Pauline Part Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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PAUL' S HISTORY	A
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Captain I hear the cheers My soul is glad	B
My days are numbered but this glorious day	C
Like some far beacon on a shadowy cape	D
That cheers at night the storm belabored ships	E
Will light the misty ages from afar	F
This field shall be the Mecca Here shall rise	G
A holier than the Caaba where men kiss	H
The sacred stone that flaming fell from heaven	I
But O how many sad and aching hearts	J
Will mourn the loved ones never to return	K
Thank God no heart will hope for my return	K
Thank God no heart will mourn because I die	L
Captain at life's mid summer flush and glow	M
For him to die who leaves his golden hopes	N
His mourning friends and idol love behind	O
It must be hard and seem a cruel thing	P
After the victory upon this field For	Q
me to die hath more of peace than pain	R
For I shall leave no golden hopes behind	O
No idol love to pine because I die	L
No friends to wait my coming or to mourn	S
They wait my coming in the world beyond	T
And wait not long for I am almost there	U
'Tis but a gasp and I shall pass the bound	V
'Twixt life and death through death to life again	W
Where sorrow cometh never Pangs and pains	X
Of flesh or spirit will not pierce me there	U
And two will greet me from the jasper walls	Y
God's angels with a song of holy peace	Z
And haste to meet me at the pearly gate	A2
And kiss the death damp from my silent lips	E
And lead me through the golden avenues	B2
Singing Hosanna to the Great White Throne	C2
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So there he paused and calmly closed his eyes	G
And silently I sat and held his hand	D2
After a time when we were left alone	C2
He spoke again with calmer voice and said	E2
Captain you oft have asked my history	A
And I as oft refused There is no cause	F2
Why I should longer hold it from my friend	G2
Who reads the closing chapter It may teach	H2
One soul to lean upon the arm of Christ	I2
That hope and happiness find anchorage	J2
Only in heaven While my lonesome life	K2
Saw death but dimly in the dull distance	L2
My lips were sealed to the unhappy tale	M2
Under my pride I hid a heavy heart	N2
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I was ambitious in my boyhood days	O2
And dreamed of fame and honors misty fogs	P2
That climb at morn the ragged cliffs of life	K2
Veiling the ragged rocks and gloomy chasms	P2
And shaping airy castles on the top	Q2
With bristling battlements and looming towers	P2
But melt away into ethereal air	U
Beneath the blaze of the mid summer sun	I
Till cliffs and chasms and all the ragged rocks	P2
Are bare and all the castles crumbled away	C
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There winds a river 'twixt two chains of hills	P2
Fir capped and rugged monuments of time	R2
A level vale of rich alluvial land	D2
Washed from the slopes through circling centuries	P2
And sweet with clover and the hum of bees	P2
Lies broad between the rugged somber hills	P2
Beneath a shade of willows and of elms	P2
The river slumbers in this meadowy lap	S2
Down from the right there winds a babbling branch	T2
Cleaving a narrower valley through the hills	P2
A grand bald headed hill cone on the right	U2
Looms like a patriarch and above the branch	T2
There towers another I have seen the day	C
When those bald heads were plumed with lofty pines	P2
Below the branch and near the river bank	V2
Hidden among the elms and butternuts	P2
The dear old cottage stands where I was born	S
An English ivy clambers to the eaves	P2
An English willow planted by my hand	D2
Now spreads its golden branches o'er the roof	W2
Not far below the cottage thrives a town	X2
A busy town of mills and merchandise	P2
Belle Meadows fairest village of the vale	M2
Behind it looms the hill cone and in front	Y2
The peaceful river winds its silent way	C
Beyond the river spreads a level plain	R
Once hid with somber firs a tangled marsh	Z2
Now beautiful with fields and cottages	P2
And sweet in spring time with the blooming plum	A3
And white with apple blossoms blown like snow	M
Beyond the plain a lower chain of hills	P2
In summer gemmed with fields of golden grain	R
Set in the emerald of the beechen woods	P2
In other days the village school house stood	B3
Below our cottage on a grassy mound	V
That sloped away unto the river's marge	C3
And on the slope a cluster of tall pines	P2
Crowning a copse of beech and evergreen	D3
There in my boyhood days I went to school	E3
A maiden mistress ruled the little realm	F3
She taught the rudiments to rompish rogues	P2
And walked a queen with magic wand of birch	G3
My years were hardly ten when father died	H3
Sole tenants of our humble cottage home	I3
My sorrowing mother and myself remained	J3
But she was all economy and kept	K3
With my poor aid a comfortable house	P2
I was her idol and she wrought at night	U2
To keep me at my books and used to boast	L3
That I should rise above our humble lot	M3
How oft I listened to her hopeful words	P2
Poured from the fountain of a mother's heart	N2
Until I longed to wing the sluggard years	P2
That bore me on to what I hoped to be	A
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We had a garden plat behind the house	P2
Beyond an orchard and a pasture lot	M3
In front a narrow meadow here and there	U
Shaded with elms and branching butternuts	P2
In spring and summer in the garden plat	M3
I wrought my morning and my evening hours	P2
And kept myself at school no idle boy	N3
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One bright May morning when the robins sang	O3
There came to school a stranger queenly fair	U
With eyes that shamed the ethereal blue of heaven	I
And golden hair in ringlets cheeks as soft	M3
As fresh and rosy as the velvet blush	P3
Of summer sunrise on the dew damp hills	P2
Hers was the name I muttered in my dreams	P2
For days my bashful heart held me aloof	W2
Although her senior by a single year	Q3
But we were brought together oft in class	P2
And when she learned my name she spoke to me	A
And then my tongue was loosed and we were friends	P2
Before the advent of the steeds of steel	R3
Her sire a shrewd and calculating man	S3
Had lately come and purchased timbered lands	P2
And idle mills and made the town his home	I3
And he was well to do and growing rich	T3
And she her father's pet and only child	M3
In mind and stature for two happy years	P2
We grew together at the village school	E3
We grew together aye our tender hearts	P2
There grew together till they beat as one	I
Her tasks were mine and mine alike were hers	P2
We often stole away among the pines	P2
That stately cluster on the sloping hill	U3
And conned our lessons from the selfsame book	V3
And learned to love each other o'er our tasks	P2
While in the pine tops piped the oriole	W3
And from his branch the chattering squirrel chid	M3
Our guileless love and artless innocence	P2
'Twas childish love perhaps but day by day	M3
It grew into our souls as we grew up	X3
Then there was opened in the prospering town	X2
A grammar school and thither went Pauline	D3
I missed her and was sad for many a day	M3
Till mother gave me leave to follow her	Y3
In autumn in vacation she would come	A3
With girlish pretext to our cottage home	I3
She often brought my mother little gifts	P2
And cheered her with sweet songs and happy words	P2
And I would pluck the fairest meadow flowers	P2
To grace a garland for her golden hair	U
And fill her basket from the butternuts	P2
That flourished in our little meadow field	M3
I found in her all I had dreamed of heaven	I
So garlanded with latest blooming flowers	P2
Chanting the mellow music of our hopes	P2
The silver sandaled Autumn hours tripped by	L
And mother learned to love her but she feared	M3
Knowing her heart and mine that one rude hand	M3
Might break our hopes asunder Like a thief	Z3
I often crept about her father's house	P2
Under the evening shadows eager eyed	M3
Peering for one dear face and lingered late	M3
To catch the silver music of one voice	P2
That from her chamber nightly rose to heaven	I
Her father's face I feared a silent man	S3
Cold faced imperative by nature prone	C2
To set his will against the beating world	M3
Warm hearted but heart crusted	M3
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Two years more	Q
Thus wore away Pauline grew up a queen	D3
A shadow fell across my sunny path	A4
A hectic flush burned on my mother's cheeks	P2
She daily failed and nearer drew to death	B4
Pauline would often come with sun lit face	P2
Cheating the day of half its languid hours	P2
With cheering chapters from the holy book	V3
And border tales and wizard minstrelsy	P2
And mother loved her all the better for it	M3
With feeble hands upon our sad bowed heads	P2
And in a voice all tremulous with tears	P2
She said to us 'Dear children love each other	Y3
Bear and forbear and come to me in heaven '	-
And praying for us daily drooped and died	M3
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After the sad and solemn funeral	C4
Alone and weeping and disconsolate	M3
I sat at evening by the cottage door	Q
I felt as if a dark and bitter fate	M3
Had fallen on me in my tender years	P2
I seemed an aimless wanderer doomed to grope	D4
In vain among the darkling years and die	M3
One only star shone through the shadowy mists	P2
The moon that wandered in the gloomy heavens	P2
Was robed in shrouds the rugged looming hills	P2
Looked desolate the silent river seemed	M3
A somber chasm while my own pet lamb	E4
Mourning disconsolate among the trees	P2
As if he followed some dim phantom form	F4
Bleated in vain and would not heed my call	G4
On weary hands I bent my weary head	M3
In gloomy sadness fell my silent tears	P2
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An angel's hand was laid upon my head	M3
There in the moonlight stood my own Pauline	D3
Angel of love and hope and holy faith	H4
She flashed upon me bowed in bitter grief	Z3
As falls the meteor down the night clad heavens	P2
In silence Then about my neck she clasped	M3
Her loving arms and on my shoulder drooped	M3
Her golden tresses while her silent tears	P2
Fell warm upon my cheek like summer rain	R
Heart clasped to heart and cheek to cheek we sat	M3
The moon no longer gloomed her face was cheer	Q3
The rugged hills were old time friends again	W
The peaceful river slept beneath the moon	I4
And my pet lamb came bounding to our side	M3
And kissed her hand and mine as he was wont	M3
Then I awoke as from a dream and said	M3
'Tell me beloved why you come to me	A
In this dark hour so late so desolate '	-
And she replied	M3
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'My darling can I rest	M3
While you are full of sorrow In my ear	J4
A spirit seemed to whisper Arise and go	M
To comfort him disconsolate Tell me Paul	G4
Why should you mourn your tender life away	M3
I will be mother to you nay dear boy	N3
I will be more Come brush away these tears '	-
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My heart was full I kissed her pleading eyes	P2
'You are an angel sent by one in heaven '	-
I said 'to heal my heart but I have lost	M3
More than you know The cruel hand of death	B4
Hath left me orphan friendless poor indeed	M3
Saving the precious jewel of your love	K4
And what to do I know not what to do	M3
I feel so broken by a heavy hand	M3
My mother hoped that I would work my way	M3
To competence and honor at the bar	F
But shall I toil in poverty for years	P2
To learn a science that so seldom yields	P2
Or wealth or honor save to silvered heads	P2
I know that path to fame and fortune leads	P2
Through thorns and brambles over ragged rocks	P2
But can I follow in the common path	A4
Trod by the millions never to lift my head	M3
Above the busy hordes that delve and drudge	J2
For bare existence in this bitter world	M3
And be a mite a midge a worthless worm	L4
No more distinguished from the common mass	P2
Than one poor polyp in the coral isle	M4
Is marked amid the myriads teeming there	U
Yet 'tis not for myself For you Pauline	D3
Far up the slippery heights of wealth and fame	N4
Would I climb bravely but if I would climb	R2
By any art or science I must train	R
Unto the task my feet for many years	P2
Else I should slip and fall from rugged ways	P2
Too badly bruised to ever mount again '	-
Then she	A
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'O Paul if wealth were mine to give	O4
O if my father could but know my heart	M3
But fear not Paul our Father reigns in heaven	I
Follow your bent 'twill lead you out aright	M3
The highest mountain lessens as we climb	R2
Persistent courage wins the smile of fate	M3
Apply yourself to law and master it	M3
And I will wait This sad and solemn hour	Y3
Is dark with doubt and gloom but by and by	M3
The clouds will lift and you will see God's face	P2
For there is one in heaven whose pleading tongue	P4
Will pray for blessings on her only son	I
Of Him who heeds the little sparrow's fall	G4
And O if He will listen to my prayers	P2
The gates of heaven shall echo to my voice	P2
Morning and evening only keep your heart '	-
I said	M3
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'Pauline your prayers had rolled away	M3
The ponderous stone that closed the tomb of Christ	M3
And while they rise to heaven for my success	P2
I cannot doubt or I should doubt my God	M3
I think I see a pathway through this gloom	Q4
I have a kinsman' and I told her where	U
'A lawyer I have heard my mother say	M3
A self made man with charitable heart	M3
And I might go and study under him	R4
I think he would assist me '	-
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Then she sighed	M3
'Paul can you leave me You may study here	J4
And here you are among your boyhood friends	P2
And here I should be near to cheer you on '	-
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I promised her that I would think of it	M3
Would see what prospect offered in the town	X2
And then we walked together half embraced	M3
But when we neared her vine arched garden gate	M3
She bade me stay and kissed me a good night	M3
And bounded through the moonlight like a fawn	S4
I watched her till she flitted from my sight	M3
Then slowly homeward turned my lingering steps	P2
I wrote my kinsman on the morrow morn	S
And broached my project to a worthy man	S3
Who kept an office and a case of books	P2
An honest lawyer People called him learn'd	M3
But wanting tact and ready speech he failed	M3
The rest were pettifoggers scurrilous rogues	P2
Who plied the village justice with their lies	P2
And garbled law to suit the case in hand	M3
Mean querulous small brained delvers in the mire	T4
Of men's misfortunes crafty cunning knaves	P2
Versed in chicane and trickery that schemed	M3
To keep the evil passions of weak men	W
In petty wars and plied their tongues profane	R
With cunning words to argue honest fools	P2
Into their spider meshes to be fleeced	M3
I laid my case before him took advice	P2
Well meant advice to leave my native town	X2
And study with my kinsman whom he knew	M3
A week rolled round and brought me a reply	M3
A frank and kindly letter giving me	A
That which I needed most encouragement	M3
But hard it was to fix my mind to go	M
For in my heart an angel whispered 'Stay '	-
It might be better for my after years	P2
And yet perhaps 'twere better to remain	R
I balanced betwixt my reason and my heart	M3
And hesitated Her I had not seen	D3
Since that sad night and so I made resolve	U4
That we should meet and at her father's house	P2
So whispering courage to my timid heart	M3
I went With happy greeting at the door	Q
She met me but her face was wan and pale	M2
So pale and wan I feared that she was ill	U3
I read the letter to her and she sighed	M3
And sat in silence for a little time	R2
Then said	M3
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'God bless you Paul may be 'tis best	M3
I sometimes feel it is not for the best	M3
But I am selfish thinking of myself	V4
Go like a man but keep your boyish heart	M3
Your boyish heart is all the world to me	A
Remember Paul how I shall watch and wait	M3
So write me often like the dew of heaven	I
To withering grass will come your cheering words	P2
To know that you are well and happy Paul	G4
And good and true will wing the weary months	P2
And let me beg you as a sister would	M3
Not that I doubt you but because I love	K4
Beware of wine touch not the treacherous cup	X3
And guard your honor as you guard your life	K2
The years will glide away like scudding clouds	P2
That fleetly chase each other o'er the hills	P2
And you will be a man before you know	M
And I will be a woman God will crown	X2
Our dearest hopes if we but trust in Him '	-
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We sat in silence for a little time	R2
And she was weeping so I raised her face	P2
And kissed away her tears She softly said	M3
'Paul there is something I must say to you	M3
Something I have no time to tell you now	W4
But we must meet again before you go	M
Under the pines where we so oft have met	M3
Be this the sign ' She waved her graceful hand	M3
'Come when the shadows gather on the pines	P2
And silent stars stand sentinel in heaven	I
Now Paul forgive me I must say good bye '	-
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I read her fear upon her anxious brow	W4
Lingering and clasped within her loving arms	P2
I through her dewy deep blue eyes beheld	M3
Her inmost soul and knew that love was there	U
Ah then and there her father blustered in	X4
And caught us blushing in each other's arms	P2
He stood a moment silent and amazed	M3
Then kindling wrath distorted all his face	P2
He showered his anger with a tongue of fire	Y3
O cruel words that stung my boyish pride	M3
O dagger words that stabbed my very soul	W3
I strove but fury mastered up I sprang	O3
And felt a giant as I stood before him	R4
My breath was hot with anger impious boy	N3
Frenzied forgetful of his silvered hairs	P2
Forgetful of her presence too I raved	M3
And poured a madman's curses on his head	M3
A moan of anguish brought me to myself	V4
I turned and saw her sad imploring face	P2
And tears that quenched the wild fire in my heart	M3
I pressed her hand and passed into the hall	G4
While she stood sobbing in a flood of tears	P2
And he stood choked with anger and amazed	M3
But as I passed the ivied porch he came	N4
With bated breath and muttered in my ear	J4
'Beggar ' It stung me like a serpent's fang	O3
Pride pricked and muttering like a maniac	Y4
I almost flew the street and hurried home	I3
To vent my anger to the silent elms	P2
'Beggar ' an hundred times that long mad night	M3
I muttered with hot lips and burning breath	B4
I paced the walk with hurried tread and raved	M3
I threw myself beneath the willow tree	A
And muttered like the muttering of a storm	F4
My little lamb came bleating mournfully	G4
Angered I struck him out among the trees	P2
I wandered mumbling 'beggar' as I went	M3
And beating in through all my burning soul	G4
The bitter thoughts it conjured till my brain	R
Reeled and I sunk upon the dew damp grass	P2
And utterly exhausted slept till morn	S
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I dreamed a dream all mist and mystery	A
I saw a sunlit valley beautiful	G4
With purple vineyards and with garden plats	P2
And in the vineyards and the garden plats	P2
Were happy hearted youths and merry girls	P2
Toiling and singing Grandsires too were there	U
Sitting contented under their own vines	P2
And fig trees while about them merrily played	M3
Their children's children like the sportive lambs	P2
That frolicked on the foot hills Low of kine	S
Full uddered homeward wending from the meads	P2
Fell on the ear as soft as Hulder's loor	U
Tuned on the Norse land mountains Like a nest	M3
Hid in a hawthorn hedge a cottage stood	M3
Embowered with vines beneath broad branching elms	P2
Sweet voiced with busy bees	P2
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On either hand	M3
Rose steep and barren mountains mighty cliffs	P2
Cragged and chasm'd and over grown with thorns	P2
And on the topmost peak a golden throne	S
Blazoned with burning characters that read	M3
'Climb' it is yours ' Not far above the vale	G4
I saw a youth fair browed and raven haired	M3
Clambering among the thorns and ragged rocks	P2
And from his brow with torn and bleeding hand	M3
He wiped great drops of sweat Down through the vale	G4
I saw a rapid river broad and deep	Z4
Winding in solemn silence to the sea	P2
The sea all mist and fog Lo as I stood	M3
Viewing the river and the moaning sea	P2
A sail and then another flitted down	S
And plunged into the mist A moment more	U
Like shapeless shadows of the by gone years	P2
I saw them in the mist and they were gone	S
Gone and the sea moaned on and seemed to say	P2
'Gone and forever ' So I gladly turned	M3
To look upon the throne the blazoned throne	S
That sat upon the everlasting cliff
The throne had vanished Lo where it had stood	M3
A bed of ashes and a gray haired man	S
Sitting upon it bowed and broken down	S
And so the vision passed	M3
	-
The rising sun	S
Beamed full upon my face and wakened me	P2
And there beside me lay my pet the lamb	E4
Gazing upon me with his wondering eyes	P2
And all the fields were bright and beautiful	G4
And brighter seemed the world I rose resolved	M3
I let the cottage and disposed of all	G4
The lamb went bleating to a neighbor's field	M3
And oft my heart ached but I mastered it	M3
This was the constant burden of my brain	S
'Beggar ' I'll teach him that I am a man	S
I'll speak and he shall listen I will rise	P2
And he shall see my course as I go up	X3
Round after round the ladder of success	P2
Even as the pine upon the mountain top	Q2
Towers o'er the maple on the mountain side	M3
I'll tower above him Then will I look down	S
And call him Father He shall call me Son '	-
	-
Thus hushing my sad heart the day drew nigh	M3
Of parting and the promised sign was given	S
The night was dismal darkness not one star	U
Twinkled in heaven the sad low moaning wind	M3
Played like a mournful harp among the pines	P2
I groped and listened through the darkling grove
Peering with eager eyes among the trees	P2
And calling as I peered with anxious voice	P2
One darling name No answer but the moan	S
Of the wind shaken pines I sat me down	S
Under the dusky shadows waiting for her	U
And lost myself in gloomy reverie	P2
Dim in the darksome shadows of the night	M3
While thus I dreamed my darling came and crept	M3
Beneath the boughs as softly as a hare	U
And whispered 'Paul' and I was at her side	M3
We sat upon a mound moss carpeted	M3
No eyes but God's upon us and no voice	P2
Spake to us save the moaning of the pines	P2
Few were the words we spoke her silent tears	P2
Our clasping trembling lingering embrace	P2
Were more than words Into one solemn hour	U
Were pressed the fears and hopes of coming years	P2
Two tender hearts that only dared to hope	D4
There swelled and throbbed to the electric touch
Of love as holy as the love of Christ	M3
She gave her picture and I gave a ring	P
My mother's almost with her latest breath	B4
She gave it me and breathed my darling's name	N4
I girt her finger and she kissed the ring	P
In solemn pledge and said	M3
	-
'I bring a gift	M3
The priceless gift of God unto his own	S
O may it prove a precious gift to you	M3
As it has proved a precious gift to me	P2
And promise me to read it day by day	P2
Beginning on the morrow every day	P2
A chapter and I too will read the same '	-
	-
I took the gift a precious gift indeed	M3
And you may see how I have treasured it	M3
Here Captain put your hand upon my breast	M3
An inner pocket you will find it there	U
	-
I opened the bloody blouse and thence drew forth
The Book of Christ all stained with Christian blood	M3
He laid his hand upon the holy book	V3
And closed his eyes as if in silent prayer	U
I held his weary head and bade him rest	M3
He lay a moment silent and resumed	M3
Let me go on if you would hear the tale	G4
I soon shall sleep the sleep that wakes no more	U
O there were promises and vows as solemn	S
As Christ's own promises but as we sat	M3
The pattering rain drops fell among the pines	P2
And in the branches the foreboding owl	G4
With dismal hooting hailed the coming storm	F4
So in that dreary hour and desolate	M3
We parted in the silence of our tears	P2
	-
And on the morrow morn I bade adieu	M3
To the old cottage home I loved so well	G4
The dear old cottage home where I was born	S
Then from my mother's grave I plucked a rose	P2
Bursting in bloom Pauline had planted it	M3
And left my little hill girt boyhood world	M3
I journeyed eastward to my journey's end	M3
At first by rail for many a flying mile	G4
By mail coach thence from where the hurrying train	S
Leaps a swift river that goes tumbling on	S
Between a village and a mountain ledge
Chafing its rocky banks There seethes and foams	P2
The restless river round the roaring rocks	P2
And then flows on a little way and pours	P2
Its laughing waters into a bridal lap	S2
Its flood is fountain fed among the hills	P2
Far up the mossy brooks the timid trout	M3
Lie in the shadow of vine tangled elms	P2
Out from the village green the roadway leads	P2
Along the river up between the hills	P2
Then climbs a wooded mountain to its top	Q2
And gently winds adown the farther side	M3
Unto a valley where the bridal stream
Flows rippling meadow flower and willow fringed	M3
And dancing onward with a merry song
Hastes to the nuptials From the mountain top	Q2
A thousand feet above the meadowy vale	G4
She seems a chain of fretted silver wound	M3
With artless art among the emerald hills	P2
Thence up a winding valley of grand views	P2
Hill guarded firs and rocks upon the hills	P2
And here and there a solitary pine	S
Majestic silent mourns its slaughtered kin	S
Like the last warrior of some tawny tribe
Returned from sunset mountains to behold	M3
Once more the spot where his brave fathers sleep	Z4
The farms along the valley stretch away	P2
On either hand upon the rugged hills	P2
Walled into fields Tall elms and willow trees	P2
Huge trunked and ivy hung stand sentinel	G4
Along the roadway walls storm wrinkled trees	P2
Planted by men who slumber on the hills	P2
Amid such scenes all day we rolled along
And as the shadows of the western hills	P2
Across the valley crept and climbed the slopes	P2
The sunset blazed their hazy tops and fell	G4
Upon the emerald like a mist of gold	M3
And at that hour I reached my journey's end	M3
The village is a gem among the hills	P2
Tall towering hills that reach into the blue	M3
One grand old mountain cone looms on the left	M3
Far up toward heaven and all around are hills	P2
The river winds among the leafy hills	P2
Adown the meadowy dale a shade of elms	P2
And willows fringe it In this lap of hills	P2
Cluster the happy homes of men content	M3
To let the great world worry as it will	G4
The court house park the broad bloom bordered streets	P2
Are avenues of maples and of elms	P2
Grander than Tadmor's pillared avenue	M3
Fair as the fabled garden of the gods	P2
Beautiful villas tidy cottages	P2
Flower gardens fountains offices and shops	P2
All nestle in a dreamy wealth of woods	P2
	-
Kind hearts received me All that wealth could bring	P
Refinement luxury and ease was theirs	P2
But I was proud and felt my poverty	M3
And gladly mured myself among the books	P2
To master 'the lawless science of the law '	-
I plodded through the ponderous commentaries	P2
Some musty with the mildew of old age
And these I found the better for their years	P2
Like olden wine in cobweb covered flasks	P2
The blush of sunrise found me at my books	P2
The midnight cock crow caught me reading still	G4
And oft my worthy master censured me	M3
'A time for work ' he said 'a time for play	P2
Unbend the bow or else the bow will break '	-
But when I wearied needing sleep and rest	M3
A single word seemed whispered in my ear	U
'Beggar ' it stung me to redoubled toil	G4
I trod the ofttimes mazy labyrinths	P2
Of legal logic mined the mountain mass	P2
Of precedents conflicting found the rule	G4
Then branched into the exceptions split the hair	U
Betwixt this case and that ran parallels	P2
Traced from a 'leading case' through many tomes	P2
Back to the first decision on the 'point '	-
And often found a pyramid of law	G4
Built with bad logic on a broken base	P2
Of careless 'dicta ' saw how narrow minds	P2
Spun out the web of technicalities	P2
Till common sense and common equity	M3
Were strangled in its meshes Here and there	U
I came upon a broad unfettered mind	M3
Like Murray's cleaving through the spider webs	P2
Of shallower brains and bravely pushing out	M3
Upon the open sea of common sense	P2
But such were rare The olden precedents	P2
Oft stepping stones of tyranny and wrong
Marked easy paths to follow and they ruled	M3
The course of reason as the iron rails	P2
Rule the swift wheels of the down thundering train	S
	-
I rose at dawn First in this holy book	V3
I read my chapter How the happy thought	M3
That my Pauline would read the self same morn	S
The self same chapter gave the sacred text	M3
Though I had heard my mother read it oft	M3
New light and import never seen before	U
For I would ponder over every verse	P2
Because I felt that she was reading it	M3
And when I came upon dear promises	P2
Of Christ to man I read them o'er and o'er	U
Till in a holy and mysterious way	P2
They seemed the whisperings of Pauline to me	M3
Later I learned to lay up for myself	V4
'Treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust	M3
Corrupteth and where thieves do not break through	M3
Nor steal' and where my treasures all are laid	M3
My heart is and my spirit longs to go	M
O friend if Jesus was but man of man	S
And if indeed his wondrous miracles	P2
Were mythic tales of priestly followers	P2
To chain the brute till Reason came from heaven	S
Yet was his mission unto man divine	S
Man's pity wounds but Jesus' pity heals	P2
He gave us balm beyond all earthly balm
He gave us strength beyond all human strength
He taught us love above the low desires	P2
He taught us hope beyond all earthly hope	D4
He taught us charity wherewith to build	M3
From out the broken walls of barbarism	S
The holy temple of the perfect man	S
	-
On every Sabbath eve I wrote Pauline	S
Page after page was burdened with my love	K4
My glowing hopes of golden days to come	S
And frequent boast of rapid progress made	M3
With hungry heart and eager I devoured	M3
Her letters I re read them twenty times	P2
At morning when I laid the Gospel down	S
I read her latest answer and again	S
At midnight by my lamp I read it over	U
And murmuring 'God bless her ' fell asleep	Z4
To dream that I was with her under the pines	P2
	-
Thus fled four years four years of patient toil	G4
Sweetened with love and hope and I had made	M3
Swift progress in my studies Master said	M3
Another year would bring me to the bar	U
No fledgeling but full feathered for the field	M3
And then her letters ceased I wrote and wrote	M3
Again but still no answer Day after day	P2
The tardy mail coach lagged a mortal hour	U
While I sat listening for its welcome horn	S
And when it came I hastened from my books	P2
With hope and fear contending in my soul	G4
Day after day no answer back again	S
I turned my footsteps with a weary sigh	M3
It wore upon me and I could not rest	M3
It gnawed me to the marrow of my bones	P2
The heavy tomes grew dull and wearisome	S
And sometimes hateful then I broke away	P2
As from a prison and rushed wildly out	M3
Among the elms along the river bank	V2
Baring my burning temples to the breeze	P2
And drank the air of heaven like sparkling wine	S
Conjuring excuses for her was she ill	G4
Perhaps forbidden Had another heart	M3
Come in between us No that could not be	M3
She was all constancy and promise bound	M3
A month which seemed to me a laggard year	U
Thus wore away At last a letter came	N4
O with what springing step I hurried back	Y4
Back to my private chamber and my desk
With what delight what eager trembling hand	M3
The well known seal that held my hopes I broke
Thus ran the letter	U
	-
'Paul the time has come	S
When we must both forgive while we forget	M3
Mine was a girlish fancy We outgrow	M
Such childish follies in our later years	P2
Now I have pondered well and made an end	M3
I cannot wed myself to want and curse	P2
My life life long because a girlish freak
Of folly made a promise So farewell '	-
	-
My eyes were blind with passion as I read	M3
I tore the letter into bits and stamped	M3
Upon them ground my teeth and cursed the day	P2
I met her to be jilted All that night	M3
My thoughts ran riot Round the room I strode	M3
A raving madman savage as a Sioux	M3
Then flung myself upon my couch in tears	P2
And wept in silence and then stormed again	S
'Beggar ' it raised the serpent in my breast	M3
Mad pride bat blind I seized her pictured face	P2
And ground it under my heel With impious hand	M3
I caught the book the precious gift she gave
And would have burned it but that still small voice	P2
Spake in my heart and bade me spare the book	V3
	-
Then with this Gospel clutched in both my hands	P2
I swore a solemn oath that I would rise	P2
If God would spare me she should see me rise	P2
And learn what she had lost Yes I would mount	M3
Merely to be revenged I would not cringe
Down like a spaniel underneath the lash
But like a man would teach my proud Pauline	S
And her hard father to repent the day	P2
They called me 'beggar ' Thus I raved and stormed	M3
That mad night out forgot at dawn of morn	S
This holy book but fell to a huge tome	I3
And read two hundred pages in a day	P2
I could not keep the thread of argument	M3
I could not hold my mind upon the book	V3
I could not break the silent under tow	M
That swept all else from out my throbbing brain	S
But false Pauline I read from morn till night	M3
But having closed the book I could not tell	G4
Aught of its contents Then I cursed myself	V4
And muttered 'Fool can you not shake it off
This nightmare of your boyhood Brave indeed	M3
Crushed like a spaniel by this false Pauline	S
Crushed am I By the gods I'll make an end	M3
And she shall never know it nettled me '	-
So passed the weary days My cheeks grew thin	S
I needed rest I said and quit my books	P2
To range the fields and hills with fowling piece	P2
And 'mal prepense' toward the feathery flocks	P2
The pigeons flew from tree tops o'er my head	M3
I heard the flap of wings and they were gone	S
The pheasant whizzed from bushes at my feet	M3
Unseen until its sudden whir of wings	P2
Startled and broke my wandering reverie	M3
And then I whistled and relapsed to dreams	P2
Wandering I cared not whither wheresoe'er	M3
My silent gun still bore its primal charge	C3
So gameless but with cheeks and forehead tinged	M3
By breeze and sunshine I returned to books	P2
But still a phantom haunted all my dreams	P2
Awake or sleeping for awake I dreamed	M3
A spectre that I could not chase away	P2
The phantom form of my own false Pauline	S
	-
Six months wore off six long and weary months	P2
Then came a letter from a school boy friend	M3
In answer to the queries I had made	M3
Filled with the gossip of my native town	S
Unto her father's friend a bachelor	M3
Her senior by full twenty years at least	M3
Dame Rumor said Pauline had pledged her hand	M3
I knew him well a sly and cunning man	S
A honey tongued false hearted flatterer	M3
And he my rival carrying off my prize	P2
But what cared I 'twas all the same to me	M3
Yea better for the sweet revenge to come	S
So whispered pride but in my secret heart	M3
I cared and hoped whatever came to pass	P2
She might be happy all her days on earth
And find a happy haven at the end	M3
	-
My thoughtful master bade me quit my books	P2
A month at least for I was wearing out	M3
'Unbend the bow ' he said His watchful eye	M3
Saw toil and care at work upon my cheeks	P2
He could not see the canker at my heart	M3
But he had seen pale students wear away	P2
With overwork the vigor of their lives	P2
And so he gave me means and bade me go	M
To romp a month among my native hills	P2
I went but not as I had left my home	I3
A bashful boy uncouth and coarsely clad	M3
But clothed and mannered like a gentleman	S
	-
My school boy friend gave me a cordial greeting	P
That honest lawyer bade me welcome too	M3
And doted on my progress and the advice	P2
He gave me ere I left my native town	S
Since first the iron horse had coursed the vale	G4
Five years had fled five prosperous magic years	P2
And well nigh five since I had left my home	I3
These prosperous years had wrought upon the place	P2
Their wonders till I hardly knew the town	S
The broad and stately blocks of brick that shamed	M3
The weather beaten wooden shops I knew	M3
Seemed the creation of some magic hand	M3
Adown the river bank the town had stretched	M3
Sweeping away the quiet grove of pines	P2
Where I had loved to ramble when a boy	N3
And see the squirrels leap from tree to tree	M3
With reckless venture hazarding a fall	G4
To dodge the ill aimed arrows from my bow	W4
The dear old school house on the hill was gone	S
A costly church tall spired and built of stone	S
Stood in its stead a monument to man	S
Unholy greed had felled the stately pines	P2
And all the slope was bare and desolate	M3
Old faces had grown older some were gone	S
And many unfamiliar ones had come	S
Boys in their teens had grown to bearded men	S
And girls to womanhood and all was changed	M3
Save the old cottage home where I was born	S
The elms and butternuts in the meadow field	M3
Still wore the features of familiar friends	P2
The English ivy clambered to the roof	W2
The English willow spread its branches still	G4
And as I stood before the cottage door	M3
My heart pulse quickened for methought I heard	M3
My mother's footsteps on the ashen floor	M3
	-
The rumor I had heard was verified	M3
The wedding day was named and near at hand	M3
I met my rival gracious were his smiles	P2
Glad as a boy that robs the robin's nest	M3
He grasped the hands of half the men he met	M3
Pauline I heard but seldom ventured forth
Save when her doting father took her out	M3
On Sabbath morns to breathe the balmy air	M3
And grace with her sweet face his cushioned pew	M3
The smooth faced suitor old dame Gossip said	M3
Made daily visits to her father's house	P2
And played the boy at forty years or more	M3
While she had held him off to draw him on	S
	-
I would not fawn upon the hand that smote	M3
I would not cringe beneath its cruel blow	M
Nor even let her know I cared for it	M3
I kept aloof as proud as Lucifer	M3
But when the church bells chimed on Sabbath morn	S
To that proud monument of stone I went	M3
Her father's pride since he had led the list	M3
Of wealthy patrons who had builded it	M3
To hear the sermon for methought Pauline	S
Would hear it too Might I not see her face	P2
And she not know I cared to look upon it	M3
She came not and the psalms and sermon fell	G4
Upon me like an autumn mist of rain	S
I met her once by chance upon the street	M3
The day before the appointed wedding day	M3
Her and her father she upon his arm
'Paul O Paul ' she said and gave her hand	M3
I took it with a cold and careless air	M3
Begged pardon had forgotten 'Ah Pauline	S
Yes I remembered five long years ago	M
And I had made so many later friends	P2
And she had lost so much of maiden bloom '	-
Then turning met her father face to face	P2
Bowed with cold grace and haughtily passed on	S
'This is revenge ' I muttered Even then	S
My heart ached as I thought of her pale face	P2
Her pleading eyes her trembling clasping hand	M3
And then and there I would have turned about	M3
To beg her pardon and an interview	M3
But pride that serpent ever in my heart	M3
Hissed 'beggar ' and I cursed her with the lips	P2
That oft had poured my love into her ears	P2
'She marries gold to morrow let her wed	M3
She will not wed a beggar but I think
She'll wed a life long sorrow let her wed	M3
Aye aye I hope she'll live to curse the day	M3
Whereon she broke her sacred promises	P2
And I forgive her yea but not forget	M3
I'll take good care that she shall not forget	M3
I'll prick her memory with a bitter thorn	S
Through all her future Let her marry gold '	-
Thus ran my muttered words but in my heart	M3
There ran a counter current ere I slept	M3
Its silent under tow had mastered all	G4
'Forgive and be forgiven ' I resolved	M3
That on the morning of her wedding day	M3
Would I go kindly and forgive Pauline	S
And send her to the altar with my blessing	P
That night I read a chapter in this book	V3
The first for many months and fell asleep	Z4
Beseeching God to bless her	M3
Then I dreamed	M3
That we were kneeling at my mother's bed	M3
Her death bed and the feeble trembling hands	P2
Of her who loved us rested on our heads	P2
And in a voice all tremulous with tears	P2
My mother said 'Dear children love each other	M3
Bear and forbear and come to me in heaven '	-
	-
I wakened once at midnight a wild cry	M3
'Paul O Paul ' rang through my dreams and broke
My slumber I arose but all was still	G4
And then I slept again and dreamed till morn	S
In all my dreams her dear sweet face appeared	M3
Now radiant as a star and now all pale	G4
Now glad with smiles and now all wet with tears	P2
Then came a dream that agonized my soul	G4
While every limb was bound as if in chains	P2
Methought I saw her in the silent night	M3
Leaning o'er misty waters dark and deep	Z4
A moan a plash of waters and O Christ	M3
Her agonized face upturned imploring hands	P2
Stretched out toward me and a wailing cry	M3
'Paul O Paul ' Then face and hands went down	S
And o'er her closed the deep and dismal flood	M3
Forever but it could not drown the cry	M3
'Paul O Paul ' was ringing in my ears	P2
'Paul O Paul ' was throbbing in my heart	M3
And moaning sobbing in my shuddering soul	G4
Trembled the wail of anguish 'Paul O Paul '	-
	-
Then o'er the waters stole the silver dawn	S
And lo a fairy boat with silken sail	G4
And in the boat an angel at the helm	F3
And at her feet the form of her I loved	M3
The white mists parted as the boat sped on	S
In silence lessening far and far away	M3
And then the sunrise glimmered on the sail	G4
A moment and the angel turned her face	P2
My mother and I gave a joyful cry	M3
And stretched my hands but lo the hovering mists	P2
Closed in around them and the vision passed	M3
	-
The morning sun stole through the window blinds	P2
And fell upon my face and wakened me	M3
And I lay musing thinking of Pauline	S
Yes she should know the depths of all my heart	M3
The love I bore her all those lonely years	P2
The hope that held me steadfast to my toil	G4
And feel the higher and the holier love	K4
Her precious gift had wakened in my soul	G4
Yea I would bless her for that precious gift	M3
I had not known its treasures but for her	M3
And O for that would I forgive her all	G4
And bless the hand that smote me to the soul	G4
That would be comfort to me all my days	P2
And if there came a bitter time to her	M3
'Twould pain her less to know that I forgave
	-
A hasty rapping at my chamber door	M3
In came my school boy friend whose guest I was	P2
And said	M3
'Come Paul the town is all ablaze	P2
A sad a strange a marvelous suicide	M3
Pauline who was to be a bride to day	M3
Was missed at dawn and after sunrise found	M3
Traced by her robe and bonnet on the bridge
Whence she had thrown herself and made an end '	-
	-
And he went on but I could hear no more	M3
It fell upon me like a flash from heaven	S
As one with sudden terror dumb I turned	M3
And in my pillow buried up my face	P2
Tears came at last and then my friend passed out	M3
In silence O the agony of that hour	M3
O doubts and fears and half read mysteries	P2
That tore my heart and tortured all my soul	G4
	-
I arose About the town the wildest tales	P2
And rumors ran dame Gossip was agog
Some said she had been ill and lost her mind	M3
Some whispered hints and others shook their heads	P2
But none could fathom the marvelous mystery	M3
Bearing a bitter anguish in my heart	M3
Half crazed with dread and doubt and boding fears	P2
Hour after hour alone disconsolate	M3
Among the scenes where we had wandered oft	M3
I wandered sat where once the stately pines	P2
Domed the fair temple where we learned to love	K4
O spot of sacred memories how changed	M3
Yet chiefly wanting one dear blushing face	P2
That in those happy days made every place	P2
Wherever we might wander hill or dale	G4
Garden of love and peace and happiness	P2
So heavy hearted I returned My friend	M3
Had brought for me a letter with his mail	G4
I knew the hand upon the envelope	D4
With throbbing heart I hastened to my room	Q4
With trembling hands I broke the seal and read	M3
One sheet inclosed another one was writ	M3
At midnight by my loved and lost Pauline	S
Inclosed within a letter false and forged	M3
Signed with my name such perfect counterfeit	M3
At sight I would have sworn it was my own	S
And thus her letter ran	S
	-
'Beloved Paul	G4
May God forgive you as my heart forgives	P2
Even as a vine that winds about an oak
Rot struck and hollow hearted for support	M3
Clasping the sapless branches as it climbs	P2
With tender tendrils and undoubting faith	H4
I leaned upon your troth nay all my hopes	P2
My love my life my very hope of heaven	S
I staked upon your solemn promises	P2
I learned to love you better than my God	M3
My God hath sent me bitter punishment	M3
O broken pledges what have I to live
And suffer for Half mad in my distress	P2
Yielding at last to father's oft request	M3
I pledged my hand to one whose very love	K4
Would be a curse upon me all my days	P2
To morrow is the promised wedding day	M3
To morrow but to morrow shall not come	S
Come gladlier death and make an end of all	G4
How many weary days and patiently	M3
I waited for a letter and at last	M3
It came a message crueler than death	B4
O take it back and if you have a heart	M3
Yet warm to pity her you swore to love	K4
Read it and think of those dear promises	P2
O sacred as the Savior's promises	P2
You whispered in my ear that solemn night	M3
Beneath the pines and kissed away my tears	P2
And know that I forgive belov d Paul	G4
Meet me in heaven God will not frown upon	S
The sin that saves me from a greater sin	S
And sends my soul to Him Farewell Farewell '	-
	-
Here he broke down Unto his pallid lips	P2
I held a flask of wine He sipped the wine	S
And closed his eyes in silence for a time	R2
Resuming thus	P2
	-
You see the wicked plot	M3
We both were victims of a crafty scheme
To break our hearts asunder Forgery	M3
Had done its work and pride had aided it	M3
The spurious letter was a cruel one	S
Casting her off with utter heartlessness	P2
And boasting of a later dearer love	K4
And begging her to burn the billets doux	P2
A moon struck boy had sent her ere he found	M3
That pretty girls were plenty in the world	M3
	-
Think you my soul was roiled with anger No	M
God's hand was on my head A keen remorse	P2
Gnawed at my heart O false and fatal pride	M3
That blinded me else I had seen the plot	M3
Ere all was lost else I had saved a life	K2
To me most precious of all lives on earth
Yea dearer then than any soul in heaven	S
False pride the ruin of unnumbered souls	P2
Thou art the serpent ever tempting me	M3
God chastening me has bruised thy serpent head	M3
O faithful heart in silence suffering	P
True unto death to one she could but count	M3
A perjured villain cheated as she was	P2
Captain I prayed 'twas all that I could do	M3
God heard my prayer and with a solemn heart	M3
Bearing the letters in my hand I went	M3
To ask a favor of the man who crushed	M3
And cursed my life to look upon her face	P2
Only to look on her dear face once more	M3
	-
I rung the bell a servant bade me in	S
I waited long At last the father came	N4
All pale and suffering I could see remorse	P2
Was gnawing at his heart as I arose	P2
He trembled like a culprit on the drop	Q2
'O sir ' he said 'whatever be your quest	M3
I pray you leave me with my dead to day	M3
I cannot look on any living face	P2
Till her dead face is gone forevermore '	-
	-
'And who hath done this cruel thing ' I said	M3
'Explain ' he faltered 'Pray you sir explain '	-
I said and thrust the letters in his hand	M3
And as he sat in silence reading hers	P2
I saw the pangs of conscience on his face	P2
I saw him tremble like a stricken soul	G4
And then a tear drop fell upon his hand	M3
And there we sat in silence Then he groaned	M3
And fell upon his knees and hid his face	P2
And stretched his hand toward me wailing out	M3
'I cannot bear this burden on my soul	G4
O Paul O God forgive me or I die '	-
	-
His anguish touched my heart I took his hand	M3
And kneeling by him prayed a solemn prayer	M3
'Father forgive him for he knew not what	M3
He did who broke the bond that bound us twain	S
O may her spirit whisper in his ear	M3
Forever God is love and all is well	G4
	-
The iron man all bowed and broken down	S
Sobbed like a child He laid his trembling hand	M3
With many a fervent blessing on my head	M3
And with the crust all crumbled from his heart	M3
Arose and led me to her silent couch
And I looked in upon my darling dead	M3
Mine O mine in heaven forevermore	M3
God's angel sweetly smiling in her sleep	Z4
How beautiful how radiant of heaven	S
The ring I gave begirt her finger still	G4
Her golden hair was wreathed with immortelles	P2
The lips half parted seemed to move in psalm
Or holy blessing As I kissed her brow	M3
It seemed as if her dead cheeks flushed again	S
As in those happy days beneath the pines	P2
And as my warm tears fell upon her face	P2
Methought I heard that dear familiar voice	P2
So full of love and faith and calmest peace	P2
So near and yet so far and far away	M3
So mortal yet so spiritual like an air	M3
Of softest music on the slumbering bay	M3
Wafted on midnight wings to silent shores	P2
When myriad stars are twinkling in the sea	P2
	-
'Paul O Paul forgive and be forgiven	S
Earth is all trial there is peace in heaven '	-
	-
Aye Captain in that sad and solemn hour	M3
I laid my hand upon the arm of Christ	M3
And he hath led me all the weary way	M3
To this last battle I shall win through Him	R4
And ere you hear the reveille again	S
Paul and Pauline amid the psalms of heaven	S
Embraced will kneel and at the feet of God	M3
Receive His benediction Let me sleep	Z4
You know the rest I'm weary and must sleep	Z4
An angel's bugle blast will waken me	P2
But not to pain for there is peace in heaven	S
	-
He slept but not the silent sleep of death	B4
I felt his fitful pulse and caught anon	S
The softly whispered words Pauline and Peace	P2
Anon he clutched with eager nervous hand	M3
And in hoarse whisper shouted Steady men	S
Then sunk again Thus passed an hour or more	M3
And he woke half raised himself and said	M3
With feeble voice and eyes strange luster lit	M3
	-
Captain my boat is swiftly sailing out	M3
Into the misty and eternal sea	P2
From out whose waste no mortal craft returns	P2
The fog is closing round me and the mist	M3
Is damp and cold upon my hands and face	P2
Why should I fear the loved have gone before	M3
I seem to hear the plash of coming oars	P2
The mists are lifting and the boat is near	M3
'Tis well To die as I am dying now	S
A soldier's death amid the gladsome shouts	P2
Of victory for which my puny hands	P2
Did their full share albeit it was small	G4
Was all my late ambition Bring the Flag
And hold it over my head Let me die thus	P2
Under the stars I've followed Dear old Flag
	-
But here his words became inaudible	G4
As in the mazes of the Mammoth Cave
Fainter and fainter on the listening ear	M3
The low retreating voices die away	M3
His eyes were closed a gentle smile of peace	P2
Sat on his face I held his nerveless hand	M3
And bent my ear to catch his latest breath	B4
And as the spirit fled the pulseless clay	M3
I heard or thought I heard his wonder words	P2
Pauline how beautiful	G4
	-
As I arose	P2
The gray dawn paled the shadows in the east	M3

Hanford Lennox Gordon

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