Mr. Hammond's Parable--the Dreamer Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I	A
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He was a Dreamer of the Days	B
Indolent as a lazy breeze	C
Of midsummer in idlest ways	B
Lolling about in the shade of trees	C
The farmer turned as he passed him by	A
Under the hillside where he kneeled	D
Plucking a flower with scornful eye	A
And rode ahead in the harvest field	D
Muttering 'Lawz ef that air shirk	E
Of a boy was mine fer a week er so	F
He'd quit dreamin' and git to work	E
And airn his livin' er Well I know '	-
And even kindlier rumor said	D
Tapping with finger a shaking head	D
'Got such a curious kind o' way	G
Wouldn't surprise me much I say '	-
	-
Lying limp with upturned gaze	B
Idly dreaming away his days	B
No companions Yes a book	H
Sometimes under his arm he took	H
To read aloud to a lonesome brook	H
And school boys truant once had heard	D
A strange voice chanting faint and dim	I
Followed the echoes and found it him	I
Perched in a tree top like a bird	D
Singing clean from the highest limb	I
And fearful and awed they all slipped by	A
To wonder in whispers if he could fly	A
'Let him alone ' his father said	D
When the old schoolmaster came to say	G
'He took no part in his books to day	G
Only the lesson the readers read	D
His mind seems sadly going astray '	-
'Let him alone ' came the mournful tone	J
And the father's grief in his sad eyes shone	J
Hiding his face in his trembling hand	D
Moaning 'Would I could understand	D
But as heaven wills it I accept	D
Uncomplainingly ' So he wept	D
	-
Then went 'The Dreamer' as he willed	D
As uncontrolled as a light sail filled	D
Flutters about with an empty boat	D
Loosed from its moorings and afloat	D
Drifted out from the busy quay	K
Of dull school moorings listlessly	K
Drifted off on the talking breeze	C
All alone with his reveries	C
Drifted on as his fancies wrought	D
Out on the mighty gulfs of thought	D
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II	A
	-
The farmer came in the evening gray	G
And took the bars of the pasture down	L
Called to the cows in a coaxing way	G
'Bess' and 'Lady' and 'Spot' and 'Brown '	-
While each gazed with a wide eyed stare	M
As though surprised at his coming there	M
Till another tone in a higher key	K
Brought their obeyance lothfully	K
	-
Then as he slowly turned and swung	N
The topmost bar to its proper rest	D
Something fluttered along and clung	N
An instant shivering at his breast	D
A wind scared fragment of legal cap	O
Which darted again as he struck his hand	D
On his sounding chest with a sudden slap	O
And hurried sailing across the land	D
But as it clung he had caught the glance	P
Of a little penciled countenance	Q
And a glamour of written words and hence	R
A minute later over the fence	R
'Here and there and gone astray	G
Over the hills and far away '	-
He chased it into a thicket of trees	C
And took it away from the captious breeze	C
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A scrap of paper with a rhyme	S
Scrawled upon it of summertime	S
A pencil sketch of a dairy maid	D
Under a farmhouse porch's shade	D
Working merrily and was blent	D
With her glad features such sweet content	D
That a song she sung in the lines below	K
Seemed delightfully apropos	K

James Whitcomb Riley

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