The Hudson - After A Lecture At Albany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK CCLL M'T was a vision of childhood that came with its dawn | A |
Ere the curtain that covered life's day star was drawn | A |
The nurse told the tale when the shadows grew long | B |
And the mother's soft lullaby breathed it in song | B |
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There flows a fair stream by the hills of the West | C |
She sang to her boy as he lay on her breast | C |
Along its smooth margin thy fathers have played | D |
Beside its deep waters their ashes are laid | D |
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I wandered afar from the land of my birth | E |
I saw the old rivers renowned upon earth | E |
But fancy still painted that wide flowing stream | F |
With the many hued pencil of infancy's dream | F |
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I saw the green banks of the castle crowned Rhine | G |
Where the grapes drink the moonlight and change it to wine | G |
I stood by the Avon whose waves as they glide | H |
Still whisper his glory who sleeps at their side | H |
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But my heart would still yearn for the sound of the waves | I |
That sing as they flow by my forefathers' graves | I |
If manhood yet honors my cheek with a tear | J |
I care not who sees it no blush for it here | K |
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Farewell to the deep bosomed stream of the West | C |
I fling this loose blossom to float on its breast | C |
Nor let the dear love of its children grow cold | L |
Till the channel is dry where its waters have rolled | L |
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December | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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