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The Marriage Of Tirzah And Ahirad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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IT is the dead of night	A
Yet more than noonday light	A
Beams far and wide from many a gorgeous hall	B
Unnumbered harps are tinkling	C
Unnumbered lamps are twinkling	C
In the great city of the fourfold wall	B
By the brazen castle's moat	D
The sentry hums a livelier note	D
The ship boy chaunts a shriller lay	E
From the galleys in the bay	E
Shout and laugh and hurrying feet	F
Sound from mart and square and street	F
From the breezy laurel shades	G
From the granite colonnades	G
From the golden statue's base	G
From the stately market place	G
Where upreared by captive hands	G
The great Tower of Triumph stands	G
All its pillars in a blaze	G
With the many coloured rays	G
Which lanthorns of ten thousand dyes	G
Shed on ten thousand panoplies	G
But closest is the throng	H
And loudest is the song	H
In that sweet garden by the river side	I
The abyss of myrtle bowers	G
The wilderness of flowers	G
Where Cain hath built the palace of his pride	I
Such palace ne'er shall be again	J
Among the dwindling race of men	J
From all its threescore gates the light	A
Of gold and steel afar was thrown	K
Two hundred cubits rose in height	A
The outer wall of polished stone	K
On the top was ample space	G
For a gallant chariot race	G
Near either parapet a bed	L
Of the richest mould was spread	L
Where amidst flowers of every scent and hue	M
Rich orange trees and palms and giant cedars grew	M
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In the mansion's public court	N
All is revel song and sport	N
For there till morn shall tint the east	O
Menials and guards prolong the feast	O
The boards with painted vessels shine	P
The marble cisterns foam with wine	P
A hundred dancing girls are there	Q
With zoneless waists and streaming hair	Q
And countless eyes with ardour gaze	G
And countless hands the measure beat	F
As mix and part in amorous maze	G
Those floating arms and bounding feet	F
But none of all the race of Cain	R
Save those whom he hath deigned to grace	G
With yellow robe and sapphire chain	R
May pass beyond that outer space	G
For now within the painted hall	B
The Firstborn keeps high festival	S
Before the glittering valves all night	A
Their post the chosen captains hold	T
Above the portal's stately height	A
The legend flames in lamps of gold	T
'In life united and in death	U
'May Tirzah and Ahirad be	V
'The bravest he of all the sons of Seth	U
'Of all the house of Cain the loveliest she '	-
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Through all the climates of the earth	W
This night is given to festal mirth	W
The long continued war is ended	X
The long divided lines are blended	X
Ahirad's bow shall now no more	Y
Make fat the wolves with kindred gore	Y
The vultures shall expect in vain	R
Their banquet from the sword of Cain	R
Without a guard the herds and flocks	G
Along the frontier moors and rocks	G
From eve to morn may roam	Z
Nor shriek nor shout nor reddened sky	A2
Shall warn the startled hind to fly	A2
From his beloved home	Z
Nor to the pier shall burghers crowd	B2
With straining necks and faces pale	C2
And think that in each flitting cloud	B2
They see a hostile sail	C2
The peasant without fear shall guide	I
Down smooth canal or river wide	I
His painted bark of cane	R
Fraught for some proud bazaar's arcades	G
With chestnuts from his native shades	G
And wine and milk and grain	R
Search round the peopled globe to night	A
Explore each continent and isle	D2
There is no door without a light	A
No face without a smile	D2
The noblest chiefs of either race	G
From north and south from west and east	O
Crowd to the painted hall to grace	G
The pomp of that atoning feast	O
With widening eyes and labouring breath	U
Stand the fair haired sons of Seth	U
As bursts upon their dazzled sight	A
The endless avenue of light	A
The bowers of tulip rose and palm	E2
The thousand cressets fed with balm	E2
The silken vests the boards piled high	A2
With amber gold and ivory	V
The crystal founts whence sparkling flow	F2
The richest wines o'er beds of snow	F2
The walls where blaze in living dyes	G
The king's three hundred victories	G
The heralds point the fitting seat	F
To every guest in order meet	F
And place the highest in degree	V
Nearest th' imperial canopy	V
Beneath its broad and gorgeous fold	T
With naked swords and shields of gold	T
Stood the seven princes of the tribes of Nod	G2
Upon an ermine carpet lay	E
Two tiger cubs in furious play	E
Beneath the emerald throne where sat the signed of God	G2
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Over that ample forehead white	A
The thousandth year returneth	U
Still on its commanding height	A
With a fierce and blood red light	A
The fiery token burneth	U
Wheresoe'er that mystic star	H2
Blazeth in the van of war	Y
Back recoil before its ray	E
Shield and banner bow and spear	I2
Maddened horses break away	E
From the trembling charioteer	I2
The fear of that stern king doth lie	A2
On all that live beneath the sky	A2
All shrink before the mark of his despair	I2
The seal of that great curse which he alone can bear	I2
Blazing in pearls and diamonds' sheen	J2
Tirzah the young Ahirad's bride	I
Of humankind the destined queen	J2
Sits by her great forefather's side	I
The jetty curls the forehead high	A2
The swan like neck the eagle face	G
The glowing cheek the rich dark eye	A2
Proclaim her of the elder race	G
With flowing locks of auburn hue	M
And features smooth and eye of blue	M
Timid in love as brave in arms	G
The gentle heir of Seth askance	G
Snatches a bashful ardent glance	G
At her majestic charms	G
Blest when across that brow high musing flashes	G
A deeper tint of rose	G
Thrice blest when from beneath the silken lashes	G
Of her proud eye she throws	G
The smile of blended fondness and disdain	R
Which marks the daughters of the house of Cain	R
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All hearts are light around the hall	B
Save his who is the lord of all	B
The painted roofs the attendant train	R
The lights the banquet all are vain	R
He sees them not His fancy strays	G
To other scenes and other days	G
A cot by a lone forest's edge	K2
A fountain murmuring through the trees	G
A garden with a wildflower hedge	K2
Whence sounds the music of the bees	G
A little flock of sheep at rest	L2
Upon a mountain's swarthy breast	L2
On his rude spade he seems to lean	J2
Beside the well remembered stone	K
Rejoicing o'er the promised green	J2
Of the first harvest man hath sown	K
He sees his mother's tears	G
His father's voice he hears	G
Kind as when first it praised his youthful skill	M2
And soon a seraph child	N2
In boyish rapture wild	N2
With a light crook comes bounding from the hill	M2
Kisses his hands and strokes his face	G
And nestles close in his embrace	G
In his adamantine eye	A2
None might discern his agony	V
But they who had grown hoary next his side	I
And read his stern dark face with deepest skill	M2
Could trace strange meanings in that lip of pride	I
Which for one moment quivered and was still	M2
No time for them to mark or him to feel	O2
Those inward stings for clarion flute and lyre	I2
And the rich voices of a countless quire	I2
Burst on the ear in one triumphant peal	O2
In breathless transport sits the admiring throng	H
As sink and swell the notes of Jubal's lofty song	H
	-
'Sound the timbrel strike the lyre	I2
Wake the trumpet's blast of fire	I2
Till the gilded arches ring	C
Empire victory and fame	P2
Be ascribed unto the name	P2
Of our father and our king	C
Of the deeds which he hath done	Q2
Of the spoils which he hath won	Q2
Let his grateful children sing	C
When the deadly fight was fought	R2
When the great revenge was wrought	R2
When on the slaughtered victims lay	E
The minion stiff and cold as they	E
Doomed to exile sealed with flame	P2
From the west the wanderer came	P2
Six score years and six he strayed	S2
A hunter through the forest shade	S2
The lion's shaggy jaws he tore	I2
To earth he smote the foaming boar	I2
He crushed the dragon's fiery crest	L2
And scaled the condor's dizzy nest	L2
Till hardy sons and daughters fair	I2
Increased around his woodland lair	I2
Then his victorious bow unstrung	C
On the g	C