Guy Of The Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun	A
And from his hot face fades the crimson flush	B
Veiled in death's herald shadows sick and gray	C
Silent and dark the sombre valley lies	D
Forgotten happy in the late fond beams	E
Glimmer the constant waves of Galilee	F
Afar below in airy music ring	G
The bugles of my host the column halts	H
A wearied serpent glittering in the vale	I
Where rising mist like gleam the tented camps	J
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Pitch my pavilion here where its high cross	K
May catch the last light lingering on the hill	L
The savage shadows struggling by the shore	M
Have conquered in the valley inch by inch	N
The vanquished light fights bravely to these crags	K
To perish glorious in the sunset fire	O
Even as our hunted Cause so pressed and torn	P
In Syrian valleys and the trampled marge	Q
Of consecrated streams displays at last	R
Its narrowing glories from these steadfast walls	K
Here in God's name we stand and brighter far	S
Shines the stern virtue of my martyr host	T
Through these invidious fortunes than of old	U
When the still sunshine glinted on their helms	K
And dallying breezes woke their bridle bells	K
To tinkling music by the reedy shore	M
Of calm Tiberias where our angry Lord	V
Wroth at the deadly sin that cursed our camp	W
Denied and blinded us and gave us up	X
To the avenging sword of Saladin	Y
Yet would he not permit his truth to sink	Z
To utter loss amid that foundering fight	A2
But led us scarred and shattered from the spoil	B2
Of Paynim rage the desert's thirsty death	C2
To where beneath the sheltering crags we prayed	D2
And rested and grew strong Heroes and saints	K
To alien peoples shall they be my brave	E2
And patient warriors for in their stout hearts	K
God's spirit dwells forever and their hands	K
Are swift to do his service on his foes	K
The swelling music of their vesper hymn	F2
Is rising fragrant from the shadowed vale	I
Familiar to the welcoming gates of heaven	A
	-
Mother of God as evening falls	K
Upon the silent sea	K
	-
Mother of God as evening falls	K
Upon the silent sea	K
And shadows veil the mountain walls	K
We lift our souls to thee	K
From lurking perils of the night	A2
The desert's hidden harms	K
From plagues that waste from blasts that smite	A2
Defend thy men at arms	K
	-
Ay Heaven keep them and ye angel hosts	K
That wait with fluttering plumes around the great	A2
White throne of God guard them from scathe and harm	G2
For in your starry records never shone	H2
The memory of desert so great as theirs	K
I hold not first though peerless else on earth	I2
That knightly valor born of gentle blood	A2
And war's long tutelage which hath made their name	J2
Blaze like a baleful planet o'er these lands	K
Firm seat in saddle lance unmoved a hand	A2
Wedding the hilt with death's persistent grasp	K2
One minded rush in fight that naught can stay	A2
Not these the highest though I scorn not these	K
But rather offer Heaven with humble heart	A2
The deeds that heaven hath given us arms to do	A2
For when God's smile was with us we were strong	L2
To go like sudden lightning to our mark	M2
As on that summer day when Saladin	Y
Passing in scorn our host at Antioch	N2
Who spent the days in revel and shamed the stars	K
With nightly scandal came with all his host	A2
Its gay battalia brave with saffron silks	K
Flaunting the banners of the Caliphate	A2
Beneath the walls of fair Jerusalem	O2
And white and shaking came the Leper King	G
Great Baldwin's blasted scion and Tripoli	K
And I and twenty score of Temple Knights	K
To meet the myriads marshalled by the bright	A2
Untarnished flower of Eastern chivalry	K
A moment paused with level fronting spears	K
And moveless helms before that shining host	A2
Whose gay attire abashed the morning light	A2
And then struck spur and charged while from the mass	K
Of rushing terror burst the awful cry	P2
God and the Temple As the avalanche slides	K
Down Alpine slopes precipitous cold and dark	M2
Unpitying and unwrathful grinds and crushes	K
The mountain violets and the valley weeds	K
And drags behind a trail of chaos and death	C2
So burst we on that field and through and through	A2
The gay battalia brave with saffron silks	K
Crushed and abolished every grace and gleam	Q2
And dragged where'er we rode a sinuous track	R2
Of chaos and death till all the plain was filled	A2
With battered armor turbaned trunkless heads	K
With silken mantles blushing angry gules	K
And Bagdad's banners trampled and forlorn	P
And Saladin stunned and bewildered sore	M
The greatest prince save in the grace of God	A2
That now wears sword mounted his brother's barb	S2
And followed by a half score followers	K
Sped to his castle Shaubec over against	A2
The cliffs by Ascalon and there abode	A2
And sullenly made order that no more	M
The royal nouba should be played for him	F2
Until he should erase the rusting stain	T2
Upon his knightly honor and no more	M
The nouba sounded by the Sultan's tent	A2
Morning nor evening by the silent tent	A2
Until the headlong greed of Chatillon	T2
Spread ruin on our cause from Montreale	K
But greatest are my warriors as I deem	Q2
In that their hearts nearer than any else	K
Keep true the pledge of perfect purity	K
They pledged upon their sword hilts long ago	U2
For all is possible to the pure in heart	A2
	-
Mother of God thy starry smile	K
Still bless us from above	V2
Keep pure our souls from passion's guile	K
Our hearts from earthly love	V2
Still save each soul from guilt apart	A2
As stainless as each sword	A2
And guard undimmed in every heart	A2
The image of our Lord	A2
	-
O goodliest fellowship that the world has known	T2
True hearts and stalwart arms above your breasts	K
Glitters no flash of wreathen amulet	A2
Forged against sword stroke by the chanted rhythm	O2
Of charms accurst but in each steadfast heart	A2
Blazes the light of cloudless purity	K
That like a splendid jewel glorifies	K
With restless fire the gold that spheres it round	A2
And marks you children of our God whose lives	K
He guards with the awful jealousy of love	V2
And even me that generous love has spared	A2
Me trustless knight and miserable man	T2
Sad prey of dark and mutinous thoughts that tempt	A2
My sick soul into perjury and death	C2
Since his great love had pity of my pain	T2
Has spared to lead these blameless warriors safe	W2
Into the desert from the blazing towns	K
Out of the desert to the inviolate hills	K
Where God has roofed them with his hollow shield	A2
Through all these days of tempest and eclipse	K
His hand has led me and his wrath has flashed	A2
Its lightnings in the pathway of my sword	A2
And so I hope and so my crescent faith	X2
Gains daily power that all my prayers and tears	K
And toils and blood and anguish borne for him	F2
May blot the accusing of my deadly sin	T2
From heaven's high compt and give me rest in death	C2
And lay the pallid ghost of mortal love	V2
That fills with banned and mournful loveliness	K
Unblest the haunted chambers of my soul	K
My misery will atone my misery	K
Dear God will surely atone for not the sting	G
Of macerating thongs nor the slow horror	O
Of crowns of thorny iron maddening the brows	K
Nor all that else pale hermits have devised	A2
To scourge the rebel senses in their shade	A2
Of caverned desolation have the power	O
To smart and goad and lash and mortify	P2
Like the great love that binds my ruined heart	A2
Relentless as the insidious ivy binds	K
The shattered bulk of some deserted tower	O
Enlacing slow and riving with strong hands	K
Of pitiless verdure every seam and jut	A2
Till none may tear it forth and save the tower	O
So binds and masters me my hopeless love	V2
So through the desert in the silent hills	K
I' the current of the battle's storm and stress	K
One thought has driven me that though men may call	K
Me stainless Paladin Knight leal and true	A2
To Christ and Our Lady still I know myself	Y2
A knight not after God's own heart a soul	K
Recreant and whelmed in the forbidden sin	T2
For dearer to my sad heart than the cross	K
I give my heart's best blood for are the eyes	K
That long ago when youth and hope were mine	T2
I loved in thy still valleys far Provence	K
And sweeter to my spirit than the bells	K
Of rescued Salem are the loving tones	K
Of her dear voice soft echoing o'er the years	K
They haunt me in the stillness and the glare	Z2
Of desert noontide when the horizon's line	T2
Swims faintly throbbing and my shadow hides	K
Skulking beneath me from the brassy sky	P2
And when night comes to soothe with breath of balm	A3
And pomp of stars the worn and weary world	A2
Her eyes rise in my soul and make its day	A2
And even into the battle comes my love	V2
Snatching the duty that I offer Heaven	T2
	-
At closing of El Majed's awful day	A2
When the last quivering sunbeams choked with dust	A2
And fume of blood failed on the level plain	T2
In the last charge when gathered all our knights	K
The precious handful who from morn had stemmed	A2
The fury of the multitudinous hosts	K
Of Islam where in youth's hot fire and pride	A2
Ramped the young lion whelp Ben Saladin	T2
As down the slope we rode at eventide	A2
The dying sunlight faintly smiled to greet	A2
Our tattered guidons and our dinted helms	K
And lance heads blooming with the battle's rose	K
Into the vale dusk with the shadow of death	C2
With silent lips and ringing mail we rode	A2
And something in the spirit of the hour	O
Or fate or memory or sorrow or sin	T2
Or love which unto me is all of these	K
Possessed and bound me for when dashed our troop	B3
In stormy clangor on the Paynim lines	K
The soul of my dead youth came into me	K
Faded away my oath the woes of Zion	T2
God was forgot blazed in my leaping heart	A2
With instant flash life's inextinguished fires	K
Plunging along each tense limb poured the blood	A2
Hot with its years of sleeping smothered flame	J2
And in a dream I charged and in a dream	Q2
I smote resistless foemen in my path	C3
Fell unregarded like the wayside flowers	K
Clipped by the truant's staff in daisied lanes	K
For over me burned lustrous the dear eyes	K
Of my beloved I strove as at a joust	A2
To gain at end the guerdon of her smile	K
And ever as in the dense melee I dashed	A2
Her name burst from my lips as lightning breaks	K
Out of the plunging wrack of summer storms	K
	-
O my lost love Bright o'er the waste of years	K
That bliss and beauty shines upon my soul	K
As far beyond yon desert hangs the sun	T2
Gilding with tender beam the barren stretch	D3
Of sands that intervene In this still light	A2
The old sweet memories glimmer back to me	K
Fair summers of my youth the idle days	K
I wandered in the bosky coverts hid	A2
In the dim woods that girt my ancient home	E3
The blue young eyes I met and worshipped there	Z2
The love that growing turned those gloomy wilds	K
To faery dells and filled the vernal air	Z2
With light that bathed the hills of Paradise	K
The warm long days of rapturous summer time	F3
When through the forests thick and lush we strayed	A2
And love made our own sunshine in the shades	K
And all things fair and graceful in the woods	K
I loved with liberal heart the violets	K
Were dear for her dear eyes the quiring birds	K
That caught the musical tremble of her voice	K
O happy twilights in the leafy glooms	K
When in the glowing dusk the winsome arts	K
And maiden graces that all day had kept	A2
Us twain and separate melted away	A2
In blushing silence and my love was mine	T2
Utterly utterly with clinging arms	K
And quick caressing fingers warm red lips	K
Where vows half uttered drowned in kisses died	A2
Mine with the starlight in her passionate eyes	K
The wild wind of the woodland breathing low	U2
To wake the elfin music of the leaves	K
And free the prisoned odors of the flowers	K
In honor of young Love come to his throne	T2
While we under the stars with twining arms	K
And mutual lips insatiate gave our souls	K
Madly forgetting earth and heaven to love	V2
	-
In desert march or battles flame	J2
In fortress and in field	A2
Our war cry is thy holy name	J2
Thy love our joy and shield	A2
And if we falter let thy power	O
Thy stern avenger be	K
And God forget us in the hour	O
We cease to think of thee	K
	-
Curse me not God of Justice and of Love	V2
Pitiful God let my long woe atone	T2
	-
I cannot deem but God has pitied me	K
Else why with painful care have I been saved	A2
Whenever tossed and drenched in the fierce tide	A2
Of Saladin's victories by the walls profaned	A2
Of Jaffa on the sands of far Daroum	K
Or in the battle thundering on the downs	K
Of Ramlah or the bloody day that shed	A2
Red horrors on high Gaza's parapets	K
For never a storm of fatal fight has raged	A2
In Islam's track of rout and ruin swept	A2
From Egypt to Gebail but when the ebb	G3
Of battle came I and my host have lain	T2
Scarred scorched safe somewhere on its fiery shore	M
At Marcab's lingering siege where day by day	A2
We told the Moslem legions toiling slow	U2
Planting their engines delving in their mines	K
To quench in our destruction this last light	A2
Of Christendom our fortress in the crags	K
God's beacon swung defiant from the stars	K
One thunderous night I knew their miners groped	A2
Below and thought ere morn to die in crush	B
And tumult of the falling citadel	K
And pondering of my fate the broken storm	K
Sobbing its life away I was aware	Z2
There grew between me and the quieting skies	K
A face and form I knew not as in dreams	K
The sad dishevelled loveliness of earth	I2
But lighter than the thin air where she swayed	A2
Gold hair flame fluttered eyes and mouth aglow	U2
With lambent light of spiritual joy	H3
With sweet command she beckoned me away	A2
And led me vaguely dreaming till I saw	K
Where the wild flood in sudden fury had burst	A2
A passage through the rocks and thence I led	A2
My host unharmed following her luminous eyes	K
Until the East was gray and with a smile	K
Wooing me heavenward still she passed away	A2
Into the rosy trouble of the dawn	T2
	-
And I believe my love is shrived in heaven	T2
And I believe that I shall soon be free	K
	-
For ever as I journey on to me	K
Waking or sleeping come faint whisperings	K
And fancies not of earth as if the gates	K
Of near eternity stood for me ajar	S
And ghostly gales come blowing o'er my soul	K
Fraught with the amaranth odors of the skies	K
I go to join the Lion Heart at Acre	O
And there after due homage to my liege	I3
And after patient penance of the church	J3
And after final devoir in the fight	A2
If that my God be gracious I shall die	A2
And so I pray Lord pardon if I sin	T2
That I may lose in death's imbittered wave	E2
The stain of sinful loving and may find	A2
In glory again the love I lost below	U2
With all of fair and bright and unattained	A2
Beautiful in the cherishing smile of God	A2
By the glad waters of the River of Life	K3
	-
Night hangs above the valley dies the day	A2
In peace casting his last glance on my cross	K
And warns me to my prayers Ave Maria	L3
Mother of God the evening fades	K
On wave and hill and lea	K
	-
And in the twilight's deepening shades	K
We lift our souls to thee	K
In passion's stress the battles strife	K3
The desert's lurking harms	K
Maid Mother of the Lord of Life	K3
Protect thy men at arms	K

John Hay

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