Nora To David Herbison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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There's a place in the North where the bonnie broom growsA
Where winding through green meadows the silver Maine flowsA
Every lark as it soars and sings that sweet spot knowsA
For the mate for whom it singsB
Till the clear blue heaven ringsB
Is brooding on its nest mid the daisies in the grassC
And that psalmist sweet the thrushD
And the linnet in the bushE
Tell the children all their secrets in song as they passC
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Oh brightly shines the sun there where wee birdies singF
A glamour's o'er the buds in the green lap of springF
In happy happy laughter children's voices ringF
Like some fair enchanted groundG
In memory it is foundG
Where my childhood's golden hours of happiness were spentH
There within a leafy nookI
I have pored upon a bookI
Till romance and fairy lore with every thought were blentH
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I mind how fair the world was one bright summer dayH
Sitting in a shady place better seemed than playH
Childhood's golden memories never fade awayH
My child friend most sweet and fairJ
My bright Lily she was thereJ
We read and mused in silence and spoke our thoughts by turnsK
Lily with her lofty lookI
Turned oftenest to her bookI
The book that lay between us was the peasant poet BurnsK
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The heaven gifted man with winsome witching artH
Who touches at his will the kindly human heartH
'Till it throbs with joy like pain and tears begin to startH
He so tenderly touched oursL
With his melting magic powersL
Made feelings which he felt within our bosoms springF
Where he wished for Scotia's sakeM
Some plan or book to makeM
Or to write the bonnie songs his country loves to singF
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Fancies wild were ours on that day so long agoN
Stirred by Burns's genius for we had learned to knowN
The beauty of sweet Erin and something of her woeN
And in song we longed to tellO
Of the land we loved so wellO
Singing words of hope and cheer wailing each sad mishapP
Like the daisies on the sodH
With their faces turned to GodH
Clung we to the island green that nursed us on her lapP
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I said to Lily fair my hand among her curlsQ
If we were Red Branch Knights or high and noble EarlsQ
Or poets grand like Burns instead of simple girlsQ
We might do some noble deedH
Or touch some tuneful reedH
Something for the land we love to bring her high renownR
The land where we were bornS
Is spoken of with scornS
Her children's songs should praise her her children's deeds shouldH
crownR
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My fair and stately Lily how thy hand sought mineT
Clasped it warm and tender with sympathy in thineT
As I wished that we could make our 'streams and burmes shine'T
There's many a ruin oldH
There's many a castle boldH
There's Sleive mis with his head in mist here's the silver MaineT
But who of them will singF
Till the whole world shall ringF
With the melody and ask to hear it once againT
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If one of her own children standing boldly forthU
With eyes to see her beauty a heart to know her worthV
Would fling the charm of song o'er the green robe of the NorthU
Lily said sweet friend there's oneT
And his name is HerbisonT
Who sings of Northern Erin in sunlight and in stormW
Of the legend and the taleX
Of the banshees awful wailX
Of Dunluce upon the sea of the castle of GalgormW
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Of the gallant deeds of the all but vanished raceY
The high O'Neils who kept with princely state their placeY
Of their white armed daughters in beauty's woeful raceY
In that joyful youthful timeW
All my pulses beat to rhymeW
I thought what you were doing that I would also doH
I would praise the bonnie NorthU
And draw its legends forthU
From cottage and from castle the pleasant country throughH
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I'd make the land I loved in poesy to shineT
The Maine should flow along in many a tuneful lineT
Songs praising hills and streams full sweetly should be mineT
And the legends I would singF
From lip to lip should ringF
My native land should ask for and hear my humble nameW
When like her tuneful sonT
Green laurels I had wonT
I'd think her love for me was better far than fameW
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Blessed be the green recess by the sweet Maine water whereJ
I a little child with my child friend sweet and fairJ
Built with golden fancies this castle in the airJ
My child friend is at restH
Erin's shamrock's on her breastH
I her little minstrel am all unknown to fameW
For the songs are all unsungZ
And not a northern tongueZ
Has spoken once in praise my very unknown nameW
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But I know heroic souls beyond my feeble praiseA2
I know of calm endurance like the great of other daysA2
High deeds for battle song worth a poet's noblest laysA2
Of the pathos of the strifeB2
In the lowly walks of lifeB2
Of many an unknown hero that has won the victor's crownT
And the lovely lovely landH
Landscape fair and castle grandH
Worthy the coming bard who will sing of their renownT
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I love thee well sweet Erin though fate led another wayH
I'll call thee still mavourneen when head and heart are greyH
Another one will say and sing what I have failed to sayH
But this very day to meW
There has come across the seaW
Some pleasant verses bearing a well remembered nameW
That has done for Erin's landH
What I only thought and plannedH
And won a place in Erin's heart that I can never claimW
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So unknown beside a pine fringed lake away beyond the seaW
Half in gladness of remembrance half in wakened childish gleeW
I stretch my hand in homage and kindredship to theeW
I greet thee this bright dayH
From three thousand miles awayH
And to thy well earned laurels I'd add a sprig of bayH
Glad to know thou'rt rhyming yetH
For thy readers can't forgetH
Erin's genial loving sonT
Poet of the steadfast North kindly David HerbisonT

Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)



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