To A Contemner Of The Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBADDEFGHFG EIJKLMLNDNDOK KOOPPQRQQS| You that would break with the Past | A |
| Why with so rude a gesture take your leave | B |
| None hinders go your way but wherefore cast | A |
| Contempt and boorish scorn | C |
| Upon the womb from which even you were born | C |
| Begone in peace Forbear to flout and grieve | B |
| Vulgar iconoclast | A |
| Those of a faith you cannot comprehend | D |
| To whom the Past is as a lovely friend | D |
| Nobly grown old yet nobly ever young | E |
| The temple and the treasure house of Time | F |
| With gains immortal stored | G |
| Of dream and deed and song | H |
| Since man from chaos first began to climb | F |
| His lonely soul for sword | G |
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| O base and trivial tongue | E |
| That dares to mock this solemn heritage | I |
| And foul this sacred page | J |
| Sorry the future that hath you for sire | K |
| And happy we who yet | L |
| Can bear the golden chimes from tower and spire | M |
| In the old heaven set | L |
| And link our hands and hearts with the great dead | N |
| That lived with God for friend | D |
| And drew strange sustenance from overhead | N |
| And knew a bright beginning in life's end | D |
| For all their earthly days | O |
| Were filled with meaning deeper than the hour | K |
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| Leave us our simple faith in star and flower | K |
| And all our simple ways | O |
| Of prayer and praise | O |
| And ancient virtues of humility | P |
| Honour and reverence and the bended knee | P |
| Old tenderness and gracious courtesies | Q |
| From Time so hardly won | R |
| But you that no more have content in these | Q |
| From out our sanctuaries | Q |
| Begone and gladly gone | S |
Richard Le Gallienne
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