Point Balbianello Poem Rhyme Scheme

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From Lake Como's depths ascending	A
With embankments steep	B
Stands a wooded headland bending	A
With majestic sweep	B
Till its rugged shores expanding	A
Join two charming bays	C
Now as formerly commanding	A
Universal praise	C
	-
Years ago a papal Primate	D
Built a hospice here	E
Which from its delightful climate	F
Mild throughout the year	G
Soon became for convalescence	H
A renowned retreat	I
Where pure air and strict quiescence	H
Made all cures complete	I
	-
Villa Balbi appellation	J
Of the Primate's seat	I
Gave its name to this location	J
In a form more sweet	I
Soft sonorous Balbianello	K
Spoken as if sung	L
In the speech so smooth and mellow	K
Of the Latin tongue	L
	-
Balbianello Balbianello	K
Point of liquid name	M
With thy walls of golden yellow	K
And thy flowers of flame	M
When thy varied charms enthrall me	N
Under summer skies	H
Tenderly I love to call thee	N
Como's Paradise	H
	-
From thy base where in profusion	J
Countless roses bloom	O
To thy crest where sweet seclusion	J
Reigns in leafy gloom	O
All is beauty uncontested	P
By a rival claim	M
All is symmetry invested	Q
With a storied fame	M
	-
Cool the paths by plane trees shaded	P
Which thy slopes ascend	R
Grand the loggia old and faded	Q
Where those pathways end	R
Noble arches well recalling	A
Mighty works of old	S
Columns which when night is falling	A
Turn to shafts of gold	S
	-
In that loggia fringed with roses	H
All my soul expands	H
Every arch a view discloses	H
Of historic lands	H
Southward lies fair Comacina	J
Famed in classic lore	T
Northward Pliny's Tremezzina	J
And Bellagio's shore	T
	-
Miles of liquid opalescence	H
Stretch on either hand	U
Curving into lovely crescents	H
Each with sylvan strand	U
While on Alpine peaks lie sleeping	A
Realms of stainless snow	J
Whence the milk white streams come leaping	A
To the lake below	J
	-
Many a far off promontory	T
Melts in silvery haze	H
Many a scene of song and story	T
Tells of Roman days	H
Real and unreal past and present	V
Make the vision seem	W
Like the rapture evanescent	V
Of a happy dream	W
	-
Yet this point so well selected	Q
Peerless in its day	X
Now abandoned and neglected	Q
Sinks to slow decay	X
Sculptured saints with broken fingers	H
Line the ancient walls	H
Like a loyal guard that lingers	H
Till the rampart falls	H
	-
Vases o'er the portal standing	A
Crumble into lime	Y
Steps ascending from the landing	A
Show the touch of time	Y
And its one lone gardener weeping	A
As he tells his fears	H
Faithful watch has here been keeping	A
Many many years	H
	-
Even he must leave it lonely	T
When the night grows late	D
Then the mouldering statues only	T
Guard its rusty gate	D
Then no eye its charm discovers	H
And its moonlit bowers	H
Wait in vain for happy lovers	H
Through the silent hours	H
	-
Will no champion protect thee	T
Fairest spot on earth	Z
Doth a busy world neglect thee	T
Careless of thy worth	Z
Even so thy site elysian	J
Still remains supreme	W
Acme of the painter's vision	J
And the poet's dream	W

John L. Stoddard

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