Scenes In London I - Piccadilly Poem Rhyme Scheme

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THE sun is on the crowded street	A
It kindles those old towers	B
Where England's noblest memories meet	A
Of old historic hours	B
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Vast shadowy dark and indistinct	C
Tradition's giant fane	D
Whereto a thousand years are linked	C
In one electric chain	D
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So stands it when the morning light	E
First steals upon the skies	F
And shadow'd by the fallen night	E
The sleeping city lies	F
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It stands with darkness round it cast	G
Touched by the first cold shine	H
Vast vague and mighty as the past	G
Of which it is the shrine	H
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'Tis lovely when the moonlight falls	I
Around the sculptured stone	J
Giving a softness to the walls	I
Like love that mourns the gone	K
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Then comes the gentlest influence	L
The human heart can know	M
The mourning over those gone hence	N
To the still dust below	M
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The smoke the noise the dust of day	O
Have vanished from the scene	P
The pale lamps gleam with spirit ray	O
O'er the park's sweeping green	P
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Sad shining on her lonely path	Q
The moon's calm smile above	R
Seems as it lulled life's toil and wrath	Q
With universal love	R
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Past that still hour and its pale moon	S
The city is alive	T
It is the busy hour of noon	S
When man must seek and strive	T
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The pressure of our actual life	U
Is on the waking brow	V
Labour and care endurance strife	U
These are around him now	V
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How wonderful the common street	A
Its tumult and its throng	W
The hurrying of the thousand feet	A
That bear life's cares along	W
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How strongly is the present felt	X
With such a scene beside	Y
All sounds in one vast murmur melt	X
The thunder of the tide	Y
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All hurry on none pause to look	Z
Upon another's face	A2
The present is an open book	Z
None read yet all must trace	A2
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The poor man hurries on his race	A2
His daily bread to find	B2
The rich man has yet wearier chase	A2
For pleasure's hard to bind	B2
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All hurry though it is to pass	C2
For which they live so fast	G
What doth the present but amass	C2
The wealth that makes the past	G
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The past is round us those old spires	D2
That glimmer o'er our head	E2
Not from the present is their fires	B
Their light is from the dead	E2
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But for the past the present's powers	B
Were waste of toil and mind	B2
But for those long and glorious hours	B
Which leave themselves behind	B2

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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