Translations. - The Tryst. (from Schiller.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDEDEFF GHHH IJKJKJLL MNMN NHNHNHJJ HJHJ OJOJOJPP EQEQ QQQQQQRR STST

That was the sound of the wicketA
That was the latch as it roseB
No the wind that through the thicketC
Of the poplars whirring goesB
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Put on thy beauty foliage vaulted roofD
Her to receive with silent welcome grace herE
Ye branches build a shadowy room eye proofD
With lovely night and stillness to embrace herE
Ye airs caressing wake nor keep aloofD
In sport and gambol turning still to face herE
As with its load of beauty lightly borneF
Glides in the fairy foot and dawns my mornF
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What is that rustling the hedgesG
She with her hurrying paceH
No a bird among the sedgesH
Startled from its hiding placeH
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Quench thy sunk torch O Day Steal out appearI
Dim ghostly Night with dumbness us entrancingJ
Spread thy rose purple veil about us hereK
Weave round us twigs the mystery enhancingJ
Love's rapture flees the lurking listening earK
Flies from the Day so indiscreetly glancingJ
Hesper alone no tattling tell tale heL
Far gazing still her confidant may beL
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That was a voice but far distantM
Faint like a whispering lowN
No the swan that draws persistentM
Through the pond his circles slowN
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About mine ears harmonious breathings flowN
The fountain falls in sweetly wavering rushesH
The flower beneath the west wind's kiss bends slowN
Delight from each to every thing outgushesH
Grape clusters beckon peaches luring glowN
And hide half in their leaves up swelling lusciousH
The air which aromatic odours streakJ
Drinks up the glow upon my burning cheekJ
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Hear I not echoing footfallsH
Hither adown the pleach'd walkJ
No the over ripened fruit fallsH
Heavy swollen from off its stalkJ
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Day's flaming eye at last is quench d quiteO
In gentle death its colours all are palingJ
Now boldly open in the fair twilightO
The cups which in his blaze had long been quailingJ
Slow lifts the moon her visage calmly brightO
Into great masses molten earth sinks failingJ
From every charm the zone drops unawareP
And shrouded beauty dawns upon me bareP
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Yonder I see a white shimmerE
Silky of robe or of shawlQ
No it is the column's glimmerE
'Gainst the clipt yews' gloomy wallQ
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O longing heart no more thyself befoolQ
Flouted by Fancy's loveliness unrealQ
The empty arm no burning heart will coolQ
No shadow joy hold place for Love's IdealQ
O bring my live love all my heart to ruleQ
Give me her hand to hold my every wealQ
Or but the shadow of her mantle's hemR
And straight my dreams shall live and I in themR
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And soft as from hills rosy goldenS
The dews of still gladness descendT
So had she drawn nigh unbeholdenS
And wakened with kisses her friendT

George Macdonald



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