Marriage Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCECFGHIGJKKGGLMNJ MOCPCQRRSTSUUQGGHVIW WXGGXQYYQIHZA2GGB2A2 A C2FFD2E2CFFICA2A2HF2 G2G2F2MH2I2H2I2GGAJ2 GMAGJ2GGMK2L2G2M2CC A CCN2I2O2P2P2Q2Q2O2J2 J2R2S2S2P2T2P2T2UU2U 2J2V2V2GW2GW2N2QQGGX 2CY2CCX2H2NPZ2A3Z2HC C P E2B3E2GGJJCCPC3PC3SS C3C3D3IID3

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Come up dear chosen morning comeB
Blessing the air with lightC
And bid the sky repent of being darkD
Let all the spaces round the world be whiteC
And give the earth her green againE
Into new hours of beautiful delightC
Out of the shadow where she has lainF
Bring the earth awake for gleeG
Shining with dews as fresh and clearH
As my beloved's voice upon the airI
For now O morning chosen of all days on theeG
A wondrous duty liesJ
There was an evening that did loveliness foretellK
Thence upon thee O chosen morn it fellK
To fashion into perfect destinyG
The radiant prophecyG
For in an evening of young moon that wentL
Filling the moist air with a rosy fireM
I and my beloved knew our loveN
And knew that thou O morning wouldst ariseJ
To give us knowledge of achieved desireM
For standing stricken with astonishmentO
Half terrified in the delightC
Even as the moon did into clear air moveP
And made a golden lightC
Lo there croucht up against it a dark hillQ
A monstrous back of earth a spineR
Of hunch d rock furred with great growth of pineR
Lay like a beast snout in its paws asleepS
Yet in its sleeping seemed it miserableT
As though strong fear must always keepS
Hold of its heart and drive its blood in dreamU
Yea for to our new love did it not seemU
That dark and quiet length of hillQ
The sleeping grief of the world Out of it weG
Had like imaginations stept to beG
Beauty and golden wonder and for the lovely fearH
Of coming perfect joy had changedV
The terror that dreamt thereI
And now the golden moon had turnedW
To shining white white as our souls that burnedW
With vision of our prophecy assuredX
Suddenly white was the moon but sheG
At once did on a woven modestyG
Of cloud and soon went in obscuredX
And we were dark and vanisht that strange hillQ
But yet it was not long beforeY
There opened in the sky a narrow doorY
Made with pearl lintel and pearl sillQ
And the earth's night seem'd pressing thereI
All as a beggar on some festival would peerH
To gaze into a room of light beyondZ
The hidden silver splendour of the moonA2
Yea and we also weG
Long gazed wistfullyG
Towards thee O morning come at lastB2
And towards the light that thou wilt pour upon us soonA2
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O soul who still art strange to senseC2
Who often against beauty wouldst complainF
Doubting between joy and painF
If like the startling touch of something keenD2
Against thee it hath beenE2
To follow from an upland heightC
The swift sun hunting rainF
Across the April meadows of a plainF
Until the fields would flash into the airI
Their joyous green like emeralds alightC
Or when in the blue of night's mid noonA2
The burning naked moonA2
Draws to a brink of cloudy weather nearH
A breadth of snow firm and soft as a wingF2
Stretcht out over a wind that gently goesG2
Through the white sleep of snowy cloud there growsG2
An azure border'd shining ringF2
The gleaming dream of the approaching joy of herM
What now wilt thou do Soul What nowH2
If with such things as these troubled thou wertI2
How wilt thou now endure or howH2
Not now be strangely hurtI2
When utter beauty must come closer to theeG
Than even anger or fear could beG
When thou like metal in a kiln must lieA
Seized by beauty's mightily able flameJ2
Enjoyed by beauty as by the ruthless gleeG
Of an unescapable powerM
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cryA
Yea one thing made of beauty and theeG
As steel and a white heat are made the sameJ2
Ah but I know how this infirmityG
Will fail and be not no not memoryG
When I begin the marvellous hourM
This only is my heart's strain'd eagernessK2
Long waiting for its blissL2
But from those other fears from thoseG2
That keep to Love so closeM2
From fears that are the shadow of delightC
Hide me O joys make them unknown to nightC
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Thou bright God that in dream earnest to me last nightC
Thou with the flesh made of a golden lightC
Knew I not thee thee and thy heartN2
Knew I not well God who thou wertI2
Yea and my soul divinely understoodO2
The light that was beneath thee a groundP2
The golden light that cover'd thee roundP2
Turning my sleep to a fiery mornQ2
Was as a heavenly oath there swornQ2
Promising me an immortal goodO2
Well I knew thee God of Marriages thee and thy flameJ2
Ah but wherefore beside thee cameJ2
That fearful sight of another moodR2
Why in thy light to thy hand chainedS2
Towards me its bondage terribly strainedS2
Why came with thee that dreadful houndP2
The wild hound Fear black ravenous and gauntT2
Why him with thee should thy dear light surroundP2
Why broughtest thou that beast to hauntT2
The blissful footsteps of my golden dreamU
All shadowy black the body dreadU2
All frenzied fire the headU2
The hunger of its mouth a hollow crimson flameJ2
The hatred in its eyes a blazeV2
Fierce and green stabbing the ruddy glazeV2
And sharp white jetting fire the teeth snarl'd at meG
And white the dribbling rage of frothW2
A throat that gaped to bay and paws working violentlyG
Yet soundless all as a winging mothW2
Tugging towards me famishing for my heartN2
Even while thou O golden god wert stillQ
Looking the beautiful kindness of thy willQ
Into my soul even then must I beG
With thy bright promise looking at meG
Then bitterly of that hound afraidX2
Darkness I know attendeth brightC
And light comes not but shadow comesY2
And heart must know if it know thy lightC
Thy wild hound Fear the shadow of love's delightC
Yea is it thus Are we so madeX2
Of death and darkness that even thouH2
O golden God of the joys of loveN
Thy mind to us canst only proveP
The glorious devices of thy mindZ2
By so revealing how thy journeying hereA3
Through this mortality doth closely bindZ2
Thy brightness to the shadow of dreadful FearH
Ah no it shall not be Thy joyous lightC
Shall hide me from the hunger of fear to nightC
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For wonderfully to live I now beginE2
So that the darkness which accompaniesB3
Our being here is fasten'd up withinE2
The power of light that holdeth meG
And from these shining chains to seeG
My joy with bold misliking eyesJ
The shrouded figure will not dare ariseJ
For henceforth from to nightC
I am wholly gone into the brightC
Safety of the beauty of loveP
Not only all my waking vigours pliedC3
Under the searching glory of loveP
But knowing myself with love all satisfiedC3
Even when my life is hidden in sleepS
As high clouds to themselves that keepS
The moon's white company are all possestC3
Silverly with the presence of their guestC3
Or as a darken'd roomD3
That hath within it roses whence the airI
And quietness are taken everywhereI
Deliciously by sweet perfumeD3

Lascelles Abercrombie



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