The Lure Of Little Voices Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG CHCH CICI CJCJThere's a cry from out the loneliness oh listen Honey listen | A |
Do you hear it do you fear it you're a holding of me so | B |
You're a sobbing in your sleep dear and your lashes how they glisten | A |
Do you hear the Little Voices all a begging me to go | B |
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All a begging me to leave you Day and night they're pleading praying | C |
On the North wind on the West wind from the peak and from the plain | D |
Night and day they never leave me do you know what they are saying | C |
He was ours before you got him and we want him once again | E |
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Yes they're wanting me they're haunting me the awful lonely places | F |
They're whining and they're whimpering as if each had a soul | G |
They're calling from the wilderness the vast and God like spaces | F |
The stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole | G |
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They miss my little camp fires ever brightly bravely gleaming | C |
In the womb of desolation where was never man before | H |
As comradeless I sought them lion hearted loving dreaming | C |
And they hailed me as a comrade and they loved me evermore | H |
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And now they're all a crying and it's no use me denying | C |
The spell of them is on me and I'm helpless as a child | I |
My heart is aching aching but I hear them sleeping waking | C |
It's the Lure of Little Voices it's the mandate of the Wild | I |
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I'm afraid to tell you Honey I can take no bitter leaving | C |
But softly in the sleep time from your love I'll steal away | J |
Oh it's cruel dearie cruel and it's God knows how I'm grieving | C |
But His loneliness is calling and He knows I must obey | J |
Robert William Service
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