An Outdoor Reception Poem Rhyme Scheme

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On these green banks where falls too soon	A
The shade of Autumn's afternoon	A
The south wind blowing soft and sweet	B
The water gliding at nay feet	B
The distant northern range uplit	B
By the slant sunshine over it	B
With changes of the mountain mist	B
From tender blush to amethyst	B
The valley's stretch of shade and gleam	C
Fair as in Mirza's Bagdad dream	C
With glad young faces smiling near	D
And merry voices in my ear	E
I sit methinks as Hafiz might	B
In Iran's Garden of Delight	B
For Persian roses blushing red	B
Aster and gentian bloom instead	B
For Shiraz wine this mountain air	F
For feast the blueberries which I share	F
With one who proffers with stained hands	G
Her gleanings from yon pasture lands	G
Wild fruit that art and culture spoil	H
The harvest of an untilled soil	H
And with her one whose tender eyes	I
Reflect the change of April skies	I
Midway 'twixt child and maiden yet	B
Fresh as Spring's earliest violet	B
And one whose look and voice and ways	J
Make where she goes idyllic days	J
And one whose sweet still countenance	K
Seems dreamful of a child's romance	L
And others welcome as are these	M
Like and unlike varieties	M
Of pearls on nature's chaplet strung	N
And all are fair for all are young	N
Gathered from seaside cities old	B
From midland prairie lake and wold	B
From the great wheat fields which might feed	B
The hunger of a world at need	B
In healthful change of rest and play	O
Their school vacations glide away	O
	-
No critics these they only see	P
An old and kindly friend in me	P
In whose amused indulgent look	Q
Their innocent mirth has no rebuke	R
They scarce can know my rugged rhymes	S
The harsher songs of evil times	S
Nor graver themes in minor keys	M
Of life's and death's solemnities	M
But haply as they bear in mind	B
Some verse of lighter happier kind	B
Hints of the boyhood of the man	T
Youth viewed from life's meridian	U
Half seriously and half in play	O
My pleasant interviewers pay	O
Their visit with no fell intent	B
Of taking notes and punishment	B
	-
As yonder solitary pine	V
Is ringed below with flower and vine	V
More favored than that lonely tree	P
The bloom of girlhood circles me	P
In such an atmosphere of youth	W
I half forget my age's truth	W
The shadow of my life's long date	B
Runs backward on the dial plate	B
Until it seems a step might span	T
The gulf between the boy and man	T
	-
My young friends smile as if some jay	O
On bleak December's leafless spray	O
Essayed to sing the songs of May	O
Well let them smile and live to know	X
When their brown locks are flecked with snow	X
'T is tedious to be always sage	Y
And pose the dignity of age	Y
While so much of our early lives	M
On memory's playground still survives	M
And owns as at the present hour	Z
The spell of youth's magnetic power	Z
	-
But though I feel with Solomon	U
'T is pleasant to behold the sun	U
I would not if I could repeat	B
A life which still is good and sweet	B
I keep in age as in my prime	A2
A not uncheerful step with time	A2
And grateful for all blessings sent	B
I go the common way content	B
To make no new experiment	B
On easy terms with law and fate	B
For what must be I calmly wait	B
And trust the path I cannot see	P
That God is good sufficeth me	P
And when at last on life's strange play	O
The curtain falls I only pray	O
That hope may lose itself in truth	W
And age in Heaven's immortal youth	W
And all our loves and longing prove	B2
The foretaste of diviner love	C2
	-
The day is done Its afterglow	X
Along the west is burning low	X
My visitors like birds have flown	D2
I hear their voices fainter grown	D2
And dimly through the dusk I see	P
Their 'kerchiefs wave good night to me	P
Light hearts of girlhood knowing nought	B
Of all the cheer their coming brought	B
And in their going unaware	F
Of silent following feet of prayer	F
Heaven make their budding promise good	B
With flowers of gracious womanhood	B

John Greenleaf Whittier

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