The Hall Of Justice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Part IA
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VAGRANTB
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Take take away thy barbarous handC
And let me to thy Master speakD
Remit awhile the harsh commandC
And hear me or my heart will breakE
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MAGISTRATEF
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Fond wretch and what canst thou relateF
But deeds of sorrow shame and sinG
Thy crime is proved thou know'st thy fateF
But come thy tale begin beginG
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VAGRANTB
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My crime This sick'ning child to feedH
I seized the food your witness sawI
I knew your laws forbade the deedH
But yielded to a stronger lawI
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Know'st thou to Nature's great commandC
All human laws are frail and weakD
Nay frown not stay his eager handC
And hear me or my heart will breakE
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In this th' adopted babe I holdJ
With anxious fondness to my breastK
My heart's sole comfort I beholdJ
More dear than life when life was blestK
I saw her pining fainting coldJ
I begg'd but vain was my requestK
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I saw the tempting food and seizedL
My infant sufferer found reliefM
And in the pilfer'd treasure pleasedL
Smiled on my guilt and hush'd my griefM
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But I have griefs of other kindN
Troubles and sorrows more severeO
Give me to ease my tortured mindN
Lend to my woes a patient earP
And let me if I may not findN
A friend to help find one to hearP
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Yet nameless let me plead my nameQ
Would only wake the cry of scornR
A child of sin conceived in shameQ
Brought forth in woe to misery bornR
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My mother dead my father lostS
I wander'd with a vagrant crewT
A common care a common costU
Their sorrows and their sins I knewT
With them by want on error forcedV
Like them I base and guilty grewT
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Few are my years not so my crimesW
The age which these sad looks declareX
Is Sorrow's work it is not Time'sW
And I am old in shame and careX
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Taught to believe the world a placeY
Where every stranger was a foeZ
Train'd in the arts that mark our raceY
To what new people could I goZ
Could I a better life embraceY
Or live as virtue dictates NoZ
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So through the land I wandering wentA2
And little found of grief or joyB2
But lost my bosom's sweet contentA2
When first I loved the Gipsy BoyB2
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A sturdy youth he was and tallC2
His looks would all his soul declareX
His piercing eyes were deep and smallC2
And strongly curl'd his raven hairX
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Yes AARON had each manly charmD2
All in the May of youthful prideE2
He scarcely fear'd his father's armD2
And every other arm defiedE2
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Oft when they grew in anger warmF2
Whom will not love and power divideE2
I rose their wrathful souls to calmG2
Not yet in sinful combat triedE2
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His father was our party's chiefM
And dark and dreadful was his lookH2
His presence fill'd my heart with griefM
Although to me he kindly spokeI2
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With Aaron I delighted wentA2
His favour was my bliss and prideE2
In growing hope our days we spentA2
Love's growing charms in either spiedE2
It saw them all which Nature lentA2
It lent them all which she deniedE2
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Could I the father's kindness prizeJ2
Or grateful looks on him bestowZ
Whom I beheld in wrath ariseJ2
When Aaron sunk beneath his blowZ
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He drove him down with wicked handC
It was a dreadful sight to seeK2
Then vex'd him till he left the landC
And told his cruel love to meK2
The clan were all at his commandC
Whatever his command might beK2
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The night was dark the lanes were deepL2
And one by one they took their wayM2
He bade me lay me down and sleepL2
I only wept and wish'd for dayM2
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Accursed be the love he boreN2
Accursed was the force he usedO2
So let him of his God imploreN2
For mercy and be so refusedO2
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You frown again to show my wrongP2
Can I in gentle language speakD
My woes are deep my words are strongP2
And hear me or my heart will breakE
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MAGISTRATEF
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I hear thy words I feel thy painQ2
Forbear awhile to speak thy woesR2
Receive our aid and then againS2
The story of thy life discloseR2
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For though seduced and led astrayM2
Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd longP2
Thy God hath seen thee all the wayM2
And all the turns that led thee wrongP2
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Part IIA
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MAGISTRATEF
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Come now again thy woes impartT2
Tell all thy sorrows all thy sinG
We cannot heal the throbbing heartT2
Till we discern the wounds withinG
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Compunction weeps our guilt awayM2
The sinner's safety is his painQ2
Such pangs for our offences payM2
And these severer griefs are gainQ2
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VAGRANTB
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The son came back he found us wedU2
Then dreadful was the oath he sworeN2
His way through Blackburn Forest ledU2
His father we beheld no moreN2
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Of all our daring clan not oneV2
Would on the doubtful subject dwellW2
For all esteem'd the injured sonV2
And fear'd the tale which he could tellW2
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But I had mightier cause for fearO
For slow and mournful round my bedU2
I saw a dreadful form appearO
It came when I and Aaron wedU2
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Yes we were wed I know my crimeX2
We slept beneath the elmin treeK2
But I was grieving all the timeX2
And Aaron frown'd my tears to seeK2
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For he not yet had felt the painQ2
That rankles in a wounded breastK
He waked to sin then slept againS2
Forsook his God yet took his restK
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But I was forced to feign delightY2
And joy in mirth and music soughtZ2
And mem'ry now recalls the nightY2
With such surprise and horror fraughtZ2
That reason felt a moment's flightY2
And left a mind to madness wroughtZ2
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When waking on my heaving breastK
I felt a hand as cold as deathA3
A sudden fear my voice suppress'dK
A chilling terror stopp'd my breathA3
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I seem'd no words can utter howB3
For there my father husband stoodC3
And thus he said 'Will God allowB3
The great Avenger just and GoodC3
A wife to break her marriage vowB3
A son to shed his father's blood '-
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I trembled at the dismal soundsD3
But vainly strove a word to sayM2
So pointing to his bleeding woundsE3
The threat'ning spectre stalk'd awayM2
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I brought a lovely daughter forthF3
His father's child in Aaron's bedU2
He took her from me in his wrathG3
'Where is my child ' 'Thy child is dead '-
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'Twas false we wander'd far and wideE2
Through town and country field and fenS2
Till Aaron fighting fell and diedE2
And I became a wife againS2
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I then was young my husband soldJ
My fancied charms for wicked priceH3
He gave me oft for sinful goldJ
The slave but not the friend of viceH3
Behold me Heaven my pains beholdJ
And let them for my sins sufficeH3
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The wretch who lent me thus for gainQ2
Despised me when my youth was fledU2
Then came disease and brought me painQ2
Come Death and bear me to the deadU2
For though I grieve my grief is vainQ2
And fruitless all the tears I shedU2
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True I was not to virtue train'dI3
Yet well I knew my deeds were illJ3
By each offence my heart was pain'dI3
I wept but I offended stillJ3
My better thoughts my life disdain'dI3
But yet the viler led my willJ3
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My husband died and now no moreN2
My smile was sought or ask'd my handC
A widow'd vagrant vile and poorK3
Beneath a vagrant's vile commandC
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Ceaseless I roved the country roundL3
To win my bread by fraudful artsM3
And long a poor subsistence foundL3
By spreading nets for simple heartsM3
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Though poor and abject and despisedN3
Their fortunes to the crowd I toldJ
I gave the young the love they prizedN3
And promised wealth to bless the oldJ
Schemes for the doubtful I devisedN3
And charms for the forsaken soldJ
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At length for arts like these confinedN
In prison with a lawless crewT
I soon perceived a kindred mindN
And there my long lost daughter knewT
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His father's child whom Aaron gaveO3
To wander with a distant clanP3
The miseries of the world to braveO3
And be the slave of vice and manP3
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She knew my name we met in painQ2
Our parting pangs can I expressQ3
She sail'd a convict o'er the mainQ2
And left an heir to her distressQ3
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This is that heir to shame and painQ2
For whom I only could descryT
A world of trouble and disdainQ2
Yet could I bear to see her dieA
Or stretch her feeble hands in vainQ2
And weeping beg of me supplyA
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No though the fate thy mother knewT
Was shameful shameful thouB3

George Crabbe



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