The Wanderings Of Oisin: Book Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Now man of croziers shadows called our names	A
And then away away like whirling flames	A
And now fled by mist covered without sound	B
The youth and lady and the deer and hound	B
'Gaze no more on the phantoms ' Niamh said	C
And kissed my eyes and swaying her bright head	C
And her bright body sang of faery and man	D
Before God was or my old line began	D
Wars shadowy vast exultant faeries of old	E
Who wedded men with rings of Druid gold	E
And how those lovers never turn their eyes	F
Upon the life that fades and flickers and dies	F
Yet love and kiss on dim shores far away	G
Rolled round with music of the sighing spray	G
Yet sang no more as when like a brown bee	H
That has drunk full she crossed the misty sea	H
With me in her white arms a hundred years	I
Before this day for now the fall of tears	J
Troubled her song	K
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I do not know if days	L
Or hours passed by yet hold the morning rays	L
Shone many times among the glimmering flowers	M
Woven into her hair before dark towers	M
Rose in the darkness and the white surf gleamed	N
About them and the horse of Faery screamed	N
And shivered knowing the Isle of Many Fears	I
Nor ceased until white Niamh stroked his ears	I
And named him by sweet names	A
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A foaming tide	O
Whitened afar with surge fan formed and wide	O
Burst from a great door matred by many a blow	P
From mace and sword and pole axe long ago	P
When gods and giants warred We rode between	Q
The seaweed covered pillars and the green	Q
And surging phosphorus alone gave light	R
On our dark pathway till a countless flight	R
Of moonlit steps glimmered and left and right	R
Dark statues glimmered over the pale tide	O
Upon dark thrones Between the lids of one	S
The imaged meteors had flashed and run	S
And had disported in the stilly jet	T
And the fixed stars had dawned and shone and set	T
Since God made Time and Death and Sleep the other	U
Stretched his long arm to where a misty smother	U
The stream churned churned and churned his lips apart	V
As though he told his never slumbering heart	V
Of every foamdrop on its misty way	G
Tying the horse to his vast foot that lay	G
Half in the unvesselled sea we climbed the stair	W
And climbed so long I thought the last steps were	U
Hung from the morning star when these mild words	X
Fanned the delighted air like wings of birds	X
'My brothers spring out of their beds at morn	Y
A murmur like young partridge with loud horn	Y
They chase the noontide deer	Z
And when the dew drowned stars hang in the air	W
Look to long fishing lines or point and pare	W
An ashen hunting spear	Z
O sigh O fluttering sigh be kind to me	H
Flutter along the froth lips of the sea	H
And shores the froth lips wet	T
And stay a little while and bid them weep	A2
Ah touch their blue veined eyelids if they sleep	A2
And shake their coverlet	T
When you have told how I weep endlessly	H
Flutter along the froth lips of the sea	H
And home to me again	B2
And in the shadow of my hair lie hid	T
And tell me that you found a man unbid	T
The saddest of all men '	-
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A lady with soft eyes like funeral tapers	M
And face that seemed wrought out of moonlit vapours	M
And a sad mouth that fear made tremulous	M
As any ruddy moth looked down on us	M
And she with a wave rusted chain was tied	T
To two old eagles full of ancient pride	T
That with dim eyeballs stood on either side	T
Few feathers were on their dishevelled wings	M
For their dim minds were with the ancient things	M
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'I bring deliverance ' pearl pale Niamh said	T
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'Neither the living nor the unlabouring dead	T
Nor the high gods who never lived may fight	T
My enemy and hope demons for fright	T
Jabber and scream about him in the night	T
For he is strong and crafty as the seas	M
That sprang under the Seven Hazel Trees	M
And I must needs endure and hate and weep	A2
Until the gods and demons drop asleep	A2
Hearing Acdh touch thc mournful strings of gold '	-
	-
'Is he so dreadful '	-
'Be not over bold	T
But fly while still you may '	-
And thereon I	C2
'This demon shall be battered till he die	C2
And his loose bulk be thrown in the loud tide '	-
'Flee from him ' pearl pale Niamh weeping cried	T
'For all men flee the demons' but moved not	T
My angry king remembering soul one jot	T
There was no mightier soul of Heber's line	D2
Now it is old and mouse like For a sign	D2
I burst the chain still earless neNeless blind	T
Wrapped in the things of the unhuman mind	T
In some dim memory or ancient mood	T
Still earless netveless blind the eagles stood	T
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And then we climbed the stair to a high door	E2
A hundred horsemen on the basalt floor	E2
Beneath had paced content we held our way	G
And stood within clothed in a misty ray	G
I saw a foam white seagull drift and float	T
Under the roof and with a straining throat	T
Shouted and hailed him he hung there a star	F2
For no man's cry shall ever mount so far	F2
Not even your God could have thrown down that hall	G2
Stabling His unloosed lightnings in their stall	G2
He had sat down and sighed with cumbered heart	T
As though His hour were come	H2
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We sought the part	T
That was most distant from the door green slime	I2
Made the way slippery and time on time	I2
Showed prints of sea born scales while down through it	T
The captive's journeys to and fro were writ	T
Like a small river and where feet touched came	J2
A momentary gleam of phosphorus flame	J2
Under the deepest shadows of the hall	G2
That woman found a ring hung on the wall	G2
And in the ring a torch and with its flare	W
Making a world about her in the air	W
Passed under the dim doorway out of sight	T
And came again holding a second light	T
Burning between her fingers and in mine	D2
Laid it and sighed I held a sword whose shine	D2
No centuries could dim and a word ran	D
Thereon in Ogham letters 'Manannan'	D
That sea god's name who in a deep content	T
Sprang dripping and with captive demons sent	T
Out of the sevenfold seas built the dark hall	G2
Rooted in foam and clouds and cried to all	G2
The mightier masters of a mightier race	M
And at his cry there came no milk pale face	M
Under a crown of thorns and dark with blood	T
But only exultant faces	M
	-
Niamh stood	T
With bowed head trembling when the white blade shone	D
But she whose hours of tenderness were gone	D
Had neither hope nor fear I bade them hide	T
Under the shadowS till the tumults died	T
Of the loud crashing and earth shaking fight	T
Lest they should look upon some dreadful sight	T
And thrust the torch between the slimy flags	M
A dome made out of endless carven jags	M
Where shadowy face flowed into shadowy face	M
Looked down on me and in the self same place	M
I waited hour by hour and the high dome	K2
Windowless pillarless multitudinous home	K2
Of faces waited and the leisured gaze	M
Was loaded with the memory of days	M
Buried and mighty When through the great door	E2
The dawn came in and glimmered on the floor	E2
With a pale light I journeyed round the hall	G2
And found a door deep sunken in the wall	G2
The least of doors beyond on a dim plain	D
A little mnnel made a bubbling strain	D
And on the runnel's stony and bare edge	L2
A dusky demon dry as a withered sedge	L2
Swayed crooning to himself an unknown tongue	M2
In a sad revelry he sang and swung	M2
Bacchant and mournful passing to and fro	P
His hand along the runnel's side as though	P
The flowers still grew there far on the sea's waste	T
Shaking and waving vapour vapour chased	T
While high frail cloudlets fed with a green light	T
Like drifts of leaves immovable and bright	T
Hung in the passionate dawn He slowly turned	T
A demon's leisure eyes first white now burned	T
Like wings of kingfishers and he arose	M
Barking We trampled up and down with blows	M
Of sword and brazen battle axe while day	G
Gave to high noon and noon to night gave way	G
And when he knew the sword of Manannan	D
Amid the shades of night he changed and ran	D
Through many shapes I lunged at the smooth throat	T
Of a great eel it changed and I but smote	T
A fir tree roaring in its leafless top	N2
And thereupon I drew the livid chop	N2
Of a drowned dripping body to my breast	T
Horror from horror grew but when the west	T
Had surged up in a plumy fire I drave	O2
Through heart and spine and cast him in the wave	O2
Lest Niamh shudder	U
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Full of hope and dread	T
Those two came carrying wine and	T