Summer By The Lakeside: Lake Winnipesaukee Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I NOON	A
White clouds whose shadows haunt the deep	B
Light mists whose soft embraces keep	B
The sunshine on the hills asleep	B
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O isles of calm O dark still wood	C
And stiller skies that overbrood	C
Your rest with deeper quietude	C
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O shapes and hues dim beckoning through	D
Yon mountain gaps my longing view	D
Beyond the purple and the blue	D
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To stiller sea and greener land	C
And softer lights and airs more bland	C
And skies the hollow of God's hand	C
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Transfused through you O mountain friends	E
With mine your solemn spirit blends	E
And life no more hath separate ends	E
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I read each misty mountain sign	F
I know the voice of wave and pine	F
And I am yours and ye are mine	F
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Life's burdens fall its discords cease	G
I lapse into the glad release	G
Of Nature's own exceeding peace	G
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O welcome calm of heart and mind	C
As falls yon fir tree's loosened rind	C
To leave a tenderer growth behind	C
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So fall the weary years away	H
A child again my head I lay	H
Upon the lap of this sweet day	H
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This western wind hath Lethean powers	I
Yon noonday cloud nepenthe showers	I
The lake is white with lotus flowers	I
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Even Duty's voice is faint and low	J
And slumberous Conscience waking slow	J
Forgets her blotted scroll to show	J
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The Shadow which pursues us all	K
Whose ever nearing steps appall	K
Whose voice we hear behind us call	K
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That Shadow blends with mountain gray	H
It speaks but what the light waves say	H
Death walks apart from Fear to day	H
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Rocked on her breast these pines and I	L
Alike on Nature's love rely	L
And equal seems to live or die	L
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Assured that He whose presence fills	M
With light the spaces of these hills	M
No evil to His creatures wills	M
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The simple faith remains that He	N
Will do whatever that may be	N
The best alike for man and tree	N
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What mosses over one shall grow	J
What light and life the other know	J
Unanxious leaving Him to show	J
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II EVENING	O
Yon mountain's side is black with night	C
While broad orhed o'er its gleaming crown	P
The moon slow rounding into sight	C
On the hushed inland sea looks down	P
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How start to light the clustering isles	Q
Each silver hemmed How sharply show	J
The shadows of their rocky piles	Q
And tree tops in the wave below	J
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How far and strange the mountains seem	R
Dim looming through the pale still light	C
The vague vast grouping of a dream	R
They stretch into the solemn night	C
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Beneath lake wood and peopled vale	S
Hushed by that presence grand and grave	T
Are silent save the cricket's wail	S
And low response of leaf and wave	T
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Fair scenes whereto the Day and Night	C
Make rival love I leave ye soon	A
What time before the eastern light	C
The pale ghost of the setting moon	A
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Shall hide behind yon rocky spines	U
And the young archer Morn shall break	V
His arrows on the mountain pines	U
And golden sandalled walk the lake	V
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Farewell around this smiling bay	H
Gay hearted Health and Life in bloom	W
With lighter steps than mine may stray	H
In radiant summers yet to come	X
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But none shall more regretful leave	Y
These waters and these hills than I	L
Or distant fonder dream how eve	Y
Or dawn is painting wave and sky	L
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How rising moons shine sad and mild	C
On wooded isle and silvering bay	H
Or setting suns beyond the piled	C
And purple mountains lead the day	H
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Nor laughing girl nor bearding boy	Z
Nor full pulsed manhood lingering here	A2
Shall add to life's abounding joy	Z
The charmed repose to suffering dear	B2
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Still waits kind Nature to impart	C
Her choicest gifts to such as gain	C2
An entrance to her loving heart	C
Through the sharp discipline of pain	C2
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Forever from the Hand that takes	D2
One blessing from us others fall	K
And soon or late our Father makes	D2
His perfect recompense to all	K
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Oh watched by Silence and the Night	C
And folded in the strong embrace	E2
Of the great mountains with the light	C
Of the sweet heavens upon thy face	E2
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Lake of the Northland keep thy dower	F2
Of beauty still and while above	G2
Thy solemn mountains speak of power	H2
Be thou the mirror of God's love	G2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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