Hannah Thomburn Poem Rhyme Scheme

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They lifted her out of a story	A
Too sordid and selfish by far	B
They left me the innocent glory	A
Of love that was pure as a star	B
They left me all guiltless of evil	C
That would have brought years of distress	D
When the chance to be man god or devil	C
Was mine on return from Success	D
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With a name and a courage uncommon	E
She had come in the soul striving days	F
She had come as a child girl and woman	E
Come only to comfort and praise	F
There was never a church that could marry	A
For never a court could divorce	G
In the season of Hannah and Harry	A
When the love of my life ran its course	G
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Her hair was red gold on head Grecian	E
But fluffed from the parting away	H
And her eyes were the warm grey Venetian	E
That comes with the dawn of the day	H
No Fashion nor Fad could entrap her	I
And a simple print work dress wore she	A
But her long limbs were formed for the wrapper	I
And her fair arms were meant to be free	A
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Oh I knew by the thrill of pure passion	E
At the touch of her elbow or hand	J
By the wife s loveless eyes that would flash on	K
The feeling I could not command	J
Oh I knew when revulsion came rushing	L
Oh I knew by the brush strokes that hurt	M
At the sight of a sculptor friend brushing	L
The clay from the hem of her skirt	M
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She was mine on return from succeeding	L
In a struggle that no one shall know	N
She only knew my heart was bleeding	L
She only knew what dealt the blow	N
I had fought back the friends that were clutching	L
I had forced back the heart scalding tears	O
Just to lay my hot head to her touching	L
And to weep for Two Terrible Years	P
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Oh the hand on my hair that was greying	L
Oh the kiss on my brow that was lined	Q
Oh the peace when my reason was straying	L
And the rest and relief for my mind	Q
Till no longer world shackled or frightened	R
The voice of the past would be stilled	S
Hearts quickened cheeks flushed and eyes brightened	R
And the love of our lives be fulfilled	S
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It was Antwerp and Plymouth th Atlantic	T
And so well had Love s network been laid	U
That I heard of her illness grown frantic	T
At Genoa Naples Port Said	V
I was mad just to reach her and tell her	I
But a sandbank at Suez tripped me	A
And we limped with a crippled propeller	I
Through all Hades adown the Red Sea	A
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Through the monsoon we rolled like a Jumbo	N
With a second blade shaken away	H
There was never a dock in Colombo	N
So the captain drank hard to Bombay	H
Then a point in the south like an anthill	W
Or seawastes then hove into sight	X
I called for no news at Fremantle	W
For I wanted to hope through the Bight	X
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There s a gentleman reading shall know it	Y
There s an earl who will now understand	J
Why I slighted the son of their poet	Z
And a vice regal lord of the land	J
Semaphore and a burst through the wicket	Z
On platform left guards in distress	D
A run without luggage or ticket	Z
A cab and the Melbourne Express	D
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Twas a brother in grief of mine told me	A
With harsh eyes unwontedly dim	A2
With a hand on my shoulder to hold me	A
And a grip on my own to hold him	A2
A dry choke and words cracked and hurried	B2
A stare as of something afraid	U
And he told me that Hannah was buried	B2
On the day I reached Port Adelaide	U
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They could greet me let Heaven or Hell come	C2
They could weep for the grave by the sea	A
Oh the mother and father could welcome	C2
And the kinsfolk without fear of me	A
For they watched her safe out of a story	A
Where she slaved and suffered alone	D2
They could weep to the tune of the hoary	A
Old lie If we only had known	D2
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But I have the letter that followed	E2
That she wrote to England and me	A
That crossed us perchance as we wallowed	E2
That birthday of mine on the sea	A
That she wrote on the eve of her going	L
Hopeful and loving and brave	F2
To keep me there prosperous knowing	L
No care save the far away grave	F2
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They have lifted her out of a story	A
Too sordid and selfish by far	B
And left me the innocent glory	A
Of love that was pure as a star	B
That was human and strong though she hid it	Y
To write before death in last lines	G2
And I kneel to the angels who did it	Y
And I bow to the fate that refines	G2

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