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The Grave By The Lake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Where the Great Lake's sunny smiles	B
Dimple round its hundred isles	B
And the mountain's granite ledge	C
Cleaves the water like a wedge	C
Ringed about with smooth gray stones	D
Rest the giant's mighty bones	D
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Close beside in shade and gleam	E
Laughs and ripples Melvin stream	E
Melvin water mountain born	F
All fair flowers its banks adorn	F
All the woodland's voices meet	G
Mingling with its murmurs sweet	G
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Over lowlands forest grown	H
Over waters island strown	H
Over silver sanded beach	I
Leaf locked bay and misty reach	I
Melvin stream and burial heap	J
Watch and ward the mountains keep	J
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Who that Titan cromlech fills	K
Forest kaiser lord o' the hills	K
Knight who on the birchen tree	L
Carved his savage heraldry	L
Priest o' the pine wood temples dim	M
Prophet sage or wizard grim	M
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Rugged type of primal man	H
Grim utilitarian	H
Loving woods for hunt and prowl	N
Lake and hill for fish and fowl	N
As the brown bear blind and dull	O
To the grand and beautiful	O
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Not for him the lesson drawn	H
From the mountains smit with dawn	H
Star rise moon rise flowers of May	P
Sunset's purple bloom of day	P
Took his life no hue from thence	Q
Poor amid such affluence	R
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Haply unto hill and tree	L
All too near akin was he	L
Unto him who stands afar	S
Nature's marvels greatest are	S
Who the mountain purple seeks	T
Must not climb the higher peaks	T
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Yet who knows in winter tramp	U
Or the midnight of the camp	U
What revealings faint and far	S
Stealing down from moon and star	S
Kindled in that human clod	P
Thought of destiny and God	P
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Stateliest forest patriarch	V
Grand in robes of skin and bark	V
What sepulchral mysteries	W
What weird funeral rites were his	X
What sharp wail what drear lament	P
Back scared wolf and eagle sent	P
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Now whate'er he may have been	H
Low he lies as other men	H
On his mound the partridge drums	Y
There the noisy blue jay comes	Y
Rank nor name nor pomp has he	L
In the grave's democracy	L
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Part thy blue lips Northern lake	Z
Moss grown rocks your silence break	Z
Tell the tale thou ancient tree	L
Thou too slide worn Ossipee	U
Speak and tell us how and when	H
Lived and died this king of men	H
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Wordless moans the ancient pine	H
Lake and mountain give no sign	H
Vain to trace this ring of stones	D
Vain the search of crumbling bones	D
Deepest of all mysteries	W
And the saddest silence is	X
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Nameless noteless clay with clay	P
Mingles slowly day by day	P
But somewhere for good or ill	A2
That dark soul is living still	A2
Somewhere yet that atom's force	B2
Moves the light poised universe	C2
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Strange that on his burial sod	P
Harebells bloom and golden rod	P
While the soul's dark horoscope	U
Holds no starry sign of hope	U
Is the Unseen with sight at odds	D2
Nature's pity more than God's	D2
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Thus I mused by Melvin's side	P
While the summer eventide	P
Made the woods and inland sea	L
And the mountains mystery	L
And the hush of earth and air	E2
Seemed the pause before a prayer	E2
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Prayer for him for all who rest	P
Mother Earth upon thy breast	P
Lapped on Christian turf or hid	P
In rock cave or pyramid	P
All who sleep as all who live	F2
Well may need the prayer 'Forgive '	-
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Desert smothered caravan	H
Knee deep dust that once was man	H
Battle trenches ghastly piled	P
Ocean floors with white bones tiled	P
Crowded tomb and mounded sod	P
Dumbly crave that prayer to God	P
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Oh the generations old	P
Over whom no church bells tolled	P
Christless lifting up blind eyes	G2
To the silence of the skies	G2
For the innumerable dead	P
Is my soul disquieted	P
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Where be now these silent hosts	H2
Where the camping ground of ghosts	H2
Where the spectral conscripts led	P
To the white tents of the dead	P
What strange shore or chartless sea	L
Holds the awful mystery	L
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Then the warm sky stooped to make	Z
Double sunset in the lake	Z
While above I saw with it	P
Range on range the mountains lit	P
And the calm and splendor stole	I2
Like an answer to my soul	I2
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Hear'st thou O of little faith	J2
What to thee the mountain saith	J2
What is whispered by the trees	W
Cast on God thy care for these	W
Trust Him if thy sight be dim	M
Doubt for them is doubt of Him	M
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'Blind must be their close shut eyes	G2
Where like night the sunshine lies	G2
Fiery linked the self forged chain	H
Binding ever sin to pain	H
Strong their prison house of will	A2
But without He waiteth still	A2
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'Not with hatred's undertow	P
Doth the Love Eternal flow	P
Every chain that spirits wear	E2
Crumbles in the breath of prayer	E2
And the penitent's desire	K2
Opens every gate of fire	K2
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'Still Thy love O Christ arisen	H
Yearns to reach these souls in prison	H
Through all depths of sin and loss	L2
Drops the plummet of Thy cross	L2
Never yet abyss was found	P
Deeper than that cross could sound '	-
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Therefore well may Nature keep	U
Equal faith with all who sleep	U
Set her watch of hills around	P
Christian grave and heathen mound	P
And to cairn and kirkyard send	P
Summer's flowery dividend	P
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Keep O pleasant Melvin stream	E
Thy sweet laugh in shade and gleam	E
On the Indian's grassy tomb	M2
Swing O flowers your bells of bloom	M2
Deep below as high above	N2
Sweeps the circle of God's love	N2
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He paused and questioned with his eye	O2
The hearers' verdict on his song	P2
A low voice asked Is 't well to pry	O2
Into the secrets which belong	P2
Only to God The life to be	L
Is still the unguessed mystery	L
Unsealed unpierced the cloudy walls remain	H
We beat with dream and wish the soundless doors in vain	H
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'But faith beyond our sight may go '	-
He said 'The gracious Fatherhood	P
Can only know above below	P
Eternal purposes of good	P
From our free heritage of will	A2
The bitter springs of pain and ill	A2
Flow only in all worlds The perfect day	P
Of God is shadowless and love is love alway '	-
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'I know ' she said 'the letter kills	K
That on our arid fields of strife	Q2
And heat of clashing texts distils	K
The clew of spirit and of life	Q2
But searching still the written Word	P
I fain would find Thus saith the Lord	P
A voucher for the hope I also feel	R2
That sin can give no wound beyond love's power to heal '	-
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'Pray ' said the Man of Books 'give o'er	K2
A theme too vast for time and place	K
Go on Sir Poet ride once more	S2
Your hobby at his old free pace	K
But let him keep with step discreet	P
The solid earth beneath his feet	P
In the great mystery which around us lies	K
The wisest is a fool the fool Heaven helped is wise '	-
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The Traveller said 'If songs have creeds	K
Their choice of them let singers make	Z
But Art no other sanction needs	K
Than beauty for its own fair sake	Z
It grinds not in the mill of use	K
Nor asks for leave nor begs excuse	K
It makes the flexile laws it deigns to own	H
And gives its atmosphere its color and its tone	H
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'Confess old friend your austere school	T2
Has left your fancy little chance	K
You square to reason's rigid rule	T2
The flowing outlines of romance	K
With conscience keen from exercise	K
And chronic fear of compromise	K
You check the free play of your rhymes to clap	U
A moral underneath and spring it like a trap '	-
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The sweet voice answered 'Better so	K
Than bolder flights that know no check	U2
Better to use the bit than throw	K
The reins all loose on fancy's neck	U2
The liberal range of Art should be	L
The breadth of Christian liberty	L
Restrained alone by challenge and alarm	V2
Where its charmed footsteps tread the border land of harm	V2
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'Beyond the poet's sweet dream lives	K
The eternal epic of the man	H
He wisest is who only gives	K
True to himself the best he can	H
Who drifting in the winds of praise	K
The inward monitor obeys	K
And with the boldness that confesses fear	W2
Takes in the crowded sail and lets his conscience steer	W2
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'Thanks for the fitting word he speaks	K
Nor less for doubtful word unspoken	H
For the false model that he breaks	K
As for the moulded grace unbroken	H
For what is missed and what remains	K
For losses which are truest gains	K
For reverence conscious of the Eternal eye	O2
And truth too fair to need the garnish of a	X2