A Dream. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD EFFEGG HIJKLL MNNMOO PJJQRS CMMCTT UVVUWW XYYUSS QZA2B2JJ C2JJC2D2D2 ME2E2MJF2 G2OOG2H2H2 I2J2J2I2K2K2 JL2L2JM2M2 N2O2O2N2K2K2

I stood far off above the haunts of menA
Somewhere I know not when the sky was dimB
From some worn glory and the morning hymnB
Of the gay oriole echoed from the glenA
Wandering I felt earth's peace nor knew I soughtC
A visioned face a voice the wind had caughtD
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I passed the waking things that stirred and gazedE
Thought bound and heeded not the waking flowersF
Drank in the morning mist dawn's tender showersF
And looked forth for the Day god who had blazedE
His heart away and died at sundown FarG
In the gray west faded a loitering starG
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It seemed that I had wandered through long yearsH
A life of years still seeking gropinglyI
A thing I dared not name now I could seeJ
In the still dawn a hope in the soft tearsK
Of the deep hearted violets a breathL
Of kinship like the herald voice of DeathL
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Slow moved the morning where the hill was bareM
Woke a reluctant breeze Dimly I knewN
My Day was come The wind blown blossoms threwN
Their breath about me and the pine swept airM
Grew to a shape a mighty formless thingO
A phantom of the wood's imaginingO
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And as I gazed spell bound it seemed to moveP
Its tendril limbs still swaying tremulouslyJ
As if in spirit doubt then glad and freeJ
Crystalled the being won from waiting groveQ
Into a human likeness There he stoodR
The vine browed shape of Nature's mortal moodS
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Now have I found thee Vision I have soughtC
These years unknowing surely thou art fairM
And inly wise and on thy tasselled hairM
Glows Heaven's own light Passion and fame are naughtC
To thy clear eyes O Prince of many landsT
Grant me thy joy I cried and stretched my handsT
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No answer but the flourish of the breezeU
Through the black pines Then slowly as the windV
Parts the dense cloud forms leaving naught behindV
But shapeless vapor through the budding treesU
Drifted some force unseen and from my sightW
Faded my god into the morning lightW
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Again alone With wistful straining eyesX
I waited and the sunshine flecked the bankY
Happy with arbutus and violets where I sankY
Hearing near by a host of melodiesU
The rapture of the woodthrush soft her moodS
The love mate with such golden numbers woo'dS
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He ceased the fresh moss odors filled the groveQ
With a strange sweetness the dark hemlock boughsZ
Moved soft as though they heard the brooklet rouseA2
To its spring soul and whisper low of loveB2
The white robed birches stood unbendinglyJ
Like royal maids in proud expectancyJ
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Athwart the ramage where the young leaves pressC2
It came to me ah call it what you willJ
Vision or waking dream I see it stillJ
Again a form born of the woodland stressC2
Grew to my gaze and by some secret signD2
Though shadow hid I knew the form was thineD2
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The glancing sunlight made thy ruddy hairM
A crown of gold but on thy spirit faceE2
There was no smile only a tender graceE2
Of love half doubt Upon thy hand a rareM
Wild bird of Paradise perched fearlesslyJ
With radiant plumage and still lustrous eyeF2
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And as I gazed I saw what I had deemedG2
A shadow near thy hand a dusky wingO
A bird like last year's leaves so dull a thingO
Beside its fellow as the sunshine gleamedG2
Each breast showed letters bright as crystalled rainH2
The fair bird bore Delight the other PainH2
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Then came thy voice O Love wilt have my giftI2
I stretched my glad hands eagerly to graspJ2
The heaven blown bird gold hued and longed to claspJ2
It close and know it mine Ere I might liftI2
The shining thing and hold it to my breastK2
Again I heard thy voice with vague unrestK2
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These are twin birds and may not parted beJ
Full in thine eyes I gazed and read thereinL2
The paradox of life of love of sinL2
As on a night of cloud and mysteryJ
One darting flash makes bright the hidden waysM2
And feet tread knowingly though thick the hazeM2
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Thy gift if so I chose no other handN2
Save thine I reached and gathered to my heartO2
The quivering sentient things Sometimes I startO2
To know them hidden there If I should standN2
Idly some day and one God help me breastK2
A homing breeze my brown bird knows its nestK2

Sophie M. (almon) Hensley



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