The Vision Of The Maid Of Orleans. The Third Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The Maiden musing on the Warrior's words	A
Turn'd from the Hall of Glory Now they reach'd	B
A cavern at whose mouth a Genius stood	C
In front a beardless youth whose smiling eye	D
Beam'd promise but behind withered and old	E
And all unlovely Underneath his feet	F
Lay records trampled and the laurel wreath	G
Now rent and faded in his hand he held	H
An hour glass and as fall the restless sands	I
So pass the lives of men By him they past	J
Along the darksome cave and reach'd a stream	K
Still rolling onward its perpetual waves	L
Noiseless and undisturbed Here they ascend	M
A Bark unpiloted that down the flood	N
Borne by the current rush'd The circling stream	K
Returning to itself an island form'd	O
Nor had the Maiden's footsteps ever reach'd	B
The insulated coast eternally	P
Rapt round the endless course but Theodore	Q
Drove with an angel's will the obedient bark	R
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They land a mighty fabric meets their eyes	S
Seen by its gem born light Of adamant	T
The pile was framed for ever to abide	U
Firm in eternal strength Before the gate	V
Stood eager EXPECTATION as to list	W
The half heard murmurs issuing from within	X
Her mouth half open'd and her head stretch'd forth	Y
On the other side there stood an aged Crone	Z
Listening to every breath of air she knew	A2
Vague suppositions and uncertain dreams	B2
Of what was soon to come for she would mark	R
The paley glow worm's self created light	C2
And argue thence of kingdoms overthrown	Z
And desolated nations ever fill'd	D2
With undetermin'd terror as she heard	E2
Or distant screech owl or the regular beat	F
Of evening death watch	F2
Maid the Spirit cried	U
Here robed in shadows dwells FUTURITY	U
There is no eye hath seen her secret form	G2
For round the MOTHER OF TIME unpierced mists	H2
Aye hover Would'st thou read the book of Fate	U
Enter	I2
The Damsel for a moment paus'd	U
Then to the Angel spake All gracious Heaven	J2
Benignant in withholding hath denied	U
To man that knowledge I in faith assured	U
That he my heavenly Father for the best	U
Ordaineth all things in that faith remain	K2
Contented	U
Well and wisely hast thou said	U
So Theodore replied and now O Maid	U
Is there amid this boundless universe	L2
One whom thy soul would visit is there place	M2
To memory dear or visioned out by hope	N2
Where thou would'st now be present form the wish	O2
And I am with thee there	P2
His closing speech	Q2
Yet sounded on her ear and lo they stood	U
Swift as the sudden thought that guided them	R2
Within the little cottage that she loved	U
He sleeps the good man sleeps enrapt she cried	U
As bending o'er her Uncle's lowly bed	U
Her eye retraced his features See the beads	S2
That never morn nor night he fails to tell	T2
Remembering me his child in every prayer	P2
Oh quiet be thy sleep thou dear old man	U2
Good Angels guard thy rest and when thine hour	I2
Is come as gently mayest thou wake to life	V2
As when thro' yonder lattice the next sun	J2
Shall bid thee to thy morning orisons	S2
Thy voice is heard the Angel guide rejoin'd	U
He sees thee in his dreams he hears thee breathe	W2
Blessings and pleasant is the good man's rest	U
Thy fame has reached him for who has not heard	U
Thy wonderous exploits and his aged heart	U
Hath felt the deepest joy that ever yet	U
Made his glad blood flow fast Sleep on old Claude	U
Peaceful pure Spirit be thy sojourn here	X2
And short and soon thy passage to that world	U
Where friends shall part no more	Q
Does thy soul own	Z
No other wish or sleeps poor Madelon	Y2
Forgotten in her grave seest thou yon star	Z2
The Spirit pursued regardless of her eye	D
That look'd reproach seest thou that evening star	Z2
Whose lovely light so often we beheld	U
From yonder woodbine porch how have we gazed	U
Into the dark deep sky till the baffled soul	A3
Lost in the infinite returned and felt	U
The burthen of her bodily load and yearned	U
For freedom Maid in yonder evening slar	Z2
Lives thy departed friend I read that glance	S2
And we are there	Z2
He said and they had past	U
The immeasurable space	S2
Then on her ear	Z2
The lonely song of adoration rose	S2
Sweet as the cloister'd virgins vesper hymn	B3
Whose spirit happily dead to earthly hopes	S2
Already lives in Heaven Abrupt the song	C3
Ceas'd tremulous and quick a cry	Z2
Of joyful wonder rous'd the astonish'd Maid	U
And instant Madelon was in her arms	S2
No airy form no unsubstantial shape	D3
She felt her friend she prest her to her heart	U
Their tears of rapture mingled	U
She drew back	E3
And eagerly she gazed on Madelon	Y2
Then fell upon her neck again and wept	U
No more she saw the long drawn lines of grief	F3
The emaciate form the hue of sickliness	S2
The languid eye youth's loveliest freshness now	G3
Mantled her cheek whose every lineament	U
Bespake the soul at rest a holy calm	H3
A deep and full tranquillity of bliss	S2
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Thou then art come my first and dearest friend	U
The well known voice of Madelon began	U2
Thou then art come and was thy pilgrimage	I3
So short on earth and was it painful too	U
Painful and short as mine but blessed they	J3
Who from the crimes and miseries of the world	U
Early escape	D3
Nay Theodore replied	U
She hath not yet fulfill'd her mortal work	K3
Permitted visitant from earth she comes	S2
To see the seat of rest and oftentimes	S2
In sorrow shall her soul remember this	S2
And patient of the transitory woe	L3
Partake the anticipated peace again	M3
Soon be that work perform'd the Maid exclaimed	U
O Madelon O Theodore my soul	A3
Spurning the cold communion of the world	U
Will dwell with you but I shall patiently	P
Yea even with joy endure the allotted ills	S2
Of which the memory in this better state	U
Shall heighten bliss That hour of agony	P
When Madelon I felt thy dying grasp	N3
And from thy forehead wiped the dews of death	O3
The very horrors of that hour assume	P3
A shape that now delights	S2
O earliest friend	U
I too remember Madelon replied	U
That hour thy looks of watchful agony	P
The suppressed grief that struggled in thine eye	Z2
Endearing love's last kindness Thou didst know	L3
With what a deep and melancholy joy	Q3
I felt the hour draw on but who can speak	R3
The unutterable transport when mine eyes	S2
As from a long and dreary dream unclosed	U
Amid this peaceful vale unclos'd on him	B3
My Arnaud he had built me up a bower	Z2
A bower of rest See Maiden where he comes	S2
His manly lineaments his beaming eye	Z2
The same but now a holier innocence	S2
Sits on his cheek and loftier thoughts illume	B3
The enlighten'd glance	S2
They met what joy was theirs	S2
He best can feel who for a dear friend dead	U
Has wet the midnight pillow with his tears	S2
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Fair was the scene around an ample vale	S3
Whose mountain circle at the distant verge	T3
Lay softened on the sight the near ascent	U
Rose bolder up in part abrupt and bare	Z2
Part with the ancient majesty of woods	S2
Adorn'd or lifting high its rocks sublime	B3
The river's liquid radiance roll'd beneath	G
Beside the bower of Madelon it wound	U
A broken stream whose shallows tho' the waves	S2
Roll'd on their way with rapid melody	U
A child might tread Behind an orange grove	U3
Its gay green foliage starr'd with golden fruit	U
But with what odours did their blossoms load	U
The passing gale of eve less thrilling sweet	U
Rose from the marble's perforated floor	Z2
Where kneeling at her prayers the Moorish queen	V3
Inhaled the cool delight and whilst she asked	U
The Prophet for his promised paradise	S2
Shaped from the present scene its utmost joys	S2
A goodly scene fair as that faery land	U
Where Arthur lives by ministering spirits borne	W3
From Camlan's bloody banks or as the groves	S2
Of earliest Eden where so legends say	J3
Enoch abides and he who rapt away	J3
By fiery steeds and chariotted in fire	Z2
Past in his mortal form the eternal ways	S2
And John beloved of Christ enjoying there	Z2
The beatific vision sometimes seen	V3
The distant dawning of eternal day	J3
Till all things be fulfilled	U
Survey this scene	V3
So Theodore address'd the Maid of Arc	R
There is no evil here no wretchedness	S2
It is the Heaven of those who nurst on earth	X3
Their nature's gentlest feelings Yet not here	Z2
Centering their joys but with a patient hope	N2
Waiting the allotted hour when capable	Y3
Of loftier callings to a better state	U
They pass and hither from that better state	U
Frequent they come preserving so those ties	S2
That thro' the infinite progressiveness	S2
Complete our perfect bliss	S2
Even such so blest	U
Save that the memory of no sorrows past	U
Heightened the present joy our world was once	S2
In the first ra of its innocence	S2
Ere man had learnt to bow the knee to man	U2
Was there a youth whom warm affection fill'd	U
He spake his honest heart the earliest fruits	S2
His toil produced the sweetest flowers that deck'd	U
The sunny bank he gather'd for the maid	U
Nor she disdain'd the gift for VICE not yet	U
Had burst the dungeons of her hell and rear'd	U
Those artificial boundaries that divide	U
Man from his species State of blessedness	S2
Till that ill omen'd hour when Cain's stern son	J2
Delved in the bowels of the earth for gold	U
Accursed bane of virtue of such force	S2
As poets feign dwelt in the Gorgon's locks	S2
Which whoso saw felt instant the life blood	U
Cold curdle in his veins the creeping flesh	Z3
Grew stiff with horror and the heart forgot	U
To beat Accursed hour for man no more	Z2
To JUSTICE paid his homage but forsook	A4
Her altars and bow'd down before the shrine	B4
Of WEALTH and POWER the Idols he had made	U
Then HELL enlarged herself her gates flew wide	U
Her legion fiends rush'd forth OPPRESSION came	B3
Whose frown is desolation and whose breath	O3
Blasts like the Pestilence and POVERTY	U
A meagre monster who with withering touch	C4
Makes barren all the better part of man	U2
MOTHER OF MISERIES Then the goodly earth	X3
Which God had fram'd for happiness became	B3
One theatre of woe and all that God	U
Had given to bless free men these tyrant fiends	S2
His bitterest curses made Yet for the best	U
Hath he ordained all things the ALL WISE	S2
For by experience rous'd shall man at length	D4
Dash down his Moloch Idols Samson like	E4
And burst his fetters only strong whilst strong	C3
Believed Then in the bottomless abyss	S2
OPPRESSION shall be chain'd and POVERTY	U
Die and with her her brood of Miseries	S2
And VIRTUE and EQUALITY preserve	F4
The reign of LOVE and Earth shall once again	M3
Be Paradise whilst WISDOM shall secure	Z2
The state of bliss which IGNORANCE betrayed	U
	-
Oh age of happiness the Maid exclaim'd	U
Roll fast thy current Time till that blest age	G4
Arrive and happy thou my Theodore	Z2
Permitted thus to see the sacred depths	S2
Of wisdom	B3
Such the blessed Spirit replied	U
Beloved such our lot allowed to range	H4
The vast infinity progressive still	I4
In knowledge and encreasing blessedness	S2
This our united portion Thou hast yet	U
A little while to sojourn amongst men	M3
I will be with thee there shall not a breeze	S2
Wanton around thy temples on whose wing	J4
I will not hover near and at that hour	Z2
When from its fleshly sepulchre let loose	S2
Thy phoenix soul shall soar O best beloved	U
I will be with thee in thine agonies	S2
And welcome thee to life and happiness	S2
Eternal infinite beatitude	U
	-
He spake and led her near a straw roof'd cot	U
LOVE'S Palace By the Virtues circled there	Z2
The cherub listen'd to such melodies	S2
As aye when one good deed is register'd	U
Above re echo in the halls of Heaven	J2
LABOUR was there his crisp locks floating loose	S2
Clear was his cheek and beaming his full eye	Z2
And strong his arm robust the wood nymph HEALTH	K4
Still follow'd on his path and where he trod	U
Fresh flowers and fruits arose And there was HOPE	N2
The general friend and PITY whose mild eye	Z2
Wept o'er the widowed dove and loveliest form	B3
Majestic CHASTITY whose sober smile	L4
Delights and awes the soul a laurel wreath	G
Restrain'd her tresses and upon her breast	U
The snow drop hung its head that seem'd to grow	L3
Spontaneous cold and fair still by the maid	U
LOVE went submiss wilh eye more dangerous	S2
Than fancied basilisk to wound whoe'er	L3
Too bold approached yet anxious would he read	U
Her every rising wish then only pleased	U
When pleasing Hymning him the song was rais'd	U
	-
Glory to thee whose vivifying power	L3
Pervades all Nature's universal frame	B3
Glory to thee CREATOR LOVE to thee	U
Parent of all the smiling CHARITIES	S2
That strew the thorny path of Life with flowers	S2
Glory to thee PRESERVER to thy praise	S2
The awakened woodlands echo all the day	U
Their living melody and warbling forth	Y
To thee her twilight song the Nightingale	S3
Holds the lone Traveller from his way or charms	S2
The listening Poet's ear Where LOVE shall deign	K2
To fix his seat there blameless PLEASURE sheds	S2
Her roseate dews CONTENT will sojourn there	L3
And HAPPINESS behold AFFECTION'S eye	Z2
Gleam with the Mother's smile Thrice happy he	U
Who feels thy holy power he shall not drag	M4
Forlorn and friendless along Life's long path	N4
To Age's drear abode he shall not waste	U
The bitter evening of his days unsooth'd	U
But HOPE shall cheer his hours of Solitude	U
And VICE shall vainly strive to wound his breast	U
That bears that talisman and when he meets	S2
The eloquent eye of TENDERNESS and hears	S2
The bosom thrilling music of her voice	S2
The joy he feels shall purify his Soul	A3
And imp it for anticipated Heaven	J2

Robert Southey

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