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To Henry Halloran Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI BJBJ KLML HHHH HHHH NHNH OPOP QRQR

YOU KNOW I left my forest home full lothA
And those weird ways I knew so well and longB
Dishevelled with their sloping sidelong growthC
Of twisted thorn and kurrajongB
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It seems to me my friend and this wild thoughtD
Of all wild thoughts doth chiefly make me bleedE
That in those hills and valleys wonder fraughtD
I loved and lost a noble creedE
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A splendid creed But let me even turnF
And hide myself from what I ve seen and tryG
To fathom certain truths you know and learnF
The Beauty shining in your skyG
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Remembering you in ardent autumn nightsH
And Stenhouse near you like a fine stray guestI
Of other days with all his lore of lightsH
So manifold and manifestI
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Then hold me firm I cannot choose but longB
For that which lies and burns beyond my reachJ
Suggested in your steadfast subtle songB
And his most marvellous speechJ
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For now my soul goes drifting back againK
Ay drifting drifting like the silent snowL
While scattered sheddings in a fall of rainM
Revive the dear lost Long AgoL
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The time I loitering by untrodden fensH
Intent upon low hanging lustrous skiesH
Heard mellowed psalms from sounding southern glensH
Euroma dear to dreaming eyesH
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And caught seductive tokens of a voiceH
Half maddened with the dim delirious themesH
Of perfect Love and the immortal choiceH
Of starry faces Astral dreamsH
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That last was yours And if you sometimes findN
An alien darkness on the front of thingsH
Sing none the less for Life nor fall behindN
Like me with trailing tired wingsH
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Yea though the heavy Earth wears sackcloth nowO
Because she hath the great prophetic griefP
Which makes me set my face one way and bowO
And falter for a far beliefP
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Be faithful yet for all my brave bright peerQ
In that rare light you hold so true and goodR
And find me something clearer than the clearQ
White spaces of InfinitudeR

Henry Kendall



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