The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL	A
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Night and storm LUCIFER with the Powers of the	B
Air trying to tear down the Cross	C
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Lucifer HASTEN hasten	D
O ye spirits	E
From its station drag the ponderous	F
Cross of iron that to mock us	F
Is uplifted high in air	G
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Voices O we cannot	H
For around it	I
All the Saints and Guardian Angels	J
Throng in legions to protect it	I
They defeat us everywhere	G
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The Bells Laudo Deum verum	K
Plebem voco	L
Congrego clerum	K
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Lucifer Lower lower	M
Hover downward	N
Seize the loud vociferous bells and	O
Clashing clanging to the pavement	P
Hurl them from their windy tower	M
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Voices All thy thunders	Q
Here are harmless	F
For these bells have been anointed	R
And baptized with holy water	M
They defy our utmost power	M
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The Bells Defunctos ploro	M
Pestem fugo	L
Festa decoro	M
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Lucifer Shake the casements	F
Break the painted	R
Panes that flame with gold and crimson	D
Scatter them like leaves of Autumn	S
Swept away before the blast	T
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Voices O we cannot	H
The Archangel	A
Michael flames from every window	U
With the sword of fire that drove us	F
Headlong out of heaven aghast	T
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The Bells Funera plango	L
Fulgora frango	L
Sabbata pango	L
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Lucifer Aim your lightnings	F
At the oaken	S
Massive iron studded portals	F
Sack the house of God and scatter	M
Wide the ashes of the dead	V
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Voices O we cannot	H
The Apostles	F
And the Martyrs wrapped in mantles	F
Stand as wardens at the entrance	F
Stand as sentinels o'erhead	H
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The Bells Excito lentos	F
Dissipo ventos	F
Paco cruentos	F
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Lucifer Baffled baffled	H
Inefficient	H
Craven spirits leave this labor	M
Unto Time the great Destroyer	M
Come away ere night is gone	S
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Voices Onward onward	H
With the night wind	H
Over field and farm and forest	H
Lonely homestead darksome hamlet	H
Blighting all we breathe upon	S
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They sweep away Organ and Gregorian Chant	H
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Choir Nocte surgentes	F
Vig lemus omnes	F
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I THE CASTLE OF VAUTSBERG ON THE RHINE	S
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A chamber in a tower PRINCE HENRY sitting alone	S
ill and restless	F
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Prince Henry I cannot sleep my fervid brain	S
Calls up the vanished Past again	S
And throws its misty splendors deep	W
Into the pallid realms of sleep	W
A breath from that far distant shore	M
Comes freshening ever more and more	M
And wafts o'er intervening seas	F
Sweet odors from the Hesperides	F
A wind that through the corridor	M
Just stirs the curtain and no more	M
And touching the aeolian strings	F
Faints with the burden that it brings	F
Come back ye friendships long departed	H
That like o'erflowing streamlets started	H
And now are dwindled one by one	S
To stony channels in the sun	S
Come back ye friends whose lives are ended	H
Come back with all that light attended	H
Which seemed to darken and decay	L
When ye arose and went away	L
They come the shapes of joy and woe	U
The airy crowds of long ago	U
The dreams and fancies known of yore	M
That have been and shall be no more	M
They change the cloisters of the night	H
Into a garden of delight	H
They make the dark and dreary hours	F
Open and blossom into flowers	F
I would not sleep I love to be	X
Again in their fair company	X
But ere my lips can bid them stay	L
They pass and vanish quite away	L
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Alas our memories may retrace	F
Each circumstance of time and place	F
Season and scene come back again	S
And outward things unchanged remain	S
The rest we cannot reinstate	H
Ourselves we cannot re create	H
Nor set our souls to the same key	X
Of the remembered harmony	X
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Rest rest O give me rest and peace	F
The thought of life that ne'er shall cease	F
Has something in it like despair	M
A weight I am too weak to bear	M
Sweeter to this afflicted breast	H
The thought of never ending rest	H
Sweeter the undisturbed and deep	W
Tranquillity of endless sleep	W
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A flash of lightning out of which LUCIFER appears	F
in the garb of a travelling Physician	S
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Lucifer All hail Prince Henry	X
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Prince Henry starting Who is it speaks	F
Who and what are you	Y
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Lucifer One who seeks	F
A moment's audience with the Prince	F
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Prince Henry When came you in	S
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Lucifer A moment since	F
I found your study door unlocked	H
And thought you answered when I knocked	H
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Prince Henry I did not hear you	Y
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Lucifer You heard the thunder	M
It was loud enough to waken the dead	H
And it is not a matter of special wonder	M
That when God is walking overhead	H
You should not have heard my feeble tread	H
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Prince Henry What may your wish or purpose be	X
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Lucifer Nothing or everything as it pleases	F
Your Highness You behold in me	X
Only a traveling Physician	S
One of the few who have a mission	S
To cure incurable diseases	F
Or those that are called so	U
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Prince Henry Can you bring	L
The dead to life	Z
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Lucifer Yes very nearly	X
And what is a wiser and better thing	L
Can keep the living from ever needing	L
Such an unnatural strange proceeding	L
By showing conclusively and clearly	X
That death is a stupid blunder merely	X
And not a necessity of our lives	F
My being here is accidental	A
The storm that against your casement drives	F
In the little village below waylaid me	X
And there I heard with a secret delight	H
Of your maladies physical and mental	A
Which neither astonished nor dismayed me	X
And I hastened hither though late in the night	H
To proffer my aid	H
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Prince Henry ironically For this you came	K
Ah how can I ever hope to requite	H
This honor from one so erudite	H
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Lucifer The honor is mine or will be when	S
I have cured your disease	F
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Prince Henry But not till then	S
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Lucifer What is your illness	F
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Prince Henry It has no name	K
A smouldering dull perpetual flame	K
As in a kiln burns in my veins	F
Sending up vapors to the head	H
My heart has become a dull lagoon	S
Which a kind of leprosy drinks and drains	F
I am accounted as one who is dead	H
And indeed I think that I shall be soon	S
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Lucifer And has Gordonius the Divine	S
In his famous Lily of Medicine	S
I see the book lies open before you	Y
No remedy potent enough to restore you	Y
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Prince Henry None whatever	M
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Lucifer The dead are dead	H
And their oracles dumb when questioned	H
Of the new diseases that human life	Z
Evolves in its progress rank and rife	Z
Consult the dead upon things that were	M
But the living only on things that are	M
Have you done this by the appliance	F
And aid of doctors	F
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Prince Henry Ay whole schools	F
Of doctors with their learned rules	F
But the case is quite beyond their science	F
Even the doctors of Salern	S
Send me back word they can discern	S
No cure for a malady like this	F
Save one which in its nature is	F
Impossible and cannot be	X
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Lucifer That sounds oracular	M
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Prince Henry Unendurable	A
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Lucifer What is their remedy	X
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Prince Henry You shall see	X
Writ in this scroll is the mystery	X
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Lucifer reading 'Not to be cured yet not incurable	A
The only remedy that remains	F
Is the blood that flows from a maiden's veins	F
Who of her own free will shall die	H
And give her life as the price of yours '	-
That is the strangest of all cures	F
And one I think you will never try	H
The prescription you may well put by	H
As something impossible to find	H
Before the world itself shall end	H
And yet who knows One cannot say	L
That into some maiden's brain that kind	H
Of madness will not find its way	L
Meanwhile permit me to recommend	H
As the matter admits of no delay	L
My wonderful Catholicon	S
Of very subtile and magical powers	F
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Prince Henry Purge with your nostrums and drugs infernal	A
The spouts and gargoyles of these towers	F
Not me My faith is utterly gone	S
In every power but the Power Supernal	A
Pray tell me of what school are you	Y
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Lucifer Both of the Old and of the New	Y
The school of Hermes Trismegistus	F
Who uttered his oracles sublime	K
Before the Olympiads in the dew	Y
Of the early dawn and dusk of Time	K
The reign of dateless old Hephaestus	F
As northward from its Nubian springs	F
The Ni	S