The German Legion Poem Rhyme Scheme

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In the cot beside the water	A
In the white cot by the water	A
The white cot by the white water	A
There they laid the German maid	B
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There they wound her singing round her	A
Deftly wound her singing round her	A
Softly wound her singing round her	A
In a shroud like a cloud	C
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And they decked her as they wound her	A
With a wreath of leaves they bound her	A
Lornest leaves they scattered round her	A
Singing grief with every leaf	D
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Singing grief with every leaf	D
Sadder grief with sadder leaf	D
Sweeter leaf with sweeter grief	D
So't was sung in a dark tongue	E
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Like a latter lily lying	F
O'er whom falling leaves are sighing	F
And Autumn vapours crying	F
Pale and cold on misty mould	G
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So I saw her sweet and lowly	H
Shining shining pale and holy	H
Thro' the dim woe slowly slowly	H
Said and sung in that dark tongue	E
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Such an awe her beauty lent her	A
While they sang I dared not enter	A
That charmed ring where she was centre	A
But I stood with stirring blood	I
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Till the song fell like a billow	J
And I saw them leave her pillow	J
And go forth to the far willow	J
For the wreath of virgin death	K
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And I stood beside her pillow	J
While they plucked the distant willow	J
And my heart rose like a billow	J
As I said to the pale dead	L
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'Oh thou most fair and sweet virginity	H
Of whom this heart that beats for thee doth know	J
Nor name nor story that these limbs can be	H
For no man evermore that thou must go	J
Cold to the cold and that no eye shall see	H
That which thine unsolved womanhood doth owe	J
Of the incommunicable mystery	H
Shakes me with tears I could kneel down by thee	H
And o'er thy chill unmarriageable rest	M
Cry 'Thou who shalt no more at all be prest	M
To any heart one moment come to this	N
And feel me weeping with thy want of bliss	N
And all the unprais d beauties of thy breast	M
Thy breast which never shall a lover kiss ''	-
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Then I slowly left her pillow	J
For they came back with the willow	J
And my heart sinks as a billow	J
Doth implore towards the shore	O
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As I see the crown they weave her	A
And I know that I must leave her	A
And I feel that I could grieve her	A
Sad and sore for evermore	O
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And again they sang around her	A
In a richer robe they wound her	A
With the willow wreath they bound her	A
And the loud song like a cloud	C
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Of golden obscuration	J
With the strange tongue of her nation	J
Filled the house of lamentation	J
Till she lay in melody	H
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Like a latter lily lying	F
O'er whom falling leaves are sighing	F
And the Autumn vapours crying	F
In a dream of evening gleam	P
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And I saw her sweet and lowly	H
Shining shining pale and holy	H
Thro' the dim woe slowly slowly	H
Said and sung in a dark tongue	E
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In the cot beside the water	A
The white cot by the white water	A
English cot by English water	A
That shall see the German sea	H

Sydney Thompson Dobell

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