Chapter Headings - The Naulahka Poem Rhyme Scheme

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There was a strife 'twixt man and maid	A
Oh that was at the birth of time	B
But what befall 'twixt man and maid	A
Oh that's beyond the grip of rhyme	B
'Twas Sweet I must not bide with you	C
And Love I cannot bide alone	D
For both were young and both were true	C
And both were hard as the nether stone	D
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Beware the man who's crossed in love	E
For pent up steam must find its vent	F
Stand back when he is on the move	G
And lend him all the Continent	H
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Your patience Sirs The Devil took me up	I
To the burned mountain over Sicily	J
Fit place for me and thence I saw my Earth	K
Not all Earth's splendour 'twas beyond my need	L
And that one spot I love all Earth to me	J
And her I love my Heaven What said I	M
My love was safe from all the powers of Hell	N
For you e'en you acquit her of my guilt	O
But Sula nestling by our sail specked sea	J
My city child of mine my heart my home	P
Mine and my pride evil might visit there	Q
It was for Sula and her naked port	R
Prey to the galleys of the Algerine	D
Our city Sula that I drove my price	S
For love of Sula and for love of her	T
The twain were woven gold on sackcloth twined	U
Past any sundering till God shall judge	V
The evil and the good	W
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Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown	D
For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down	D
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased	X
And the epitaph drear A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East	X
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There is pleasure in the wet wet clay	Y
When the artist's hand is potting it	Z
There is pleasure in the wet wet lay	Y
When the poet's pad is blotting it	Z
There is pleasure in the shine of your picture on the line	D
At the Royal Acade my	M
But the pleasure felt in these is as chalk to Cheddar cheese	A2
When it comes to a well made Lie	M
To a quite unwreckable Lie	M
To a most impeccable Lie	M
To a watertight fire proof angle iron sunk hinge time lock steel faced Lie	M
Not a private hansom Lie	M
But a pair and brougham Lie	M
Not a little place at Tooting but a country house with shooting	B2
And a ring fence deer park Lie	M
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When a lover hies abroad	C2
Looking for his love	E
Azrael smiling sheathes his sword	D2
Heaven smiles above	E
Earth and sea	J
His servants be	J
And to lesser compass round	E2
That his love be sooner found	E2
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We meet in an evil land	F2
That is near to the gates of hell	N
I wait for thy command	F2
To serve to speed or withstand	F2
And thou sayest I do not well	N
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Oh Love the flowers so red	G2
Are only tongues of flame	H2
The earth is full of the dead	G2
The new killed restless dead	G2
There is danger beneath and o'erhead	G2
And I guard thy gates in fear	I2
Of words thou canst not hear	J2
Of peril and jeopardy	G2
Of signs thou canst not see	G2
And thou sayest 'tis ill that I came	H2
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This I saw when the rites were done	D
And the lamps were dead and the Gods alone	D
And the grey snake coiled on the altar stone	D
Ere I fled from a Fear that I could not see	G2
And the Gods of the East made mouths at me	G2
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Beat off in our last fight were we	G2
The greater need to seek the sea	G2
For Fortune changeth as the moon	D
To caravel and picaroon	D
Then Eastward Ho or Westward Ho	K2
Whichever wind may meetest blow	K2
Our quarry sails on either sea	G2
Fat prey for such bold lads as we	G2
And every sun dried buccaneer	J2
Must hand and reef and watch and steer	I2
And bear great wrath of sea and sky	M
Before the plate ships wallow by	M
Now as our tall bows take the foam	P
Let no man turn his heart to home	P
Save to desire treasure more	L2
And larger warehouse for his store	L2
When treasure won from Santos Bay	Y
Shall make our sea washed village gay	Y
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Because I sought it far from men	D
In deserts and alone	D
I found it burning overhead	G2
The jewel of a Throne	D
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Because I sought I sought it so	K2
And spent my days to find	G2
It blazed one moment ere it left	G2
The blacker night behind	G2
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We be the Gods of the East	G2
Older than all	M2
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Masters of Mourning and Feast	G2
How shall we fall	M2
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Will they gape for the husks that ye proffer	T
Or yearn to your song	N2
And we have we nothing to offer	T
Who ruled them so long	N2
In the fume of the incense the clash of the cymbals the blare of the conch and the gong	N2
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Over the strife of the schools	O2
Low the day burns	P2
Back with the kine from the pools	O2
Each one returns	P2
To the life that he knows where the altar flame glows and the tulsi is trimmed in the urns	P2

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