The Silent Tide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHIJK LMN OPQRSTUHVWXYZNA2B2 C2TD2E2F2G2H2LI2J2K2 L2LM2N2O2P2Q2R2S2T2U 2V2V2V2W2X2Y2Z2X2V2 V2A3B3C3D3LS2V2U2V2 E3P2F3P2V2G3V2H3V2V2 V2I3V2J3V2X2K3V2S2K2 Z2V2V2L3M3V2N3O3V2 U2V2V2P2V2P3Q3V2R3 V2P2S3V2T3K2U3Y2C2J3 V3V2MR3 JW3X3J3HV2V2P2V2V2Z2 V2 V2Y3Z3J3V2Z2V3HC3DV2 C3C3C2C3D3V2V2V2V2E2 C3V2V2 A4J3C3C3B4C4H3V2C4C4 C3C3V2DV2V2V2W3C4D4 V2E4F4C3V2V2C3V2G4C3 V2V2H4C3I4J4V2V2V2C3 C3V2I3K4DV2L4C4C3H3P 2C4D U2V2V2M4I2C3C3C3J3C3 V2C3J3V2 K4C3J3X2P2V2N4DC3YJ3 C3C3C3C3C3C2V2V2V2O4 P4V2V3Q4V2C3C2C3 V2L2V2V2V2R4V2C3V2V2 V2U2P4S4C3V2C3V2C3K3 V2C2P2C3C3V2DV2V2V2V 2YV2V2C3T4V2V2V2QN2C 3QJ3C2V2V2U4V2V2H4C3 V2 C3 V4C3V2P2V2 Y P2W4C3 C3 J3 Y D4C3C3P2 C3 M4C3V2 Y C3C3 C3 V2K4C2 C3P2Q4V2V2P2C3J3C3C3 Y Z2 C3 C3C3J3 Y V2V2 C3 V2V2 Y Q2C3V3C3 C3 U2 Y C3U2 C3C3C3X4C3V2J3C3V2V2 C3C3C3V2C3J3V2L2J3Y4 C3J3V2V2Z2C3C3Z4C3YP 2V2V2P4C3C3K4C3C3C3V 2C3J3V2C3P2V2V2V2V2V 2C3C3C3V2P2HC3C3C3C3 J3V2V2C3C3U4V2C3YV2 C3V2C3YV2K4M3 L2V2V2P4P2Z2V2V2V2V2 M3X4J3C3C3V2V2C3V3M4 J3V2V2V2J3M4V2 V2P2C3C3C3V2V2C3C3

A tangled orchard round the farm house spreads	A
Wherein it stands home like but desolate	B
'Midst crowded and uneven statured sheds	A
Alike by rain and sunshine sadly stained	C
A quiet country road before the door	D
Runs gathering close its ruts to scale the hill	E
A sudden bluff on the New Hampshire coast	F
That rises rough against the sea and hangs	G
Crested above the bowlder sprinkled beach	H
And on the road white houses small are strung	I
Like threaded beads with intervals The church	J
Tops the rough hill then comes the wheelwright's shop	K
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From orchard church and shop you hear the sea	L
And from the farm house windows see it strike	M
Sharp gleams through slender arching apple boughs	N
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Sea like too echoing round me here there rolls	O
A surging sorrow and even so there breaks	P
A smitten light of woe upon me now	Q
Seeing this place and telling o'er again	R
The tale of those who dwelt here once Long since	S
It was and they were two two brothers bound	T
By early orphanage and solitude	U
The closer cleaving strongly each to each	H
Till love that held them many years in gage	V
Itself swept them asunder I have heard	W
The story from old Deacon Snow their friend	X
He who was boy and man with them A boy	Y
What he How strange it seems who now is stiff	Z
And warped with life's fierce heat and cold his brows	N
Are hoary white and on his head the hairs	A2
Stand sparse as wheat stalks on the bare field's edge	B2
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Reuben and Jerry they were named but two	C2
Of common blood and nurture scarce were found	T
More sharply different For the first was bold	D2
Breeze like and bold to come or go not rash	E2
But shrewdly generous popular and boon	F2
And Jerry dark and sad faced Whether least	G2
He loved himself or neighbor none could tell	H2
So cold he seemed in wonted sympathy	L
Yet he would ponder an hour at a time	I2
Upon a bird found dead and much he loved	J2
To brood i' th' shade of yon wind wavered pines	K2
Often at night too he would wander forth	L2
Lured by the hollow rumbling of the sea	L
In moonlight breaking there to learn wild things	M2
Such as these dreamers pluck out of the dusk	N2
While other men lie sleeping But a star	O2
Rose on his sight at last with power to rule	P2
Majestically mild that deep domed sky	Q2
High as youth's hopes that stood above his soul	R2
And ruling led him dayward That was Grace	S2
I mean Grace Brierly daughter of the squire	T2
Rivaling the wheelwright Hungerford's shy Ruth	U2
For beauty Therefore in the sunny field	V2
Mowing the clover purpled grass or waked	V2
In keen December dawns while creeping light	V2
And winter tides beneath the pallid stars	W2
Stole o'er the marsh together a thought of her	X2
Would turn him cool or warm like the south breeze	Y2
And make him blithe or bitter Alas for him	Z2
Eagerly storing golden thoughts of her	X2
He locked a phantom treasure in his breast	V2
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He sought to chain the breezes and to lift	V2
A perfume as a pearl before his eyes	A3
Intangible delight A time drew on	B3
When from these twilight musings on his hopes	C3
He woke and found the morning of his love	D3
Blasted and all its rays shorn suddenly	L
For Reuben too had turned his eye on Grace	S2
And she with favoring face the suit had met	V2
Known in the village this dream fettered youth	U2
Perceiving not what passed until too late	V2
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One holiday the young folks all had gone	E3
Strawberrying with the village Sabbath school	P2
Reuben and Grace and Jerry Ruth Rob Snow	F3
And all their friends youth mates that buoyantly	P2
Bore out 'gainst Time's armadas like a fleet	V2
Of fair ships sunlit braced by buffeting winds	G3
Indomitably brave but soon or late	V2
Battle and hurricane or whirl them deep	H3
Below to death or send them homeward seared	V2
By shot and storm so went they forth that day	V2
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Two wagons full of rosy children rolled	V2
Along the rutty track 'twixt swamp and slope	I3
Through deep green glimmering woods and out at last	V2
On grassy table land warm with the sun	J3
And yielding tributary odors wild	V2
Of strawberry late June rose juniper	X2
Where sea and land breeze mingled There a brook	K3
Through a bare hollow flashing spurted purled	V2
And shot away yet stayed a light and grace	S2
Unconscious and unceasing And thick pines	K2
Hard by drew darkly far away their dim	Z2
And sheltering cool arcades So all dismount	V2
And fields and forest gladden with their shout	V2
Ball swing and see saw sending the light hearts	L3
Of the children high o'er earth and everything	M3
While some staid kindly women draw and spread	V2
In pine shade the long whiteness of a cloth	N3
The rest a busy legion o'er the grass	O3
Kneeling must rifle the meadow of its fruit	V2
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O laughing Fate O treachery of truth	U2
To royal hopes youth bows before That day	V2
Ev'n there where life in such glad measure beat	V2
Its round with winds and waters tunefully	P2
And birds made music in the matted wood	V2
The shaft of death reached Jerry's heart he saw	P3
The sweet conspiracy of those two lives	Q3
In looks and gestures read his doom and heard	V2
Their laughter ring to the grave all mirth of his	R3
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So Reuben's life in full leaf stood its fruit	V2
Hidden in a green expectancy but all	P2
His days were rounded with ripe consciousness	S3
While Jerry felt the winter's whitening blight	V2
As when that frosty fern work and those palms	T3
Of visionary leaf and trailing vines	K2
Quaint chased by night winds on the pane melt off	U3
And naked earth stone stiff with bristling trees	Y2
Stares in the winter sunlight coldly through	C2
But yet he rose and clothed himself amain	J3
With misery and once more put on life	V3
As a stained garment Highly he resolved	V2
To make his deedless days henceforward strike	M
Pure harmony a psalm of silences	R3
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But on the Sunday coming from the church	J
He saw those happy plighted lovers walk	W3
Before proud Grace's father and of friends	X3
Heard comment and congratulation given	J3
Then with Rob Snow he hurried to the beach	H
To a rough heap of stones they two had reared	V2
In boyhood There the two held sad debate	V2
Of life's swift losses Bob inspiriting still	P2
Jerry rejecting hope ev'n though his friend	V2
Self wounding for he loved Ruth Hungerford	V2
Told how the wheelwright's daughter longed for him	Z2
And yet might make him glad though Grace was lost	V2
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The season deepened and in Jerry's heart	V2
Ripened a thought charged with grave consequence	Y3
His grief he would have stifled at its birth	Z3
Sad child of frustrate longing But anon	J3
Knowledge of Ruth's affection being revealed	V2
Which if he stayed to let it feed on him	Z2
Vine like might wreathe and wind about his life	V3
Lifting all shade and sweetness out of reach	H
Of Robert so long his friend honor and hopes	C3
He would not name kindled a torch for war	D
Of various impulse in him Reuben wedded	V2
Yet Jerry lingered Then swift whisperings	C3
Along reverberant walls of gossips' ears	C3
Hummed loud and louder a love for Ruth Grace too	C2
Involved him in a web of soft surmise	C3
With Ruth and Reuben questioned him thereof	D3
But a white sudden anger struck like a bolt	V2
O'er Jerry's face that blackened under it	V2
He strode away and left his brother dazed	V2
With red rush of offended self conceit	V2
Staining his forehead to the hair This flash	E2
Of anger first since boyhood's wholesome strifes	C3
On Jerry's path gleamed lurid by its light	V2
He shaped a life's course out	V2
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There came a storm	A4
One night He bade farewell to Ruth and when	J3
Above the seas the bare browed dawn arose	C3
While the last laggard drops ran off the eaves	C3
He dressed but took some customary garb	B4
On his arm stole swiftly to the sands and there	C4
Cast clown his garments by the ancient heap	H3
Of stones At first brief pause he made and thought	V2
And thus I play to win perchance a tear	C4
From her whom first to save the smallest care	C4
I thought I could have died But then at once	C3
Within the sweep of swirling water planes	C3
That from the great waves circled up and slid	V2
Instantly back passing far down the shore	D
Southward he made his way Next day he shipped	V2
Upon a whaler outward bound She spread	V2
Her mighty wings and bore him far away	V2
So far Death seemed across her wake to stalk	W3
Withering her swift shape from the empty air	C4
Until her memory grew a faded dream	D4
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Ah what a desolate brightness that young day	V2
Flung o'er the impassive strand and dull green marsh	E4
And green arched orchard ere it struck the farm	F4
Storm strengthened clear and cool the morning rose	C3
To gaze down on that frighted home where dawned	V2
Pale Ruth's discovery of her loss who late	V2
Guessing some ill in Jerry's last night words	C3
Of vague farewell woke now to certainty	V2
Of strange disaster So when Reuben and Rob	G4
Hither and thither searching with locked lips	C3
And eyes grown suddenly cold in eager dread	V2
On those still sands beside the untamed sea	V2
Came to the garments Jerry had thrown there dumb	H4
They stood and knew he'd perished If by chance	C3
Borne out with undertow and rolled beneath	I4
The gaping surge or rushing on his death	J4
Free willed they would not guess but straight they set	V2
Themselves to watch the changes of the sea	V2
The watchful sea that would not be betrayed	V2
The surly flood that echoed their suspense	C3
With hollow sounding horror Thus three tides	C3
Hurled on the beach their empty spray and brought	V2
Nor doubt dispelling death nor new born hope	I3
But with the fourth slow turn at length there came	K4
A naked drifting body impelled to shore	D
An unknown sailor by the late storm swept	V2
Out of the rigging of some laboring ship	L4
And him disfigured by the water's wear	C4
The watching friends supposed their dead and so	C3
Mourning took up this outcast of the deep	H3
And buried him with church rite and with pall	P2
Trailing and train of sad eyed mourners there	C4
In the old orchard lot by Reuben's door	D
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Observed among the mourners walked slight Ruth	U2
Her grief had dropped a veil of finer light	V2
Around her hedging her with sanctity	V2
Peculiar all stood shy about her save	M4
Rob Snow he venturing from time to time	I2
Some small uncertain act of kindliness	C3
Long seemed she vowed from joy but when the birds	C3
Began to mate and quiet violets blow	C3
Along the brook side lo she smiled again	J3
Again the wind flower color in her cheeks	C3
Blanch'd in a breath and bloomed once more then stayed	V2
Till like the breeze that rumors ripening buds	C3
A delicate sense crept through the air that soon	J3
These two would scale the church crowned hill and wed	V2
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The seasons faced the world and fled and came	K4
In summer nights the soft roll of the sea	C3
Was shattered resonant beneath a moon	J3
That silent seemed to hearken And every hour	X2
In autumn night or day large apples fell	P2
Without rebound to earth upon the sod	V2
There mounded greenly by the large slate slab	N4
In the old orchard lot near Reuben's door	D
But there were changes after some long years	C3
Reuben and Grace beheld a brave young boy	Y
Bearing their double life abroad in one	J3
Beginning new the world and bringing hopes	C3
That in their path fell flower like Not at ease	C3
They dwelt though for a slow discordancy	C3
Of temper weak willed waste of life in bursts	C3
Of petulance had marred their happiness	C3
And so the boy young Reuben as he grew	C2
Was chafed and vexed by this ill fitting mode	V2
Of life forced on him and rebelled Too oft	V2
Brooding alone he shaped loose schemes of flight	V2
Into the joyous outer world to break	O4
From the unwholesome wranglings of his home	P4
Then once when at some slight demur he made	V2
Dispute ensued between the man and wife	V3
He burst forth goaded Some day I will leave	Q4
Leave you forever And his father stared	V2
Lifted and clenched his hand but let it unloose	C3
Nerveless The blow unstruck yet quivered through	C2
The boy's whole body	C3
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Waiting for the night	V2
Reuben made ready lifted latch went forth	L2
Then with his little bundle in his hand	V2
Took the bleak road that led him to the world	V2
When Jerry eighteen years had sailed had bared	V2
His hurt soul to the pitiless sun and drunk	R4
The rainy brew of storms on all seas tired	V2
Of wreck and fever and renewed mischance	C3
That would not end in death a longing stirred	V2
Within him to revisit that gray coast	V2
Where he was born He landed at the port	V2
Whence first he sailed and as in fervid youth	U2
Set forth upon the highway to walk home	P4
Some hoarding he had made wherewith to enrich	S4
His brother's brood for spendthrift purposes	C3
And as he walked he wondered how they looked	V2
How tall they were how many there might be	C3
At noon he set himself beside the way	V2
Under a clump of willows sprouting dense	C3
O'er the weed woven margin of a brook	K3
While in the fine green branches overhead	V2
Song sparrows lightly perched for whom he threw	C2
From his scant bread some crumbs remembering well	P2
Old days when he had played with birds like these	C3
The same perhaps or grandfathers of theirs	C3
Or earlier still progenitors whereat	V2
They chirped and chattered louder than before	D
But as he sat a boy came down the road	V2
Stirring the noontide dust with laggard feet	V2
Young Reuben 't was who seaward made his way	V2
And Jerry hailed him carelessly his mood	V2
Moving to salutation and the boy	Y
From under his torn hat brim looking answered	V2
Then seeing that he eyed his scrap of bread	V2
The sailor bade him come and share it So	C3
They fell to talk and Jerry with a rough	T4
Quick touching kindness the boy's heart so moved	V2
That unto him he all his wrong confessed	V2
Gravely the sailor looked at him and told	V2
His own tale of mad flight and wandering how	Q
Wasted he had come back his life a husk	N2
Of withered seeds a raveled purse though once	C3
With golden years well stocked all squandered now	Q
At ending he prevailed and Reub was won	J3
To turn and follow Jerry though he knew	C2
Not yet the father's name said he that way	V2
Was going too and he would intercede	V2
Between the truant and his father Back	U4
Together then they went But on the way	V2
As now they passed from pines to farming land	V2
The boy asked more 'T is queer you should have come	H4
From these same parts and run away like me	C3
You did not tell me how it happened	V2
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JERRY	C3
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Foolish	V4
All of it But I thought it weightier	C3
Than the world's history once I could not stay	V2
And see my brother married to the girl	P2
I loved and so I went	V2
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THE BOY	Y
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I had an uncle	P2
That was in love But he he drowned himself	W4
Why do men do so	C3
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JERRY	C3
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Drowned himself And when	J3
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THE BOY	Y
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I don't know Long ago it's like a dream	D4
To me I was not born then Deacon Snow	C3
Has told me something of it Mother cries	C3
Even now beside his grave Poor uncle	P2
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JERRY	C3
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His grave	M4
That could not be then Yet if it should be	C3
How can I think Grace cried	V2
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THE BOY	Y
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How did you know	C3
My mother's name was Grace	C3
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JERRY	C3
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I am confused	V2
By what you say But is your mother's name	K4
Grace How Grace too	C2
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A strange uneasiness	C3
In Jerry's breast had waked They walked awhile	P2
In silence This he could not well believe	Q4
That Grace and Reuben unhappy were nor that	V2
One son alone was theirs Therefore aside	V2
He thrust that hidden sharp foreboding still	P2
He trusted still sustained a calm suspense	C3
And ranged among his memories Tell me son	J3
He said about this Deacon Snow Rob Snow	C3
It must be I suppose	C3
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THE BOY	Y
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Oh do you know him	Z2
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JERRY	C3
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A deacon now Ay once I knew Rob Snow	C3
A jolly blade if ever any was	C3
And merry as the full moon	J3
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THE BOY	Y
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He has failed	V2
A good deal now though since his wife died	V2
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JERRY	C3
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What	V2
Of course of course all's changed He married	V2
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THE BOY	Y
	-
Why	Q2
How long you must have been away For since	C3
I can remember he has had a wife	V3
And children She was Gran'ther Hungerford's	C3
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JERRY	C3
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Her name was Ruth	U2
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THE BOY	Y
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Yes Ruth 'T is after her	C3
The deacon's nicest daughter's named she's Ruth	U2
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Then sadly Jerry pondered and no more	C3
Found speech They tramped on sternly To the brow	C3
Of a long hill they came whence they could see	C3
The village and blue ocean then they sank	X4
Into a region of low lying fields	C3
Half naked from the scythe and others veined	V2
With vines that 'midst dismantled fallen corn	J3
Dragged all athwart a weight of tawny gourds	C3
Sun mellowed sound And now the level way	V2
Stretched forward eagerly for hard ahead	V2
It made the turn that rounded Reuben's house	C3
Between the still road and the tossing sea	C3
Lay the wide swamp with all its hundred pools	C3
Reflecting leaden light anon they passed	V2
A farm yard where the noisy chanticleer	C3
Strutted and ruled as one long since had done	J3
And then the wayside trough with jutting spout	V2
Of ancient mossy wood that still poured forth	L2
Its liquid largess to all comers Soon	J3
A slow cart met them filled with gathered kelp	Y4
The salt scent seemed a breath of younger days	C3
They reached the road bend and the evening shone	J3
Upon them calmly Jerry paused o'erwhelmed	V2
Reuben surprised glanced at him and then said	V2
Yonder's the house Old Jerry gazed on him	Z2
And trembled for before him slowly grew	C3
Through the boy's face the mingled features there	C3
Of father and of mother Grace's mouth	Z4
Ripe pouting lips and Reuben's square framed eyes	C3
But mastering well his voice he bade the boy	Y
Wait by the wall till he a little while	P2
Went forward and prepared So Reuben stayed	V2
And Jerry with uncertain step advanced	V2
As dreaming of his youth and this his home	P4
Slowly he passed between the gateless posts	C3
Before the unused front door slowly too	C3
Beyond the side porch with its woodbine thick
Draping autumnal splendor Thus he came	K4
Before the kitchen window where he saw	C3
A gray haired woman bent o'er needle work
In gathering twilight And without a voice	C3
Rooted he stood He stirred not but his glance	C3
Burned through the pane uneasily she turned	V2
And seeing that shaggy stranger standing there	C3
Expectant shook her head as though to warn	J3
Some chance wayfaring beggar He though stood	V2
And looked at her immovably Then quick
The sash upthrowing she made as if to speak
Harshly but still he held his quiet eyes	C3
Upon her Now she paused her throat throbbed full	P2
Her lips paled suddenly her wan face flamed	V2
A fertile stir of memory strove to work
Renewal in those features wintry cold	V2
And so she hung while Jerry by a step
Drawn nearer coming just beneath her said	V2
Grace And she murmured Jerry Then she bent	V2
Over him clasping his great matted head	V2
With those worn arms all joyless and the tears	C3
Fell hot upon his forehead from her eyes	C3
For now in this dim gloaming their two souls	C3
Unfruited by an instant insight wild	V2
Delicious found the full mysterious clew	P2
Of individual being each in each	H
But tremulously soon they drew themselves	C3
Away from that so sweet so sad embrace	C3
The first the last that could be theirs Then he	C3
Summing his story in a word a glance	C3
Added But though you see me broken down	J3
And poor enough not empty handed quite	V2
I come For God set in my way a gift	V2
The best I could have sought I bring it you	C3
In memory of the love I bore Not now	C3
Must that again be thought of Waste and black	U4
My life's fields lie behind me and a frost	V2
Has stilled the music of my hopes but here	C3
If I may dwell nor trouble you such a joy	Y
Were mine I dare not ask it Oh forgive
The weakness Come and see my gift	V2
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Ah tears	C3
Flowed fast that night from springs of love unsealed	V2
Once more within the ancient house rare tears	C3
Of reconciliation grief and joy	Y
A miracle it seemed had here been wrought	V2
The dead brought back to life And with him came	K4
The prodigal repenting	M3
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So thenceforth	L2
A spirit of peace within the household dwelt	V2
In Jerry a swift sent age these years had brought	V2
To soften him wrought with all the woe at home	P4
Such open gracious dignity that all	P2
For cheer and guidance learned to look to him	Z2
But chiefly th' younger Reuben sought his aid	V2
And he with homely wisdom shaped the lad	V2
To a life's loving duty Yet not long
Alas the kind sea farer with them stayed	V2
After some years his storm racked body drooped	V2
The season came when crickets cease to sing	M3
And flame curled leaves fly fast and Jerry sank	X4
Softly toward death Then on a boisterous morn	J3
That beat the wrecked woods with incessant gusts	C3
To wrest some last leaf from them he arose	C3
And passed away But those who loved him watched	V2
His fading half in doubt and half afraid	V2
As if he must return again for now	C3
Entering the past he seemed and not a life	V3
Beyond and some who thought of that old grave	M4
In the orchard dreamed a breath's space that the man	J3
Long buried had come back and could not die	V2
But so he died and ceasing made request	V2
Beside that outcast of the deep to lie	V2
None other mark desired he but the stone	J3
Set there long since though at a stranger's grave	M4
In heavy memory of him thought dead	V2
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They marked the earth with one more mound beside	V2
The other near a gap in the low wall	P2
That looked out seaward There you ever hear	C3
The deep remorseful requiem of the sea	C3
And there in autumn windfalls showering thick
Upon the grave score the slow voiceless hours	C3
With unrebounding stroke All round about	V2
Green milkweed rankly thrives and golden rod	V2
Sprouts from his prostrate heart in fine poised grace	C3
Of haughty curve with every crest in flower	C3

George Parsons Lathrop

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