The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway	A
Still on strange visionary land I stray	A
Now scenes crowd thick now indistinct appear	B
Swift glide the months and turn the varying year	B
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Near the Bull's horn light's rising monarch draws	C
Now on its back the Pleiades he thaws	C
From vernal heat pale winter forc'd to fly	D
Northward retires yet turns a wat'ry eye	D
Then with an aguish breath nips infant blooms	E
Deprives unfolding spring of rich perfumes	E
Shakes the slow circling blood of human race	F
And in sharp livid looks contracts the face	F
Now o'er Norwegian hills he strides away	A
Such slipp'ry paths Ambition's steps betray	A
Turning with sighs far spiral firs he sees	G
Which bow obedient to the southern breeze	G
Now from yon Zemblan rock his crest he shrouds	H
Like Fame's obscur'd amid the whitening clouds	H
Thence his lost empire is with tears deplor'd	I
Such tyrants shed o'er liberty restor'd	I
Beneath his eye that throws malignant light	J
Ten times the measur'd round of mortal sight	J
A waste pale glimm'ring like a moon that wanes	K
A wild expanse of frozen sea contains	K
It cracks vast floating mountains beat the shore	L
Far off he hears those icy ruins roar	L
And from the hideous crash distracted flies	M
Like one who feels his dying infant's cries	M
Near and more near the rushing torrents sound	N
And one great rift runs thro' the vast profound	N
Swift as a shooting meteor groaning loud	O
Like deep roll'd thunder thro' a rending cloud	O
The late dark Pole now feels unsetting day	A
In hurricanes of wrath he whirls his way	A
O'er many a polar Alp to Frost he goes	P
O'er crackling vales embrown'd with melting snows	P
Here bears stalk tenants of the barren space	F
Few men unsocial those a barb'rous race	F
At length the cave appears the race is run	Q
Now he recounts vast conquests lost and won	Q
And taleful in th' embrace of Frost remains	K
Barr'd from our climes and bound in icy chains	K
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Meanwhile the sun his beams on Cancer throws	P
Which now beneath his warmest influence glows	P
From glowing Cancer fall'n the King of day	A
Red thro' the kindling Lion shoots his ray	A
The tawny harvest pays the earlier plough	R
And mellowing fruitage loads the bending bough	R
'Tis day spring Now green lab'rinths I frequent	S
Where Wisdom oft retires to meet Content	T
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The mounting lark her warbling anthem lends	U
From note to note the ravish'd soul ascends	U
As thus it would the patriarch's ladder climb	V
By some good angel led to worlds sublime	V
Oft legends say the snake with waken'd ire	W
Like Envy rears in many a scaly spire	W
Then songsters droop then yield their vital gore	L
And innocence and music are no more	L
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Mild rides the morn in orient beauty drest	T
An azure mantle and a purple vest	T
Which blown by gales her gemmy feet display	A
Her amber tresses negligently gay	A
Collected now her rosy hand they fill	X
And gently wrung the pearly dew distil	X
The songful zephyrs and the laughing hours	Y
Breathe sweet and strew her op'ning way with flow'rs	Y
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The chatt'ring swallows leave their nested care	Z
Each promising return with plenteous fare	Z
So the fond swain who to the market hies	Y
Stills with big hopes his infant's tender cries	Y
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Yonder two turtles o'er their callow brood	T
Hang hov'ring ere they seek their guiltless food	T
Fondly they bill Now to their morning care	Z
Like our first parents part the am'rous pair	Z
But ah a pair no more With spreading wings	Y
From the high sounding cliff a vulture springs	Y
Steady he sails along th' aerial grey	A
Swoops down and bears yon tim'rous dove away	A
Start we who worse than vultures Nimrods find	T
Men meditating prey on human kind	T
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Wild beasts to gloomy dens repace their way	A
Where their couch'd young demand the slaughter'd prey	A
Rooks from their nodding nests black swarming fly	D
And in hoarse uproar tell the fowler nigh	D
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Now in his tabernacle rous'd the sun	Q
Is warn'd the blue etherial steep to run	Q
While on his couch of floating jasper laid	T
From his bright eye Sleep calls the dewy shade	T
The crystal dome transparent pillars raise	Y
Whence beam'd from saphires living azure plays	Y
The liquid floor in wrought with pearls divine	A2
Where all his labours in mosaic shine	A2
His coronet a cloud of silver white	T
His robe with unconsuming crimson bright	T
Varied with gems all heaven's collected store	L
While his loose locks descend a golden show'r	B2
If to his steps compar'd we tardy find	T
The Grecian racers who out strip the wind	T
Fleet to the glowing race behold him start	T
His quick'ning eyes a quiv'ring radiance dart	T
And while this last nocturnal flag is furl'd	T
Swift into life and motion look the world	T
The sun flow'r now averts her blooming cheek	C2
From west to view his eastern lustre break	D2
What gay creative pow'r his presence brings	Y
Hills lawns lakes villages the face of things	Y
All night beneath successive shadows miss'd	T
Instant begins in colours to exist	T
But absent these from sons of riot keep	E2
Lost in impure unmeditating sleep	E2
T'unlock his fence the new ris'n swain prepares	Y
And ere forth driv'n recounts his fleecy cares	Y
When lo an ambush'd wolf with hunger bold	T
Springs at the prey and fierce invades the fold	T
But by the pastor not in vain defy'd	T
Like our arch foe by some celestial guide	T
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Spread on yon rock the sea calf I survey	A
Bask'd in the sun his skin reflects the day	A
He sees yon tow'r like ship the waves divide	T
And slips again beneath the glassy tide	T
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The wat'ry herbs and shrubs and vines and flow'rs	Y
Rear their bent heads o'ercharg'd with nightly show'rs	Y
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Hail glorious sun to whose attractive fires	Y
The waken'd vegetative life aspires	Y
The juices wrought by thy directive force	Y
Thro' plants and trees perform their genial course	Y
Extend in root with bark unyielding bind	T
The hearted trunk or weave the branching rind	T
Expand in leaves in flow'ry blossoms shoot	T
Bleed in rich gums and swell in ripen'd fruit	T
From thee bright universal Pow'r began	F2
Instinct in brute and gen'rous love in man	F2
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Talk'd I of love Yon swain with am'rous air	Z
Soft swells his pipe to charm the rural fair	Z
She milks the flocks then list'ning as he plays	Y
Steals in the running brook a conscious gaze	Y
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The trout that deep in winter ooz'd remains	Y
Up springs and sunward turns its crimson stains	Y
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The tenants of the warren vainly chas'd	T
Now lur'd to ambient fields for green repast	T
Seek their small vaulted labyrinths in vain	G2
Entangling nets betray the skipping train	G2
Red massacres thro' their republic fly	D
And heaps on heaps by ruthless spaniels die	D
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The fisher who the lonely beech has stray'd	T
And all the live long night his net work spread	T
Drags in and bears the loaded snare away	A
Where flounce deceiv'd th' expiring finny prey	A
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Near Neptune's temple Neptune's now no more	L
Whose statue plants a trident on the shore	L
In sportive rings the gen'rous dolphins wind	T
And eye and think the image human kind	T
Dear pleasing friendship See the pile commands	Y
The vale and grim as Superstition stands	Y
Time's hand there leaves its print of mossy green	H2
With hollows carv'd for snakes and birds obscene	H2
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O Gibbs whose art the solemn fane can raise	Y
Where God delights to dwell and man to praise	Y
When moulder'd thus the column falls away	A
Like some great prince majestic in decay	A
When Ignorance and Scorn the ground shall tread	T
Where Wisdom tutor'd and Devotion pray'd	T
Where shall thy pompous work our wonder claim	I2
What but the Muse alone preserve thy name	I2
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The sun shines broken thro' yon arch that rears	Y
This once round fabric half depriv'd by years	Y
Which rose a stately colonnade and crown'd	T
Encircling pillars now unfaithful found	T
In fragments these the fall of those forbode	T
Which nodding just up heave their crumbling load	T
High on yon column which has batter'd st	T