Song For A Highland Drover Returning From England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFGHI JJEEKK JJLMEE NNOOEE PLKKJJ QQJ AR| Now fare thee well England no further I'll roam | A |
| But follow my shadow that points the way home | A |
| Your gay southern Shores shall not tempt me to stay | B |
| For my Maggy's at Home and my Children at play | B |
| Tis this makes my Bonnet set light on my brow | C |
| Gives my sinews their strength and my bosom its glow | D |
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| Farewell Mountaineers my companions adieu | E |
| Soon many long miles when I'm severed from you | E |
| I shall miss your white Horns on the brink of the Bourne | F |
| And o'er the rough Heaths where you'll never return | G |
| But in brave English pastures you cannot complain | H |
| While your Drover speeds back to his Maggy again | I |
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| O Tweed gentle Tweed as I pass your green vales | J |
| More than life more than Love my tir'd Spirit inhales | J |
| There Scotland my darling lies full in my view | E |
| With her bare footed Lasses and Mountains so blue | E |
| To the Mountains away my heart bounds like the Hind | K |
| For home is so sweet and my Maggy so kind | K |
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| As day after day I still follow my course | J |
| And in fancy trace back every Stream to its source | J |
| Hope cheers me up hills where the road lies before | L |
| O'er hills just as high and o'er tracks of wild Moor | M |
| The keen polar Star nightly rising to view | E |
| But Maggy's my Star just as steady and true | E |
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| O Ghosts of my Fathers O heroes look down | N |
| Fix my wandering thoughts on your deeds of renown | N |
| For the glory of Scotland reigns warm in my breast | O |
| And fortitude grows both from toil and from rest | O |
| May your deeds and your worth be for ever in view | E |
| And may Maggy bear sons not unworthy of you | E |
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| Love why do you urge me so weary and poor | P |
| I cannot step faster I cannot do more | L |
| I've pass'd silver Tweed e'en the Tay flows behind | K |
| Yet fatigue I'll disdain my reward I shall find | K |
| Thou sweet smile of innocence thou art my prize | J |
| And the joy that will sparkle in Maggy's blue eyes | J |
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| She'll watch to the southward perhaps she will sigh | Q |
| That the way is so long and the Mountains so high | Q |
| Perhaps some huge Rock in the dusk she may see | J |
| And will say in her fondness 'That surely is he ' | - |
| Good Wife you're deceiv'd I'm still far from my home | A |
| Go sleep my dear Maggy to morrow I'll come | R |
Robert Bloomfield
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