A Reed Shaken With The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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Not for you and me the path	B
Winding through the shadowless	C
Fields of morning's dewiness	C
Where the brook that hurries hath	B
Laughter lighter than a boy's	C
Where recurrent odors poise	C
Romp like with irreverent tresses	C
In the sun and birds and boughs	C
Build a music haunted house	C
For the winds to hang their dresses	C
Whisper silken rustling in	D
Ours a path that led unto	E
Twilight regions gray with dew	E
Where moon vapors gathered thin	D
Over acres sisterless	C
Of all healthy beauty where	F
Fungus growths made sad the air	F
With a phantom like caress	C
Under darkness and strange stars	C
To the sorrow silenced bars	C
Of a dubious forestland	E
Where the wood scents seemed to stand	E
And the sounds on either hand	E
Clad like sleep's own servitors	C
In the shadowy livery	G
Of the ancient house of dreams	C
That before us fitfully	G
With white intermittent gleams	C
Of its pale lamped windows shone	H
Echoing with the dim unknown	H
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II	A
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To say to hope Take all from me	G
And grant me naught	E
The rose the song the melody	G
The word the thought	E
Then all my life bid me be slave	I
Is all I crave	I
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To say to time Be true to me	G
Nor grant me less	C
The dream the sigh the memory	G
The heart's distress	C
Then unto death set me a task	J
Is all I ask	J
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III	A
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I came to you when eve was young	K
And where the park went downward to	E
The river and among the dew	E
One vesper moment lit and sung	K
A bird your eyes said something dear	L
How sweet it was to walk with you	E
How with our souls we seemed to hear	M
The darkness coming with its stars	C
How calm the moon sloped up her sphere	L
Of fire filled pearl through passive bars	C
Of clouds that berged the tender east	E
While all the dark inanimate	E
Of nature woke initiate	E
With th' moon's arrival something ceased	E
In nature's soul she stood again	N
Another self that seemed t' have been	D
Dormant suppressed and so unseen	O
All day a life unknown and strange	P
And dream suggestive that had lain	Q
Masked on with light within the range	P
Of thought but unrevealed till now	R
It was the hour of love And you	E
With downward eyes and pensive brow	R
Among the moonlight and the dew	E
Although no word of love was spoken	S
Heard the sweet night's confession broken	S
Of something here that spoke in me	G
A love depth made inaudible	T
Save to your soul that answered well	U
With eyes replying silently	G
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IV	I
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Fair you are as a rose is fair	F
There where the shadows dew it	E
And the deeps of your brown brown hair	F
Sweet as the cloud that lingers there	F
With the sunset's auburn through it	E
Eyes of azure and throat of snow	V
Tell me what my heart would know	V
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Every dream I dream of you	E
Has a love thought in it	E
And a hope a kiss or two	E
Something dear and something true	E
Telling me each minute	E
With three words it whispers clear	L
What my heart from you would hear	M
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V	I
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Summer came the days grew kind	E
With increasing favors deep	W
Were the nights with rest and sleep	W
Fair with poppies intertwined	E
On their blonde locks dreamy hours	C
Sunny hearted as the rose	C
Went among the banded flowers	C
Teaching them how no one knows	C
Fresher color and perfume	X
In the window of your room	X
Bloomed a rich azalea Pink	Y
As an egret's rosy plumes	C
Shone its tender tufted blooms	C
From your care and love I think	Y
Love's rose color it did drink	Y
Growing rosier day by day	E
Of your 'tending hand's caress	C
And your own dear naturalness	C
Had imbued it in some way	E
Once you gave a blossom of it	E
Smiling to me when I left	E
Need I tell you how I love it	E
Faded though it is now Reft	E
Of its fragrance and its color	Z
Yet 'tis dearer now than then	N
As past happiness is when	N
We regret And dimmer duller	Z
Though its beauty be when I	A
Look upon it I recall	A2
Every part of that old wall	A2
And the dingy window high	A
Where you sat and read and all	A2
The fond love that made your face	C
A soft sunbeam in that place	C
And the plant that grew this bloom	X
Withered here itself long dead	E
Makes a halo overhead	E
There again and through my room	X
Like faint whispers of perfume	X
Steal the words of love then said	E
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VI	A
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All of my love I send to you	E
I send to you	E
On thoughts like paths that wend to you	E
Here in my heart's glad garden	S
Wherein its lovely warden	S
Your face a lily seeming	B2
Is dreaming	B2
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All of my life I bring to you	E
I bring to you	E
In deeds like birds that sing to you	E
Here in my soul's sweet valley	I
Wherethrough most musically	I
Your love a fountain glistens	C
And listens	C
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My love my life how blessed in you	E
How blessed in you	E
Whose thoughts whose deeds find rest in you	E
Here on my self's dark ocean	S
Whereo'er in heavenly motion	S
Your soul a star abideth	B
And guideth	B
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VII	A
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Where the old Kentucky wound	E
Through the land its stream between	O
Hills of primitive forest green	O
Like a goodly belt around	E
Giant breasts of grandeur with	B
Many an unknown Indian myth	B
On the boat we steamed The land	E
Like an hospitable hand	E
Welcomed us Alone we sat	E
On the under deck and saw	C
Farm house and plantation draw	C
Near and vanish 'Neath your hat	E
Your young eyes laughed and your hair	F
Blown about them by the air	F
Of our passage clung and curled	E
Music and the summer moon	C2
And the hills' great shadows hewn	C2
Out of silence and the tune	C2
Of the whistle when we whirled	E
Round a moonlit bend in sight of	A
Some lone landing heaped with hay	E
Or tobacco where the light of	A
One dim solitary lamp	D2
Signaled through the evening's damp	D2
Then a bell and dusky gray	E
Shuffling figures on the shore	E2
With the cable rugged forms	C
On the gang plank backs and arms	C
With their cargo bending o'er	Z
And the burly mate before	E2
Then an iron bell and puff	A
Of escaping steam and out	E
Where the stream is wheel whipped rough	A
Music and a parting shout	E
From the shore the pilot's bell	U
Beating on the deck below	V
Then the steady quivering slow	V
Smooth advance again Until	F2
Twinkling lights beyond us tell	U
There's a lock or little town	G2
Clasped between a hill and hill	F2
Where the blue grass fields slope down	G2
So we went That summer time	H2
Lingers with me like a rhyme	H2
Learned for dreamy beauty of	A
Its old fashioned faith and love	A
In some musing moment sith	B
Heart associated with	B
Joy that moment's quiet bore	E2
Thought repeated evermore	E2
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VIII	A
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Three sweet things love lives upon	I2
Music at whose fountain's brink	Y
Still he stoops his face to drink	Y
Seeing as the wave is drawn	J2
His own image rise and sink	Y
Three sweet things love lives upon	I2
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Three sweet things love lives upon	I2
Odor whose red roses wreathe	B
His bright brow that shines beneath	B
Hearing as each bud is blown	H
His own spirit breathe and breathe	B
Three sweet things love lives upon	I2
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Three sweet things love lives upon	I2
Color to whose rainbow he	I
Lifts his dark eyes burningly	F2
Feeling as the wild hues dawn	J2
His own immortality	I
Three sweet things love lives upon	I2
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IX	C
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Memories of other days	C
With the whilom happiness	C
Rise before my musing gaze	C
In the twilight And your dress	C
Seems beside me like a haze	C
Shimmering white as when we went	E
'Neath the star strewn firmament	E
Love led with impatient feet	E
Down the night that summer sweet	E
Sparkled o'er the lamp lit street	E
Every look love gave us then	N
Comes before my eyes again	N
Making music for my heart	E
On that path that grew for us	C
Roses red and amorous	C
On that path from which oft start	E
Out of recollected places	C
With remembered forms and faces	C
Dreams love's ardent hands have woven	S
In my life's dark tapestry	I
Beckoning soft and shadowy	I
To the soul And o'er the cloven	S
Gulf of time I seem to hear	M
Words once whispered in the ear	M
Calling as might friends long dead	E
With familiar voices deep	W
Speak to those who lie asleep	W
Comforting So I was led	E
Backward to forgotten things	C
Contiguities that spread	E
Sudden unremembered wings	C
And across my mind's still blue	F2
From the nest they fledged in flew	F2
Dazzling shapes affection knew	F2
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X	C
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Ah over full my heart is	C
Of sadness and of pain	S
As a rose flower in the garden	S
The dull dusk fills with rain	S
As a blown red rose that shivers	C
And bends to the wind and rain	S
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So give me thy hands and speak me	I
As once in the days of yore	E2
When love spoke sweetly to us	C
The love that speaks no more	E2
The sound of thy voice may help him	K2
To speak in our hearts once more	E2
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Ah over grieved my soul is	C
And tired and sick for sleep	W
As a poppy bloom that withers	C
Forgotten where reapers reap	W
As a harvested poppy flower	Z
That dies where reapers reap	W
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So bend to my face and kiss me	I
As once in the days of yore	E2
When the touch of thy lips was magic	L2
That restored to life once more	E2
The thought of thy kiss which awakens	C
To life that love once more	E2
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XI	I
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Sitting often I have oh	V
Often have desired you so	V
Yearned to kiss you as I did	E
When your love to me you gave	A
In the moonlight by the wave	A
And a long impetuous kiss	C
Pressed upon your mouth that chid	E
And upon each dewy lid	E
That all passion shaken I	A
With love language will address	C
Each dear thing I know you by	A
Picture needle work or frame	M2
Each suggestive in the same	M2
Perfume of past happiness	C
Till meseems the ways we knew	F2
Now again I tread with you	F2
From the oldtime tryst and there	F
Feel the pressure of your hair	F
Cool and easy on my cheek	N2
And your breath's aroma bare	F
Hand upon my arm as weak	N2
As a lily on a stream	O2
And your eyes that gaze at me	I
With the sometime witchery	F
To my inmost spirit speak	N2
And remembered ecstacy	C
Sweeps my soul again I seem	O2
Dreaming yet I do not dream	O2
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XII	C
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When day dies lone forsaken	S
And joy is kissed asleep	W
When doubt's gray eyes awaken	S
And love with music taken	S
From hearts with sighings shaken	S
Sits in the dusk to weep	W
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With ghostly lifted finger	F
What memory then shall rise	C
Of dark regret the bringer	F
To tell the sorrowing singer	F
Of days whose echoes linger	F
Till dawn unstars the skies	C
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When night is gone and beaming	B2
Faith journeys forth to toil	F2
When hope's blue eyes wake gleaming	B2
And life is done with dreaming	B2
The dreams that seem but seeming	B2
Within the world's turmoil	F2
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Can we forget the presence	C
Of death who walks unseen	S
Whose scythe casts shadowy crescents	C
Around life's glittering essence	C
As lessens slowly lessens	C
The space that lies between	S
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XIII	C
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Bland was that October day	E
Calm and balmy as the spring	B2
When we went a forest way	E
'Neath paternal beeches gray	E
To a valleyed opening	B2
Where the purple aster flowered	E
And like torches shadow held	E
Red the fiery sumach towered	E
And where gum trees sentineled	E
Vistas robed in gold and garnet	E
Ripe the thorny chestnut shelled	E
Its brown plumpness Bee and hornet	E
Droned around us quick the cricket	E
Tireless in the wood rose thicket	E
Tremoloed and to the wind	E
All its moon spun silver casting	B2
Swung the milk weed pod unthinned	E
And its clean flame on the sod	E
By the fading golden rod	E
Burned the white life everlasting	B2
It was not so much the time	H2
Nor the place nor way we went	E
That made all our moods to rhyme	H2
Nor the season's sentiment	E
As it was the innocent	E
Carefree childhood of our hearts	C
Reading each expression of	A
Death and care as life and love	A
That impression joy imparts	C
Unto others and retorts	C
On itself which then made glad	E
All the sorrow of decay	E
As the memory of that day	E
Makes this day of spring now sad	E
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XIV	A
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The balsam breathed petunias	C
Hang riven of the rain	S
And where the tiger lily was	C
Now droops a tawny stain	S
While in the twilight's purple pause	C
Earth dreams of Heaven again	S
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When one shall sit and sigh	A
And one lie all alone	S
Beneath the unseen sky	A
Whose love shall then deny	A
Whose love atone	S
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With ragged petals round its pod	E
The rain wrecked poppy dies	C
And where the hectic rose did nod	E
A crumbled crimson lies	C
While distant as the dreams of God	E
The stars slip in the skies	C
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When one shall lie asleep	W
And one be dead and gone	S
Within the unknown deep	W
Shall we the trysts then keep	W
That now are done	S
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XV	A
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Holding both your hands in mine	S
Often have we sat together	F
While outside the boisterous weather	F
Hung the wild wind on the pine	S
Like a black marauder and	E
With a sudden warning hand	E
At the casement rapped The night	E
Read no sentiment of light	E
Starbeam syllabled within	S
Her romance of death and sin	S
Shadow chaptered tragicly	F2
Looking in your eyes ah me	I
Though I heard I did not heed	E
What the night read unto us	C
Threatening and ominous	C
For love helped my heart to read	E
Forward through unopened pages	C
To a coming day that held	E
More for us than all the ages	C
Past that it epitomized	E
In its sentence where we spelled	E
What our present realized	E
Only all the love that was	C
Past and yet to be for us	C
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XVI	A
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'Though in the garden gray with dew	E
All life lies withering	B2
And there's no more to say or do	E
No more to sigh or sing	B2
Yet go we back the ways we knew	E
When buds were opening	B2
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Perhaps we shall not search in vain	S
Within its wreck and gloom	X
'Mid roses ruined of the rain	S
There still may live one bloom	X
One flower whose heart may still retain	S
The long lost soul perfume	X
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And then perhaps will come to us	C
The dreams we dreamed before	F
And song who spoke so beauteous	C
Will speak to us once more	F
And love with eyes all amorous	C
Will ope again his door	F
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So 'though the garden's gray with dew	E
And flowers are withering	B2
And there's no more to say or do	E
No more to sigh or sing	B2
Yet go we back the ways we knew	E
When buds were opening	B2
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XVII	A
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Looking on the desolate street	E
Where the March snow drifts and drives	C
Trodden black of hurrying feet	E
Where the athlete storm wind strives	C
With each tree and dangling light	E
Centers sphered with glittering white	E
Hissing in the dancing snow	V
Backward in my soul I go	V
To that tempest haunted night	E
Of two autumns past when we	I
Hastening homeward were o'ertaken	V
Of the storm and 'neath a tree	I
With its wild leaves whisper shaken	V
Sheltered us in that forsaken	V
Sad and ancient cemetery	I
Where folk came no more to bury	I
Haggard grave stones mossed and crumbled	E
Tottered 'round us or o'ertumbled	E
In their sunken graves and some	P2
Urned and obelisked above	A
Iron fenced in tombs stood dumb	P2
Records of forgotten love	A
And again I see the west	E
Yawning inward to its core	F
Of electric spasmed ore	F
Swiftly without pause or rest	E
And a great wind sweeps the dust	E
Up abandoned sidewalks and	E
In the rotting trees the gust	E
Shouts again a voice that would	E
Make its gaunt self understood	E
Moaning over death's lean land	E
And we sat there hand in hand	E
On the granite where we read	E
By the leaping skies o'erhead	E
Something of one young and dead	E
Yet the words begot no fear	F
In our souls you leaned your cheek	N2
Smiling on mine very near	F
Were our lips we did not speak	N2
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XVIII	A
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And suddenly alone I stood	E
With scared eyes gazing through the wood	E
For some still sign of ill or good	E
To lead me from the solitude	E
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The day was at its twilighting	N2
One cloud o'erhead spread a vast wing	N2
Of rosy thunder vanishing	N2
Above the far hills' mystic ring	N2
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Some stars shone timidly o'erhead	E
And toward the west's cadaverous red	E
Like some wild dream that haunts the dead	E
In limbo the lean moon was led	E
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Upon the sad debatable	F2
Vague lands of twilight slowly fell	F2
A silence that I knew too well	F2
A sorrow that I can not tell	F2
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What way to take what path to go	N2
Whether into the east's gray glow	N2
Or where the west burnt red and low	N2
What road to choose I did not know	N2
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So hesitating there I stood	E
Lost in my soul's uncertain wood	E
One sign I craved of ill or good	E
To lead me from its solitude	E
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XIX	C
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It was autumn and a night	E
Full of whispers and of mist	E
With a gray moon wanly whist	E
Hanging like a phantom light	E
O'er the hills We stood among	N2
Windy fields of weed and flower	F
Where the withered seed pod hung	N2
And the chill leaf crickets sung	N2
Melancholy was the hour	F
With the mystery and loneness	C
Of the year that seemed to look	N2
On its own departed face	C
As our love then in its oneness	C
All its dead past did retrace	C
And from that sad moment took	N2
Presage of approaching parting	N2
Sorrowful the hour and dark	N2
Low among the trees now starting	N2
Now concealed a star's pale spark	N2
Like a fen fire winked and lured	E
On to shuddering shadows where	F
All was doubtful unassured	E
Immaterial and the bare	F
Facts of unideal day	E
Changed to substance such as dreams	C
And meseemed then far away	E
Farther than remotest gleams	C
Of the stars lost separated	E
And estranged and out of reach	Q2
Grew our lives away from each	Q2
Loving lives that long had waited	E
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XX	C
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There is no gladness in the day	E
Now you're away	E
Dull is the morn the noon is dull	F2
Once beautiful	F2
And when the evening fills the skies	C
With dusky dyes	C
With tired eyes and tired heart	E
I sit alone I sigh apart	E
And wish for you	E
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Ah darker now the night comes on	V
Since you are gone	V
Sad are the stars the moon is sad	E
Once wholly glad	E
And when the stars and moon are set	E
And earth lies wet	E
With heart's regret and soul's hard ache	R2
I dream alone I lie awake	R2
And wish for you	E
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These who once spake me speak no more	F
Now all is o'er	F
Day hath forgot the language of	A
Its hopes of love	A
Night whose sweet lips were burdensome	P2
With dreams is dumb	P2
Far different from what used to be	I
With silence and despondency	I
They speak to me	I
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XXI	I
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So it ends the path that crept	E
Through a land all slumber kissed	E
Where the sickly moonlight slept	E
Like a pale antagonist	E
Now the star that led us onward	E
Reassuring with its light	E
Fails and falters dipping downward	E
Leaves us wandering in night	E
With old doubts we once disdained	E
So it ends The woods attained	E
Where our heart's desire builded	E
A fair temple fire gilded	E
With hope's marble shrine within	V
Where the lineaments of our love	A
Shone with lilies clad and crowned	E
'Neath white columns reared above	A
Sorrow and her sister sin	V
Columns rose and ribbon wound	E
In the forest we have found	E
But a ruin All around	E
Lie the shattered capitals	I
And vast fragments of the walls	I
Like a climbing cloud that plies	I
Wind wrecked o'er the moon that lies	I
'Neath its blackness taking on	V
Gradual certainties of wan	V
Soft assaults of easy white	E
Pale approaching till the skies'	I
Emptiness and hungry night	E
Claim its bulk again while she	I
Rides in lonely purity	I
So we found our temple broken	V
And a musing moment's space	I
Love whose latest word was spoken	V
Seemed to meet us face to face	I
Making bright that ruined place	I
With a strange effulgence then	V
Passed and left all black again	V

Madison Julius Cawein

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