The Foster Mother's Tale. A Dramatic Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Ter But that entrance Selma	A
Sel Can no one hear It is a perilous tale	B
Ter No one	C
Sel My husband's father told it me	D
Poor old Sesina angels rest his soul	E
He was a woodman and could fell and saw	F
With lusty arm You know that huge round beam	G
Which props the hanging wall of the old chapel	H
Beneath that tree while yet it was a tree	D
He found a baby wrapped in mosses lined	I
With thistle beards and such small locks of wool	J
As hang on brambles Well he brought him home	K
And reared him at the then Lord Valdez' cost	L
And so the babe grew up a pretty boy	M
A pretty boy but nost unteachable	J
And never learn'd a prayer nor told a bead	N
But knew the names of birds and mocked their notes	O
And whistled as he were a bird himself	P
And all the autumn 'twas his only play	J
To gather seeds of wild flowers and to plant them	Q
With earth and water on the stumps of trees	R
A Friar who gathered simples in the wood	S
A gray haired man he loved this little boy	M
The boy loved him and when the Friar taught him	T
He soon could write with the pen and from that time	U
Lived chiefly at the convent or the castle	J
So he became a rare and learned youth	V
But O poor wretch he read and read and read	W
Till his brain turned and ere his twentieth year	X
He had unlawful thoughts of many things	Y
And though he prayed he never loved to pray	J
With holy men nor in a holy place	Z
But yet his speech it was so soft and sweet	A2
The late Lord Valdez ne'er was wearied with him	T
And once as by the north side of the chapel	J
They stood together chained in deep discourse	B2
The earth heaved under them with such a groan	C2
That the wall tottered and had well nigh fallen	C
Right on their heads My Lord was sorely frightened	D2
A fever seized him and he made confession	C
Of all the heretical and lawless talk	E2
Which brought this judgement so the youth was seized	F2
And cast into that hole My husband's father	G2
Sobbed like a child it almost broke his heart	H2
And once as he was working near this dungeon	C
He heard a voice distinctly 'twas the youth's	I2
Who sung a doleful song about green fields	J2
How sweet it were on lake or wide savanna	A
To hunt for food and be a naked man	K2
And wander up and down at liberty	D
He always doted on the youth and now	L2
His love grew desperate and defying death	M2
He made that cunning entrance I described	N2
And the young man escaped	O2
Ter 'Tis a sweet tale	J
Such as would lull a listening child to sleep	P2
His rosy face besoiled with unwiped tears	Q2
And what became of him	T
Sel He went on shipboard	R2
With those bold voyagers who made discovery	D
Of golden lands Sesina's younger brother	G2
Went likewise and when he returned to Spain	S2
He told Sesina that the poor mad youth	V
Soon after they arrived in that new world	T2
In spite of his dissuasion seized a boat	U2
And all alone set sail by silent moonlight	V2
Up a great river great as any sea	D
And ne'er was heard of more but 'tis supposed	W2
He lived and died among the savage men	X2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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