Mary Rivers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHI JJKKLLMN OOPPQQRR SSTTUUVV WWEETTXX| Path beside the silver waters flashing in October s sun | A |
| Walk by green and golden margins where the sister streamlets run | A |
| Twenty shining springs have vanished full of flower and leaf and bird | B |
| Since the step of Mary Rivers in your lawny dell was heard | B |
| Twenty white haired Junes have left us grey with frost and bleak with gale | C |
| Since the hand of her we loved so plucked the blossoms in your dale | C |
| Twenty summers twenty autumns from the grand old hills have passed | D |
| With their robes of royal colour since we saw the darling last | D |
| Morning comes the blessed morning and the slow song of the sea | E |
| Like a psalm from radiant altars floats across a rose red lea | E |
| Then the fair strong noonday blossoms and the reaper seeks the cool | F |
| Valley of the moss and myrtle and the glimmering water pool | F |
| Noonday flames and evening follows and the lordly mountains rest | G |
| Heads arrayed with tenfold splendour on the rich heart of the West | G |
| Evening walks with moon and music where the higher life has been | H |
| But the face of Mary Rivers there will nevermore be seen | I |
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| Ah when autumn dells are dewy and the wave is very still | J |
| And that grey ghost called the Twilight passes from the distant hill | J |
| Even in the hallowed nightfall when the fathers sit and dream | K |
| And the splendid rose of heaven sees a sister in the stream | K |
| Often do I watch the waters gleaming in a starry bay | L |
| Thinking of a bygone beauty and a season far away | L |
| Musing on the grace that left us in a time of singing rain | M |
| On the lady who will never walk amongst these heaths again | N |
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| Four there were but two were taken and this darling we deplore | O |
| She was sweetest of the circle she was dearest of the four | O |
| In the daytime and the dewtime comes the phantom of her face | P |
| None will ever sit where she did none will ever fill her place | P |
| With the passing of our Mary like a sunset out of sight | Q |
| Passed away our pure first passion all its life and all its light | Q |
| All that made the world a dreamland all the glory and the glow | R |
| Of the fine fresh morning feeling vanished twenty years ago | R |
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| Girl whose strange unearthly beauty haunts us ever in our sleep | S |
| Many griefs have worn our hearts out we are now too tired to weep | S |
| Time has tried us years have changed us but the sweetness shed by you | T |
| Falls upon our spirits daily like divine immortal dew | T |
| Shining are our thoughts about you of the blossoms past recall | U |
| You are still the rose of lustre still the fairest of them all | U |
| In the sleep that brings the garland gathered from the bygone hours | V |
| You are still our Mary Rivers still the queen of all the flowers | V |
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| Let me ask where none can hear me When you passed into the shine | W |
| And you heard a great love calling did you know that it was mine | W |
| In your life of light and music tell me did you ever see | E |
| Shining in a holy silence what was as a flame in me | E |
| Ah my darling no one saw it Purer than untrodden dew | T |
| Was that first unhappy passion buried in the grave with you | T |
| Bird and leaf will keep the secret wind and wood will never tell | X |
| Men the thing that I have whispered Mary Rivers fare you well | X |
Henry Kendall
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