The Empty Purse--a Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Empty Purse--a Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Thou run to the dry on this wayside bank	A
Too plainly of all the propellers bereft	B
Quenched youth and is that thy purse	C
Even such limp slough as the snake has left	B
Slack to the gale upon spikes of whin	D
For cast off coat of a life gone blank	A
In its frame of a grin at the seeker is thine	D
And thine to crave and to curse	C
The sweet thing once within	D
Accuse him some devil committed the theft	B
Which leaves of the portly a skin	D
No more of the weighty a whine	D
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Pursue him and first to be sure of his track	E
Over devious ways that have led to this	F
In the stream's consecutive line	D
Let memory lead thee back	E
To where waves Morning her fleur de lys	F
Unflushed at the front of the roseate door	G
Unopened yet never shadow there	H
Of a Tartarus lighted by Dis	F
For souls whose cry is alack	E
An ivory cradle rocks apeep	I
Through his eyelashes' laugh a breathing pearl	J
There the young chief of the animals wore	G
A likeness to heavenly hosts unaware	H
Of his love of himself with the hours at leap	I
In a dingle away from a rutted highroad	B
Around him the earliest throstle and merle	J
Our human smile between milk and sleep	I
Effervescent of Nature he crowed	B
Fair was that season furl over furl	J
The banners of blossom a dancing floor	G
This earth very angels the clouds and fair	H
Thou on the tablets of forehead and breast	B
Careless a centre of vigilant care	H
Thy mother kisses an infant curl	J
The room of the toys was a boundless nest	B
A kingdom the field of the games	F
Till entered the craving for more	G
And the worshipped small body had aims	F
A good little idol as records attest	B
When they tell of him lightly appeased in a scream	K
By sweets and caresses he gave but sign	D
That the heir of a purse plumped dominant race	F
Accustomed to plenty not dumb would pine	D
Almost magician his earliest dream	K
Was lord of the unpossessed	B
For a look himself and his chase	F
As on puffs of a wind at whirl	J
Made one in the wink of a gleam	K
She kisses a locket curl	J
She conjures to vision a cherub face	F
When her butterfly counted his day	B
All meadow and flowers mishap	I
Derided and taken for play	B
The fling of an urchin's cap	I
When her butterfly showed him an eaglet born	D
For preying too heedlessly bred	B
What a heart clapped in thee then	D
With what fuller colours of morn	D
And high to the uttermost heavens it flew	J
Swift as on poet's pen	D
It flew to be wedded to wed	B
The mystery scented around	B
Issue of flower and dew	J
Issue of light and sound	B
Thinner than either a thread	B
Spun of the dream they threw	J
To kindle allure evade	B
It ran the sea wave the garden's dance	F
To the forest's dark heart down a dappled glade	B
Led on by a perishing glance	F
By a twinkle's eternal waylaid	B
Woman the name was when she took form	L
Sheaf of the wonders of life She fled	B
Close imaged she neared far seen How she made	B
Palpitate earth of the living and dead	B
Did she not show thee the world designed	B
Solely for loveliness Nested warm	L
The day was the morrow in flight And for thee	M
She muted the discords tuned refined	B
Drowned sharp edges beneath her cloak	E
Eye of the waters and throb of the tree	M
Sliding on radiance winging from shade	B
With her witch whisper o'er ruins in reeds	F
She sang low the song of her promise delayed	B
Beckoned and died as a finger of smoke	E
Astream over woodland And was not she	M
History's heroines white on storm	L
Remember her summons to valorous deeds	F
Shone she a lure of the honey bag swarm	L
Most was her beam on the knightly she led	B
For the honours of manhood more than the prize	F
Waved her magnetical yoke	E
Whither the warrior bled	B
Ere to the bower of sighs	F
And shy of her secrets she was under deeps	F
Plunged at the breath of a thirst that woke	E
The dream in the cave where the Dreaded sleeps	F
	-
Away over heaven the young heart flew	J
And caught many lustres till some one said	B
Or was it the thought into hearing grew	J
NOT THOU AS COMMONER MEN	D
Thy stature puffed and it swayed	B
It stiffened to royal erect	B
A brassy trumpet brayed	B
A whirling seized thy head	B
The vision of beauty was flecked	B
Note well the how and the when	D
The thing that prompted and sped	B
Thereanon the keen passions clapped wing	E
Fixed eye and the world was prey	B
No simple world of thy greenblade Spring	E
Nor world of thy flowerful prime	N
On the topmost Orient peak	E
Above a yet vaporous day	B
Flesh was it breast to beak	E
A four walled windowless world without ray	B
Only darkening jets on a river of slime	N
Where harsh over music as woodland jay	B
A voice chants Woe to the weak	E
And along an insatiate feast	B
Women and men are one	D
In the cup transforming to beast	B
Magian worship they paid to their sun	D
Lord of the Purse Behold him climb	N
Stalked ever such figure of fun	D
For monarch in great grin pantomime	N
See now the heart dwindle the frame distend	B
The soul to its anchorite cavern retreat	B
From a life that reeks of the rotted end	B
While he is he pictureable replete	B
Gourd like swells of the rank of the soil	J
Hollow more hollow at core	G
And for him did the hundreds toil	J
Despised in the cold and heat	B
This image ridiculous bore	G
On their shoulders for morsels of meat	B
	-
Gross with the fumes of incense full	J
With parasites tickled with slaves begirt	B
He strutted a cock he bellowed a bull	J
He rolled him a dog in dirt	B
And dog bull cook was he fanged horned plumed	B
Original man as philosophers vouch	O
Carnivorous cannibal length long exhumed	B
Frightfully living and armed to devour	P
The primitive weapons of prey in his pouch	O
The bait the line and the hook	E
To feed on his fellows intent	B
God of the Danae shower	P
He had but to follow his bent	B
He battened on fowl not safely hutched	B
On sheep astray from the crook	E
A lure for the foolish in fold	B
To carrion turning what flesh he touched	B
And O the grace of his air	H
As he at the goblet sips	F
A centre of girdles loosed	B
With their grisly label Sold	B
Credulous hears the fidelity swear	H
Which has roving eyes over yielded lips	F
To morrow will fancy himself the seduced	B
The stuck in a treacherous slough	Q
Because of his faith in a purchased pair	H
False to a vinous vow	R
	-
In his glory of banquet strip him bare	H
And what is the creature we view	J
Our pursy Apollo Apollyon's tool	J
A small one still of the crew	J
By serpent Apollyon blest	B
His plea in apology blindfold Fool	J
A fool surcharged propelled unwarned	B
Not viler you hear him protest	B
Of a popular countenance not incorrect	B
But deeds are the picture in essence deeds	F
Paint him the hooved and homed	B
Despite the poor pother he pleads	F
And his look of a nation's elect	B
We have him our quarry confessed	B
And scan him the features inspect	B
Of that bestial multiform cry	S
Corroborate I O Samian Sage	T
The book of thy wisdom proved	B
On me its last hieroglyph page	T
Alive in the horned and hooved	B
Thou will he make reply	S
	-
Thus has the plenary purse	F
Done often to do will engage	T
Anew upon all of thy like or worse	F
And now is thy deepest regret	B
To be man clean rescued from beast	B
From the grip of the Sorcerer Gold	B
Celestially released	B
	-
But now from his cavernous hold	B
Free may thy soul be set	B
As a child of the Death and the Life to learn	D
Refreshed by some bodily sweat	B
The meaning of either in turn	D
What issue may come of the two	J
A morn beyond mornings beyond all reach	U
Of emotional arms at the stretch to enfold	B
A firmament passing our visible blue	J
To those having nought to reflect it 'tis nought	B
To those who are misty 'tis mist on the beach	U
From the billow withdrawing to those who see	F
Earth our mother in thought	B
Her spirit it is our key	F
	-
Ay the Life and the Death are her words to us here	V
Of one significance pricking the blind	B
This is thy gain now the surface is clear	W
To read with a soul in the mirror of mind	B
Is man's chief lesson Thou smilest I preach	U
Acid smiling m	X