Hira-singh's Farewell To Burmah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ HHHH KKLM| On the wooden deck of the wooden Junk silent alone we lie | A |
| With silver foam about the bow and a silver moon in the sky | A |
| A glimmer of dimmer silver here from the anklets round your feet | B |
| Our lips may close on each other's lips but never our souls may meet | B |
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| For though in my arms you lie at rest your name I have never heard | C |
| To carry a thought between us two we have not a single word | C |
| And yet what matter we do not speak when the ardent eyes have spoken | D |
| The way of love is a sweeter way when the silence is unbroken | D |
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| As a wayward Fancy tired at times of the cultured Damask Rose | E |
| Drifts away to the tangled copse where the wild Anemone grows | E |
| So the ordered and licit love ashore is hardly fresh and free | F |
| As this light love in the open wind and salt of the outer sea | F |
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| So sweet you are with your tinted cheeks and your small caressive hands | G |
| What if I carried you home with me where our Golden Temple stands | G |
| Yet this were folly indeed to bind in fetters of permanence | H |
| A passing dream whose enchantment charms because of its trancience | H |
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| Life is ever a slave to Time we have but an hour to rest | I |
| Her steam is up and her lighters leave the vessel that takes me west | I |
| And never again we two shall meet as we chance to meet to night | J |
| On the Junk whose painted eyes gaze forth in desolate want of sight | J |
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| And what is love at its best but this Conceived by a passing glance | H |
| Nursed and reared in a transient mood on a drifting Sea of Chance | H |
| For rudderless craft are all our loves among the rocks and the shoals | H |
| Well we may know one another's speech but never each other's souls | H |
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| Give here your lips and kiss me again we have but a moment more | K |
| Before we set the sail to the mast before we loosen the oar | K |
| Good bye to you and my thanks to you for the rest you let me share | L |
| While this night drifted away to the Past to join the Nights that Were | M |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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