John Campbell

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Cree Fairies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDC EFFE GHHI JKKJ LMML AHHA ENNE

Did earth ever seeA
On thy prairie's lineB
Tribes older than thineB
Old Chief of the CreeA
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Before us we knowC
Of none who lived hereD
Our shafts bade them goC
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But others have shareE
Of lake and of landF
A swift footed bandF
No arrow can scareE
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Their coming has beenG
When flowers are gayH
On islet and bayH
Their footprints are seenI
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There dance little feetJ
Light grasses they breakK
Beneath the blue lakeK
Must be their retreatJ
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We listen and noneL
Hears ever a soundM
But where lily crownedM
Floats the isle in the sunL
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Three children we seeA
Like sunbeams at playH
And voiceless as theyH
Dogs bounding in gleeA
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Of old they were thereE
Ever young who are theseN
Whom Death cannot seizeN
What Spirits of airE

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