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A Book Of Dreams: Part I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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I lay and dreamed The Master came	B
In seamless garment drest	C
I stood in bonds 'twixt love and shame	B
Not ready to be blest	C
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He stretched his arms and gently sought	C
To clasp me to his heart	C
I shrank for I unthinking thought	C
He knew me but in part	C
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I did not love him as I would	C
Embraces were not meet	C
I dared not ev'n stand where he stood	C
I fell and kissed his feet	C
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Years years have passed away since then	D
Oft hast thou come to me	E
The question scarce will rise again	D
Whether I care for thee	E
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In thee lies hid my unknown heart	C
In thee my perfect mind	C
In all my joys my Lord thou art	C
The deeper joy behind	C
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But when fresh light and visions bold	C
My heart and hope expand	C
Up comes the vanity of old	C
That now I understand	C
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Away away from thee I drift	C
Forgetting not forgot	C
Till sudden yawns a downward rift	C
I start and see thee not	C
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Ah then come sad unhopeful hours	F
All in the dark I stray	G
Until my spirit fainting cowers	F
On the threshold of the day	G
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Hence not even yet I child like dare	H
Nestle unto thy breast	C
Though well I know that only there	H
Lies hid the secret rest	C
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But now I shrink not from thy will	I
Nor guilty judge my guilt	C
Thy good shall meet and slay my ill	I
Do with me as thou wilt	C
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If I should dream that dream once more	J
Me in my dreaming meet	C
Embrace me Master I implore	J
And let me kiss thy feet	C
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II	A
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I stood before my childhood's home	K
Outside its belt of trees	F
All round my glances flit and roam	K
O'er well known hills and leas	F
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When sudden rushed across the plain	L
A host of hurrying waves	F
Loosed by some witchery of the brain	L
From far dream hidden caves	F
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And up the hill they clomb and came	B
A wild fast flowing sea	F
Careless I looked as on a game	B
No terror woke in me	F
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For just the belting trees within	M
I saw my father wait	C
And should the waves the summit win	M
There was the open gate	C
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With him beside all doubt was dumb	N
There let the waters foam	K
No mightiest flood would dare to come	N
And drown his holy home	K
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Two days passed by With restless toss	F
The red flood brake its doors	F
Prostrate I lay and looked across	F
To the eternal shores	F
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The world was fair and hope was high	A
My friends had all been true	O
Life burned in me and Death and I	A
Would have a hard ado	O
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Sudden came back the dream so good	C
My trouble to abate	C
At his own door my Father stood	C
I just without the gate	C
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Thou know'st what is and what appears	F
I said mine eyes to thine	P
Are windows thou hear'st with thine ears	F
But also hear'st with mine	P
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Thou knowest my weak soul's dismay	G
How trembles my life's node	C
Thou art the potter I am the clay	G
'Tis thine to bear the load	C
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III	A
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A piece of gold had left my purse	F
Which I had guarded ill	I
I feared a lack but feared yet worse	F
Regret returning still	I
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I lifted up my feeble prayer	H
To him who maketh strong	Q
That thence no haunting thoughts of care	H
Might do my spirit wrong	Q
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And even before my body slept	C
Such visions fair I had	C
That seldom soul with chamber swept	C
Was more serenely glad	C
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No white robed angel floated by	A
On slow reposing wings	F
I only saw with inward eye	A
Some very common things	F
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First rose the scarlet pimpernel	I
With burning purple heart	C
I saw within it and could spell	I
The lesson of its art	C
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Then came the primrose child like flower	R
And looked me in the face	F
It bore a message full of power	R
And confidence and grace	F
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And breezes rose on pastures trim	S
And bathed me all about	C
Wool muffled sheep bells babbled dim	S
Or only half spoke out	C
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Sudden it closed some door of heaven	T
But what came out remained	C
The poorest man my loss had given	T
For that which I had gained	C
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Thou gav'st me Lord a brimming cup	U
Where I bemoaned a sip	V
How easily thou didst make up	U
For that my fault let slip	V
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What said the flowers what message new	O
Embalmed my soul with rest	C
I scarce can tell only they grew	O
Right out of God's own breast	C
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They said to every flower he made	C
God's thought was root and stem	W
Perhaps said what the lilies said	C
When Jesus looked at them	W
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IV	A
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Sometimes in daylight hours awake	X
Our souls with visions teem	Y
Which to the slumbering brain would take	X
The form of wondrous dream	Y
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Once with my thought sight I descried	C
A plain with hills around	C
A lordly company on each side	C
Leaves bare the middle ground	C
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Great terrace steps at one end rise	F
To something like a throne	Z
And thither all the radiant eyes	F
As to a centre shone	Z
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A snow white glory dim defined	C
Those seeking eyes beseech	A2
Him who was not in fire or wind	C
But in the gentle speech	A2
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They see his eyes far fixed wait	C
Adown the widening vale	I
They turning look their breath they bate	C
With dread filled wonder pale	I
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In raiment worn and blood bedewed	C
With faltering step and numb	N
Toward the shining multitude	C
A weary man did come	N
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His face was white and still composed	C
As of a man nigh dead	C
The eyes through eyelids half unclosed	C
A faint wan splendour shed	C
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Drops on his hair disordered hung	B2
Like rubies dull of hue	O
His hands were pitifully wrung	B2
And stricken through and through	O
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Silent they stood with tender awe	C2
Between their ranks he came	B
Their tearful eyes looked down and saw	F
What made his feet so lame	B
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He reached the steps below the throne	Z
There sank upon his knees	F
Clasped his torn hands with stifled groan	Z
And spake in words like these	F
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Father I am come back Thy will	I
Is sometimes hard to do	O
From all that multitude so still	I
A sound of weeping grew	O
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Then mournful glad came down the One	T
He kneeled and clasped his child	C
Lay on his breast the outworn man	D2
And wept until he smiled	C
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The people who in bitter woe	E2
And love had sobbed and cried	C
Raised aweful eyes at length and Lo	E2
The two sat side by side	C
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V	A
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Dreaming I slept Three crosses stood	C
High in the gloomy air	H
One bore a thief and one the Good	C
The other waited bare	H
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A soldier came up to the place	F
And took me for the third	C
My eyes they sought the Master's face	F
My will the Master's word	C
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He bent his head I took the sign	P
And gave the error way	G
Gesture nor look nor word of mine	P
The secret should betray	G
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The soldier from the cross's foot	C
Turned I stood waiting there	H
That grim expectant tree for fruit	C
My dying form must bear	H
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Up rose the steaming mists of doubt	C
And chilled both heart and brain	L
They shut the world of vision out	C
And fear saw only pain	L
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Ah me my hands the hammer's blow	E2
The nails that rend and pierce	F
The shock may stun but slow and slow	E2
The torture will grow fierce	F
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Alas the awful fight with death	F2
The hours to hang and die	C
The thirsting gasp for common breath	F2
The weakness that would cry	C
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My soul returned A faintness soon	G2
Will shroud thee in its fold	C
The hours will bring the fearful noon	G2
'Twill pass and thou art cold	C
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'Tis his to care that thou endure	H2
To curb or loose the pain	L
With bleeding hands hang on thy cure	H2
It shall not be in vain	L
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But ah the will which thus could quail	I
Might yield oh horror drear	H2
Then more than love the fear to fail	I
Kept down the other fear	H2
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I stood nor moved But inward strife	A
The bonds of slumber broke	I2
Oh had I fled and lost the life	A
Of which the Master spoke	I2
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VI	C
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Methinks I hear as o'er this life's dim dial	I
The last shades darken friends say He was good	C
I struggling fail to speak my faint denial	I
They whisper His humility withstood	C
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I knowing better part with love unspoken	T
And find the unknown world not all unknown	Z
The bonds that held me from my centre broken	T
I seek my home the Saviour's homely throne	Z
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How he will greet me walking on I wonder	H2
I think I know what I will say to him	S
I fear no sapphire floor of cloudless thunder	H2
I fear no passing vision great and dim	S
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But he knows all my weary sinful story	H2
How will he judge me pure and strong and fair	H2
I come to him in all his conquered glory	H2
Won from the life that I went dreaming there	H2
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I come I fall before him faintly saying	J2
Ah Lord shall I thy loving pardon win	M
Earth tempted me my walk was but a straying	J2
I have no honour but may I come in	M
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I hear him say Strong prayer did keep me stable	I
To me the earth was very lovely too	O
Thou shouldst have prayed I would have made thee able	I
To love it greatly but thou hast got through	O