Henry George Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLM NLOP Q N RSNTUVW XYZPA2LZB2C2D2E2F2G2 H2E2D2CE2I2J2U| Melbourne | A |
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| I CAME to buy a book It was a shop | B |
| Down in a narrow quiet street and here | C |
| They kept I knew these socialistic books | D |
| I entered All was bare but clean and neat | E |
| The shelves were ranged with unsold wares the counter | F |
| Held a few sheets and papers Here and there | G |
| Hung prints and calendars I rapped and straight | H |
| A young Girl came out through the inner door | I |
| She had a clear and simple face I saw | J |
| She had no beauty loveliness nor charm | K |
| But as your eyes met those grey light lit eyes | L |
| Like to a mountain spring so pure you thought | M |
| 'He'd be a clever man who looked and lied ' | - |
| I asked her for the book We spoke a little | N |
| Her words were as her face was as her eyes | L |
| Yes she'd read many books like this of mine | O |
| Also some poets Shelley Byron too | P |
| And Tennyson but 'poets only dreamed ' | - |
| Thus then we talked until by chance I spoke | Q |
| A phrase and then a name 'Twas 'Henry George ' | - |
| Her face lit up O it was beautiful | N |
| Or never woman's face was 'Henry George ' | - |
| She said And then a look a flush a smile | R |
| Such as sprung up in Magdalen 's cheek | S |
| When some voice uttered Jesus made her angel | N |
| She turned and pointed up the counter I | T |
| Loosing mine eyes from that ensainted face | U |
| Looked also 'Twas a print a common print | V |
| The head and shoulders of a man She said | W |
| Quite in a whisper 'That's him Henry George ' | - |
| Darling that in this life of wrong and woe | X |
| The lovely woman soul within you brooded | Y |
| And wept and loved and hated and pitied | Z |
| And knew not what its helplessness could do | P |
| Its helplessness its sheer bewilderment | A2 |
| That then those eyes should fall those angel eyes | L |
| On one who'd brooded wept loved hated pitied | Z |
| Even as you had but therefrom had sprung | B2 |
| A hope a plan a scheme to right this wrong | C2 |
| And make this woe less hateful to the sun | D2 |
| And that pure soul had found its Master thus | E2 |
| To listen to remember watch and love | F2 |
| And trust the dawn that rose up through the dark | G2 |
| O this was good | H2 |
| For me to see as for some weary hopeless | E2 |
| Longer and toiler for 'the Kingdom of Heaven' | D2 |
| To stand some lifeless twilight hour and hear | C |
| There in a dim lit house of Lazarus | E2 |
| Mary who said 'Thus thus he looked he spake | I2 |
| The Master ' So to hear her rapturous words | J2 |
| And gaze upon her up raised heavenly face | U |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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