The Highland Girl's Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The ancient Highlanders believed the spirits of their departed friends continually present and that their imagined appearances and voices communicated warnings of approaching death	A
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Oh set the bridal feast aside	B
And bear the harp away	C
The coronach must sound instead	D
From solemn kirk yard gray	C
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I heard last eve at set of sun	E
The death bell on the gale	F
It was no earthly melody	G
The eglantine grew pale	F
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And leaf and blossom seemed to thrill	H
With an unuttered prayer	I
As fraught with desolateness wild	J
The strange notes stirred the air	I
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And on the rugged mountain height	K
Where snow and sunbeam meet	L
That never yet in storm or shine	M
Was trod by human feet	L
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A weird and spectral presence came	N
Between me and the light	K
The waving of a shadowy hand	O
That faded into night	K
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I felt it was the first who left	P
Our little household band	O
The child with waving locks of gold	Q
Now in the silent land	O
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And when the mist at morn arose	R
From Katrine's silvery wave	S
A form of aspect ominous	T
With pensive look and grave	S
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Moved from the waters towards the glen	U
Where stands the holly tree	G
'T was the brother who is sleeping low	V
Beneath the stormy sea	G
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And while to night the curfew bell	W
Rang out with solemn chime	X
As soundeth o'er the buried year	Y
The organ peal of time	X
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And near the fragrant jessamine	Z
I mused in garden glade	A2
A phantom form appeared to me	G
Beneath the hawthorn shade	A2
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The dews had wept their silent tears	B2
The moon was up on high	C2
And every star was sphered with calm	D2
Like an archangel's eye	C2
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And melancholy music swept	E2
With cadence low and sweet	L
Such as ascends when spirit wings	F2
Around a death bed meet	L
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O was it not a mother's heart	G2
That gave that warning sign	M
The loving heart that used to thrill	H
To every grief of mine	M
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I oft have deemed in sunny hours	H2
When life with love was fraught	I2
The nearness of the dead to us	T
A fantasy of thought	I2
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But standing on the barrier	J2
I used to view with pain	K2
I feel the chains of severed love	L2
Are linking close again	U
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Another hand must smooth and bless	M2
My father's silver hair	I
Another voice must read to him	N2
At morn and evening prayer	I
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The flowers that I have trained will bloom	O2
But at another's side	B
And he I love will seek perchance	P2
A gentler fairer bride	B
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And soon another shade will haunt	Q2
The echo and the gloom	O2
With pining heart of restless love	L2
And omens of the tomb	O2
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Then set the festal board aside	B
And bear the harp away	C
The coronach must sound instead	D
From solemn kirk yard gray	C

Mary Gardiner Horsford

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