The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCADB ACED CE FAGFA GAThree Voices together Hurry to bless the hands that play | A |
The mouths that speak the notes and strings | B |
O masters of the glittering town | C |
O lay the shrilly trumpet down | C |
Though drunken with the flags that sway | A |
Over the ramparts and the towers | D |
And with the waving of your wings | B |
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First Voice Maybe they linger by the way | A |
One gathers up his purple gown | C |
One leans and mutters by the wall | E |
He dreads the weight of mortal hours | D |
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Second Voice O no O no they hurry down | C |
Like plovers that have heard the call | E |
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Third Voice O kinsmen of the Three in One | F |
O kinsmen bless the hands that play | A |
The notes they waken shall live on | G |
When all this heavy history's done | F |
Our hands our hands must ebb away | A |
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Three Voices together The proud and careless notes live on | G |
But bless our hands that ebb away | A |
William Butler Yeats
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