Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Desert is parched in the burning sun	A
And the grass is scorched and white	B
But the sand is passed and the march is done	A
We are camping here to night	B
I sit in the shade of the Temple walls	C
While the cadenced water evenly falls	C
And a peacock out of the Jungle calls	C
To another on yonder tomb	D
Above half seen in the lofty gloom	D
Strange works of a long dead people loom	D
Obscene and savage and half effaced	B
An elephant hunt a musicians' feast	B
And curious matings of man and beast	B
What did they mean to the men who are long since dust	B
Whose fingers traced	B
In this arid waste	B
These rioting twisted figures of love and lust	B
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Strange weird things that no man may say	E
Things Humanity hides away	E
Secretly done	A
Catch the light of the living day	E
Smile in the sun	A
Cruel things that man may not name	F
Naked here without fear or shame	F
Laughed in the carven stone	G
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Deep in the Temple's innermost Shrine is set	B
Where the bats and shadows dwell	H
The worn and ancient Symbol of Life at rest	B
In its oval shell	H
By which the men who of old the land possessed	B
Represented their Great Destroying Power	I
I cannot forget	B
That just as my life was touching its fullest flower	I
Love came and destroyed it all in a single hour	I
Therefore the dual Mystery suits me well	H
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Sitting alone	G
The tank's deep water is cool and sweet	B
Soothing and fresh to the wayworn feet	B
Dreaming under the Tamarind shade	B
One silently thanks the men who made	B
So green a place in this bitter land	B
Of sunburnt sand	B
	-
The peacocks scream and the grey Doves coo	J
Little green talkative Parrots woo	J
And small grey Squirrels with fear askance	K
At alien me in their furtive glance	K
Come shyly with quivering fur to see	L
The stranger under their Tamarind tree	L
Daylight dies	M
The Camp fires redden like angry eyes	M
The Tents show white	B
In the glimmering light	B
Spirals of tremulous smoke arise to the purple skies	M
And the hum of the Camp sounds like the sea	L
Drifting over the sand to me	L
Afar in the Desert some wild voice sings	N
To a jangling zither with minor strings	N
And under the stars growing keen above	O
I think of the thing that I love	O
	-
A beautiful thing alert serene	P
With passionate dreaming wistful eyes	M
Dark and deep as mysterious skies	M
Seen from a vessel at sea	L
Alas you drifted away from me	L
And Time and Space have rushed in between	P
But they cannot undo the Thing that has been	Q
Though it never again may be	L
You were mine from dusk until dawning light	B
For the perfect whole of that bygone night	B
You belonged to me	L
	-
They say that Love is a light thing	R
A foolish thing and a slight thing	R
A ripe fruit rotten at core	S
They speak in this futile fashion	A
To me who am wracked with passion	A
Tormented beyond compassion	A
For ever and ever more	S
	-
They say that Possession lessens a lover's delight	B
As radiant mornings fade into afternoon	T
I held what I loved in my arms for many a night	B
Yet ever the morning lightened the sky too soon	T
	-
Beyond our tents the sands stretch level and far	U
Around this little oasis of Tamarind trees	V
A curious Eastern fragrance fills the breeze	V
From the ruinous Temple garden where roses are	U
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I dream of the rose like perfume that fills your hair	W
Of times when my lips were free of your soft closed eyes	M
While down in the tank the waters ripple and rise	M
And the flying foxes silently cleave the air	W
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The present is subtly welded into the past	B
My love of you with the purple Indian dusk	X
With its clinging scent of sandal incense and musk	X
And withering jasmin flowers	Y
My eyes grow dim and my senses fail at last	B
While the lonely hours	Y
Follow each other silently one by one	A
Till the night is almost done	A
	-
Then weary and drunk with dreams with my garments damp	Z
And heavy with dew I wander towards the camp	Z
Tired with a brain in which fancy and fact are blent	B
I stumble across the ropes till I reach my tent	B
And then to rest To ensweeten my sleep with lies	M
To dream I lie in the light of your long lost eyes	M
My lips set free	L
To love and linger over your soft loose hair	W
To dream I lay your delicate beauty bare	W
To solace my fevered eyes	M
Ah if my life might end in a night like this	A2
Drift into death from dreams of your granted kiss	A2

Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)

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