The Snowdrop Monument (in Lichfield Cathedral) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Marvels of sleep grown cold	A
Who hath not longed to fold	A
With pitying ruth forgetful of their bliss	B
Those cherub forms that lie	C
With none to watch them nigh	C
Or touch the silent lips with one warm human kiss	B
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What they are left alone	D
All night with graven stone	D
Pillars and arches that above them meet	E
While through those windows high	C
The journeying stars can spy	C
And dim blue moonbeams drop on their uncovered feet	E
	-
O cold yet look again	F
There is a wandering vein	G
Traced in the hand where those white snowdrops lie	C
Let her rapt dreamy smile	H
The wondering heart beguile	H
That almost thinks to hear a calm contented sigh	C
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What silence dwells between	I
Those severed lips serene	I
The rapture of sweet waiting breathes and grows	J
What trance like peace is shed	K
On her reclining head	K
And e'en on listless feet what languor of repose	J
	-
Angels of joy and love	L
Lean softly from above	L
And whisper to her sweet and marvellous things	M
Tell of the golden gate	N
That opened wide doth wait	N
And shadow her dim sleep with their celestial wings	M
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Hearing of that blest shore	O
She thinks on earth no more	O
Contented to forego this wintry land	P
She has nor thought nor care	Q
But to rest calmly there	Q
And hold the snowdrops pale that blossom in her hand	P
	-
But on the other face	R
Broodeth a mournful grace	R
This had foreboding thoughts beyond her years	S
While sinking thus to sleep	T
She saw her mother weep	T
And could not lift her hand to dry those heart sick tears	U
	-
Could not but failing lay	V
Sighed her young life away	V
And let her arm drop down in listless rest	W
Too weary on that bed	K
To turn her dying head	K
Or fold the little sister nearer to her breast	W
	-
Yet this is faintly told	A
On features fair and cold	A
A look of calm surprise of mild regret	X
As if with life oppressed	W
She turned her to her rest	W
But felt her mother's love and looked not to forget	X
	-
How wistfully they close	Y
Sweet eyes to their repose	J
How quietly declines the placid brow	Z
The young lips seem to say	V
I have wept much to day	V
And felt some bitter pains but they are over now	Z
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Sleep there are left below	A2
Many who pine to go	A2
Many who lay it to their chastened souls	B2
That gloomy days draw nigh	C
And they are blest who die	C
For this green world grows worse the longer that she rolls	B2
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And as for me I know	A2
A little of her woe	A2
Her yearning want doth in my soul abide	C2
And sighs of them that weep	T
O put us soon to sleep	T
For when we wake with Thee we shall be satisfied	C2

Jean Ingelow

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