Songs Of Olden Magic--ii. The Robing Of The King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDBDEFGFGBGBGHIHJKLK BGMGBNMNGGOGPBMBMMKM MDMDMBKBMQRQSBMBTRUR BVRV G| His candle shined upon my head and by his light I walked | A |
| through darkness Job xxix | B |
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| On the bird of air blue breasted | C |
| glint the rays of gold | D |
| And a shadowy fleece above us | B |
| waves the forest old | D |
| Far through rumorous leagues of midnight | E |
| stirred by breezes warm | F |
| See the old ascetic yonder | G |
| Ah poor withered form | F |
| Where he crouches wrinkled over | G |
| by unnumbered years | B |
| Through the leaves the flakes of moonfire | G |
| fall like phantom tears | B |
| At the dawn a kingly hunter | G |
| passed proud disdain | H |
| Like a rainbow torrent scattered | I |
| flashed his royal train | H |
| Now the lonely one unheeded | J |
| seeks earth's caverns dim | K |
| Never king or princes will robe them | L |
| radiantly as him | K |
| Mid the deep enfolding darkness | B |
| follow him oh seer | G |
| While the arrow will is piercing | M |
| fiery sphere on sphere | G |
| Through the blackness leaps and sparkles | B |
| gold and amethyst | N |
| Curling jetting and dissolving | M |
| in a rainbow mist | N |
| In the jewel glow and lunar | G |
| radiance rise there | G |
| One a morning star in beauty | O |
| young immortal fair | G |
| Sealed in heavy sleep the spirit | P |
| leaves its faded dress | B |
| Unto fiery youth returning | M |
| out of weariness | B |
| Music as for one departing | M |
| joy as for a king | M |
| Sound and swell and hark above him | K |
| cymbals triumphing | M |
| Fire an aureole encircling | M |
| suns his brow with gold | D |
| Like to one who hails the morning | M |
| on the mountains old | D |
| Open mightier vistas changing | M |
| human loves to scorns | B |
| And the spears of glory pierce him | K |
| like a Crown of Thorns | B |
| As the sparry rays dilating | M |
| o'er his forehead climb | Q |
| Once again he knows the Dragon | R |
| Wisdom of the prime | Q |
| High and yet more high to freedom | S |
| as a bird he springs | B |
| And the aureole outbreathing | M |
| gold and silver wings | B |
| Plume the brow and crown the seraph | T |
| Soon his journey done | R |
| He will pass our eyes that follow | U |
| sped beyond the sun | R |
| None may know the darker radiance | B |
| King will there be thine | V |
| Rapt above the Light and hidden | R |
| in the Dark Divine | V |
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| September | G |
George William Russell
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