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Fragments On The Poet And The Poetic Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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There are beggars in Iran and Araby	B
SAID was hungrier than all	C
Hafiz said he was a fly	A
That came to every festival	D
He came a pilgrim to the Mosque	E
On trail of camel and caravan	F
Knew every temple and kiosk	G
Out from Mecca to Ispahan	F
Northward he went to the snowy hills	H
At court he sat in the grave Divan	F
His music was the south wind's sigh	A
His lamp the maiden's downcast eye	A
And ever the spell of beauty came	I
And turned the drowsy world to flame	I
By lake and stream and gleaming hall	C
And modest copse and the forest tall	C
Where'er he went the magic guide	J
Kept its place by the poet's side	J
Said melted the days like cups of pearl	K
Served high and low the lord and the churl	K
Loved harebells nodding on a rock	L
A cabin hung with curling smoke	M
Ring of axe or hum of wheel	K
Or gleam which use can paint on steel	K
And huts and tents nor loved he less	N
Stately lords in palaces	O
Princely women hard to please	P
Fenced by form and ceremony	F
Decked by courtly rites and dress	N
And etiquette of gentilesse	N
But when the mate of the snow and wind	Q
He left each civil scale behind	Q
Him wood gods fed with honey wild	R
And of his memory beguiled	R
He loved to watch and wake	S
When the wing of the south wind whipt the lake	S
And the glassy surface in ripples brake	S
And fled in pretty frowns away	T
Like the flitting boreal lights	N
Rippling roses in northern nights	N
Or like the thrill of Aeolian strings	N
In which the sudden wind god rings	N
In caves and hollow trees he crept	U
And near the wolf and panther slept	U
He came to the green ocean's brim	V
And saw the wheeling sea birds skim	V
Summer and winter o'er the wave	W
Like creatures of a skiey mould	X
Impassible to heat or cold	X
He stood before the tumbling main	F
With joy too tense for sober brain	F
He shared the life of the element	Y
The tie of blood and home was rent	Z
As if in him the welkin walked	A2
The winds took flesh the mountains talked	A2
And he the bard a crystal soul	K
Sphered and concentric with the whole	K
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II	A
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The Dervish whined to Said	B2
Thou didst not tarry while I prayed	C2
Beware the fire that Eblis burned	D2
But Saadi coldly thus returned	D2
Once with manlike love and fear	E2
I gave thee for an hour my ear	F2
I kept the sun and stars at bay	T
And love for words thy tongue could say	T
I cannot sell my heaven again	F
For all that rattles in thy brain	F
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III	A
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Said Saadi When I stood before	G2
Hassan the camel driver's door	G2
I scorned the fame of Timour brave	W
Timour to Hassan was a slave	W
In every glance of Hassan's eye	A
I read great years of victory	F
And I who cower mean and small	K
In the frequent interval	K
When wisdom not with me resides	N
Worship Toil's wisdom that abides	N
I shunned his eyes that faithful man's	N
I shunned the toiling Hassan's glance	N
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IV	W
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The civil world will much forgive	W
To bards who from its maxims live	W
But if grown bold the poet dare	H2
Bend his practice to his prayer	H2
And following his mighty heart	I2
Shame the times and live apart	I2
Vae solis I found this	N
That of goods I could not miss	N
If I fell within the line	F
Once a member all was mine	F
Houses banquets gardens fountains	N
Fortune's delectable mountains	N
But if I would walk alone	F
Was neither cloak nor crumb my own	F
And thus the high Muse treated me	F
Directly never greeted me	F
But when she spread her dearest spells	N
Feigned to speak to some one else	N
I was free to overhear	F2
Or I might at will forbear	F2
Yet mark me well that idle word	J2
Thus at random overheard	J2
Was the symphony of spheres	N
And proverb of a thousand years	N
The light wherewith all planets shone	F
The livery all events put on	F
It fell in rain it grew in grain	F
It put on flesh in friendly form	K2
Frowned in my foe and growled in storm	K2
It spoke in Tullius Cicero	F2
In Milton and in Angelo	F2
I travelled and found it at Rome	L2
Eastward it filled all Heathendom	L2
And it lay on my hearth when I came home	L2
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V	F
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Mask thy wisdom with delight	M2
Toy with the bow yet hit the white	M2
As Jelaleddin old and gray	F2
He seemed to bask to dream and play	F2
Without remoter hope or fear	F2
Than still to entertain his ear	F2
And pass the burning summer time	L2
In the palm grove with a rhyme	L2
Heedless that each cunning word	J2
Tribes and ages overheard	J2
Those idle catches told the laws	N
Holding Nature to her cause	N
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God only knew how Saadi dined	Q
Roses he ate and drank the wind	Q
He freelier breathed beside the pine	F
In cities he was low and mean	F
The mountain waters washed him clean	F
And by the sea waves he was strong	N2
He heard their medicinal song	N2
Asked no physician but the wave	W
No palace but his sea beat cave	W
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Saadi held the Muse in awe	O2
She was his mistress and his law	K
A twelvemonth he could silence hold	X
Nor ran to speak till she him told	X
He felt the flame the fanning wings	N
Nor offered words till they were things	N
Glad when the solid mountain swims	N
In music and uplifting hymns	N
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Charmed from fagot and from steel	K
Harvests grew upon his tongue	P2
Past and future must reveal	K
All their heart when Saadi sung	P2
Sun and moon must fall amain	F
Like sower's seeds into his brain	F
There quickened to be born again	F
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The free winds told him what they knew	F
Discoursed of fortune as they blew	F
Omens and signs that filled the air	F2
To him authentic witness bare	F2
The birds brought auguries on their wings	N
And carolled undeceiving things	N
Him to beckon him to warn	F
Well might then the poet scorn	F
To learn of scribe or courier	F2
Things writ in vaster character	F2
And on his mind at dawn of day	F2
Soft shadows of the evening lay	F2
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Pale genius roves alone	F
No scout can track his way	F2
None credits him till he have shown	F
His diamonds to the day	F2
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Not his the feaster's wine	F
Nor land nor gold nor power	F2
By want and pain God screeneth him	L2
Till his elected hour	F2
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Go speed the stars of Thought	Q2
On to their shining goals	N
The sower scatters broad his seed	R2
The wheat thou strew'st be souls	N
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I grieve that better souls than mine	F
Docile read my measured line	F
High destined youths and holy maids	N
Hallow these my orchard shades	N
Environ me and me baptize	N
With light that streams from gracious eyes	N
I dare not be beloved and known	F
I ungrateful I alone	F
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Ever find me dim regards	N
Love of ladies love of bards	N
Marked forbearance compliments	N
Tokens of benevolence	N
What then can I love myself	W
Fame is profitless as pelf	W
A good in Nature not allowed	S2
They love me as I love a cloud	S2
Sailing falsely in the sphere	F2
Hated mist if it come near	F2
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For thought and not praise	N
Thought is the wages	N
For which I sell days	N
Will gladly sell ages	N
And willing grow old	X
Deaf and dumb and blind and cold	X
Melting matter into dreams	N
Panoramas which I saw	N
And whatever glows or seems	N
Into substance into Law	N
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For Fancy's gift	T2
Can mountains lift	T2
The Muse can knit	U2
What is past what is done	F
With the web that's just begun	F
Making free with time and size	N
Dwindles here there magnifies	N
Swells a rain drop to a tun	F
So to repeat	V2
No word or feat	V2
Crowds in a day the sum of ages	N
And blushing Love outwits the sages	N
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Try the might the Muse affords	N
And the balm of thoughtful words	N
Bring music to the desolate	W2
Hang roses on the stony fate	X2
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But over all his crowning grace	N
Wherefor thanks God his daily praise	N
Is the purging of his eye	A
To see the people of the sky	A
From blue mount and headland dim	L2
Friendly hands stretch forth to him	L2
Him they beckon him advise	N
Of heavenlier prosperities	N
And a more excelling grace	N
And a truer bosom glow	F2
Than the wine fed feasters know	F2
They turn his heart from lovely maids	N
And make the darlings of the earth	Y2
Swainish coarse and nothing worth	Y2
Teach him gladly to postpone	F
Pleasures to another stage	Z2
Beyond the scope of human age	Z2
Freely as task at eve undone	F
Waits unblamed to morrow's sun	F
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By thoughts I lead	B2
Bards to say what nations need	R2
What imports what irks and what behooves	N
Framed afar as Fates and Loves	N
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And as the light divides the dark	A3
Through with living swords	N
So shall thou pierce the distant age	Z2
With adamantine words	N
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I framed his tongue to music	B3
I armed his hand with skill	K
I moulded his face to beauty	F
And his heart the throne of Will	K
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For every God	C3
Obeys the hymn obeys the ode	D3
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For art for music over thrilled	E3
The wine cup shakes the wine is spilled	E3
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Hold of the Maker not the Made	C2
Sit with the Cause or grim or glad	F3
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That book is good	G3
Which puts me in a working mood	H3
Unless to Thought is added Will	K
Apollo is an imbecile	K
What parts what gems what colors shine	F
Ah but I miss the grand design	F
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Like vaulters in a circus round	I3
Who leap from horse to horse but never touch the ground	I3
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For Genius made his cabin wide	J
And Love led Gods therein to bide	J
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The atom displaces all atoms beside	J
And Genius unspheres all souls that abide	J
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To transmute crime to wisdom so to stem	L2
The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem	L2
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He could condense cerulean ether	F2
Into the very best sole leather	F2
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Forbore the ant hill shunned to tread	B2
In mercy on one little head	B2
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I have no brothers and no peers	N
And the dearest interferes	N
When I would spend a lonely day	F2
Sun and moon are in my way	F2
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The brook sings on but sings in vain	F
Wanting the echo in my brain	F
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He planted where the deluge ploughed	S2
His hired hands were wind and cloud	S2
His eyes detect the Gods concealed	J3
In the hummock of the field	J3
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For what need I of book or priest	K3
Or sibyl from the mummied East	K3
When every star is Bethlehem star	F2
I count as many as there are	F2
Cinquefoils or violets in the grass	N
So many saints and saviors	N
So many high behaviors	N
Salute the bard who is alive	W
And only sees what he doth give	W
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Coin the day dawn into lines	N
In which its proper splendor shines	N
Coin the moonlight into verse	N
Which all its marvel shall rehearse	N
Chasing with words fast flowing things nor try	A
To plant thy shrivelled pedantry	F
On the shoulders of the sky	A
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Ah not to me those dreams belong	N2
A better voice peals through my song	N2
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The Muse's hill by Fear is guarded	L3
A bolder foot is still rewarded	M3
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His instant thought a poet spoke	M
And filled the age his fame	L2
An inch of ground the lightning strook	M
But lit the sky with flame	L2
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If bright the sun he tarries	N
All day his song is heard	J2
And when he goes he carries	N
No more baggage than a bird	J2
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The Asmodean feat is mine	F
To spin my sand heap into twine	F
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Slighted Minerva's learn d tongue	M
But leaped with joy when on the wind	Q
The shell of Clio rung	M