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Lines - Written On Visiting A Scene In Argyleshire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDDE FGFHIJIIJ KDKDDDDDD LMLMNDNOD

At the silence of twilight's contemplative hourA
I have mused in a sorrowful moodB
On the wind shaken weeds that embosom the bowerA
Where the home of my forefathers stoodC
All ruin'd and wild is their roofless abodeD
And lonely the dark raven's sheltering treeE
And travell'd by few is the grass cover'd roadD
Where the hunter of deer and the warrior trodeD
To his hills that encircle the seaE
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Yet wandering I found on my ruinous walkF
By the dial stone aged and greenG
One rose of the wilderness left on its stalkF
To mark where a garden had beenH
Like a brotherless hermit the last of its raceI
All wild in the silence of nature it drewJ
From each wandering sun beam a lonely embraceI
For the night weed and thorn overshadow'd the placeI
Where the flower of my forefathers grewJ
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Sweed bud of the wilderness emblem of allK
That remains in this desolate heartD
The fabric of bliss to its centre may fallK
But patience shall never departD
Though the wilds of enchantment all vernal and brightD
In the days of delusion by fancy combinedD
With the vanishing phantoms of love and delightD
Abandon my soul like a dream of the nightD
And leave but a desert behindD
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Be hush'd my dark spirit for wisdom condemnsL
When the faint and the feeble deploreM
Be strong as the rock of the ocean that stemsL
A thousand wild waves on the shoreM
Through the perils of chance and the scowl of disdainN
May thy front be unalter'd thy courage elateD
Yea even the name I have worshipped in vainN
Shall awake not the sigh of remembrance againO
To bear is to conquer our fateD

Thomas Campbell



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