The Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI EEEEJKJK LMLMNONO EPEPEEEE QRQRSASA TETEUVWX EUEUDEDE| I have been where the roses blow | A |
| Where the orange ripens its gold | B |
| And the mountains stand with their peaks of snow | A |
| To fence away the cold | B |
| Where the lime and the myrtle lent | C |
| Their fragrance to the air | D |
| To make the land of my banishment | E |
| More exquisitely fair | D |
| - | |
| And I heard the ring dove call | F |
| To his mate in the blossoming trees | G |
| And I saw the white waves heave and fall | F |
| Far away over southern seas | G |
| I listened along the beach | H |
| By the shore of the shifting sea | I |
| To the waves till I knew their murmured speech | H |
| And the message they bore to me | I |
| - | |
| And I watched the great sails furled | E |
| Like the wings of some ocean bird | E |
| That brought me out of another world | E |
| A warning and a word | E |
| For still beside my way | J |
| By shore or sunlit wave | K |
| There journeyed with me night and day | J |
| The shadow of a grave | K |
| - | |
| Oh friends my heart went forth | L |
| To you with a yearning cry | M |
| To be taken back to my native North | L |
| To be taken home to die | M |
| For sweeter than southern suns | N |
| Or the blossoms of summer lands | O |
| Are the faces of my little ones | N |
| And the touch of their tender hands | O |
| - | |
| Come closer to my side | E |
| Your eyes are as clear and true | P |
| As if they were stars my way to guide | E |
| My darlings back to you | P |
| Oh God my heart is stirred | E |
| With thankfulness and rest | E |
| To reach at last like a wounded bird | E |
| The shelter of its nest | E |
| - | |
| Oh faint pulse throbbing long | Q |
| And weary and fluttering breath | R |
| Twas the mother love that kept you strong | Q |
| Though face to face with death | R |
| But now my eyes are dim | S |
| And my breath comes weak and slow | A |
| Sing to me softly the evening hymn | S |
| And kiss me ere I go | A |
| - | |
| Come close for the angel waits | T |
| The angel with gentle hand | E |
| To open for me the shadowy gates | T |
| Into the silent land | E |
| Oh voices sweet and clear | U |
| What light is in the skies | V |
| Is it your glad voices that I hear | W |
| Or the hymns of paradise | X |
| - | |
| Farewell your faces fade | E |
| Fade fade and disappear | U |
| In the light no earthly cloud may shade | E |
| Heaven's morning dawning clear | U |
| Oh land of rest so fair | D |
| By angel footsteps trod | E |
| I shall wait for you beloved there | D |
| In the paradise of God | E |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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