Henry Kendall

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Dungog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH HIGI GGGG GGGG GBGB GGGG JKJL GGGG HMHM GNGN GHGH GOGO FGFG GGGG GHGH PGPG GGGG CHCH

HERE pent about by office wallsA
And barren eyes all dayB
Tis sweet to think of waterfallsA
Two hundred miles awayB
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I would not ask you friends to brookC
An old old truth from meD
If I could shut a Poet s bookC
Which haunts me like the SeaD
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He saith to me this Poet saithE
So many things of lightF
That I have found a fourfold faithE
And gained a twofold sightF
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He telleth me this Poet tellsG
How much of God is seenH
Amongst the deep mossed English dellsG
And miles of gleaming greenH
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From many a black GethsemaneH
He leads my bleeding feetI
To where I hear the Morning SeaG
Round shining spaces beatI
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To where I feel the wind which bringsG
A sound of running creeksG
And blows those dark unpleasant thingsG
The sorrows from my cheeksG
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I ll shut mine eyes my Poet choiceG
And spend the day with theeG
I ll dream thou art a fountain voiceG
Which God hath sent to meG
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And far beyond these office wallsG
My thoughts shall even strayB
And watch the wilful waterfallsG
Two hundred miles awayB
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For if I know not of thy deedsG
And darling Kentish downsG
I ve seen the deep wild Dungog fellsG
And hate the heart of townsG
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Then ho for beaming bank and brakeJ
Far folded hills amongK
Where Williams like a silver snakeJ
Draws winding lengths alongL
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And ho for stormy mountain conesG
Where headlong Winter leapsG
What time the gloomy swamp oak groansG
And weeps and wails and weepsG
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There friends are spots of sleepy greenH
Where one may hear afarM
O er fifteen leagues of waste I weenH
A moaning harbour barM
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The sea that breaks and beats and shakesG
The caverns howling loudN
Beyond the midnight Myall LakesG
And half awakened StroudN
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There through the fretful autumn daysG
Beneath a cloudy sunH
Comes rolling down rain rutted waysG
The wind EuroclydonH
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While rattles over riven rocksG
The thunder harsh and dryO
And blustering gum and brooding boxG
Are threshing at the skyO
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And then the gloom doth vex the sightF
With crude unshapely formsG
Which hold throughout the yelling nightF
A fellowship with stormsG
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But here are shady tufts and turnsG
Where sumptuous Summer liesG
By reaches brave with flags and fernsG
With large luxuriant eyesG
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And here another getteth easeG
Our Spring so rarely seenH
Who shows us in the cedar treesG
A glimpse of golden greenH
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What time the flapping bats have troopedP
Away like ghosts to gravesG
And darker growths than Night are coopedP
In silent hillside cavesG
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Ah Dungog dream of darling daysG
Tis better thou should st beG
A far off thing to love and praiseG
A boon from Heaven to meG
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For let me say that when I lookC
With wearied eyes on menH
I think of one unchanging nookC
And find my faith againH

Henry Kendall



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