The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Thus free our social time from morning flows	A
Till rising shades attempt the day to close	B
Thus my new friend Behold the light's decay	C
Back to yon city let me point thy way	C
South west behind yon hill the slooping sun	D
To ocean's verge his fluent course has run	D
His parting eyes a wat'ry radiance shed	E
Glance through the vale and tip the mountain's head	E
To which oppos'd the shad'wy gulfs below	F
Beauteous reflect the party colour'd snow	F
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Now dance the stars where Vesper leads the way	C
Yet all faint glimm'ring with remains of day	C
Orient the Queen of Night emits her dawn	G
And throws unseen her mantle o'er the lawn	G
Up the blue steep her crimson orb now shines	H
Now on the mountain top her arm reclines	H
In a red crescent seen her zone now gleams	I
Like Venus quiv'ring in reflecting streams	I
Yet red'ning yet round burning up the air	J
From the white cliff her feet slow rising glare	J
See flames condens'd now vary her attire	K
Her face a broad circumference of fire	K
Dark firs seem kindled in nocturnal blaze	L
Thro' ranks of pines her broken lustre plays	L
Here glares there brown projecting shade bestows	A
And glitt'ring sports upon the spangled snows	A
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Now silver turn her beams Yon den they gain	M
The big rouz'd lion shakes his brindled main	M
Fierce fleet gaunt monsters all prepar'd for gore	N
Rend woods vales rocks with wide resounding roar	N
O dire presage But fear not thou my friend	O
Our steps the guardians of the just attend	O
Homeward I'll wait thee on and now survey	C
How men and spirits chace the night away	C
Yon nymps and swains in am'rous mirth advance	P
To breathing music moves the circling dance	P
Here the bold youth in deeds advent'rous glow	F
Skimming in rapid sleds the crackling snow	F
Not when Tydides won the fun'ral race	Q
Shot his light car along in swifter pace	Q
Here the glaz'd way with iron feet they dare	J
And glide well pois'd like Mercuries in air	J
There crowds with stable tread and levell'd eye	R
Lift and dismiss the quoits that whirling fly	R
With force superior not with skill so true	S
The pond'rous disk from Roman sinews flew	S
Where neighb'ring hills some cloudy sheet sustain	M
Freez'd o'er the nether vale a pensive plain	M
Cross the roof'd hollow rolls the massy round	T
The crack'd ice rattles and the rocks resound	T
Censures disputes and laughs alternate rise	U
And deaf'ning clangor thunders up the skies	U
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Thus amid crowded images serene	V
From hour to hour we pass'd from scene to scene	V
Fast wore the night Full long we pac'd our way	C
Vain steps the city yet far distant lay	C
While thus the Hermit ere my wonder spoke	W
Methought with new amusement silence broke	W
Yon amber hu'd cascade which fleecy flies	U
Thro' rocks and strays along the trackless skies	U
To frolic fairies marks the mazy ring	X
Forth to the dance from little cells they spring	X
Measur'd to pipe or harp and next they stand	Y
Marshall'd beneath the moon a radiant band	Y
In frost work now delight the sportive kind	Z
Now court wild Fancy in the whistling wind	Z
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Hark the funereal bell's deep sounding toll	A2
To bliss from mis'ry calls some righteous soul	A2
Just freed from life like swift ascending fire	K
Glorious it mounts and gleams from yonder spire	B2
Light claps its wings It views with pitying sight	C2
The friendly mourner pay the pious rite	C2
The plume high wrought that black'ning nods in air	J
The slow pac'd weeping pomp the solemn pray'r	D2
The decent tomb the verse that Sorrow gives	E2
Where to remembrance sweet fair Virtue lives	E2
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Now to mid heav'n the whiten'd moon inclines	H
And shades contract mark'd out in clearer lines	H
With noiseless gloom the plains are delug'd o'er	K
See from the north what streaming meteors pour	N
Beneath Bo tes springs the radiant train	M
And quiver thro' the axle of his wain	M
O'er altars thus impainted we behold	F2
Half circling glories shoot in rays of gold	F2
Cross either swift elance the vivid fires	G2
As swift again each pointed flame retires	H2
In fancy's eye encount'ring armies glare	J
And sanguine ensigns wave unfurl'd in air	J
Hence the weak vulgar deem impending fate	I2
A monarch ruin'd or unpeopled state	I2
Thus comets dreadful visitants arise	U
To them wild omens science to the wise	U
These mark the comet to the sun incline	J2
While deep red flames around its center shine	J2
While its fierce rear a winding trail displays	L
And lights all ether with the sweepy blaze	L
Or when compell'd it flies the torrid zone	K2
And shoots by worlds unnumber'd and unknown	K2
By worlds whose people all aghast with fear	L2
May view that minister of vengeance near	L2
'Till now the transient glow remote and lost	M2
Decays and darkens 'mid involving frost	M2
Or when it sun ward drinks rich beams again	N2
And burns imperious on th' etherial plain	M
The learn'd one curious eyes it from afar	D2
Sparkling thro' night a new illustrious star	D2
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The moon descending saw us now pursue	S
The various talk the city near in view	S
Here from still life he cries avert thy sight	C2
And mark what deeds adorn or shame the night	C2
But heedful each immodest prospect fly	R
Where decency forbids enquiry's eye	R
Man were not man without love's wanton fire	K
But reason's glory is to quell desire	K
What are thy fruits O Lust Short blessings bought	O2
With long remorse the seed of bitter thought	P2
Perhaps some babe to dire diseases born	Q2
Doom'd for another's crimes thro' life to mourn	Q2
Or murder'd to preserve a mother's fame	R2
Or cast obscure the child of want and shame	R2
False pride What vices on our conduct steal	S2
From the world's eye one frailty to conceal	S2
Ye cruel mothers Soft those words command	Y
So near shall cruelty and mother stand	Y
Can the dove's bosom snakey venom draw	T2
Can its foot sharpen like the vulture's claw	T2
Can the fond goat or tender fleecy dam	U2
Howl like the wolf to tear the kid or lamb	U2
Yes there are mothers There I fear'd his aim	R2
And conscious trembled at the coming name	R2
Then with a sigh his issuing words oppos'd	V2
Straight with a falling tear the speech he clos'd	V2
That tenderness which ties of blood deny	R
Nature repaid me from a stranger's eye	R
Pale grew my cheeks But now to gen'ral views	W2
Our converse turns which thus my friend renews	W2
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Yon mansion made by beaming tapers gay	C
Drowns the dim night and counterfeits the day	C
From lumin'd windows glancing on the eye	R
Around athwart the frisking shadows fly	R
There midnight riot spreads illusive joys	X2
And fortune health and dearer time destroys	X2
Soon death's dark agent to luxuriant ease	Y2
Shall wake sharp warnings in some fierce disease	Y2
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O man thy fabric's like a well form'd state	I2
Thy thoughts first rank'd were sure design'd the great	I2
Passions plebeians are which faction raise	L
Wine like pour'd oil excites the raging blaze	L
Then giddy anarchy's rude triumphs rise	U
Then sov'reign reason from her empire flies	U
That ruler once depos'd wisdom and wit	Z2
To noise and folly place and pow'r submit	Z2
Like a frail bark thy weaken'd mind is tost	Z2
Unsteer'd unbalanc'd till its wealth is lost	Z2
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The miser spirit eyes the spendthrift heir	J
And mourns too late effects of sordid care	J
His treasures fly to cloy each fawning slave	A3
Yet grudge a stone to dignify his grave	A3
For this low thoughted craft his life employ'd	Z2
For this tho' wealthy he no wealth enjoy'd	Z2
For this he grip'd the poor and alms deny'd	Z2
Unfriended liv'd and unlamented died	Z2
Yet smile griev'd shade when that unprosp'rous store	N
Fast lessens when gay hours return no more	N
Smile at thy heir beholding in his fall	B3
Men once oblig'd like him ungrateful all	B3
Then thought inspiring woe his heart shall mend	Z2
And prove his only wise unflatt'ring friend	Z2
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Folly exhibits thus unmanly sport	Z2
While plotting mischief keeps reserv'd her court	Z2
Lo from that mount in blasting sulphur broke	W
Stream flames voluminous enwrapp'd with smoke	W
In chariot shape they whirl up yonder tow'r	D2
Lean on its brow and like destruction low'r	D2
From the black depth a fiery legion springs	C3
Each bold bad spectre claps her soun	R

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