Invitation To A Young But Learned Friend To Abandon Archaeology For The Moment, And Play Once More W Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJEEFFKKJJLL| In those good days when we were young and wise | A |
| You spake to music you with the thoughtful eyes | A |
| And God looked down from heaven pleased to hear | B |
| A young man's song arise so firm and clear | C |
| Has Fancy died The Morning Star gone cold | D |
| Why are you silent Have we grown so old | D |
| Must I alone keep playing Will not you | E |
| Lord of the Measures string your lyre anew | E |
| Lover of Greece is this the richest store | F |
| You bring us withered leaves and dusty lore | F |
| And broken vases widowed of their wine | G |
| To brand you pedant while you stand divine | G |
| Decorous words beseem the learned lip | H |
| But Poets have the nicer scholarship | H |
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| In English glades they watch the Cyprian glow | I |
| And all the Maenad melodies they know | I |
| They hear strange voices in a London street | J |
| And track the silver gleam of rushing feet | J |
| And these are things that come not to the view | E |
| Of slippered dons who read a codex through | E |
| O honeyed Poet will you praise no more | F |
| The moonlit garden and the midnight shore | F |
| Brother have you forgotten how to sing | K |
| The story of that weak and cautious king | K |
| Who reigned two hundred years in Trebizond | J |
| You who would ever strive to pierce beyond | J |
| Love's ecstacy Life's vision is it well | L |
| We should not know the tales you have to tell | L |
James Elroy Flecker
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