To Postumous In October Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEBBFFGH IIJJKKLL MNOOBBPP| When you and I were younger the world was passing fair | A |
| Our days were sped with laughter our steps were free as air | A |
| Life lightly lured us onward and ceased not to unroll | B |
| In endless shining vistas a playground for the soul | B |
| But now no glory fires us we linger in the cold | C |
| And both of us are weary and both are growing old | C |
| Come Postumus and face it and facing it confess | D |
| Your years are half a hundred and mine are nothing less | D |
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| When you and I were twenty my Postumus we kept | E |
| In tidy rooms in College and there we snugly slept | E |
| And still when I am dreaming the bells I can recall | B |
| That ordered us to chapel or welcomed us to hall | B |
| The towers repeat our voices the grey and ancient Courts | F |
| Are filled with mirth and movement and echo to our sports | F |
| Then riverward we trudge it all talking once again | G |
| Down all the long unlovely extent of Jesus Lane | H |
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| One figure leads the others with frank and boyish mien | I |
| Straight back and sturdy shoulders he lords it o'er the scene | I |
| His grip is firm and manly his cheeks are smooth and red | J |
| The tangled curls cling tightly about his jolly head | J |
| And when we launch the eight oar I hear his orders ring | K |
| With dauntless iteration I see his body swing | K |
| The pride of all the river the mainstay of our crew | L |
| O Postumous my bold one can this be truly you | L |
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| Nay Postumus my comrade the years have hurried on | M |
| You're not the only Phoenix I know whose plumes are gone | N |
| When I recall your splendour your memory too is stirred | O |
| You too can show a moulted but once refulgent bird | O |
| And if I still should press you you too could hardly fail | B |
| To point a hateful moral where I adorned the tale | B |
| 'Twere better to be thankful to Heaven that ruled it so | P |
| And gave us for our spending the days of long ago | P |
R. C. Lehmann
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