Eclogue 9: Lycidas Moeris Poem Rhyme Scheme

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LYCIDAS	A
Say whither Moeris Make you for the town	B
Or on what errand bent	C
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MOERIS	A
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O Lycidas	A
We have lived to see what never yet we feared	D
An interloper own our little farm	E
And say 'Be off you former husbandmen	B
These fields are mine ' Now cowed and out of heart	F
Since Fortune turns the whole world upside down	B
We are taking him ill luck go with the same '	-
These kids you see	A
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LYCIDAS	A
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But surely I had heard	G
That where the hills first draw from off the plain	B
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends	A
Down to the brook side and the broken crests	A
Of yonder veteran beeches all the land	H
Was by the songs of your Menalcas saved	I
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MOERIS	A
Heard it you had and so the rumour ran	B
But 'mid the clash of arms my Lycidas	A
Our songs avail no more than as 'tis said	J
Doves of Dodona when an eagle comes	A
Nay had I not from hollow ilex bole	K
Warned by a raven on the left cut short	L
The rising feud nor I your Moeris here	M
No nor Menalcas were alive to day	N
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LYCIDAS	A
Alack could any of so foul a crime	O
Be guilty Ah how nearly thyself	P
Reft was the solace that we had in thee	A
Menalcas Who then of the Nymphs had sung	Q
Or who with flowering herbs bestrewn the ground	R
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil	S
Who sung the stave I filched from you that day	N
To Amaryllis wending our hearts' joy	T
'While I am gone 'tis but a little way	N
Feed Tityrus my goats and having fed	J
Drive to the drinking pool and as you drive	P
Beware the he goat with his horn he butts '	-
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MOERIS	A
Ay or to Varus that half finished lay	N
'Varus thy name so still our Mantua live	P
Mantua to poor Cremona all too near	U
Shall singing swans bear upward to the stars '	-
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LYCIDAS	A
So may your swarms Cyrnean yew trees shun	B
Your kine with cytisus their udders swell	V
Begin if aught you have The Muses made	W
Me too a singer I too have sung the swains	A
Call me a poet but I believe them not	X
For naught of mine or worthy Varius yet	Y
Or Cinna deem I but account myself	P
A cackling goose among melodious swans	A
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MOERIS	A
'Twas in my thought to do so Lycidas	A
Even now was I revolving silently	A
If this I could recall no paltry song	Z
'Come Galatea what pleasure is 't to play	N
Amid the waves Here glows the Spring here earth	A2
Beside the streams pours forth a thousand flowers	A
Here the white poplar bends above the cave	P
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert come	B2
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore '	-
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LYCIDAS	A
What of the strain I heard you singing once	A
On a clear night alone the notes I still	C2
Remember could I but recall the words	A
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MOERIS	A
'Why Daphnis upward gazing do you mark	D2
The ancient risings of the Signs for look	E2
Where Dionean Caesar's star comes forth	F2
In heaven to gladden all the fields with corn	B
And to the grape upon the sunny slopes	A
Her colour bring Now the pears	A
So shall your children's children pluck their fruit	G2
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Time carries all things even our wits away	N
Oft as a boy I sang the sun to rest	H2
But all those songs are from my memory fled	J
And even his voice is failing Moeris now	B
The wolves eyed Moeris first but at your wish	I2
Menalcas will repeat them oft enow	B
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LYCIDAS	A
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire	J2
Now all the deep is into silence hushed	K2
And all the murmuring breezes sunk to sleep	L2
We are half way thither for Bianor's tomb	M2
Begins to show here Moeris where the hinds	A
Are lopping the thick leafage let us sing	N2
Set down the kids yet shall we reach the town	B
Or if we fear the night may gather rain	B
Ere we arrive then singing let us go	O2
Our way to lighten and that we may thus	A
Go singing I will case you of this load	P2
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MOERIS	A
Cease boy and get we to the work in hand	H
We shall sing better when himself is come	B2

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