Mabel, A Sketch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Mabel A Sketch	A
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE	B
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ORAN a Speculative Philosopher	C
MABEL his Wife	D
HER FATHER	C
MAURICE ROGER her brothers	E
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MABEL	F
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SCENE I A Study Books pictures and sculpture about the room interspersed with chemical and other instruments globes c a singular blending of science with art indicating a delicate and speculative organization in the arranger	C
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ORAN MAURICE and ROGER	C
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ORAN	G
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Well well and so ye deem I love her not	H
Ye and the world that love so passing well	I
That still I trifle with her bright young life	D
As the wind plays with some frail water bell	I
Wafting it wantonly about the sky	J
Till at some harsher breath it breaks and dies	K
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MAURICE	L
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Nay not thus far would our reflections go	M
Friendship paints not with the foul brush of Conscience	N
But thou a man of dark and mystic aims	O
Tracking out Science through forbidden ways	P
Leaving the light and trodden paths to grope	Q
'Mid fearful speculations and wild dreams	R
May'st hunt thy Will o' the wisp until thou lead'st	S
Our sister all unwitting to her death	T
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ROGER	C
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That shalt thou answer unto us Thy life	D
Shall be to her life like the sun and shade	U
Lost in one setting	V
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ORAN	G
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Ay thou sayest well	I
Thou sayest well How oft a random shaft	W
Striketh King Truth betwixt the armour joints	X
One life one sun one setting for us both	Y
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Which way then tend your fears What certain aim	Z
Have all these strokes you level at my ways	P
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ROGER	C
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We say that you against all light received	A2
Against all laws of prudence and of love	B2
Practise dark magic on our sister's soul	C2
That by strange motions incantations spells	D2
So work you on her spirit that strange sleep	E2
Sombre as Death's dark shadow presently	F2
Steals o'er her fragile body dulls her sense	G2
And wraps her wholly in its chill embrace	H2
That thus spell bound lost to the living world	I2
She lies till thou again unwind her chain	J2
And wak'st her feebly to this life of earth	K2
Thus dost thou peril her thou blinded man	L2
Sett'st her dear life against thy moonstruck thought	M2
And slay'st thy dove on Folly's altar steps	N2
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MAURICE	L
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Ay if you loved her would your eyes have miss'd	O2
The moonish faintness that o'erlaps her now	P2
Melting the fresh full ruddy glow of health	Q2
To loveliness most heavenly yet most sad	R2
Her cheeks where youth once summer'd into roses	S2
Glow now with faint exotic loveliness	S2
Not native to this harsh and gusty earth	K2
And from her large dark eyes there seems to gaze	S2
Some angel with mute melancholy looks	S2
As from a casement at this jarring world	I2
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ORAN	G
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Ha then you too have seen it it is not	H
O Heaven is not delusion this fond dream	T2
But even now it works works bliss for her	C
Proceed Sir you were saying Sir I list	O2
That in her eyes you saw angelic fire	C
Pure from the dross the dimming clouds of earth	K2
Deem'd now her frame ethereal unakin	G
To earth's clay moulded fabrics such perchance	S2
As entering heaven might have left its dust	U2
At the bright folding portals sandal like	V2
And thence repassing in seraphic trance	S2
Still left unclaim'd the vesture at the gate	W2
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ROGER	C
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You glory in her weakness 'Tis too much	X2
Rash man beware a bitter end will come	Y2
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MAURICE	S2
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I fain would think that study hath o'erwrought	W2
Your heated brain to this short fever fit	W2
That soon may pass and leave your vision clear	Z2
In truth I note strange changes in your mien	G
A wandering glance quick restless eagerness	S2
Rapt snatches of deep thought wherein the mind	W2
Seems cleaving heaven with wild extatic wings	S2
Your cheeks are pale and all your nervous frame	Z
Thrills 'neath some strange enthusiastic touch	X2
Lay by your books awhile and breathe again	G
As in those days gone by the country air	A3
The sweet calm country air where perfume floats	S2
Like love that finds no heart so godlike large	B3
Can clasp it wholly in its one embrace	S2
But overflows creation with its bliss	S2
Thus shall you quickly exorcise this madness	S2
And cleanse your brain of these pernicious dreams	S2
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ORAN	G
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This madness I bethink me of the past	W2
Of all the great and noble who have toil'd	W2
Amid the deep dark mines of burning thought	W2
Wearing out life to quarry forth the Truth	C3
Of all the seers and watchers early and late	W2
Waiting with eager blood hot eyes the light	W2
Rising afar in some untrodden East	W2
Full of divine and precious influence	S2
Calling like Mezzuin from his minaret	W2
The thankless world to worship and be glad	W2
Of all the patient thinkers of the earth	K2
Who talk'd with Wisdom like familiar friends	S2
Until their voices unaccustom'd grew	D3
And men stared blankly at them as they pass'd	W2
I do bethink me of them all and know	G
How each walk'd through his labyrinth of scorn	G
And was accounted mad before all men	G
But patience Winter bears within its breast	W2
The nascent seeds of golden harvest time	E3
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This only shall I tell you of my ways	S2
Straying now here now there 'mid science' wealth	Q2
I have discover'd a vast hidden power	C
A power that perfected shall surely work	F3
Great revolution in all human laws	S2
Where stop its courses I as yet know not	W2
'Tis to me like the sun that all the day	W2
Shines godlike in my vision and at night	W2
Though darkness hide its brightness still I feel	G3
Shines on in glory over other spheres	S2
It is a power beneficent and good	W2
That grants to spirit infinite control	C2
Over all matter and that frees the soul	C2
From its flesh shackles and its sensuous means	S2
What else its influences or for health	Q2
For happiness or blessing I say not	W2
Save that such glimpses of vast powers unknown	G
Dawn on my wondering mind that like a man	G
Standing upon some giddy pinnacle	F
With a whole world seen faint and small below	G
I close mine eyes for very fear and joy	H3
To her my Mabel do I bear in love	B2
Some first fruits of my finding make her rich	I3
That gazing through her eyes I may behold	W2
How sweet is heaven how dear is happiness	S2
This is the sum of that I work on her	C
Then though I thank you for your good intent	W2
Leave me untroubled to my life of thought	W2
Leave her all trustful in the arms of love	B2
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ROGER	C
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You love her not false man your heart and soul	C2
Are steep'd in science till not e'en the heel	G3
Achilles like is vulnerable left	W2
Ay wear thus feeling's semblance as you will	J3
Pale visionary no more shall I pause	S2
But with strong hand arrest your mad career	Z2
Soon we return arm'd with a father's power	C
To snatch our sister from your fearful arts	S2
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MAURICE	S2
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Oh if you love her Sir as once you did	W2
If yet upon the dial of your life	D
Her sun mark out the short sweet hours of joy	H3
And all too swiftly on the shadows glide	W2
If yet you prize the loving heart you hold	W2
From this most mad delusion waken up	K3
That blindly blights her whom it seeks to bless	S2
Cease your Utopian and unsafe essays	S2
And rather turn your studious care to call	L3
The fading roses back into her cheeks	S2
And shed health's gladness on her feeble frame	Z
Reflect whilst yet you may lest late Remorse	S2
Stalk ghost like through the chambers of your soul	C2
Haunting their gloomy void for evermore	M3
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Exeunt Maurice and Roger	C
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SCENE II The Same	Z
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ORAN	G
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ORAN	G
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Not love her O my God thou knowest me	F2
Thou looking through me as the sun at noon	G
That searches through the being of the world	W2
Thou setting life against thy glory light	W2
As men hold up a crystal 'gainst the sun	G
Making its frame as nothing in the blaze	S2
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Lo my heart was like a chaotic world	W2
Still silent 'mid the dreary waste of time	E3
Man there was not in all its desert bounds	S2
But hoary ruins of past wondrous things	S2
Old unbeliefs fierce doubts unsightly dreams	S2
That wearing out their wild hot breathing life	D
Wearily stretch'd their writhing shapes to die	W2
Then came she moving o'er my awe hush'd soul	C2
Like God's own Spirit over earth's void waters	S2
And there arose order and life through all	L3
She was my sun set high to rule the day	W2
And make my world all bright and beautiful	F
She was my moon amid the stilly night	W2
Subduing darkness with her quiet smiles	S2
And stealing softly through my anxious dreams	S2
A sweet soul'd hostage for departed day	W2
She was my summer clothing all my life	D
With fragrant blossoms of delight and joy	H3
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A pause	S2
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Not love her 'Tis as yesterday the time	E3
When first my love stole fainting to her ear	N3
In deep scarce worded murmurs of desire	C
'Twas evening and above the weary land	W2
Silence lay dreaming in a golden hush	O3
The summer's sunset yellow'd in the wheat	W2
And the ripe year with harvest promise full	P3
Slept on the wavy slopes and verdant leas	S2
Like one who through long hours of toil at last	W2
Sees the glad work accomplish'd and in peace	S2
Flings him along the meadows to repose	S2
Below the bells of even faintly chimed	W2
And sent their hymnal music up the breeze	S2
To where I stood half praying by her side	W2
Then all my words and thoughts that came and went	W2
Waving about the secret of my love	B2
Like billows plashing on a silent shore	M3
All at one gush flow'd from me o'er her heart	W2
And broke the banks of silence then my love	B2
Sank through her liquid eyes to read her soul	C2
Like diver that through waving water floods	S2
Seeketh the priceless pearl that lies below	G
And there found life found joy for evermore	M3
It is as yesterday that time to me	F2
Sweet time when love entwines the locks of life	D
With fragrant blossoms like a one hour's bride	W2
And claspeth summer with soft pleading arms	S2
That she though ne'er so eager to be gone	G
Still tarries smiling for a last embrace	S2
And drops her hoarded flowers upon the way	W2
It is as yesterday my love the same	Z
The love that led me through all heavy tasks	S2
All lonely watchings by the midnight lamp	Q3
To win the fame that still might shine on her	C
And e'en how dear the thought this wondrous power	C
This godlike influence which has dawn'd on me	F2
Thus from my love takes colouring and aim	Z
Not love her Well well I'll forget the word	W2
The sun shines on though blind eyes see it not	W2
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A pause	S2
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It cannot be this aim so deeply weigh'd	W2
So long and calmly sifted cannot fail	R3
O wondrous power great mystery of life	D
Reserved for me of all the sons of men	G
Fruit ripening high upon the wall of heaven	G
For me to pluck with eager trembling hands	S2
And press its vintage out for thirsting worlds	S2
More blessed still that into her sweet cup	K3
First may I pour the clearest of the wine	G
For her for her ah yes for her supreme	T2
I struggle onward through this blinding light	W2
E'en at whose dazzling threshold I might stand	W2
Pale trembling like a terror smitten soul	C2
Waiting bewilder'd at the gate of heaven	G
Yet once again let me the plan review	D3
Searching within my soul of souls each part	W2
That doubt or danger lurking there may thus	S2
By love's keen scented instincts hunted be	F2
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A long pause	S2
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Yes it is so this deep magnetic sleep	E2
That from my being passes upon her	C
Bindeth the body close in deepest thrall	L3
But setteth free the soul What real need	W2
Hath spirit of these sensuous avenues	S2
Through which the soul looks feebly on the world	W2
This power then opes the prison door awhile	S3
And sends the spirit chainless o'er the earth	K2
This know I without eyes the spirit sees	S2
Gains instant cognizance of hidden things	S2
And counts all space for nothing knowledge comes	S2
Upon it with the falling of the flesh	T3
So that there is no thing in earth or heaven	G
But to the unhoused spirit native is	S2
The mantle falls and leaves the Prophet angel	F
Body then is the prison house of soul	C2
And freedom is its highest happiness	S2
Its heaven its primal being full of joy	H3
This power that holdeth thus the keys of life	D
Can then at will give moments of release	S2
Which to the soul are as the water brooks	S2
That scantly rise amid a sun scorch'd waste	W2
These oft repeated must at length destroy	H3
The thraldom of the flesh and give at will	J3
A freer issue to the practised soul	C2
At lowest gladden it with gleams of bliss	S2
Glimpses of heaven amid this exile time	E3
Yes thus my Mabel shall thy prison'd soul	C2
Rise to its sister angels heavenward still	J3
And soon the mortal fetters shall hang loose	S2
Scarce clogging aught its motions glad and free	F2
Thus shall thy young fair frame no longer be	F2
A prison but a meetest dwelling place	S2
Full of all infinite delights and dear	Z2
As is its nest to the heaven soaring lark	U3
That yearns down singing to it from the sky	W2
These men did they not see it in thine eyes	S2
Amazed and fearful at the dazzling sight	W2
As some rude passer gazing up aloft	W2
Sees from some casement unawares a face	S2
That makes his great rough heart on sudden rock	V3
With wonder and with worship in her frame	Z
Did they not see the mortal waxing faint	W2
The immortal fusing it with heavenly fire	C
Ay the charm works and thou my life my love	B2
Reapest the first fruits of my long long toil	W3
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SCENE III A Boudoir Flowers about it in beautifully shaped Vases A Greenhouse at one end The window panes delicately tinted and hung with light fleecy draperies	S2
MABEL working and singing in a low voice	S2
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MABEL singing	V
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At night when stars shine bright and clear	Z2
The soft winds on the casements blow	G
And round the chamber rustle low	G
Like one unseen whose voice we hear	N3
On tiptoe stealing to and fro	G
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At night when clouds are dark and drear	G
They moan about the lattice sore	G
And murmur sighs for evermore	G
That fill us with a chilly fear	G
Oft glancing at the well barr'd door	G
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At night in moonlight or in gloom	X3
They wander round the drooping thatch	Y3
Like some poor exile thence to catch	Y3
Fond glimpses of each well loved room	X3
And sigh beside the unraised latch	Y3
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O unseen Wind art thou alone	G
Thus breathing round the sleeping land	W2
Or roams with thee a spirit band	W2
Blending sad voices with thine own	G
Voices that once with cheerful tone	G
Made music round the sleeping land	W2
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ORAN from the Greenhouse unperceived	W2
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Ah her dear voice How all my nature thrills	S2
My heart my brain beneath the mellow sound	W2
Like some great dome with holy music fill'd	W2
She is the lark above my listening soul	C2
Hovering still with carols from Heaven's gate	W2
She is the perfumed breeze that evermore	G
Sweeps music from the Aeolian strings of life	D
She is the sea that fills with sweetest sound	W2
The yearning earth that folds it in its arms	S2
Not love her Ah dear heart how utterly	F2
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A pause	S2
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What if amid these spirit wanderings	S2
This so mysterious power can grant at will	J3
What if the angels smitten with her grace	S2
Woo'd her away for ever from my heart	W2
The dove came twice again unto the ark	U3
With messages of peace and hope and joy	H3
But the third time return'd not She's my dove	B2
Oh wing'd she ever from my longing heart	W2
The waters of my life would quick subside	W2
And leave me stranded on the shoals of Time	E3
What if God saw her hovering aloft	W2
And smiled her in amongst his cherubim	E3
What if the draught of bliss should Lethe like	V2
Blot me for ever from her memory	F2
So that she sought me never never more	G
Oblivion take again this fearful power	G
No more shall Fate be tempted with my wealth	Q2
Lest covetous it rob me of my all	L3
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A pause	S2
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And yet these are but dreams poor selfish fears	S2
That scum like float and dim Love's limpid tide	W2
Shall I thus cage my bird from liberty	F2
And let it beat its life out on the bars	S2
Lest some dear bliss detain it in the heavens	S2
Shall I spill rashly forth this wine of joy	H3
Because for me within the crystal cup	K3
Some dregs may haply rest when she has drunk	Z3
Ah no for her alone shall I take thought	W2
The first pure sacrifice of Love is self	A4
There is no peril God that sends the power	G
Will send the guardian angel to direct	W2
I work for her Heaven speed the work of love	B2
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Enters the room	E3
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MABEL	F
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I waited for thee love 'tis past the hour	G
And on my dial slumbers Time in shade	W2
When thou comest not to sun me	F2
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ORAN	G
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I but stood	W2
There on the threshold following thy voice	S2
Away away through mazy lengths of dreams	S2
Music low music from the lips we love	B2
Is the true siren that still lures the soul	C2
From cares of earth to the Enchanted Isles	S2
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MABEL	F
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Methinks that thou art sad to day my husband	W2
Let me share with thee pain as well as joy	H3
It is the sweetest right that love can claim	E3
We give our joys to strangers but our grief	B4
Sighs itself only forth for those we love	B2
We hang our sorrows on the loved one's ear	G
Like jewell'd pendents for a bridal feast	W2
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ORAN	G
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Tell me my Mabel if within this sleep	E2
To which mine art oft leads thee there should come	E3
Some angel bright with Heaven's reflected light	W2
Wooing thee upward with the songs of bliss	S2
Tell me my Mabel wouldst thou freely go	G
Leaving this fair earth vesture only here	G
Leaving me lornly gazing on the sky	W2
Blotting its sun out with my blinding tears	S2
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MABEL	F
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There is no angel but the angel Death	T
Could sever me from thee who art all my life	D
What Heaven is there but that which Love creates	S2
What songs of Bliss save those by Love intoned	W2
Ah thou to me art as the sun to Day	W2
That dies out with its setting utterly	F2
Thou art the ever flowing crystal spring	V
That keeps the fountain of my being full	P3
Thou art the heart that beats with measured pulse	S2
The joyous moments of my flowing life	D
Leave thee How canst thou wrong me with the thought	W2
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ORAN	G
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Dear Mabel Yet to day thy brothers came	E3
Taxing me harshly and in cruel terms	S2
With practising against thy precious life	D
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MABEL	F
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Oh Heaven	G
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ORAN	G
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They dread these trances whose dim fame	E3
Hath floated on the ignorant air to them	E3
They deem this priceless power new fall'n on me	F2
And treasured for thy sake my best beloved	W2
A most pernicious art that may perchance	S2
Work evil upon thee say dost thou fear	G
My Mabel hast thou faith and trust in me	F2
Shall I proceed or break this magic wand	W2
Wherewith they deem that I am dower'd withal	F
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MABEL	F
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I trust in thee my love with perfect faith	C4
Am I not as the floating gossamer	G
Steering through ether on thy guiding breath	T
Am I not as the clay within thy hand	W2
Taking the shape and image of thy thought	W2
Heed not these idle tongues that launch their doubts	S2
In erring love against thy watchful care	G
That which thou doest I accept with joy	H3
I wait for thee as waits a full sail'd bark	U3
The coming breeze to waft it o'er the sea	F2
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ORAN	G
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Fear not I do well think no peril lies	S2
Within this power but virtue of rare worth	K2
Else nevermore its wand had waved o'er thee	F2
Tell me dost bring no memory back to Earth	K2
Of all these glorious wanderings above	B2
No certain visions of the hidden things	S2
Thou seest in that far mystic spirit land	W2
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MABEL	F
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Nay it must be as thou dost tell me oft	W2
The soul doth lose its secrets at Earth's gate	W2
And all the blinding glories it hath known	G
Shed but their mystic influence over life	D
Therefore it may be 'tis I nought retain	G
Of that which passeth in these hours of trance	S2
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ORAN	G
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Yet strive once more to grasp the fleeting dreams	S2
Else shall I doubt that which I fondly hope	Q
Sleep love and let thy spirit bask awhile	F
In Heaven's own sunshine yet forget not me	F2
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Makes passes over her which shortly sink her into a state of trance	S2
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'Tis done she's free and now this lovely frame	E3
Lies tenantless a casket whose pure gems	S2
Now sparkle 'mid the opal lights of Heaven	G
This earth seems very lone and cold to me	F2
Now she is absent though a little space	S2
My heart goes restless wandering around	W2
Seeking her through old haunts and vacant nooks	S2
Like one who waking from some troubled dream	E3
Findeth his love soft stolen from his side	W2
And straightway seeketh in a dim amaze	S2
All through the moonlight for her straying feet	W2
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A pause	S2
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Where art thou O my dove about the sky	W2
Ruffling thy breast across what honey breeze	S2
Flashing white pinions 'gainst the golden sun	G
That fain would nest thee on his ardent breast	W2
Art thou soft floating through the joys of Heaven	G
With Earth far far beneath thee like a star	G
Struggling up through the tremulous sea of light	W2
That sucks its life down from the eye of day	W2
About the gate of Heaven there floats my dove	B2
Fann'd by the breath of melodies divine	G
Opes there no casement soft to take her in	G
And lay her in the bosom of delight	W2
O dove white dove now at the gate of Heaven	G
Wilt thou wing homeward ere the eventide	W2
On shining pinions to thine own soft nest	W2
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A pause	S2
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O wonderful Thou mansion tenantless	S2
Unswept by memory untrod by thought	W2
Where all lies tranced in motionless repose	S2
No whisper stirring round the silent place	S2
No foot of guest across the startled halls	S2
No rustling robes about the corridors	S2
No voices floating on the waveless air	G
No laughters no sweet songs like angel dreams	S2
On silver wings among the arch d domes	S2
No swans upon the mere no golden prow	G
Parting the crystal tide to Pleasure's breeze	S2
No flapping sail before the idle wind	W2
No music pulsing out its great wild heart	W2
In sweetest passion beats the noontide through	G
No lovers gliding down sun chequer'd glades	S2
In dreams that open wide the Eden gate	W2
And waft them past the guardian Seraphim	E3
Sleep over all the Present and the Past	W2
The Future standing idle at the gate	W2
Gazing amazed like one who in hot haste	W2
Bearing great tidings to some palace porch	D4
Findeth the place deserted	W2
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A noise without enter in haste Father Maurice and Roger	G
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How now Friends you are welcome	E3
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FATHER	G
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Where's my child	W2
That you maltreat most rash and guilty man	G
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ORAN	G
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Sir you are over hasty in your words	S2
Your child is here	G
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Points to Mabel who still lies entranced	W2
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FATHER	G
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Mabel wake Mabel O my God she's dead	W2
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MAURICE	S2
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How Dead	W2
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ROGER	G
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Ay murder'd	W2
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FATHER	G
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O my child my child	W2
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ORAN	G
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Peace she is well Sleep folds her in his arms	S2
And each upheaving of his drowsy breast	W2
Is like a billow upon pleasure's sea	S2
Wafting her on to far Hesperides	S2
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FATHER	G
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This is no healthy sleep that wraps her now	G
Else would she waken at my anxious cry	W2
'Tis death sleep wretched man	G
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MAURICE	S2
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Let's bear her hence	S2
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ROGER	G
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Nay let him now unwind his magic spells	S2
Or fall our vengeance on his guilty head	W2
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ORAN	G
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Dismiss your fears and cease your threats Old man	G
Soon shall I prove how much you wrong my love	B2
Thus do I call the spirit home again	G
And wave the slumber backward from her eyes	S2
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Makes passes to awaken her but without effect after long persistence	S2
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FATHER	G
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Impostor would you mock e'en Death itself	A4
Calling it sleep You see Death mocks you back	E4
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MAURICE	S2
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In vain no further seek to blind our fears	S2
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ORAN	G
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'Tis strange stand back Sirs 'tis your influence	S2
Hath neutralized my power stand off I say	S2
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Continuing the passes in great agitation	G
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ROGER	G
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By Heaven It is too much Let fall the mask	F4
O villain you have done your worst at last	W2
And ta'en the sweetest life in all the land	W2
But vengeance swift shall follow on your track	E4
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ORAN	G
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Hold hold young man talk not of vengeance here	G
This sleep shall pass and shame your blood hot words	S2
If it pass'd not the vengeance were forestall'd	W2
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A silence continuing the passes	S2
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O Mabel Mabel hear me where thou art	W2
Come to the lonely heart that yearns for thee	S2
Come to the eyes that seek thee through salt tears	S2
Patience Sirs now methinks the sense returns	S2
A smile steals o'er her lips and roseate hues	S2
Make morning on her downy cheek again	G
Back back my anguish shall unwind the charm	E3
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A silence	S2
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FATHER	G
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Sir I acquit you pity you perceive	G4
You loved her and have err'd against yourself	A4
But cease these struggles that but mock us now	G
They nought avail my child is dead	W2
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ORAN	G
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Mabel Mabel	F

Walter R. Cassels

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