On one who'd brooded wept loved hated pitied | B2 |
| Even as you had but therefrom had sprung | D2 |
| A hope a plan a scheme to right this wrong | E2 |
| And make this woe less hateful to the sun | F2 |
| And that pure soul had found its Master thus | G2 |
| To listen to remember watch and love | H2 |
| And trust the dawn that rose up through the dark | I2 |
| O this was good | J2 |
| For me to see as for some weary hopeless | G2 |
| Longer and toiler for the Kingdom of Heaven | F2 |
| To stand some lifeless twilight hour and hear | B |
| There in the dim lit house of Lazarus | G2 |
| Mary who said Thus thus he looked he spake | K2 |
| The Master So to hear her rapturous words | L2 |
| And gaze upon her up raised heavenly face | W |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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