O Let Me Dream The Dreams Of Long Ago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Call me not back O cold and crafty worldA
I scorn your thankless thanks and hollow praiseB
Wiser than seer or scientist contentC
To tread no paths beyond these bleating hillsD
Here let me lie beneath this dear old elmE
Among the blossoms of the clover fieldsF
And listen to the humming of the beesG
Here in those far off happy boyhood yearsH
When all my world was bounded by these hillsD
I dreamed my first dreams underneath this elmE
Dreamed Aye and builded castles in the cloudsI
Dreamed and made glad a fond proud mother's heartJ
Now moldering into clay on yonder hillK
Dreamed till my day dreams paved the world with goldL
Dreamed till my mad dreams made one desolateM
Dreamed O my soul and was it all a dreamN
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As I lay dreaming under this old elmE
Building my castles in the sunny cloudsI
Her soft eyes peeping from the copse of pineO
Looked tenderly on me and my glad heart leapedP
Following her footsteps O the dream the dreamN
O fawn eyed lotus lipped white bosomed FloreQ
I hide my bronzed face in your golden hairR
Thou wilt not heed the dew drops on my beardS
Thou wilt not heed the wrinkles on my browT
Thou wilt not chide me for my long delayU
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Here we stood heart to heart and eye to eyeV
And I looked down into her inmost soulW
The while she drank my promise like sweet wineO
O let me dream the dreams of long agoX
Soft are the tender eyes of maiden loveY
Sweet are the dew drops of a dear girl's lipsZ
When love's red roses blush in sudden bloomA2
O let me dream the dreams of long agoX
Hum soft and low O bee bent clover fieldsF
Blink blue eyed violets from the dewy grassB2
Break into bloom my golden dandelionsC2
Break into bloom my dear old apple treesG
I hear the robins cherup on the hedgeD2
I hear the warbling of the meadow larksE2
I hear the silver fluted whippowilW
I hear the harps that moan among the pinesF2
Touched by the ghostly fingers of the deadG2
Hush let me dream the dreams of long agoX
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And wherefore left I these fair flowery fieldsF
Where her fond eyes and ever gladsome voiceH2
Made all the year one joyous warbling JuneI2
To chase my castles in the passing cloudsI
False as the mirage of some Indian isleW
To shipwrecked sailors famished on the brineO
Wherefore Look out upon the babbling worldA
Fools clamoring at the heels of clamorous foolsJ2
I hungered for the sapless husks of fameK2
Dreaming I saw beyond my native hillsD
The sunshine shimmer on the laurel treesG
Ah tenderly plead her fond eyes brimmed with tearsL2
But lightly laughing at her fears I turnedM2
Eager to clutch my crown of laurel leavesN2
Strong souled and bold to front all winds of heavenO2
A lamb and lion molded into oneO2
And burst away to tread the hollow worldA
Ah nut brown boys that tend the lowing kineO2
Ah blithesome plowmen whistling on the glebeP2
Ah merry mowers singing in the swathsN2
Sweet simple souls contented not to knowO2
Wiser are ye and ye may teach the wiseN2
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Years trode upon the heels of flying yearsN2
And still my Ignis Fatuus flew beforeQ
On thorny paths my eager feet pursuedQ2
Till she whose fond heart doted on my dreamsN2
Passed painless to the pure eternal peaceN2
Years trode upon the heels of flying yearsN2
And touched my brown beard with their silver wandsN2
And still my Ignis Fatuus flew beforeQ
Through thorns and mire my torn feet followed stillW
Till she my darling unforgotten FloreQ
Nursing her one hope all those weary yearsN2
Waiting my tardy coming drooped and diedR2
I hear her low sweet voice among the pinesN2
O let me dream the dreams of long agoO2
I see her fond eyes peeping from the pinesN2
O let me dream the dreams of long agoO2
And hide my bronzed face in her golden hairR
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Is this the Indian summer of my daysN2
Wealth without care and love without desireS2
O misty cheerless moon of falling leavesN2
Is this the fruitage promised by the springT2
O blighted clusters withering on the vineO2
O promised lips of love to one who dreamsN2
And wakens holding but the hollow airR
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Let me dream on lest dead unto my deadG2
False to the true and true unto the falseN2
Maddened by thoughts of that which might have beenO2
And weary of the chains of that which isN2
I slake my heart thirst at forbidden springsN2
I hear the voices of the moaning pinesN2
I hear the low hushed whispers of the deadG2
And one wan face looks in upon my dreamsN2
And wounds me with her sad imploring eyesN2
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The dead sun sinks beyond the misty hillsN2
The chill winds whistle in the leafless elmsN2
The cold rain patters on the fallen leavesN2
Where pipes the silver fluted whippowilW
I hear no hum of bees among the bloomA2
I hear no robin cherup on the hedgeD2
One dumb lone lark sits shivering in the rainO2
I hear the voices of the Autumn windU2
I hear the cold rain dripping on the leavesN2
I hear the moaning of the mournful pinesN2
I hear the hollow voices of the deadG2
O let me dream the dreams of long agoO2
And dreaming pass into the dreamless sleepV2
Beyond the voices of the autumn windsN2
Beyond the patter of the dreary rainO2
Beyond compassion and all vain regretW2
Beyond all waking and all wearinessN2
O let me dream the dreams of long agoO2

Hanford Lennox Gordon



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