The Four Seasons : Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Come gentle Spring ethereal Mildness come	A
And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud	B
While music wakes around veil'd in a shower	C
Of shadowing roses on our plains descend	D
O Hertford fitted or to shine in courts	E
With unaffected grace or walk the plain	F
With innocence and meditation join'd	G
In soft assemblage listen to my song	H
Which thy own Season paints when Nature all	I
Is blooming and benevolent like thee	J
And see where surly Winter passes off	K
Far to the north and calls his ruffian blasts	L
His blasts obey and quit the howling hill	M
The shatter'd forest and the ravaged vale	N
While softer gales succeed at whose kind touch	O
Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost	P
The mountains lift their green heads to the sky	Q
As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd	R
And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze	S
Chills the pale morn and bids his driving sleets	S
Deform the day delightless so that scarce	S
The bittern knows his time with bill ingulf'd	R
To shake the sounding marsh or from the shore	T
The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath	U
And sing their wild notes to the listening waste	R
At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun	V
And the bright Bull receives him Then no more	T
The expansive atmosphere is cramp'd with cold	R
But full of life and vivifying soul	W
Lifts the light clouds sublime and spreads then thin	X
Fleecy and white o'er all surrounding heaven	V
Forth fly the tepid airs and unconfined	R
Unbinding earth the moving softness strays	S
Joyous the impatient husbandman perceives	S
Relenting Nature and his lusty steers	S
Drives from their stalls to where the well used plough	Y
Lies in the furrow loosen'd from the frost	R
There unrefusing to the harness'd yoke	Z
They lend their shoulder and begin their toil	A2
Cheer'd by the simple song and soaring lark	B2
Meanwhile incumbent o'er the shining share	C2
The master leans removes the obstructing clay	D2
Winds the whole work and sidelong lays the glebe	E2
While through the neighbouring fields the sowe stalks	S
With measured step and liberal throws the grain	F
Into the faithful bosom of the ground	R
The harrow follows harsh and shuts the scene	F2
Be gracious Heaven for now laborious Man	G2
Has done his part Ye fostering breezes blow	H2
Ye softening dews ye tender showers descend	R
And temper all thou world reviving sun	V
Into the perfect year Nor ye who live	I2
In luxury and ease in pomp and pride	R
Think these lost themes unworthy of your ear	J2
Such themes as these the rural Maro sung	K2
To wide imperial Rome in the full height	R
Of elegance and taste by Greece refined	R
In ancient times the sacred plough employ'd	R
The kings and awful fathers of mankind	R
And some with whom compared your insect tribes	S
Are but the beings of a summer's day	D2
Have held the scale of empire ruled the storm	L2
Of mighty war then with unwearied hand	R
Disdaining little delicacies seized	R
The plough and greatly independent lived	R
Ye generous Britons venerate the plough	Y
And o'er your hills and long withdrawing vales	S
Let Autumn spread his treasures to the sun	V
Luxuriant and unbounded as the sea	S
Far through his azure turbulent domain	F
Your empire owns and from a thousand shores	S
Wafts all the pomp of life into your ports	S
So with superior boon may your rich soil	A2
Exuberant Nature's better blessings pour	T
O'er every land the naked nations clothe	M2
And be the exhaustless granary of a world	R
Nor only through the lenient air this change	N2
Delicious breathes the penetrative sun	V
His force deep darting to the dark retreat	R
Of vegetation sets the steaming Power	C
At large to wander o'er the verdant earth	O2
In various hues but chiefly thee gay green	F2
Thou smiling Nature's universal robe	E2
United light and shade where the sight dwells	S
With growing strength and ever new delight	R
From the moist meadow to the wither'd hill	M
Led by the breeze the vivid verdure runs	S
And swells and deepens to the cherish'd eye	Q
The hawthorn whitens and the juicy groves	S
Put forth their buds unfolding by degrees	S
Till the whole leafy forest stands display'd	R
In full luxuriance to the sighing gales	S
Where the deer rustle through the twining brake	P2
And the birds sing conceal'd At once array'd	R
In all the colours of the flushing year	Q2
By Nature's swift and secret working hand	R
The garden glows and fills the liberal air	C2
With lavish fragrance while the promised fruit	R
Lies yet a little embryo unperceived	R
Within its crimson folds Now from the town	R2
Buried in smoke and sleep and noisome damps	S
Oft let me wander o'er the dewy fields	S
Where freshness breathes and dash the trembling drops	S
From the bent bush as through the verdant maze	S
Of sweetbriar hedges I pursue my walk	S2
Or taste the smell of dairy or ascend	R
Some eminence Augusta in thy plains	S
And see the country far diffused around	R
One boundless blush one white empurpled shower	C
Of mingled blossoms where the raptured eye	Q
Hurries from joy to joy and hid beneath	U
The fair profusion yellow Autumn spies	S
If brush'd from Russian wilds a cutting gale	N
Rise not and scatter from his humid wings	S
The clammy mildew or dry blowing breathe	T2
Untimely frost before whose baleful blast	R
The full blown Spring through all her foliage shrinks	S
Joyless and dead a wide dejected waste	R
For oft engender'd by the hazy north	U2
Myriads on myriads insect armies warp	V2
Keen in the poison'd breeze and wasteful eat	R
Through buds and bark into the blacken'd core	T
Their eager way A feeble race yet oft	R
The sacred sons of vengeance on whose course	S
Corrosive Famine waits and kills the year	Q2
To check this plague the skilful farmer chaff	W2
And blazing straw before his orchard burns	S
Till all involved in smoke the latent foe	H2
From every cranny suffocated falls	S
Or scatters o'er the blooms the pungent dust	R
Of pepper fatal to the frosty tribe	E2
Or when the envenom'd leaf begins to curl	X2
With sprinkled water drowns them in their nest	R
Nor while they pick them up with busy bill	M
The little trooping birds unwisely scares	S
Be patient swains these cruel seeming winds	S
Blow not in vain Far hence they keep repress'd	R
Those deepening clouds on clouds surcharged with rain	F
That o'er the vast Atlantic hither borne	Y2
In endless train would quench the summer blaze	S
And cheerless drown the crude unripen'd year	Q2
The north east spends his rage he now shut up	Z2
Within his iron cave the effusive south	A3
Warms the wide air and o'er the void of Heaven	V
Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent	R
At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise	S
Scarce staining ether but by swift degrees	S
In heaps on heaps the doubling vapour sails	S
Along the loaded sky and mingling deep	B3
Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom	C3
Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed	R
Oppressing life but lovely gentle kind	R
And full of every hope and every joy	D3
The wish of Nature Gradual sinks the breeze	S
Into a perfect calm that not a breath	E3
Is heard to quiver through the closing woods	S
Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves	S
Of aspin tall The' uncurling floods diffused	R
In glassy breadth seem through delusive lapse	S
Forgetful of their course 'Tis silence all	I
And pleasing expectation Herds and flocks	S
Drop the dry sprig and mute imploring eye	Q
The falling verdure Hush'd in short suspense	S
The plumy people streak their wings with oil	A2
To throw the lucid moisture trickling off	K
And wait the approaching sign to strike at once	S
Into the general choir E'en mountains vales	S
And forests seem impatient to demand	R
The promised sweetness Man superior walks	S
Amid the glad creation musing praise	S
And looking lively gratitude At last	R
The clouds consign their treasures to the fields	S
And softly shaking on the dimpled pool	F3
Prelusive drops let al	G3

James Thomson

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