Rosalind And Helen: A Modern Eclogue Poem Rhyme Scheme

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ROSALIND HELEN and her Child	A
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SCENE The Shore of the Lake of Como	B
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HELEN	C
Come hither my sweet Rosalind	D
'T is long since thou and I have met	E
And yet methinks it were unkind	F
Those moments to forget	E
Come sit by me I see thee stand	G
By this lone lake in this far land	G
Thy loose hair in the light wind flying	H
Thy sweet voice to each tone of even	I
United and thine eyes replying	H
To the hues of yon fair heaven	C
Come gentle friend wilt sit by me	J
And be as thou wert wont to be	J
Ere we were disunited	G
None doth behold us now the power	K
That led us forth at this lone hour	K
Will be but ill requited	G
If thou depart in scorn Oh come	L
And talk of our abandoned home	M
Remember this is Italy	J
And we are exiles Talk with me	J
Of that our land whose wilds and floods	N
Barren and dark although they be	J
Were dearer than these chestnut woods	O
Those heathy paths that inland stream	P
And the blue mountains shapes which seem	P
Like wrecks of childhood's sunny dream	P
Which that we have abandoned now	Q
Weighs on the heart like that remorse	R
Which altered friendship leaves I seek	S
No more our youthful intercourse	R
That cannot be Rosalind speak	S
Speak to me Leave me not When morn did come	L
When evening fell upon our common home	M
When for one hour we parted do not frown	T
I would not chide thee though thy faith is broken	C
But turn to me Oh by this cherished token	C
Of woven hair which thou wilt not disown	U
Turn as 't were but the memory of me	J
And not my scorn d self who prayed to thee	J
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ROSALIND	G
Is it a dream or do I see	J
And hear frail Helen I would flee	J
Thy tainting touch but former years	V
Arise and bring forbidden tears	W
And my o'erburdened memory	J
Seeks yet its lost repose in thee	J
I share thy crime I cannot choose	X
But weep for thee mine own strange grief	Y
But seldom stoops to such relief	Y
Nor ever did I love thee less	Z
Though mourning o'er thy wickedness	A2
Even with a sister's woe I knew	B2
What to the evil world is due	B2
And therefore sternly did refuse	X
To link me with the infamy	J
Of one so lost as Helen Now	Q
Bewildered by my dire despair	C2
Wondering I blush and weep that thou	Q
Shouldst love me still thou only There	C2
Let us sit on that gray stone	U
Till our mournful talk be done	C
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HELEN	C
Alas not there I cannot bear	C2
The murmur of this lake to hear	D2
A sound from there Rosalind dear	E2
Which never yet I heard elsewhere	C2
But in our native land recurs	X
Even here where now we meet It stirs	X
Too much of suffocating sorrow	B
In the dell of yon dark chestnut wood	G
Is a stone seat a solitude	G
Less like our own The ghost of peace	X
Will not desert this spot To morrow	B
If thy kind feelings should not cease	X
We may sit here	D2
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ROSALIND	G
Thou lead my sweet	G
And I will follow	B
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HENRY	J
'T is Fenici's seat	G
Where you are going This is not the way	F2
Mamma it leads behind those trees that grow	B
Close to the little river	K
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HELEN	C
Yes I know	B
I was bewildered Kiss me and be gay	F2
Dear boy why do you sob	G2
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HENRY	J
I do not know	B
But it might break any one's heart to see	J
You and the lady cry so bitterly	J
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HELEN	C
It is a gentle child my friend Go home	M
Henry and play with Lilla till I come	L
We only cried with joy to see each other	K
We are quite merry now Good night	G
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The boy	H2
Lifted a sudden look upon his mother	K
And in the gleam of forced and hollow joy	H2
Which lightened o'er her face laughed with the glee	J
Of light and unsuspecting infancy	J
And whispered in her ear 'Bring home with you	B2
That sweet strange lady friend ' Then off he flew	B2
But stopped and beckoned with a meaning smile	I2
Where the road turned Pale Rosalind the while	I2
Hiding her face stood weeping silently	J
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In silence then they took the way	F2
Beneath the forest's solitude	G
It was a vast and antique wood	G
Through which they took their way	F2
And the gray shades of evening	H
O'er that green wilderness did fling	H
Still deeper solitude	G
Pursuing still the path that wound	G
The vast and knotted trees around	G
Through which slow shades were wandering	H
To a deep lawny dell they came	J2
To a stone seat beside a spring	H
O'er which the columned wood did frame	J2
A roofless temple like the fane	K2
Where ere new creeds could faith obtain	K2
Man's early race once knelt beneath	L2
The overhanging deity	J
O'er this fair fountain hung the sky	M2
Now spangled with rare stars The snake	N2
The pale snake that with eager breath	O2
Creeps here his noontide thirst to slake	N2
Is beaming with many a mingled hue	B2
Shed from yon dome's eternal blue	B2
When he floats on that dark and lucid flood	G
In the light of his own loveliness	J
And the birds that in the fountain dip	P2
Their plumes with fearless fellowship	P2
Above and round him wheel and hover	K
The fitful wind is heard to stir	K
One solitary leaf on high	M2
The chirping of the grasshopper	K
Fills every pause There is emotion	C
In all that dwells at noontide here	D2
Then through the intricate wild wood	G
A maze of life and light and motion	C
Is woven But there is stillness now	Q
Gloom and the trance of Nature now	Q
The snake is in his cave asleep	Q2
The birds are on the branches dreaming	N2
Only the shadows creep	Q2
Only the glow worm is gleaming	N2
Only the owls and the nightingales	J
Wake in this dell when daylight fails	J
And gray shades gather in the woods	J
And the owls have all fled far away	F2
In a merrier glen to hoot and play	F2
For the moon is veiled and sleeping now	Q
The accustomed nightingale still broods	J
On her accustomed bough	Q
But she is mute for her false mate	G
Has fled and left her desolate	G
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This silent spot tradition old	G
Had peopled with the spectral dead	G
For the roots of the speaker's hair felt cold	G
And stiff as with tremulous lips he told	G
That a hellish shape at midnight led	G
The ghost of a youth with hoary hair	C2
And sate on the seat beside him there	C2
Till a naked child came wandering by	M2
When the fiend would change to a lady fair	C2
A fearful tale the truth was worse	J
For here a sister and a brother	K
Had solemnized a monstrous curse	J
Meeting in this fair solitude	G
For beneath yon very sky	M2
Had they resigned to one another	K
Body and soul The multitude	G
Tracking them to the secret wood	G
Tore limb from limb their innocent child	G
And stabbed and trampled on its mother	K
But the youth for God's most holy grace	J
A priest saved to burn in the market place	J
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Duly at evening Helen came	J2
To this lone silent spot	G
From the wrecks of a tale of wilder sorrow	B
So much of sympathy to borrow	B
As soothed her own dark lot	G
Duly each evening from her home	M
With her fair child would Helen come	L
To sit upon that antique seat	G
While the hues of day were pale	R2
And the bright boy beside her feet	G
Now lay lifting at intervals	J
His broad blue eyes on her	K
Now where some sudden impulse calls	J
Following He was a gentle boy	H2
And in all gentle sorts took joy	H2
Oft in a dry leaf for a boat	G
With a small feather for a sail	R2
His fancy on that spring would float	G
If some invisible breeze might stir	K
Its marble calm and Helen smiled	G
Through tears of awe on the gay child	G
To think that a boy as fair as he	J
In years which never more may be	J
By that same fount in that same wood	G
The like sweet fancies had pursued	G
And that a mother lost like her	K
Had mournfully sate watching him	S2
Then all the scene was wont to swim	S2
Through the mist of a burning tear	C2
For many months had Helen known	U
This scene and now she thither turned	G
Her footsteps not alone	U
The friend whose falsehood she had mourned	G
Sate with her on that seat of stone	U
Silent they sate for evening	N2
And the power its glimpses bring	N2
Had with one awful shadow quelled	G
The passion of their grief They sate	G
With link d hands for unrepelled	G
Had Helen taken Rosalind's	J
Like the autumn wind when it unbinds	J
The tangled locks of the nightshade's hair	C2
Which is twined in the sultry summer air	C2
Round the walls of an outworn sepulchre	C2
Did the voice of Helen sad and sweet	G
And the sound of her heart that ever beat	G
As with sighs and words she breathed on her	C2
Unbind the knots of her friend's despair	C2
Till her thoughts were free to float and flow	B
And from her laboring bosom now	Q
Like the bursting of a prisone	Q