To Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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OH come thou power divineA
Thou lovely spirit with the wings of lightB
And let thy dewy eyesC
Shed their sweet influences on my soulD
Oh let me hear thy voiceE
Whose sound thrills with a keener deeper blissF
Than the shrill jubilance the bird of joyG
Pours on the airH
Or the child babblings of the gladsome rillI
When issuing first from out its mossy couchJ
In venturesome delight it frisks in gleeK
Adown the hoary mountain silver fraughtL
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Oh comeM
Where I do lie drenched in my bitter tearsN
And drowning in dejection haunted byO
The pale gaunt fears that spectre like rush forthP
In shadowy swarms from out the brains's black cellsQ
Like glaring madmen in confusion 'scapedL
From out their dens whirling with shambling limbsR
In whooping dances through the startled duskS
And pouncing wildly on my shiv'ring soulD
Where in her hour of weakness prostrate sheK
Doth palpitate in terror like a deerT
That hunted by the swift pursuing houndsU
Wounded and bleeding sinks upon the groundL
While with hoarse croaks the ravening birds of preyV
Wheel close and closer darkening all the airH
But thouW
Come breathe upon me with thy balmy breathX
Like a young wind born in the ros d eastL
That leapeth boy like from the lap of mornY
To blow the land all clear from crouching fogsZ
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Thus drive thou hence the phantoms cleanse my soulD
Thou sweet enchantress with the magic spellsQ
Wails there a heart lone on the populous earthA2
Like a weak infant lost within the nightL
That crieth piteously in helplessnessB2
And pusheth its blind limbs with gestures scaredL
Against the gloomC2
Then with an airy footfall glidest thouW
Gently anigh as softly as a cloudL
When one alone in crimson glory slidesD2
Along the twilight sky tak'st the bewildered thingE2
Into thine arms thy fair and downy armsF2
And rock'st it on thy bosom singing lowG2
An old old song old as the flowers that bloomC2
And like them ever young till dreams rise upH2
Like cool white mists from out the heart of hillsI2
And lie dew sweet upon it in its sleepJ2
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Sits there an orphan girl with sunken cheeksK2
And red rimmed eyes high up beneath the leadsL2
Stitching with aching fingers all the nightL
Beside the meagre flame to earn her breadL
And feed with scanty fuel the low fireM2
Of life while the shrill blastL
Dashes the rain against the rattling panesN2
And down the chimney roars with smoke and wetL
Then comest thou with memories all dimO2
And faint with beauty from the childish yearsP2
Transposing them into the time to comeM
With a new lustre of the full grown heartL
Where the bare walls stood with a hungry stareH
The golden cornfields weighed down by their wealthQ2
Sway to and fro purling the brook flows onR2
And like a bit of sky drawn down by loveS2
Wilds of forget me nots run riot roundL
And meadows scent the air and lowing kineR2
Are driven home and silver geese hiss loudL
Within the pools and childhood's silver laughsT2
Ring o'er the green like chimes of silver bellsQ
In the clear atmosphere and through green boughsU2
Curls up the smoke from many a thatch d roofV2
Flushed all the land with roseate floods of eveW2
While large and full glows low the harvest moonR2
There as through homely fields she lightly walksX2
And one is by her side and whispers lowG2
And thine oh hope the future's kindling glowG2
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Rocks there a sailor on a reeling shipY2
That staggers blindly like a brain struck manR2
Around the staring cliffsZ2
While the wild blast the fiddler of the deepJ2
Wakes such mad music on his shrieking stringsA3
That the fierce elements in huge delightL
Vault from their torpor rearing giant heightsB3
Ha The maned billows from abysmal deepsB3
Leap like live Alps and catch the tearing cloudsB3
That dizzy haste along the wilds of skyO
Tossing them round in labyrinthic whirlsB3
To the witch light of lightning and the roarC3
Of thunder in its crashing clattering fallD3
Yea while the ocean yawneth for its preyV
Yelling with starv d jaws around the hullE3
Man's sole frail guardian from the fangs of deathX
Thou softly float'stL
Like to the dove that bore the olive branchF3
Across the waste of waters to his sideL
No longer sees he then the wide wild seaB3
No longer hears he the tempestuous blastL
But where the cottage leans against the cliffG3
The evening star shedding its peace adownR2
He lifts the latch and with one bound of joyG
He stands in the low room beside the hearthH3
Where sits his winsome wife and rocks her babeI3
With lullabies and heaving one big sobJ3
He strains her to his breast her whom he thoughtL
On this side of the grave to see no moreC3
Then does she take him by the hand and leadsB3
Him round from cot to cot where with round cheeksB3
His children lie sleep flushed 'twixt snow white sheetsB3
And snatching up the youngest in his armsB3
With an untameable emotion weepsB3
His kisses on him till it opens wideL
Large dream dew'd eyes and lisps with cherry mouthK3
'Oh Dada Dada ' That thou dost for himO2
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Wanders the patriot on a stranger shoreC3
And exile from the land he loved too wellL3
Within his heartL
The festering wound a thankless nation strikesB3
When cloud capp'd by its ignorance and fearT
And goaded on by spurring king and priestL
Like a mad dog it turns and bites the handL
Stretched out to healM3
He sees his friends fall off like rotten leavesB3
That scrambling flee the tempest girted oakN3
He sees the enemies he boldly bravedL
Forging the red hot slanders wherewithalD3
To scorch his writhing soulD
Alone in the wide world alone he standsB3
Alone save where beyond the roaring seasB3
His mother weeps and weeps oh God through himO2
Then blowing from dead deserts the simoomO2
Of doubt breathes on him with its killing breathX
With'ring the flowers of faith the groves of youthO3
And buffeting his heart on cruel wavesB3
Of wind e'en like a quiv'ring autumn leafP3
Oh is it strangeQ3
That in the midnight on the dark there growG2
Pale faces sweating blood and wrapped in shroudsB3
Turning reproachful eyes upon his eyesB3
And asking dumbly 'Wherefore did we dieO
And spill the wine filled goblets of our youthO3
On barren soil that will not teem with birth '-
That brides like broken lilies whirled alongR3
By arrowy streams glide past and sadly sobJ3
'Thou'st mowed us down and mowed us down in vain '-
That infants thrill the silence with their wailS3
'Why are we fatherless if fatherlandL
Is still denied ' And that his heartstrings quakeT3
With sobs of mothers' hearts that hopeless breakT3
Strange that his purpose that did seem so fairH
With a white blaze of light around her headL
Which fell like orient beams on nations' browsB3
Should wane before his terror stricken eyesB3
And that in direst agony of soulD
His noble nature tott'ring on her baseB3
Should question if his deeds were rightful deedsB3
Stirred up by God's own living breath or pushedL
By hot ambition's ravenous desireM2
And if the aim that drew were but a dreamO2
By which his visionary youth was mockedL
As travellers in the desert by the shineR2
Of fair false waters At that torturing thoughtL
Smells of cold graves struck damp upon his browW
Till his wilds eyes grew void and limp his limbsB3
And he had dropped resistless in the jawsB3
Of madness or of deathX
Hadst thou not come perennial presence brightL
As Phosphorus in the dim morning skiesB3
And poured thy morning sunbeams on his heartL
And blown thy morning breezes on his soulD
Till freshly born the world and on him smiledL
With eyes as tender as his mother's wereM2
When sowing love upon his cradled selfU3
Then back plucked he his purpose fixed it firmO2
In iron steadfastness upon his soulD
And called on faith where with upturn d eyesB3
Above the clouds she treads the mountain peaksB3
And on that love which boundless as the skyO
Stretches o'er all mankind its azured vaultL
Then rose he set his trustful eyes on highO
And set his heart among the lowly bornR2
For in theV3

Mathilde Blind



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