The Ballad Of The White Horse: 01 - Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Of great limbs gone to chaos	A
A great face turned to night	B
Why bend above a shapeless shroud	C
Seeking in such archaic cloud	C
Sight of strong lords and light	B
	-
Where seven sunken Englands	D
Lie buried one by one	E
Why should one idle spade I wonder	F
Shake up the dust of thanes like thunder	F
To smoke and choke the sun	E
	-
In cloud of clay so cast to heaven	E
What shape shall man discern	G
These lords may light the mystery	H
Of mastery or victory	H
And these ride high in history	H
But these shall not return	G
	-
Gored on the Norman gonfalon	G
The Golden Dragon died	I
We shall not wake with ballad strings	J
The good time of the smaller things	J
We shall not see the holy kings	J
Ride down by Severn side	I
	-
Stiff strange and quaintly coloured	K
As the broidery of Bayeux	J
The England of that dawn remains	J
And this of Alfred and the Danes	J
Seems like the tales a whole tribe feigns	J
Too English to be true	L
	-
Of a good king on an island	M
That ruled once on a time	N
And as he walked by an apple tree	H
There came green devils out of the sea	H
With sea plants trailing heavily	H
And tracks of opal slime	N
	-
Yet Alfred is no fairy tale	O
His days as our days ran	G
He also looked forth for an hour	F
On peopled plains and skies that lower	F
From those few windows in the tower	F
That is the head of a man	G
	-
But who shall look from Alfred's hood	P
Or breathe his breath alive	Q
His century like a small dark cloud	C
Drifts far it is an eyeless crowd	C
Where the tortured trumpets scream aloud	C
And the dense arrows drive	Q
	-
Lady by one light only	H
We look from Alfred's eyes	J
We know he saw athwart the wreck	R
The sign that hangs about your neck	R
Where One more than Melchizedek	R
Is dead and never dies	J
	-
Therefore I bring these rhymes to you	L
Who brought the cross to me	H
Since on you flaming without flaw	S
I saw the sign that Guthrum saw	S
When he let break his ships of awe	T
And laid peace on the sea	H
	-
Do you remember when we went	U
Under a dragon moon	G
And 'mid volcanic tints of night	B
Walked where they fought the unknown fight	B
And saw black trees on the battle height	B
Black thorn on Ethandune	G
	-
And I thought I will go with you	L
As man with God has gone	G
And wander with a wandering star	V
The wandering heart of things that are	V
The fiery cross of love and war	W
That like yourself goes on	G
	-
O go you onward where you are	V
Shall honour and laughter be	H
Past purpled forest and pearled foam	X
God's winged pavilion free to roam	X
Your face that is a wandering home	X
A flying home for me	H
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Ride through the silent earthquake lands	J
Wide as a waste is wide	I
Across these days like deserts when	G
Pride and a little scratching pen	G
Have dried and split the hearts of men	G
Heart of the heroes ride	I
	-
Up through an empty house of stars	J
Being what heart you are	V
Up the inhuman steeps of space	J
As on a staircase go in grace	J
Carrying the firelight on your face	J
Beyond the loneliest star	V
	-
Take these in memory of the hour	F
We strayed a space from home	X
And saw the smoke hued hamlets quaint	Y
With Westland king and Westland saint	Y
And watched the western glory faint	Y
Along the road to Frome	X

G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad Of The White Horse: 01 - Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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