Faintly We Echo--like This Spake The Shadow And Like This The Glory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE B AAAA FGFG A BEBE HEHE IJJJ JEJE GEGE B EJEJ KGKG KEKE GGGG EGEG LJLJ| The Shadow | A |
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| Who art thou O Glory | B |
| In flame from the deep | C |
| Where stars chant their story | B |
| Why trouble my sleep | C |
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| I hardly had rested | D |
| My dreams wither now | E |
| Why comest thou crested | D |
| And gemmed on they brow | E |
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| The Glory | B |
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| Up Shadow and follow | A |
| The way I will show | A |
| The blue gleaming hollow | A |
| To night we will know | A |
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| And rise mid the vast to | F |
| The fountain of days | G |
| From whence we had pass to | F |
| The parting of ways | G |
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| The Shadow | A |
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| I know thee O Glory | B |
| Thine eyes and thy brow | E |
| With white fire all hoary | B |
| Come back to me now | E |
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| Together we wandered | H |
| In ages agone | E |
| Our thoughts as we pondered | H |
| Were stars at the dawn | E |
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| The glory has dwindled | I |
| My azure and gold | J |
| Yet you keep enkindled | J |
| The Sun fire of old | J |
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| My footsteps are tied to | J |
| The heath and the stone | E |
| My thoughts earth allied to | J |
| Ah leave me alone | E |
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| Go back thou of gladness | G |
| Nor wound me with pain | E |
| Nor spite me with madness | G |
| Nor come nigh again | E |
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| The Glory | B |
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| Why tremble and weep now | E |
| Whom stars once obeyed | J |
| Come forth to the deep now | E |
| And be not afraid | J |
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| The Dark One is calling | K |
| I know for his dreams | G |
| Around me are falling | K |
| In musical streams | G |
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| A diamond is burning | K |
| In depths of the Lone | E |
| Thy spirit returning | K |
| May claim for its throne | E |
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| In flame fringed islands | G |
| Its sorrows shall cease | G |
| Absorbed in the silence | G |
| And quenched in the peace | G |
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| Come lay thy poor head on | E |
| My breast where it glows | G |
| With love ruby red on | E |
| Thy heart for its woes | G |
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| My power I surrender | L |
| To thee it is due | J |
| Come forth for the splendor | L |
| Is waiting for you | J |
George William Russell
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