The Birth Of The War-god (canto Fifth ) - Uma's Reward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBBGHIJKK LLBBMMNNOOPPQQRRCCFF SSKKTTUUBBVVCCDDWWXX MMYYZZA2A2DDA2A2OOMM A2A2B2B2A2A2C2C2D2D2 A2A2A2A2E2E2A2A2A2A2 F2F2G2G2A2A2WWH2H2A2 A2B2B2DE2ZZOOI2I2FFA 2A2J2J2A2A2WWAAA2A2A 2A2EEK2K2L2L2PPM2M2A 2A2A2A2A2A2A2A2DDMMA 2A2A2A2A2A2N2N2MMO2O 2A2A2P2P2Q2Q2SSA2DNow woe to Um for young Love is slain | A |
Her Lord hath left her and her hope is vain | A |
Woe woe to Um how the Mountain Maid | B |
Cursed her bright beauty for its feeble aid | B |
'Tis Beauty's guerdon which she loves the best | C |
To bless her lover and in turn be blest | C |
Penance must aid her now or how can she | D |
Win the cold heart of that stern deity | D |
Penance long penance for that power alone | E |
Can make such love so high a Lord her own | E |
But ah how troubled was her mother's brow | F |
At the sad tidings of the mourner's vow | F |
She threw her arms around her own dear maid | B |
Kissed fondly kissed her sighed and wept and prayed | B |
'Are there no Gods my child to love thee here | G |
Frail is thy body yet thy vow severe | H |
The lily by the wild bee scarcely stirred | I |
Bends breaks and dies beneath the weary bird ' | J |
Fast fell her tears her prayer was strong but still | K |
That prayer was weaker than her daughter's will | K |
Who can recall the torrent's headlong force | L |
Or the bold spirit in its destined course | L |
She sent a maiden to her sire and prayed | B |
He for her sake would grant some bosky shade | B |
That she might dwell in solitude and there | M |
Give all her soul to penance and to prayer | M |
In gracious love the great Him laya smiled | N |
And did the bidding of his darling child | N |
Then to that hill which peacocks love she came | O |
Known to all ages by the lady's name | O |
Still to her purpose resolutely true | P |
Her string of noble pearls aside she threw | P |
Which slipping here and there had rubbed away | Q |
The sandal dust that on her bosom lay | Q |
And clad her in a hermit coat of bark | R |
Rough to her gentle limbs and gloomy dark | R |
Pressing too tightly till her swelling breast | C |
Broke into freedom through the unwonted vest | C |
Her matted hair was full as lovely now | F |
As when 'twas braided o'er her polished brow | F |
Thus the sweet beauties of the lotus shine | S |
When bees festoon it in a graceful line | S |
And though the tangled weeds that crown the rill | K |
Cling o'er it closely it is lovely still | K |
With zone of grass the votaress was bound | T |
Which reddened the fair form it girdled round | T |
Never before the lady's waist had felt | U |
The ceaseless torment of so rough a belt | U |
Alas her weary vow has caused to fade | B |
The lovely colours that adorned the maid | B |
Pale is her hand and her long finger tips | V |
Steal no more splendour from her paler lips | V |
Or from the ball which in her play would rest | C |
Made bright and fragrant on her perfumed breast | C |
Rough with the sacred grass those hands must be | D |
And worn with resting on her rosary | D |
Cold earth her couch her canopy the skies | W |
Pillowed upon her arm the lady lies | W |
She who before was wont to rest her head | X |
In the soft luxury of a sumptuous bed | X |
Vext by no troubles as she slumbered there | M |
But sweet flowers slipping from her loosened hair | M |
The maid put off but only for awhile | Y |
Her passioned glances and her witching smile | Y |
She lent the fawn her moving melting gaze | Z |
And the fond creeper all her winning ways | Z |
The trees that blossomed on that lonely mount | A2 |
She watered daily from the neighbouring fount | A2 |
If she had been their nursing mother she | D |
Could not have tended them more carefully | D |
Not e'en her boy her own bright boy shall stay | A2 |
Her love for them her first dear children they | A2 |
Her gentleness had made the fawns so tame | O |
To her kind hand for fresh sweet grain they came | O |
And let the maid before her friends compare | M |
Her own with eyes that shone as softly there | M |
Then came the hermits of the holy wood | A2 |
To see the votaress in her solitude | A2 |
Grey elders came though young the maid might seem | B2 |
Her perfect virtue must command esteem | B2 |
They found her resting in that lonely spot | A2 |
The fire was kindled and no rite forgot | A2 |
In hermit's mantle was she clad her look | C2 |
Fixt in deep thought upon the Holy Book | C2 |
So pure that grove all war was made to cease | D2 |
And savage monsters lived in love and peace | D2 |
Pure was that grove each newly built abode | A2 |
Had leafy shrines where fires of worship glowed | A2 |
But far too mild her penance Um thought | A2 |
To win from heaven the lordly meed she sought | A2 |
She would not spare her form so fair and frail | E2 |
If sterner penance could perchance prevail | E2 |
Oft had sweet pastime wearied her and yet | A2 |
Fain would she match in toil the anchoret | A2 |
Sure the soft lotus at her birth had lent | A2 |
Dear Um 's form its gentle element | A2 |
But gold commingled with her being gave | F2 |
That will so strong so beautifully brave | F2 |
Full in the centre of four blazing piles | G2 |
Sate the fair lady of the winning smiles | G2 |
While on her head the mighty God of Day | A2 |
Shot all the fury of his summer ray | A2 |
Yet her fixt gaze she turned upon the skies | W |
And quenched his splendour with her brighter eyes | W |
To that sweet face though scorched by rays from heaven | H2 |
Still was the beauty of the lotus given | H2 |
Yet worn by watching round those orbs of light | A2 |
A blackness gathered like the shades of night | A2 |
She cooled her dry lips in the bubbling stream | B2 |
And lived on Amrit from the pale moon beam | B2 |
Sometimes in hunger culling from the tree | D |
The rich ripe fruit that hung so temptingly | E2 |
Scorched by the fury of the noon tide rays | Z |
And fires that round her burned with ceaseless blaze | Z |
Summer passed o'er her rains of Autumn came | O |
And throughly drenched the lady's tender frame | O |
So steams the earth when mighty torrents pour | I2 |
On thirsty fields all dry and parched before | I2 |
The first clear rain drops falling on her brow | F |
Gem it one moment with their light and now | F |
Kissing her sweet lip find a welcome rest | A2 |
In the deep valley of the lady's breast | A2 |
Then wander broken by the fall within | J2 |
The mazy channels of her dimpled skin | J2 |
There as she lay upon her rocky bed | A2 |
No sumptuous roof above her gentle head | A2 |
Dark Night her only witness turned her eyes | W |
Red lightnings flashing from the angry skies | W |
And gazed upon her voluntary pain | A |
In wind in sleet in thunder and in rain | A |
Still lay the maiden on the cold damp ground | A2 |
Though blasts of winter hurled their snows around | A2 |
Still pitying in her heart the mournful fate | A2 |
Of those poor birds so fond so desolate | A2 |
Doomed hapless pair to list each other's moan | E |
Through the long hours of night sad and alone | E |
Chilled by the rain the tender lotus sank | K2 |
She filled its place upon the streamlet's bank | K2 |
Sweet was her breath as when that lovely flower | L2 |
Sheds its best odour in still evening's hour | L2 |
Red as its leaves her lips of coral hue | P |
Red as those quivering leaves they quivered too | P |
Of all stern penance it is called the chief | M2 |
To nourish life upon the fallen leaf | M2 |
But even this the ascetic maiden spurned | A2 |
And for all time a glorious title earned | A2 |
Aparn Lady of the unbroken fast | A2 |
Have sages called her saints who knew the past | A2 |
Fair as the lotus fibres soft as they | A2 |
In these stern vows she passed her night and day | A2 |
No mighty anchoret had e'er essayed | A2 |
The ceaseless penance of this gentle maid | A2 |
There came a hermit reverend was he | D |
As Br hmanhood's embodied sanctity | D |
With coat of skin with staff and matted hair | M |
His face was radiant and he spake her fair | M |
Up rose the maid the holy man to greet | A2 |
And humbly bowed before the hermit's feet | A2 |
Though meditation fill the pious breast | A2 |
It finds a welcome for a glorious guest | A2 |
The sage received the honour duly paid | A2 |
And fixed his earnest gaze upon the maid | A2 |
While through her frame unwonted vigour ran | N2 |
Thus in his silver speech the blameless saint began | N2 |
'How can thy tender frame sweet lady bear | M |
In thy firm spirit's task its fearful share | M |
Canst thou the grass and fuel duly bring | O2 |
And still unwearied seek the freshening spring | O2 |
Say do the creeper's slender shoots expand | A2 |
Seeking each day fresh water from thy hand | A2 |
Till like thy lip each ruddy tendril glows | P2 |
That lip which faded still outreds the rose | P2 |
With loving glance the timid fawns draw nigh | Q2 |
Say dost thou still with joy their wants supply | Q2 |
For thee O lotus eyed their glances shine | S |
Mocking the brightness of each look of thine | S |
O Mountain Lady it is truly said | A2 |
That heavenly c | D |
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