The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCADB ACED CE FAGFA GA| Three 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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