The Philosopher Aristippus[1] To A Lamp Which Had Been Given Him By Lais Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Dulcis conscia lectuli lucerna	A
MARTIAL lib xiv epig	B
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Oh love the Lamp my Mistress said	C
The faithful Lamp that many a night	D
Beside thy Lais' lonely bed	C
Has kept its little watch of light	D
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Full often has it seen her weep	E
And fix her eye upon its flame	F
Till weary she has sunk to sleep	E
Repeating her beloved's name	F
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Then love the Lamp 'twill often lead	C
Thy step through learning's sacred way	G
And when those studious eyes shall read	C
At midnight by its lonely ray	G
Of things sublime of nature's birth	H
Of all that's bright in heaven or earth	H
Oh think that she by whom 'twas given	A
Adores thee more than earth or heaven	A
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Yes dearest Lamp by every charm	I
On which thy midnight beam has hung	B
The head reclined the graceful arm	I
Across the brow of ivory flung	B
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The heaving bosom partly hid	J
The severed lips unconscious sighs	K
The fringe that from the half shut lid	J
Adown the cheek of roses lies	K
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By these by all that bloom untold	L
And long as all shall charm my heart	M
I'll love my little Lamp of gold	L
My Lamp and I shall never part	M
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And often as she smiling said	C
In fancy's hour thy gentle rays	N
Shall guide my visionary tread	C
Through poesy's enchanting maze	N
Thy flame shall light the page refined	O
Where still we catch the Chian's breath	P
Where still the bard though cold in death	P
Has left his soul unquenched behind	O
Or o'er thy humbler legend shine	A
Oh man of Ascra's dreary glades	Q
To whom the nightly warbling Nine	A
A wand of inspiration gave	R
Plucked from the greenest tree that shades	Q
The crystal of Castalia's wave	R
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Then turning to a purer lore	S
We'll cull the sage's deep hid store	S
From Science steal her golden clue	T
And every mystic path pursue	T
Where Nature far from vulgar eyes	K
Through labyrinths of wonder flies	K
'Tis thus my heart shall learn to know	A
How fleeting is this world below	A
Where all that meets the morning light	D
Is changed before the fall of night	D
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I'll tell thee as I trim thy fire	U
Swift swift the tide of being runs	V
And Time who bids thy flame expire	W
Will also quench yon heaven of suns	V
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Oh then if earth's united power	U
Can never chain one feathery hour	U
If every print we leave to day	G
To morrow's wave will sweep away	G
Who pauses to inquire of heaven	A
Why were the fleeting treasures given	A
The sunny days the shady nights	X
And all their brief but dear delights	X
Which heaven has made for man to use	Y
And man should think it crime to lose	Z
Who that has culled a fresh blown rose	A2
Will ask it why it breathes and glows	A2
Unmindful of the blushing ray	G
In which it shines its soul away	G
Unmindful of the scented sigh	B2
With which it dies and loves to die	B2
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Pleasure thou only good on earth	H
One precious moment given to thee	C2
Oh by my Lais' lip 'tis worth	H
The sage's immortality	C2
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Then far be all the wisdom hence	D2
That would our joys one hour delay	G
Alas the feast of soul and sense	D2
Love calls us to in youth's bright day	G
If not soon tasted fleets away	G
Ne'er wert thou formed my Lamp to shed	C
Thy splendor on a lifeless page	E2
Whate'er my blushing Lais said	C
Of thoughtful lore and studies sage	E2
'Twas mockery all her glance of joy	F2
Told me thy dearest best employ	F2
And soon as night shall close the eye	B2
Of heaven's young wanderer in the west	G2
When seers are gazing on the sky	B2
To find their future orbs of rest	G2
Then shall I take my trembling way	G
Unseen but to those worlds above	H2
And led by thy mysterious ray	G
Steal to the night bower of my love	H2

Thomas Moore

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