By And By Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABA CADAEFGF HIHIJKLK MNMNOJOJ APAPJFJQ RSRSGTGT MUMUUVWV USUSOXYZ A2OUPMUMU UB2C2B2D2HMJ BUUUE2UF2U

God will not let His bright gifts dieA
If I may not sing my songs just nowB
I shall sing them by and byA
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A young man with a Poet's soulC
And a Poet's kindling eyeA
Dark dreamy full of unvoiced thoughtD
And forehead calm and highA
Toiled wearily at his heavy taskE
Till his soul grew sick with painF
And the pent up fires that burned withinG
Seemed withering heart and brainF
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Work work work he murmured lowH
Glancing up at the golden westI
Work with the sunset heavens aglowH
By the hands of angels dressedI
Work for this perishing human clayJ
While the soul like a prisoned birdK
Flutters its helpless wings alwaysL
By passionate longings stirredK
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I hear in the wandering zephyr's songM
Tones that no others hearN
And alien melodies all day longM
Are murmuring in my earN
Phantoms of beauty in cloud and flowerO
Haunt me where'er I strayJ
And flit thro' the green of the summer bowerO
At the close of each toil spent dayJ
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There are voices that sigh in the wind's low sighA
Or wail in the tempest's roarP
That sing in the brooklets that wander byA
Or sob along ocean's shoreP
I hear them ever yet may not stayJ
To list to the rhythmic strainF
And the unvoiced melodies die awayJ
Never to come againQ
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Something I see in the lightning's flashR
That my fellows may not seeS
And something hear in the thunder's crashR
That cometh alone to meS
But the glory fades ere I gather it inG
And fix it in brain or heartT
And the strains I caught thro' the elements' dinG
Are lost in Toil's crowded martT
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O haunting strains of unuttered songM
O tenderest melodies lostU
O sweet stray notes of the heavenly throngM
On the wing of the tempest tossedU
O spirit harp that untouched untunedU
To each subtle influence thrillsV
As thrills some wild Aeolian harpW
To the breezes that sweep the hillsV
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I thirst I pant to be free to listU
To the voices that call to meS
From flood and fountain from vale and heightU
From forest and shore and seaS
To gaze on the Beauty whose subtle fireO
Breaks on me thro' Nature's eyesX
And pour from the strings of my unused lyreY
All tenderest harmoniesZ
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Ah thirsty spirit the day will comeA2
When the sway of this mortal o'erO
Thou shall strike thy lyre with a fearless handU
On a brighter calmer shoreP
For God who giveth the breath of SongM
Will not let His bright gifts dieU
And though thy harp strings be silent longM
Thou shalt waken them by and byU
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Aye and the Music that seemeth lostU
Shall linger in Memory's cellsB2
As lingers along the Alpine heightsC2
The echo of vesper bellsB2
Not lost but waiting the freer pulseD2
Of the life thou yet shalt knowH
To blend with the tides of enraptured songM
That the Heavenly heights o'erflowJ
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And the Beauty that lost to thee seemeth nowB
Sealed in thy heart shall stayU
As the sun ray sealed in the diamond's heartU
Burns on with unchanging rayU
Then take with gladness the joy that stealsE2
The sting of thy toil awayU
And wait in hope for the higher joyF2
That shall crown thee another dayU

Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)



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