Fragment Iii - Years After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDEFGFE HIJGIHKG LLCC DMNMNDOO NPPNQQ RSRS NDDGTNGU CCNNGVVGV VWQWPPQ QQVVXQGQQQXG YZA2GZQIIA2YB2GQC2 DQDQPP GD2GD2QE2QD2E2 F2G2QF2QH2NDDQF2NQDQ NQF2

Fade off the ridges rosy lightA
Fade slowly from the last gray heightA
And leave no gloomy cloud to grieveB
The heart of this enchanted eveB
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All things beneath the still sky seemC
Bound by the spell of a sweet dreamC
In the dusk forest dreaminglyD
Droops slowly down each plum d headE
The river flowing softly byF
Dreams of the sea the quiet seaG
Dreams of the unseen stars and IF
Am dreaming of the dreamless deadE
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The river has a silken sheenH
But red rays of the sunset stainI
Its pictures from the steep shore caughtJ
Till shades of rock and fern and treeG
Glow like the figures on a paneI
Of some old church by twilight seenH
Or like the rich devices wroughtK
In mediaeval tapestryG
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All lonely in a drifting boatL
Through shine and shade I float and floatL
Dreaming and dreaming till I seemC
Part of the picture and the dreamC
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There is no sound to break the spellD
No voice of bird or stir of boughM
Only the lisp of waters wreathingN
In little ripples round the prowM
And a low air like Silence breathingN
That hardly dusks the sleepy swellD
Whereon I float to that strange deepO
That sighs upon the shores of SleepO
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But in the silent heaven bloomingN
Behold the wondrous sunset flowerP
That blooms and fades within the hourP
The flower of fantasy perfumingN
With subtle melody of scentQ
The blue aisles of the firmamentQ
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For colour music scent are oneR
From deeps of air to airless heightsS
Lo how he sweeps the splendid sunR
His burning lyre of many lightsS
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See the clear golden lily blowingN
It shines as shone thy gentle soulD
O my most sweet when from the goalD
Of life far gazing thou didst seeG
While Death still feared to touch thine eyesT
Where such immortal light was glowingN
The vision of eternityG
The pearly gates of ParadiseU
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Now richer hues the skies illumeC
The pale gold blushes into bloomC
Delicate as the floweringN
Of first love in the tender springN
Of Life when love is wizardryG
That over narrow days can throwV
A glamour and a glory soV
Did thine my Beautiful for meG
So long ago so long agoV
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So long ago so long agoV
Ah who can Love and Grief estrangeW
Or Memory and Sorrow partQ
Lo in the West another changeW
A deeper glow a rose of fireP
A rose of passionate desireP
Lone burning in a lonely heartQ
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A lonely heart a lonely floodQ
The wave that glassed her gleaming headQ
And smiling passed it does not knowV
That gleaming head lies dark and lowV
The myrtle tree that bends aboveX
I pray that it may early budQ
For under its green boughs sat weG
We twain we only hand in handQ
When Love was lord of all the landQ
It does not know that she is deadQ
And all is over now with LoveX
Is over now with Love and meG
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Once more once more O shining yearsY
Gone by once more O vanished daysZ
Whose hours flew by on iris wingsA2
Come back and bring my love to meG
My voice faints down the wooded waysZ
And dies along the darkling floodQ
The past is past I cry in vainI
For when did Death an answer deignI
To Love's heart broken questioningsA2
The dead are deaf dust chokes their earsY
Only the rolling river hearsB2
Far off the calling of the seaG
A shiver strikes through all my bloodQ
Mine eyes are full of sudden tearsC2
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The shadows gather over allD
The valley and the mountains oldQ
Shadow on shadow fast they fallD
On glooming green and waning goldQ
And on my heart they gather drearP
Damp as with grave damps dark with fearP
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O Sorrow Sorrow couldst thou leave meG
Not one brief hour to dream aloneD2
Hast thou not all my days to grieve meG
My nights are they not all thine ownD2
Thou hauntest me at morning lightQ
Thou blackenest the white moonbeamsE2
A hollow voice at noon at nightQ
A crowned ghost sitting on a throneD2
Ruling the kingdom of my dreamsE2
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Maker of men Thou gavest breathF2
Thou gavest love to all that liveG2
Thou rendest loves and lives apartQ
Allwise art Thou who questionethF2
Thy will or who can read Thy heartQ
But couldst Thou not in mercy giveH2
A sign to us one little sparkN
Of sure hope that the end of allD
Is not concealed beneath the pallD
Or wound up with the winding sheetQ
Who heedeth aught the preacher saithF2
When eyes wax dim and limbs grow starkN
And fear sits on the darkened bedQ
The dying man turns to the wallD
What hope have we above our deadQ
Tense fingers clutching at the darkN
And hopeless hands that vainly beatQ
Against the iron doors of DeathF2

Victor James Daley



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