The Seasons: Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme

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From brightening fields of ether fair disclos'd	A
Child of the sun refulgent Summer comes	B
In pride of youth and felt through nature's depth	C
He comes attended by the sultry Hours	D
And ever fanning Breezes on his way	E
While from his ardent look the turning Spring	F
Averts her blushful face and earth and skies	G
All smiling to his hot dominion leaves	H
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Hence let me haste into the mid wood shade	I
Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through the gloom	J
And on the dark green grass beside the brink	K
Of haunted stream that by the roots of oak	L
Rolls o'er the rocky channel lie at large	M
And sing the glories of the circling year	N
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Come Inspiration from thy hermit seat	O
By mortal seldom found may Fancy dare	P
From thy fix'd serious eye and raptur'd glance	Q
Shot on surrounding heaven to steal one look	R
Creative of the poet every power	S
Exalting to an ecstasy of soul	T
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Now swarms the village o'er the jovial mead	U
The rustic youth brown with meridian toil	V
Healthful and strong full as the summer rose	W
Blown by prevailing suns the ruddy maid	I
Half naked swelling on the sight and all	X
Her kindled graces burning o'er her cheek	Y
Even stooping age is here and infant hands	Z
Trail the long rake or with the fragrant load	A2
O'ercharg'd amid the kind oppression roll	T
Wide flies the tedded grain all in a row	B2
Advancing broad or wheeling round the field	C2
They spread the breathing harvest to the sun	D2
That throws refreshful round a rural smell	E2
Or as they rake the green appearing ground	F2
And drive the dusky wave along the mead	U
The russet hay cock rises thick behind	G2
In order gay while heard from dale to dale	H2
Waking the breeze resounds the blended voice	I2
Of happy labour love and social glee	J2
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Or rushing thence in one diffusive band	K2
They drive the troubled flocks by many a dog	L2
Compell'd to where the mazy running brook	R
Forms a deep pool this bank abrupt and high	M2
And that fair spreading in a pebbled shore	N2
Urg'd to the giddy brink much is the toil	V
The clamour much of men and boys and dogs	O2
Ere the soft fearful people to the flood	P2
Commit their woolly sides And oft the swain	Q2
On some impatient seizing hurls them in	R2
Embolden'd then nor hesitating more	N2
Fast fast they plunge amid the flashing wave	S2
And panting labour to the farther shore	N2
Repeated this till deep the well wash'd fleece	T2
Has drunk the flood and from his lively haunt	U2
The trout is banish'd by the sordid stream	V2
Heavy and dripping to the breezy brow	W2
Slow move the harmless race where as they spread	X2
Their swelling treasures to the sunny ray	E
Inly disturb'd and wondering what this wild	Y2
Outrageous tumult means their loud complaints	Z2
The country fill and toss'd from rock to rock	A3
Incessant bleatings run around the hills	B3
At last of snowy white the gather'd flocks	C3
Are in the wattled pen innumerous press'd	D3
Head above head and rang'd in lusty rows	W
The shepherds sit and whet the sounding shears	E3
The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores	F3
With all her gay dress'd maids attending round	F2
One chief in gracious dignity enthron'd	F2
Shines o'er the rest the pastoral queen and rays	G3
Her smiles sweet beaming on her shepherd king	F
While the glad circle round them yield their souls	H3
To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall	X
Meantime their joyous task goes on apace	I3
Some mingling stir the melted tar and some	J3
Deep on the new shorn vagrant's heaving side	F2
To stamp his master's cipher ready stand	F2
Others the unwilling wether drag along	K3
And glorying in his might the sturdy boy	L3
Holds by the twisted horns th' indignant ram	M3
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'Tis raging noon and vertical the sun	D2
Darts on the head direct his forceful rays	G3
O'er heaven and earth far as the ranging eye	M2
Can sweep a dazzling deluge reigns and all	X
From pole to pole is undistinguish'd blaze	G3
In vain the sight dejected to the ground	F2
Stoops for relief thence hot ascending streams	N3
And keen reflection pain Deep to the root	F2
Of vegetation parch'd the cleaving fields	O3
And slippery lawn an arid hue disclose	W
Blast fancy's blooms and wither even the soul	T
Echo no more returns the cheerful sound	F2
Of sharpening scythe the mower sinking heaps	P3
O'er him the humid hay with flowers perfum'd	F2
And scarce a chirping grasshopper is heard	F2
Through the dumb mead Distressful nature pants	Q3
The very streams look languid from afar	R3
Or through th' unshelter'd glade impatient seem	V2
To hurl into the covert of the grove	S3
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Welcome ye shades ye bowery thickets hail	H2
Ye lofty pines ye venerable oaks	T3
Ye ashes wild resounding o'er the steep	U3
Delicious in your shelter to the soul	T
As to the hunted hart the sallying spring	F
Or stream full flowing that his swelling sides	V3
Laves as he floats along the herbag'd brink	K
Cool through the nerves your pleasing comfort glides	V3
The heart beats glad the fresh expanded eye	M2
And ear resume their watch the sinews knit	F2
And life shoots swift through all the lighten'd limbs	W3
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Around the adjoining brook that purls along	K3
The vocal grove now fretting o'er a rock	A3
Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool	X3
Now starting to a sudden stream and now	W2
Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain	Q2
A various group the herds and flocks compose	W
Rural confusion On the grassy bank	Y3
Some ruminating lie while others stand	F2
Half in the flood and often bending sip	Z3
The circling surface In the middle droops	W
The strong laborious ox of honest front	F2
Which incompos'd he shakes and from his sides	W
The troublous insects lashes with his tail	H2
Returning still Amid his subjects safe	A4
Slumbers the monarch swain his careless arm	B4
Thrown round his head on downy moss sustain'd	F2
Here laid his scrip with wholesome viands fill'd	F2
There listening every noise his watchful dog	L2

James Thomson

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