Flower-de-luce: Palingenesis Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I lay upon the headland height and listened	A
To the incessant sobbing of the sea	B
In caverns under me	B
And watched the waves that tossed and fled and glistened	A
Until the rolling meadows of amethyst	C
Melted away in mist	C
	-
Then suddenly as one from sleep I started	D
For round about me all the sunny capes	E
Seemed peopled with the shapes	E
Of those whom I had known in days departed	D
Apparelled in the loveliness which gleams	F
On faces seen in dreams	F
	-
A moment only and the light and glory	B
Faded away and the disconsolate shore	G
Stood lonely as before	G
And the wild roses of the promontory	G
Around me shuddered in the wind and shed	H
Their petals of pale red	H
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There was an old belief that in the embers	I
Of all things their primordial form exists	J
And cunning alchemists	J
Could re create the rose with all its members	J
From its own ashes but without the bloom	K
Without the lost perfume	K
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Ah me what wonder working occult science	J
Can from the ashes in our hearts once more	G
The rose of youth restore	G
What craft of alchemy can bid defiance	J
To time and change and for a single hour	G
Renew this phantom flower	G
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'O give me back ' I cried 'the vanished splendors	J
The breath of morn and the exultant strife	L
When the swift stream of life	L
Bounds o'er its rocky channel and surrenders	J
The pond with all its lilies for the leap	M
Into the unknown deep '	-
	-
And the sea answered with a lamentation	N
Like some old prophet wailing and it said	H
'Alas thy youth is dead	H
It breathes no more its heart has no pulsation	N
In the dark places with the dead of old	O
It lies forever cold '	-
	-
Then said I 'From its consecrated cerements	J
I will not drag this sacred dust again	N
Only to give me pain	N
But still remembering all the lost endearments	J
Go on my way like one who looks before	G
And turns to weep no more '	-
	-
Into what land of harvests what plantations	J
Bright with autumnal foliage and the glow	P
Of sunsets burning low	P
Beneath what midnight skies whose constellations	J
Light up the spacious avenues between	N
This world and the unseen	N
	-
Amid what friendly greetings and caresses	J
What households though not alien yet not mine	N
What bowers of rest divine	N
To what temptations in lone wildernesses	J
What famine of the heart what pain and loss	J
The bearing of what cross	J
	-
I do not know nor will I vainly question	N
Those pages of the mystic book which hold	O
The story still untold	O
But without rash conjecture or suggestion	N
Turn its last leaves in reverence and good heed	Q
Until 'The End' I read	H

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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