Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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SCENE I Adam and Eve	A
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Oh my beloved companion	B
Oh thou of my existence	C
The very heart and soul	D
Hast thou with such excess of tender haste	E
With ceaseless pilgrimage	F
To find again thy Adam	G
Thus solitary wandered	H
Behold him Speak what are thy gentle orders	I
Why dost thou pause what ask of God what dost thou	J
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Eve Adam my best beloved	K
My guardian and my guide	L
Thou source of all my comfort all my joy	M
Thee thee alone I wish	N
And in these pleasing shades	O
Thee only have I sought	P
	-
Adam Since thou hast called thy Adam	G
Most beautiful companion	B
The source and happy fountain of thy joy	M
Eve if to walk with me	Q
It now may please thee I will show thee love	R
A sight thou hast not seen	S
A sight so lovely that in wonder thou	J
Wilt arch thy graceful brow	J
Look thou my gentle bride towards that path	T
Of this so intricate and verdant grove	U
Where sit the birds embowered	P
Just there where now with soft and snowy plumes	V
Two social doves have spread their wings for flight	P
Just there thou shalt behold oh pleasing wonder	W
Springing amid the flowers	I
A living stream that with a winding course	X
Flies rapidly away	Y
And as it flies allures	X
And tempts you to exclaim sweet river stay	Y
Hence eager in pursuit	P
You follow and the stream as it it had	P
Desire to sport with you	Z
Through many a florid many a grassy way	Y
Well known to him in soft concealment flies	X
But when at length he hears	X
You are afflicted to have lost his sight	P
He rears his watery locks and seems to say	Y
Gay with a gurgling smile	A2
'Follow ah follow still my placid course	X
If thou art pleased with me with thee I sport	P
And thus with sweet deceit he leads you on	B2
To the extremest bound	P
Of a fair flowery meadow then at once	X
With quick impediment	P
Says 'Stop Adieu for now yes now I leave you '	-
Then down a rock descends	X
There as no human foot can follow further	W
The eye alone must follow him and there	C2
In little space you see a mass of water	W
Collected in a deep and fruitful vale	D2
With laurel crowned and olive	R
With cypress orange and lofty pines	X
The limpid water in the sun's bright ray	Y
A perfect crystal seems	X
Hence in its deep recess	X
In the translucent wave	E2
You see a precious glittering sand of gold	P
And bright as moving silver	W
Innumerable fish	N
Here with melodious notes	X
The snowy swans upon the shining streams	X
Form their sweet residence	X
And seem in warbling to the wind to say	Y
'Here let those rest who wish for perfect joy '	-
So that my dear companion	B
To walk with me will please thee	Q
	-
Eve So well thy language to my sight has brought	P
What thou desirest to show me	Q
I see thy flying river as it sports	X
And hear it as it murmurs	X
And beauteous also is this scene where now	J
Pleased we sojourn and here perhaps even here	F2
The lily whitens with the purest lustre	W
And the rose reddens with the richest hue	Z
Here also bathed in dew	Z
Plants of minutest growth	G2
Are painted all with flowers	X
Here trees of amplest leaf	H2
Extend their rival shades	X
And stately rise to heaven	B
	-
Adam Now by these cooling shades	X
The beauty of these plants	X
By these delightful meadows	X
These variegated flowers	X
By the soft music of the rills and birds	X
Let us sit down in joy	M
	-
Eve Behold then I am seated	P
How I rejoice in viewing not alone	I2
These flowers these herbs these high and graceful plants	X
But Adam thou my lover	W
Thou thou art he by whom the meadows seem	J2
More beautiful to me	Q
The fruit more blooming and the streams more clear	K2
	-
Adam The decorated fields	X
With all their flowery tribute cannot equal	L2
Those lovelier flowers that with delight I view	Z
In the fair garden of your beauteous face	X
Be pacified you flowers	X
My words are not untrue	Z
You shine besprinkled with ethereal dew	Z
You give the humble earth to glow with joy	M
At one bright sparkle of the blazing sun	B
But with the falling sun ye also fall	M2
But these more living flowers	X
Of my dear beauteous Eve	A
Seem freshened every hour	W
By soft devotion's dew	Z
That she with pleasure sheds	X
Praising her mighty Maker	W
And by the rays of two terrestrial suns	X
In that pure heaven her face	X
They rise and not to fall	M2
Decking the Paradise	X
Of an enchanting visage	F
	-
Eve Dear Adam do not seek	N2
With tuneful eloquence	X
To soothe my ear by speaking of thy love	R
The heart is confident	P
That fondly flames with pure and hallowed ardour	W
In sweet exchange accept my gentle love	R
This vermeil tinctured gift you know it well	O2
This is the fruit forbidden	B
This is the blessed apple	L2
	-
Adam Alas what see I ah what hast thou done	B
Invader of the fruit	P
Forbidden by thy God	P
	-
Eve It would be long to tell thee	Q
The reason that induced me	Q
To make this fruit my prey let it suffice	X
I gained thee wings to raise thy flight to Heaven	B
	-
Adam Ne'er be it true ah never	W
That to obtain thy favour	W
I prove to Heaven rebellious and ungrateful	L2
And to obey a woman	B
So disobey my Maker and my God	P
Then did not death denounced	P
With terror's icy paleness blanch thy cheek	N2
	-
Eve And thinkest thou if the apple	L2
Were but the food of death	P2
The great producer would have raised it there	W
Where being is eternal	L2
Thinkest thou that if of error	W
This fruit tree were the cause	X
In man's delighted eye	Q2
So fertile and so fair	W
He would have formed it flourishing in air	W
Ah were it so he would indeed have given	B
A cause of high offence	X
Since nature has ordained	P
A monitress sagacious	X
That to support his being man must eat	P
And trust in what looks fair as just and good	P
	-
Adam If the celestial tiller	W
Who the fair face of Heaven	B
His thickly sown with stars	X
Amidst so many plants fruitful and fair	W
Placed the forbidden apple	L2
The fairest and most sweet	P
'Twas to make proof of man	R2
As a wise keeper of his heavenly law	S2
And to afford him scope for high desert	P
For he alone may gain the name of brave	E2
Who rules himself and all his own desires	X
Man might indeed find some excuse for sin	T2
If scantily with fruits	X
This garden were supplied	P
But this abounding in so many sweets	X
Man ought not to renounce	X
The clear command of Heaven	B
	-
Eve And is it thus you love me	Q
Ne'er be it true ah never	W
That I address you as my heart my life	U2
From you I'll only wander	W
Bathed in my tears and sighing	V2
And hating even myself	W2
I'll hide me from the sun	B
	-
Adam Dear Eve my sweetest love	R
My spirit and my heart	P
Oh haste to dry thine eyes	X
For mine are all these tears	X
That bathe thy cheek and stream upon thy bosom	G
	-
Eve Ah my unhappy state	P
I that so much have said so much have done	B
To elevate this man	R2
Above the highest Heaven and now so little	L2
Can he or trust or love me	Q
	-
Adam Ah do not grieve my life	U2
Too much it wounds my soul	D
To see thee in affliction	B
	-
Eve I know your sole desire	W
Is to be witness to my sighs and tears	X
Hence to the winds and seas	X
I pay this bitter tribute	P
	-
Adam Alas my heart is splitting	V2
What can I do When I look up to heaven	B
I feel an icy tremour	W
Even to my bones oppress me	Q
Anxious alone to guard the heavenly precept	P
If I survey my partner	W
I share her tears and echo back her sighs	X
'Tis torture and distraction	B
To wound her with refusal my kind heart	P
Would teach my opening hand to seize the apple	L2
But in my doubtful breast	P
My spirit bids it close	X
Adam thou wretch how many	Q
Various desires besiege thy trembling heart	P
One prompts thee now to sigh	Q2
Another to rejoice nor canst thou know	X2
Which shall incline thee most	P
Or sighs or joyous favour	W
From woman or from God	P
	-
Eve Yet he reflects and wishes	X
That Eve should now forsake	Y2
Her hope of being happy	Q
In elevating man	R2
Even while I hold the fruit of exaltation	R2
	-
Adam Though mute yet eloquent	P
Are all your looks my love	R
Alas whate'er you ask	Z2
You're certain to obtain	R2
And my heart grants before your tongue can speak	N2
Eyes that to me are suns	X
The Heaven of that sweet face	X
No more no more obscure	W
Return alas return	R2
To scatter radiance o'er that cloudy cheek	N2
Lift up O lift thy brow	W
From that soft mass of gold that curls around it	P
Locks like the solar rays	X
Chains to my heart and l	O2