Scenes In London Ii - Oxford Street Poem Rhyme Scheme

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LIFE in its many shapes was there	A
The busy and the gay	B
Faces that seemed too young and fair	A
To ever know decay	B
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Wealth with its waste its pomp and pride	C
Led forth its glittering train	D
And poverty's pale face beside	C
Asked aid and asked in vain	D
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The shops were filled from many lands	E
Toys silks and gems and flowers	F
The patient work of many hands	E
The hope of many hours	F
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Yet mid life's myriad shapes around	G
There was a sigh of death	H
There rose a melancholy sound	G
The bugle's wailing breath	H
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They played a mournful Scottish air	A
That on its native hill	I
Had caught the notes the night winds bear	A
From weeping leaf and rill	I
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'Twas strange to hear that sad wild strain	D
Its warning music shed	J
Rising above life's busy train	D
In memory of the dead	J
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There came a slow and silent band	K
In sad procession by	L
Reversed the musket in each hand	K
And downcast every eye	L
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They bore the soldier to his grave	M
The sympathyzing crowd	N
Divided like a parted wave	M
By some dark vessel ploughed	N
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A moment and all sounds were mute	O
For awe was over all	P
You heard the soldier's measured foot	Q
The bugle's wailing call	P
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The gloves were laid upon the bier	R
The helmet and the sword	S
The drooping war horse followed near	T
As he too mourned his lord	S
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Slowly I followed too they led	J
To where a church arose	U
And flung a shadow o'er the dead	J
Deep as their own repose	U
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Green trees were there beneath the shade	V
Of one was made a grave	M
And there to his last rest was laid	V
The weary and the brave	M
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They fired a volley o'er the bed	J
Of an unconscious ear	R
The birds sprang fluttering overhead	J
Struck with a sudden fear	T
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All left the ground the bugles died	C
Away upon the wind	W
Only the tree's green branches sighed	C
O'er him they left behind	W
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Again all filled with light and breath	H
I passed the crowded street	X
Oh great extremes of life and death	H
How strangely do ye meet	X

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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