Ginevra Degli Amieri. A Story Of Old Florence. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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So it is come The doctor's glossy smile	A
Deceives me not I saw him shake his head	B
Whispering and heard poor Giulia sob without	C
As slowly creaking he went down the stair	D
Were they afraid that I should be afraid	E
I who had died once and been laid in tomb	F
They need not	G
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Little one look not so pale	H
I am not raving Ah you never heard	I
The story Climb up there upon the bed	B
Sit close and listen After this one day	J
I shall not tell you stories any more	K
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How old are you my rose What almost twelve	L
Almost a woman Scarcely more than that	M
Was your fair mother when she bore her bud	N
And scarcely more was I when long years since	O
I left my father's house a bride in May	J
You know the house beside St Andrea's church	P
Gloomy and rich which stands and seems to frown	Q
On the Mercato humming at its base	R
And hold on high out of the common reach	S
The lilies and carved shields above its door	K
And higher yet to catch and woo the sun	T
A little loggia set against the sky	U
That was my play place ever as a child	V
And with me used to play a kinsman's son	T
Antonio Rondinelli Ah dear days	W
Two happy things we were with none to chide	X
Or hint that life was anything but play	J
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Sudden the play time ended All at once	Y
You must be wed they told me What is wed	B
I asked but with the word I bent my brow	Z
Let them put on the garland smiled to see	A2
The glancing jewels tied about my neck	B2
And so half pleased half puzzled was led forth	C2
By my grave husband older than my sire	D2
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O the long years that followed It would seem	E2
That the sun never shone in all those years	F2
Or only with a sudden troubled glint	G2
Flashed on Antonio's curls as he went by	U
Doffing his cap with eyes of wistful love	H2
Raised to my face my conscious woful face	R
Were we so much to blame Our lives had twined	I2
Together none forbidding for so long	J2
They let our childish fingers drop the seed	K2
Unhindered which should ripen to tall grain	L2
They let the firm small roots tangle and grow	M2
Then rent them careless that it hurt the plant	N2
I loved Antonio and he loved me	A2
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Life was all shadow but it was not sin	O2
I loved Antonio but I kept me pure	P2
Not for my husband's sake but for the sake	Q2
Of him my first born child my little child	V
Mine for a few short weeks whose touch whose look	R2
Thrilled all my soul and thrills it to this day	J
I loved but hear me swear I kept me pure	P2
Remember that Madonna when I come	S2
Before thy throne to morrow Be not stern	T2
Or gaze upon me with reproachful look	R2
Making my little angel hide his face	R
And weep while all the others turn glad eyes	U2
Rejoicing on their mothers	V2
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It was hard	W2
To sit in darkness while the rest had light	X2
To move to discords when the rest had song	J2
To be so young and never to have lived	Y2
I bore as women bear until one day	J
Soul said to flesh This I endure no more	K
And with the word uprose tore clay apart	Z2
And what was blank before grew blanker still	A3
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It was a fever so the leeches said	B
I had been dead so long I did not know	M2
The difference or heed Oil on my breast	B3
The garments of the grave about me wrapped	C3
They bore me forth and laid me in the tomb	F
The rich and beautiful and dreadful tomb	F
Where all the buried Amteris lie	U
Beneath the Duomo's black and towering shade	E
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Open the curtain child Yes it is night	X2
It was night then when I awoke to feel	D3
That deadly chill and see by ghostly gleams	E3
Of moonlight creeping through the grated door	K
The coffins of my fathers all about	C
Strange hollow clamors rang and echoed back	F3
As struggling out of mine I dropped and fell	G3
With frantic strength I beat upon the grate	H3
It yielded to my touch Some careless hand	I3
Had left the bolt half slipped My father swore	K
Afterward with a curse he would make sure	P2
Next time NEXT TIME That hurts me even now	Z
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Dead or alive I issued scarce sure which	J3
High overhead Giotto's tower soared	K3
Behind the Duomo rose all white and black	F3
Then pealed a sudden jargoning of bells	L3
And down the darkling street I wildly fled	B
Led by a little cold and wandering moon	M3
Which seemed as lonely and as lost as I	U
I had no aim save to reach warmth and light	X2
And human touch but still my witless steps	N3
Led to my husband's door and there I stopped	O3
By instinct knocked and called	P3
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A window oped	P3
A voice t'was his demanded Who is there	D
Tis I Ginevra Then I heard the tone	Q3
Change into horror and he prayed aloud	P3
And called upon the saints the while I urged	P3
O let me in Francesco let me in	O2
I am so cold so frightened let me in	O2
Then with a crash the window was shut fast	P3
And though I cried and beat upon the door	K
And wailed aloud no other answer came	R3
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Weeping I turned away and feebly strove	S3
Down the hard distance towards my father's house	T3
They will have pity and will let me in	O2
I thought They loved me and will let me in	O2
Cowards At the high window overhead	P3
They stood and trembled while I plead and prayed	P3
I am your child Ginevra Let me in	O2
I am not dead In mercy let me in	O2
The holy saints forbid declared my sire	D2
My mother sobbed and vowed whole pounds of wax	U3
To St Eustachio would he but remove	V3
This fearful presence from her door Then sharp	W3
Came click of lock and a long tube was thrust	P3
From out the window and my brother cried	P3
Spirit or devil go or else I fire	D2
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Where should I go Back to the ghastly tomb	F
And the cold coffined ones Up the long street	P3
Wringing my hands and sobbing low I went	P3
My feet were bare and bleeding from the stones	X3
My hands were bleeding too my hair hung loose	Y3
Over my shroud So wild and strange a shape	Z3
Saw never Florence since The people call	A4
That street through which I walked and wrung my hands	B4
Street of the Dead One even to this day	P3
The sleeping houses stood in midnight black	F3
And not a soul was in the streets but I	U
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At last I saw a flickering point of light	P3
High overhead in a dim window set	P3
I had lain down to die but at the sight	P3
I rose crawled on and with expiring strength	C4
Knocked sank again and knew not even then	D4
It was Antonio's door by which I lay	P3
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A window opened and a voice called out	P3
Qui e I am Ginevra And I thought	P3
Now he will fall to trembling like the rest	P3
And bid me hence But lo a moment more	K
The bolts were drawn and arms whose very touch	E4
Was life lifted and clasped and bore me in	O2
O ghost or angel of my buried love	H2
I know not care not which be welcome here	F4
Welcome thrice welcome to this heart of mine	G4
I heard him say and then I heard no more	K
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It was high noontide when I woke again	D4
To hear fierce voices wrangling by my bed	P3
My father's and my husband's for with dawn	H4
Gathering up valor they had sought the tomb	F
Had found me gone and tracked my bleeding feet	P3
Over the pavement to Antonio's door	K
Dead they cared nothing living I was theirs	I4
Hot raged the quarrel then came Justice in	O2
And to the court we swept I in my shroud	P3
To try the cause	J4
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This was the verdict given	T
A woman who has been to burial borne	K4
Made fast and left and locked in with the dead	P3
Who at her husband's door has stood and plead	P3
For entrance and has heard her prayer denied	P3
Who from her father's house is urged and chased	P3
Must be adjudged as dead in law and fact	P3
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The Court pronounces the defendant dead	P3
She can resume her former ties at will	A3
Or may renounce them if such be her will	A3
She is no more a daughter or a spouse	T3
Unless she choose and is set free to form	L4
New ties if so she choose	M4
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O blessed words	N4
That very day we knelt before the priest	P3
My love and I were wed and life began	O4
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Child of my child child of Antonio's child	P3
Bend down and let me kiss your wondering face	R
'Tis a strange tale to tell a rose like you	P4
But time is brief and had I told you not	P3
Haply the story would have met your ears	F2
From them the Amieri my own blood	P3
Now turned to gall whose foul and bitter lips	Q4
Will wag with lies when once my lips are dumb	S2
Pardon me Virgin I was gentle once	Y
And thou hast seen my wrongs Thou wilt forgive	R4
Now go my dearest When they wake thee up	S4
To tell thee I am dead be not too sad	P3
I who have died once do not fear to die	U
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Sweet was that waking sweeter will be this	T4
Close to Heaven's gate my own Antonio sits	U4
Waiting and spite of all the Frati say	P3
I know I shall not stand long at that gate	P3
Or knock and be refused an entrance there	D
For he will start up when lie hears my voice	V4
The saints will smile and he will open quick	W4
Only a night to part me from that joy	X4
Jesu Maria let the dawning come	S2