Four Points In A Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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LOVE'S DAWNB
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Still thine eyes haunt me in the darkness nowC
The dreamtime the hushed stillness of the nightD
I see them shining pure and earnest lightD
And here all lonely may I not avowC
The thrill with which I ever meet their glanceE
At first they gazed a calm abstracted gazeF
The while thy soul was floating through some mazeF
Of beautiful divinely peopled tranceE
But now I shrink from them in shame and fearG
For they are gathering all their beams of lightD
Into an arrow keen intense and brightD
Swerveless and starlike from its deep blue sphereG
Piercing the cavernous darkness of my soulH
Burning its foul recesses into viewI
Transfixing with sharp agony through and throughI
Whatever ls not brave and clean and wholeH
And yet I will not shrink although thou piercestD
Into the inmost depths of all my beingJ
I will not shrink although though now art seeingJ
My heart's caged lusts the wildest and the fiercestD
The cynic thoughts that fret my homeless mindD
My unbelief my selfishness my weaknessK
My dismal lack of charity and meeknessK
For amidst all the evil thou must findD
Pervading cleansing and transmuting meL
A fervent and most holy love for theeL
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IIA
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MARRIAGEM
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Come to me oh come to meL
Time is long since we were partedD
I am sad and weary heartedD
Foiled and almost overthrownN
Fighting with the world aloneN
What am I when thou art goneB
Come darling soonO
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Come to me oh come to meL
Let my failing head find rest LoveP
On thy pure and tender breast LoveP
Calm my overwearied brainQ
Soothe away my heart's chill painQ
Bring me hope and strength againR
Come darling soonO
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Come to me oh come to meL
Evermore the memory lingersK
How your gentle flower soft fingersK
With a touch when I lay illS
Through my fevered frame could thrillS
Cool rich life divinely stillS
Come darling soonO
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Come to me oh come to meL
Dearest heart of love and meeknessK
Is not this unmanly weaknessK
Ah with thee such pure sweet calmT
Heals my wounds with heavenly balmT
I fighting feel my spear a palmT
Come darling soonO
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Come to me oh come to meL
Though its perils groomed more fearfulU
I could fight undaunted cheerfulU
This stern Agony called LifeV
Were the pauses of the strifeV
Blest by thee my noble WifeV
Come darling soonO
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Come to me oh come to meL
Strength and hope and faith are waningJ
With this fierce and pauseless strainingJ
Ere my soul be conquered quiteD
Ere I fail from Truth and RightD
Come my Life my joy my LightD
Come Darling soonO
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PARTINGJ
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Weep not Dearest weep not soK
Soon again we two shall meetD
Who now part in bitter woeK
After pain shall bliss be sweetD
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Few more years of numb despairW
Must we wander far apartD
Through the desert dead and bareW
Love is courage in the heartD
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Few more years of bitter moanN
O'er the rugged mountain heightD
Must we toil on each aloneN
Love can make all burdens lightD
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Few more years of stricken woeK
Erring on an alien shoreX
Lone and friendless each must goK
We will love then more and moreX
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Few short hours of doubt and dreadD
Trembling on the brink of NightD
Spectre haunted each must treadD
Love can burn all darkness brightD
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All the long lone years must dieD
Then shall we together comeY
Where beneath a calm bright skyD
Bright waves bear us to our homeZ
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Weep not Dearest weep not soK
Soon again we two must meetD
Where the calm deep waters flowK
Soothing surely care and woeK
With their mystic murmur sweetD
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IVV
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AT DEATH'S DOORX
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Is this the second childhood's feeble sadnessK
My eyes are dim now and my hair is whiteD
Yet never did the sunshine give more gladnessK
Never young Spring burst forth in green delightD
More freshly never was the earth more fairW
Never more rapture in the common airW
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Still as I near great Death it seems his portalU
Glides gently backward that I may gaze throughI
And glimpse far glories of the realm immortalU
The world becomes transparent to my viewI
Diviner Heavens expand beyond the skiesK
The stars grow thoughtful with eternal eyesK
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How the green grass and every flower swell yearningJ
To hint more clearly some high lovelinessK
Whose mystic soul within their forms is burningJ
How strives the sea for ever to expressK
With infinite heavings murmurings manifoldD
Some secret grandeur that will not be toldD
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The life of day is lulled to dreamful musingJ
And true life waketh in the world of dreamA2
While with the Present strangely interfusingJ
The Future and the Past together streamA2
As if the long drawn waves of Time should beL
Settling and mingling in EternityL
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With every golden dawn awakened lightlyL
I think I must have slept through Death's calm nightD
For lo how purely silently and brightlyL
The Heavens unfold their gates before my sightD
The tranced sea of crystal spreadeth slowlyL
The burning Throne lives out with splendours holyL
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Whereon I look to see thee come swift greetingJ
From where thou waitest for my laggard feetD
Assured beyond impatience for the meetingJ
Crowned with triumphant love and faith completeD
I look in vain as yet but every hourB2
So summer rich may make the bud a flowerB2
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How well my Love the thoughtful Heavens endeavourB2
To make this world and life and time all bearW
Dream lightly on the soul ere it for everB2
Be parted from them Did I once despairW
Through years of lonely anguish unassuagedD
This calm can scarce believe that storms have ragedD
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Here is the blessing I now muse enchantedD
In this sweet dawnlike sunset night comes thenR
Of restful sleep by gracious visions hauntedD
So with new morning I shall rise againR
Full of young life and find my Love for ayeD
My Love whom I have missed this long sad dayD

James Thomson



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