The Lament Of Yasmini, The Dancing-girl Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Ah what hast thou done with that Lover of mine	A
The Lover who only cared for thee	B
Mine for a handful of nights and thine	A
For the Nights that Are and the Days to Be	B
The scent of the Champa lost its sweet	C
So sweet is was in the Times that Were	D
Since His alone of the numerous feet	C
That climb my steps have returned not there	E
Ahi Yasmini return not there	E
	-
Art thou yet athrill at the touch of His hand	F
Art thou still athirst for His waving hair	E
Nay passion thou never couldst understand	F
Life's heights and depths thou wouldst never dare	E
The Great Things left thee untouched unmoved	G
The Lesser Things had thy constant care	E
Ah what hast thou done with the Lover I loved	H
Who found me wanting and thee so fair	E
Ahi Yasmini He found her fair	E
	-
Nay nay the greatest of all was thine	A
The love of the One whom I craved for so	I
But much I doubt if thou couldst divine	A
The Grace and Glory of Love or know	I
The worth of the One whom thine arms embraced	J
I may misjudge thee but who can tell	K
So hard it is for the one displaced	J
To weigh the worth of a rival's spell	K
Ahi Yasmini thy rival's spell	K
	-
And Thou whom I loved have the seasons brought	L
That fair content which allured Thee so	I
Is it all that Thy delicate fancy wrought	L
Yasmini wonders she may not know	I
Yet never the Stars desert the sky	M
To fade away in the desolate Dawn	N
But Yasmini watches their glory die	M
And mourns for her own Bright Star withdrawn	N
Ahi Yasmini the lonely dawn	N
	-
Ah never the lingering gold dies down	O
In a sunset flare of resplendent light	P
And never the palm tree's feathery crown	O
Uprears itself to the shadowy night	P
But Yasmini thinks of those evenings past	Q
When she prayed the glow of the glimmering West	R
To vanish quickly that night at last	Q
Might bring Thee back to her waiting breast	R
Ahi Yasmini how sweet that rest	R
	-
Yet I would not say that I always weep	S
The force that made such a desperate thing	T
Of my love for Thee has not fallen asleep	S
The blood still leaps and the senses sing	T
While other passion has oft availed	U
Other Love Ah my One forgive	V
To aid when Churus and Opium failed	U
I could not suffer so much and live	W
Ahi Yasmini who had to live	W
	-
Nay why should I say Forgive to Thee	B
To whom my lovers and I are naught	L
Who granted some passionate nights to me	B
Then rose and left me with never a thought	L
And yet Ah yet for those Nights that Were	D
Thy passive limbs and thy loose loved hair	E
I would pay as I have paid all these days	X
With the love that kills and the thought that slays	X
Ahi Yasmini thy youth it slays	X
	-
The youthful widow with shaven hair	E
Whose senses ache for the love of a man	Y
The young Priest knowing that women are fair	E
Who stems his longing as best he can	Y
These suffer not as I suffer for Thee	B
For the Soul desires what the senses crave	Z
There will never be pleasure or peace for me	B
Since He who wounded alone could save	Z
Ahi Yasmini He will not save	Z
	-
The torchlight flares and the lovers lean	A2
Towards Yasmini with yearning eyes	X
Who dances wondering what they mean	A2
And gives cold kisses and scant replies	X
They talk of Love she withholds the name	B2
Love came to her as a Flame of Fire	D
From things that are only a weary shame	B2
Trivial Vanity light Desire	D
Ahi Yasmini the light Desire	D
	-
Yasmini bends to the praise of men	C2
And looks in the mirror upon her hand	F
To curse the beauty that failed her then	C2
Ah none of her lovers can understand	F
How her whole life hung on that beauty's power	D
The spell that waned at the final test	R
The charm that paled in the vital hour	D
Which won so many yet lost the best	R
Ahi Yasmini who lost the best	R
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She leaves the dancing to reach the roof	D2
With the lover who claims the passing hour	D
Her lips are his but her eyes aloof	D2
While the starlight falls in a silver shower	D
Let him take what pleasure what love he may	E2
He too will suffer e'er life be spent	F2
But Yasmini's soul has wandered away	E2
To join the Lover who came and went	F2
Ahi Yasmini He came and went	F2

Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)

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