The Ballad Of William Sycamore [1790-1871] Poem Rhyme Scheme

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My father he was a mountaineer	A
His fist was a knotty hammer	B
He was quick on his feet as a running deer	A
And he spoke with a Yankee stammer	B
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My mother she was merry and brave	C
And so she came to her labor	B
With a tall green fir for her doctor grave	C
And a stream for her comforting neighbor	B
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And some are wrapped in the linen fine	D
And some like a godling's scion	E
But I was cradled on twigs of pine	D
And the skin of a mountain lion	E
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And some remember a white starched lap	F
And a ewer with silver handles	G
But I remember a coonskin cap	F
And the smell of bayberry candles	G
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The cabin logs with the bark still rough	H
And my mother who laughed at trifles	G
And the tall lank visitors brown as snuff	H
With their long straight squirrel rifles	G
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I can hear them dance like a foggy song	I
Through the deepest one of my slumbers	G
The fiddle squeaking the boots along	I
And my father calling the numbers	G
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The quick feet shaking the puncheon floor	J
And the fiddle squealing and squealing	K
Till the dried herbs rattled above the door	J
And the dust went up to the ceiling	K
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There are children lucky from dawn till dusk	L
But never a child so lucky	M
For I cut my teeth on 'Money Musk'	M
In the Bloody Ground of Kentucky	M
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When I grew tall as the Indian corn	N
My father had little to lend me	M
But he gave me his great old powder horn	N
And his woodsman's skill to befriend me	M
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With a leather shirt to cover my back	M
And a redskin nose to unravel	O
Each forest sign I carried my pack	M
As far as a scout could travel	O
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Till I lost my boyhood and found my wife	P
A girl like a Salem clipper	B
A woman straight as a hunting knife	P
With as eyes as bright as the Dipper	B
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We cleared our camp where the buffalo feed	Q
Unheard of streams were our flagons	G
And I sowed my sons like the apple seed	Q
On the trail of the Western wagons	G
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They were right tight boys never sulky or slow	R
A fruitful a goodly muster	B
The eldest died at the Alamo	R
The youngest fell with Custer	B
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The letter that told it burned my hand	S
Yet we smiled and said 'So be it '	-
But I could not live when they fenced the land	S
For it broke my heart to see it	T
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I saddled a red unbroken colt	U
And rode him into the day there	V
And he threw me down like a thunderbolt	W
And rolled on me as I lay there	V
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The hunter's whistle hummed in my ear	X
As the city men tried to move me	M
And I died in my boots like a pioneer	A
With the whole wide sky above me	M
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Now I lie in the heart of the fat black soil	Y
Like the seed of a prairie thistle	O
It has washed my bones with honey and oil	Y
And picked them clean as a whistle	O
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And my youth returns like the rains of Spring	M
And my sons like the wild geese flying	M
And I lie and hear the meadow lark sing	M
And have much content in my dying	M
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Go play with the towns you have built of blocks	G
The towns where you would have bound me	M
I sleep in my earth like a tired fox	G
And my buffalo have found me	M

Stephen Vincent Benet

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