Mooni Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBBACDCA EBBBEFFFE AGGGACCCA HBBBHCCCH ICCCIJJJI CCCCCCCCC KLLLKGGGK CCCCCBBBC LMMMLCCCL CNNNCNNNC JBNBJGGGJ CGGGCBBBC CCCCCMMMC

AH to be by Mooni nowA
Where the great dark hills of wonderB
Scarred with storm and cleft asunderB
By the strong sword of the thunderB
Make a night on morning s browA
Just to stand where Nature s face isC
Flushed with power in forest placesD
Where of God authentic trace isC
Ah to be by Mooni nowA
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Just to be by Mooni s springsE
There to stand the shining sharerB
Of that larger life and rarerB
Beauty caught from beauty fairerB
Than the human face of thingsE
Soul of mine from sin abhorrentF
Fain would hide by flashing currentF
Like a sister of the torrentF
Far away by Mooni s springsE
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He that is by Mooni nowA
Sees the water sapphires gleamingG
Where the River Spirit dreamingG
Sleeps by fall and fountain streamingG
Under lute of leaf and boughA
Hears where stamp of storm with stress isC
Psalms from unseen wildernessesC
Deep amongst far hill recessesC
He that is by Mooni nowA
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Yea for him by Mooni s margeH
Sings the yellow haired SeptemberB
With the face the gods rememberB
When the ridge is burnt to emberB
And the dumb sea chains the bargeH
Where the mount like molten brass isC
Down beneath fern feathered passesC
Noonday dew in cool green grassesC
Gleams on him by Mooni s margeH
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Who that dwells by Mooni yetI
Feels in flowerful forest archesC
Smiting wings and breath that parchesC
Where strong Summer s path of march isC
And the suns in thunder setI
Housed beneath the gracious kirtleJ
Of the shadowy water myrtleJ
Winds may hiss with heat and hurtleJ
He is safe by Mooni yetI
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Days there were when he who singsC
Dumb so long through passion s lossesC
Stood where Mooni s water crossesC
Shining tracts of green haired mossesC
Like a soul with radiant wingsC
Then the psalm the wind rehearsesC
Then the song the stream dispersesC
Lent a beauty to his versesC
Who to night of Mooni singsC
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Ah the theme the sad grey themeK
Certain days are not above meL
Certain hearts have ceased to love meL
Certain fancies fail to move meL
Like the affluent morning dreamK
Head whereon the white is stealingG
Heart whose hurts are past all healingG
Where is now the first pure feelingG
Ah the theme the sad grey themeK
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Sin and shame have left their traceC
He who mocks the mighty graciousC
Love of Christ with eyes audaciousC
Hunting after fires fallaciousC
Wears the issue in his faceC
Soul that flouted gift and GiverB
Like the broken Persian riverB
Thou hast lost thy strength for everB
Sin and shame have left their traceC
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In the years that used to beL
When the large supreme occasionM
Brought the life of inspirationM
Like a god s transfigurationM
Was the shining change in meL
Then where Mooni s glory glancesC
Clear diviner countenancesC
Beamed on me like blessed chancesC
In the years that used to beL
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Ah the beauty of old waysC
Then the man who so resembledN
Lords of light unstained unhumbledN
Touched the skirts of Christ nor trembledN
At the grand benignant gazeC
Now he shrinks before the splendidN
Face of Deity offendedN
All the loveliness is endedN
All the beauty of old waysC
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Still to be by Mooni coolJ
Where the water blossoms glisterB
And by gleaming vale and vistaN
Sits the English April s sisterB
Soft and sweet and wonderfulJ
Just to rest beyond the burningG
Outer world its sneers and spurningG
Ah my heart my heart is yearningG
Still to be by Mooni coolJ
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Now by Mooni s fair hill headsC
Lo the gold green lights are glowingG
Where because no wind is blowingG
Fancy hears the flowers growingG
In the herby watershedsC
Faint it is the sound of thunderB
From the torrents far thereunderB
Where the meeting mountains ponderB
Now by Mooni s fair hill headsC
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Just to be where Mooni isC
Even where the fierce fall racesC
Down august unfathomed placesC
Where of sun or moon no trace isC
And the streams of shadow hissC
Have I not an ample reasonM
So to long for sick of treasonM
Something of the grand old seasonM
Just to be where Mooni isC

Henry Kendall



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