Hawthorn And Lavender Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ENVOY	A
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My songs were once of the sunrise	B
They shouted it over the bar	C
First footing the dawns they flourished	D
And flamed with the morning star	C
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My songs are now of the sunset	E
Their brows are touched with light	F
But their feet are lost in the shadows	G
And wet with the dews of night	F
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Yet for the joy in their making	H
Take them O fond and true	I
And for his sake who made them	J
Let them be dear to You	I
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PRAELUDIUM	J
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Largo espressivo	A
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In sumptuous chords and strange	K
Through rich yet poignant harmonies	L
Subtle and strong browns reds	M
Magnificent with death and the pride of death	N
Thin clamant greens	O
And delicate yellows that exhaust	P
The exquisite chromatics of decay	Q
From ruining gardens from reluctant woods	R
Dear multitudinously reluctant woods	R
And sering margents forced	S
To be lean and bare and perished grace by grace	T
And flower by flower discharmed	S
Comes to a purpose none	U
Not even the Scorner which is the Fool can blink	V
The dead march of the year	W
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Dead things and dying Now the long laboured soul	X
Listens and pines But never a note of hope	Y
Sounds whether in those high	A
Transcending unisons of resignation	U
That speed the sovran sun	U
As he goes southing weakening minishing	V
Almighty in obedience or in those	G
Small sorrowful colloquies	G
Of bronze and russet and gold	S
Colour with colour dying things with dead	S
That break along this visual orchestra	Z
As in that other one the audible	A2
Horn answers horn hautboy and violin	B2
Talk and the 'cello calls the clarionet	S
And flute and the poor heart is glad	S
There is no hope in these only despair	C2
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Then destiny in act ensues	G
That most tremendous passage in the score	D2
When hangman rains and winds have wrought	S
Their worst and the brave lights gone down	E2
The low strings the brute brass the sullen drums	G
Sob grovel and curse themselves	G
Silent	S
But on the spirit of Man	F2
And on the heart of the World there falls	G
A strange half desperate peace	G
A war worn militant gray jubilance	G
In the unkind implacable tyranny	G2
Of Winter the obscene	H2
Old crapulous Regent who in his loins	G
O who but feels he carries in his loins	G
The wild sweet blooded wonderful harlot Spring	V
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I	A
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Low low	I2
Over a perishing after glow	I2
A thin red shred of moon	J2
Trailed In the windless air	C2
The poplars all ranked lean and chill	K2
The smell of winter loitered there	C2
And the Year's heart felt still	K2
Yet not so far away	Q
Seemed the mad Spring	V
But that as lovers will	K2
I let my laughing heart go play	Q
As it had been a fond maid's frolicking	V
And turning thrice the gold I'd got	S
In the good gloom	J
Solemnly wished me what	S
What and with whom	J
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II	A
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Moon of half candied meres	G
And flurrying fading snows	G
Moon of unkindly rains	G
Wild skies and troubled vanes	G
When the Norther snarls and bites	G
And the lone moon walks a cold	S
And the lawns grizzle o' nights	G
And wet fogs search the fold	S
Here in this heart of mine	L2
A dream that warms like wine	L2
A dream one other knows	G
Moon of the roaring weirs	G
And the sip sopping close	G
February Fill Dyke	V
Shapes like a royal rose	G
A red red rose	G
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O but the distance clears	G
O but the daylight grows	G
Soon shall the pied wind flowers	G
Babble of greening hours	G
Primrose and daffodil	K2
Yearn to a fathering sun	U
The lark have all his will	K2
The thrush be never done	U
And April May and June	J2
Go to the same blythe tune	J2
As this blythe dream of mine	L2
Moon when the crocus peers	G
Moon when the violet blows	G
February Fair Maid	S
Haste and let come the rose	G
Let come the rose	G
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III	A
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The night dislimns and breaks	G
Like snows slow thawn	L2
An evil wind awakes	G
On lea and lawn	L2
The low East quakes and hark	V
Out of the kindless dark	V
A fierce protesting lark	V
High in the horror of dawn	L2
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A shivering streak of light	S
A scurry of rain	L2
Bleak day from bleaker night	S
Creeps pinched and fain	L2
The old gloom thins and dies	G
And in the wretched skies	G
A new gloom sick to rise	G
Sprawls like a thing in pain	L2
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And yet what matter say	G
The shuddering trees	G
The Easter stricken day	G
The sodden leas	G
The good bird wing and wing	V
With Time finds heart to sing	V
As he were hastening	V
The swallow o'er the seas	G
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IV	A
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It came with the year's first crocus	G
In a world of winds and snows	G
Because it would because it must	S
Because of life and time and lust	S
And a year's first crocus served my turn	L2
As well as the year's first rose	G
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The March rack hurries and hectors	G
The March dust heaps and blows	G
But the primrose flouts the daffodil	K2
And here's the patient violet still	K2
And the year's first crocus brought me luck	V
So hey for the year's first rose	G
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V	A
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The good South West on sea worn wings	G
Comes shepherding the good rain	L2
The brave Sea breaks and glooms and swings	G
A weltering glittering plain	L2
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Sound Sea of England sound and shine	L2
Blow English Wind amain	L2
Till in this old gray heart of mine	L2
The Spring need wake again	L2
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VI	A
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In the red April dawn	L2
In the wild April weather	M2
From brake and thicket and lawn	L2
The birds sing all together	M2
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The look of the hoyden Spring	V
Is pinched and shrewish and cold	S
But all together they sing	V
Of a world that can never be old	S
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Of a world still young still young	V
Whose last word won't be said	S
Nor her last song dreamed and sung	V
Till her last true lover's dead	S
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VII	A
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The April sky sags low and drear	M2
The April winds blow cold	S
The April rains fall gray and sheer	M2
And yeanlings keep the fold	S
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But the rook has built and the song birds quire	M2
And over the faded lea	A
The lark soars glorying gyre on gyre	M2
And he is the bird for me	A
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For he sings as if from his watchman's height	S
He saw this blighting day	G
The far vales break into colour and light	S
From the banners and arms of May	G
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VIII	A
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Shadow and gleam on the Downland	S
Under the low Spring sky	A
Shadow and gleam in my spirit	S
Why	A
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A bird in his nest rejoicing	V
Cheers and flatters and woos	G
A fresh voice flutters my fancy	A
Whose	G
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And the humour of April frolics	G
And bickers in blade and bough	N2
O to meet for the primal kindness	G
Now	N2
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IX	G
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The wind on the wold	S
With sea scents and sea dreams attended	S
Is wine	L2
The air is as gold	S
In elixir it takes so the splendid	S
Sunshine	L2
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O the larks in the blue	I
How the song of them glitters and glances	G
And gleams	G
The old music sounds new	I
And it's O the wild Spring and his chances	G
And dreams	G
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There's a lift in the blood	S
O this gracious and thirsting and aching	V
Unrest	S
All life's at the bud	S
And my heart full of April is breaking	V
My breast	S
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X	G
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Deep in my gathering garden	L2
A gallant thrush has built	S
And his quaverings on the stillness	G
Like light made song are spilt	S
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They gleam they glint they sparkle	A2
They glitter along the air	M2
Like the song of a sunbeam netted	S
In a tangle of red gold hair	M2
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And I long as I laugh and listen	L2
For the angel hour that shall bring	V
My part pre ordained and appointed	S
In the miracle of Spring	V
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XI	G
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What doth the blackbird in the boughs	G
Sing all day to his nested spouse	G
What but the song of his old Mother Earth	O2
In her mighty humour of lust and mirth	O2
'Love and God's will go wing and wing	V
And as for death is there any such thing '	-
In the shadow of death	N
So at the beck of the wizard Spring	V
The dear bird saith	N
So the bird saith	N
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Caught with us all in the nets of fate	S
So the sweet wretch sings early and late	S
And O my fairest after all	P2
The heart of the World's in his innocent call	P2
The will of the World's with him wing and wing	V
'Life life life 'Tis the sole great thing	V
This side of death	N
Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring '	-
So the bird saith	N
The wise bird saith	N
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XII	G
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This world all hoary	G
With song and story	G
Rolls in a glory	G
Of youth and mirth	N
Above and under	M2
Clothed on with wonder	M2
Sunrise and thunder	M2
And death and birth	N
His broods befriending	V
With grace unending	V
And gifts transcending	V
A god's at play	G
Yet do his meetness	G
And sovran sweetness	G
Hold in the jocund purpose of May	G
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So take your pleasure	M2
And in full measure	M2
Use of your treasure	M2
When birds sing best	S
For when heaven's bluest	S
And earth feels newest	S
And love longs truest	S
And takes not rest	S
When winds blow cleanest	S
And seas roll sheenest	S
And lawns lie greenest	S
Then night and day	S
Dear life counts dearest	S
And God walks nearest	S
To them that praise Him praising His May	S
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XIII	G
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I talked one midnight with the jolly ghost	S
Of a gray ancestor TOM HEYWOOD hight	S
And 'Here's ' says he his old heart liquor lifted	S
'Here's how we did when GLORIANA shone '	-
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All in a garden green	L2
Thrushes were singing	V
Red rose and white between	L2
Lilies were springing	V
It was the merry May	S
Yet sang my Lady	S
'Nay Sweet now nay now nay	S
I am not ready '	-
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Then to a pleasant shade	S
I did invite her	M2
All things a concert made	S
For to delight her	M2
Under the grass was gay	S
Yet sang my Lady	S
'Nay Sweet now nay now nay	S
I am not ready '	-
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XIV	A
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Why do you linger and loiter O most sweet	S
Why do you falter and delay	S
Now that the insolent high blooded May	S
Comes greeting and to greet	S
Comes with her instant summonings to stray	S
Down the green antient way	S
The leafy still rose haunted eye proof street	S
Where true lovers each other may entreat	S
Ere the gold hair turn gray	S
Entreat and fleet	S
Life gaudily and so play out their play	S
Even with the triumphing May	S
The young eyed smiling irresistible May	S
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Why do you loiter and linger O most dear	M2
Why do you dream and palter and stay	S
When every dawn that rushes up the bay	S
Brings nearer and more near	M2
The Terror the Discomforter whose prey	S
Beloved we must be Nor prayer nor tear	M2
Lets his arraignment but we disappear	M2
What time the gold turns gray	S
Into the sheer	M2
Blind gulfs unglutted of mere Yesterday	S
With the unlingering May	S
The good fulfilling irresponsible May	S
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XV	A
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Come where my Lady lies	G
Sleeping down the golden hours	G
Cover her with flowers	G
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Bluebells from the clearings	G
Flag flowers from the rills	G
Wildings from the lush hedgerows	G
Delicate daffodils	G
Sweetlings from the formal plots	G
Bloomkins from the bowers	G
Heap them round her where she sleeps	G
Cover her with flowers	G
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Sweet pea and pansy	G
Red hawthorn and white	S
Gilliflowers like praising souls	G
Lilies lamps of light	S
Nurselings of what happy winds	G
Suns and stars and showers	G
Joylets good to see and smell	Q2
Cover her with flowers	G
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Like to sky born shadows	G
Mirrored on a stream	J
Let their odours meet and mix	G
And waver through her dream	J
Last the crowded sweetness	G
Slumber overpowers	G
And she feels the lips she loves	G
Craving through the flowers	G
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XVI	A
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The west a glory of green and red and gold	S
The magical drifts to north and eastward rolled	S
The shining sands the still transfigured sea	G
The wind so light it scarce begins to be	G
As these long days unfold a flower unfold	S
Life's rose in me	G
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Life's rose life's rose Red at my heart it glows	G
Glows and is glad as in some quiet close	G
The sun's spoiled darlings their gay life renew	I
Only the clement rain the mothering dew	I
Daytide and night all things that make the rose	G
Are you dear you	I
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XVII	A
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Look down dear eyes look down	L2
Lest you betray her gladness	G
Dear brows do naught but frown	L2
Lest men miscall my madness	G
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Come not dear hands so near	M2
Lest all besides come nearer	M2
Dear heart hold me less dear	M2
Lest time hold nothing dearer	M2
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Keep me dear lips O keep	R2
The great last word unspoken	L2
Lest other eyes go weep	R2
And other lives lie broken	L2
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XVIII	A
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Poplar and lime and chestnut	S
Meet in a living screen	L2
And there the winds and the sunbeams keep	R2
A revel of gold and green	L2
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O the green dreams and the golden	L2
The golden thoughts and green	L2
This green and golden end of May	S
My lover and me between	L2
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XIX	G
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Hither this solemn eventide	S
All flushed and mystical and blue	I
When the late bird sings	G
And sweet breathed garden ghosts walk sudden and wide	S
Hesper that bringeth all good things	G
Brings me a dream of you	I
And in my heart dear heart it comes and goes	G
Even as the south wind lingers and falls and blows	G
Even as the south wind sighs and tarries and streams	G
Among the living leaves about and round	S
With a still soothing sound	S
As of a multitude of dreams	G
Of love and the longing of love and love's delight	S
Thronging ten thousand deep	R2
Into the uncreating Night	S
With semblances and shadows to fulfil	I
Amaze and thrill	I
The strange dispeopled silences of Sleep	R2
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XX	G
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After the grim daylight	S
Night	S
Night and the stars and the sea	G
Only the sea and the stars	G
And the star shown sails and spars	G
Naught else in the night for me	G
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Over the northern height	S
Light	S
Light and the dawn of a day	S
With nothing for me but a breast	S
Laboured with love's unrest	S
And the irk of an idle May	S
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XXI	G
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Love which is lust is the Lamp in the Tomb	J
Love which is lust is the Call from the Gloom	J
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Love which is lust is the Main of Desire	M2
Love which is lust is the Centric Fire	M2
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So man and woman will keep their trust	S
Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust	S
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Yea each with the other will lose and win	L2
Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in	L2
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For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife	A
And the word of Love is the Word of Life	A
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And they that go with the Word unsaid	S
Though they seem of the living are damned and dead	S
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XXII	G
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Between the dusk of a summer night	S
And the dawn of a summer day	S
We caught at a mood as it passed in flight	S
And we bade it stoop and stay	S
And what with the dawn of night began	L2
With the dusk of day was done	L2
For that is the way of woman and man	L2
When a hazard has made them one	L2
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Arc upon arc from shade to shine	L2
The World went thundering free	G
And what was his errand but hers and mine	L2
The lords of him I and she	G
O it's die we must but it's live we can	L2
And the marvel of earth and sun	L2
Is all for the joy of woman and man	L2
And the longing that makes them one	L2
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XXIII	G
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I took a hansom on to day	S
For a round I used to know	L2
That I used to take for a woman's sake	V
In a fever of to and fro	L2
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There were the landmarks one and all	I
What did they stand to show	L2
Street and square and river were there	M2
Where was the antient woe	L2
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Never a hint of a challenging hope	Y
Nor a hope laid sick and low	L2
But a longing dead as its kindred sped	S
A thousand years ago	L2
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XXIV	A
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Only a freakish wisp of hair	M2
Nay but its wildest its most frolic whorl	I
Stands for a slim enamoured sweet fleshed girl	I
And so a tangle of dream and charm and fun	L2
Its every crook a promise and a snare	M2
Its every dowle or genially gadding	V
Or crisply curled	S
Heartening and madding	V
Empales a novel and peculiar world	S
Of right essential fantasies	G
And shining acts as yet undone	L2
But in these wonder working days	G
Soon soon to ask our sovran Lord the Sun	L2
For countenance and praise	G
As of the best his storying eye hath seen	L2
And his vast memory can parallel	I
Among the darling victories	G
Beneficent beautiful inexpressible	I
Of life on time	J
Yet have they flashed and been	L2
In millions since 'twas his to bring	V
The heaven creating Spring	V
An angel of adventure and delight	S
In all her beauty and all her strength and worth	N
With her great guerdons of romance and spright	S
And those high needs that fill the flesh with might	S
Home to the citizens of this good green earth	N
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Poor souls they have but time and place	G
To play their transient little play	I
And sing their singular little song	V
Ere they are rushed away	I
Into the antient undisclosing Night	S
And none is left to tell of the clear eyes	G
That filled them with God's grace	G
And turned the iron skies to skies of gold	S
None but the sweetest She herself grows old	S
Grows old and dies	G
And but for such a lovely snatch of hair	M2
As this none none could guess or know	L2
That She was kind and fair	M2
And he had nights and days beyond compare	M2
How many dusty and silent years ago	L2
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XXV	A
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This is the moon of roses	G
The lovely and flowerful time	J
And as white roses climb the wall	I
Your dreams about me climb	J
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This is the moon of roses	G
Glad and golden and blue	I
And as red roses drink of the sun	L2
My dreams they drink of you	I
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This is the moon of roses	G
The cherishing South West blows	G
And life dear heart for me and you	I
O life's a rejoicing rose	G
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XXVI	A
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June and a warm sweet rain	L2
June and the call of a bird	S
To a lover in pain	L2
What lovelier word	S
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Two of each other fain	L2
Happily heart on heart	S
So in the wind and rain	L2
Spring bears his part	S
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O to be heart on heart	S
One with the warm June rain	L2
God with us from the start	S
And no more pain	L2
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XXVII	A
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It was a bowl of roses	G
There in the light they lay	I
Languishing glorying glowing	V
Their life away	I
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And the soul of them rose like a presence	G
Into me crept and grew	I
And filled me with something some one	L2
O was it you	I
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XXVIII	A
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Your feet as glad	S
And light as a dove's homing wings you came	J
Came with your sweets to fill my hands	G
My sense with your perfume	J
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We closed with lips	G
Grown weary and fain with longing from afar	M2
The while your grave enamoured eyes	G
Drank down the dream in mine	L2
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Till the great need	S
So lovely and so instant grew it seemed	S
The embodied Spirit of the Spring	V
Hung at me heart on heart	S
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XXIX	G
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A world of leafage murmurous and a twinkle	I
The green delicious plenitude of June	L2
Love and laughter and song	V
The blue day long	V
Going to the same glad golden tune	L2
The same glad tune	L2
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Clouds on the dim delighting skies a sprinkle	I
Poplars black in the wake of a setting moon	L2
Love and languor and sleep	R2
And the star sown deep	R2
Going to the same good golden tune	L2
The same good tune	L2
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XXX	G
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I send you roses red like love	A
And white like death sweet friend	S
Born in your bosom to rejoice	G
Languish and droop and end	S
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If the white roses tell of death	N
Let the red roses mend	S
The talk with true stories of love	A
Unchanging till the end	S
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Red and white roses love and death	N
What else is left to send	S
For what is life but love the means	G
And death true Wife the end	S
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XXXI	G
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These glad these great these goodly days	G
Bewildering hope outrunning praise	G
The Earth renewed by the great Sun's longing	V
Utters her joy in a million ways	G
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What is there left sweet Soul and true	I
What for us and our dream to do	I
What but to take this mighty Summer	M2
As it were made for me and you	I
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Take it and live it beam by beam	J
Motes of light on a gleaming stream	J
Glare by glare and glory on glory	G
Through to the ash of this flaming dream	J
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XXXII	G
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The downs like uplands in Eden	L2
Gleam in an afterglow	L2
Like a rose world ruining earthwards	G
Mystical wistful slow	L2
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Near and afar in the leafage	K
That last glad call to the nest	S
And the thought of you hangs and triumphs	G
With Hesper low in the west	S
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Till the song and the light and the colour	G
The passion of earth and sky	A
Are blent in a rapture of boding	A
Of the death we should one day die	A
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XXXIII	G
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The time of the silence	G
Of birds is upon us	G
Rust in the chestnut leaf	A
Dust in the stubble	I
The turn of the Year	G
And the call to decay	A
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Stately and splendid	S
The Summer passes	G
Sad with satiety	S
Sick with fulfilment	S
Spent and consumed	S
But august till the end	S
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By wilting hedgerows	G
And white hot highways	G
Bearing its memories	G
Even as a burden	L2
The tired heart plods	G
For a place of rest	S
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XXXIV	A
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There was no kiss that day	S
No intimate Yea and Nay	S
No sweets in hand no tender lingering touch	S2
None of those desperate exquisite caresses	G
So instant O so brief and yet so much	S2
The thought of the swiftest lifts and blesses	G
Nor any one of those great royal words	G
Those sovran privacies of speech	T2
Frank as the call of April birds	G
That whispered live a life of gold	S
Among the heart's still sainted memories	G
And irk and thrill and ravish and beseech	T2
Even when the dream of dreams in death's a cold	S
No there was none of these	G
Dear one and yet	S
O eyes on eyes O voices breaking still	I
For all the watchful will	I
Into a kinder kindness than seemed due	S
From you to me and me to you	S
And that hot eyed close throated blind regret	S
Of woman and man baulked and debarred the blue	S
No kiss no kiss that day	S
Nay rather though we seemed to wear the rue	S
Sweet friend how many and how goodly say	S
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XXXV	A
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Sing to me sing and sing again	L2
My glad great throated nightingale	I
Sing as the good sun through the rain	L2
Sing as the home wind in the sail	I
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Sing to me life and toil and time	J
O bugle of dawn O flute of rest	S
Sing and once more as in the prime	J
There shall be naught but seems the best	S
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And sing me at the last of love	A
Sing that old magic of the May	S
That makes the great world laugh and move	A
As lightly as our dream to day	S
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XXXVI	A
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We sat late late talking of many things	G
He told me of his grief and in the telling	A
The gist of his tale showed to me rhymed like this	G
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It came the news like a fire in the night	S
That life and its best were done	L2
And there was never so dazed a wretch	T2
In the beat of the living sun	L2
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I read the news and the terms of the news	G
Reeled random round my brain	L2
Like the senseless tedious buzzle and boom	J
Of a bluefly in the pane	L2
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So I went for the news to the house of the news	G
But the words were left unsaid	S
For the face of the house was blank with blinds	G
And I knew that she was dead	S
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XXXVII	A
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'Twas in a world of living leaves	G
That we two reaped and bound our sheaves	G
They were of white roses and red	S
And in the scything they were dead	S
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Now the high Autumn flames afield	S
And what is all his golden yield	S
To that we took and sheaved and bound	S
In the green dusk that gladdened round	S
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Yet must the memory grieve and ache	T2
Of that we did for dear love's sake	T2
But may no more under the sun	L2
Being like our summer spent and done	L2
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XXXVIII	A
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Since those we love and those we hate	S
With all things mean and all things great	S
Pass in a desperate disarray	S
Over the hills and far away	S
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It must be Dear that late or soon	L2
Out of the ken of the watching moon	L2
We shall abscond with Yesterday	S
Over the hills and far away	S
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What does it matter As I deem	J
We shall but follow as brave a dream	J
As ever smiled a wanton May	S
Over the hills and far away	S
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We shall remember and in pride	S
Fare forth fulfilled and satisfied	S
Into the land of Ever and Aye	A
Over the hills and far away	S
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XXXIX	G
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These were the woods of wonder	G
We found so close and boon	L2
When the bride month in her beauty	S
Lay mouth to mouth with June	L2
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November the old lean widow	S
Sniffs and snivels and shrills	G
And the bowers are all dismantled	S
And the long grass wets and chills	G
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And I hate these dismal dawnings	G
These miserable even ends	G
These orts and rags and heeltaps	G
This dream of being merely friends	G
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XL	I
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'Dearest when I am dead	S
Make one last song for me	S
Sing what I would have said	S
Righting life's wrong for me	S
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'Tell them how early and late	S
Glad ran the days with me	S
Seeing how goodly and great	S
Love were your ways with me '	-
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XLI	I
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Dear hands so many times so much	T2
When the spent year was green and prime	J
Come take your fill and touch	T2
This one poor time	J
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Dear lips that could not leave unsaid	S
One sweet souled syllable of delight	S
Once more and be as dead	S
In the dead night	S
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Dear eyes so fond to read in mine	L2
The message of our counted years	G
Look your proud last nor shine	L2
Through tears through tears	G
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XLII	I
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When in what other life	A
Where in what old spent star	G
Systems ago dead vastitudes afar	G
Were we two bird and bough or man and wife	A
Or wave and spar	G
Or I the beating sea and you the bar	G
On which it breaks I know not I	A
But this O this my Very Dear I know	S
Your voice awakes old echoes in my heart	S
And things I say to you now are said once more	G
And Sweet when we two part	S
I feel I have seen you falter and linger so	S
So hesitate and turn and cling yet go	S
As once in some immemorable Before	G
Once on some fortunate yet thrice blasted shore	G
Was it for good	S
O these poor eyes are wet	S
And yet O yet	S
Now that we know I would not if I could	S
Forget	S
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XLIII	I
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The rain and the wind the wind and the rain	L2
They are with us like a disease	G
They worry the heart they work the brain	L2
As they shoulder and clutch at the shrieking pane	L2
And savage the helpless trees	G
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What does it profit a man to know	S
These tattered and tumbling skies	G
A million stately stars will show	S
And the ruining grace of the after glow	S
And the rush of the wild sunrise	G
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Ever the rain the rain and the wind	S
Come hunch with me over the fire	G
Dream of the dreams that leered and grinned	S
Ere the blood of the Year got chilled and thinned	S
And the death came on desire	G
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XLIV	A
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He made this gracious Earth a hell	I
With Love and Drink I cannot tell	I
Of which he died But Death was well	I
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Will I die of drink	A
Why not	S
Won't I pause and think	A
What	S
Why in seeming wise	G
Waste your breath	N
Everybody dies	G
And of death	N
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Youth if you find it's youth	N
Too late	S
Truth and the back of truth	N
Straight	S
Be it love or liquor	G
What's the odds	G
So it slide you quicker	G
To the gods	G
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XLV	A
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O these long nights of days	G
All the year's baseness in the ways	G
All the year's wretchedness in the skies	G
While on the blind disheartened sea	S
A tramp wind plies	G
Cringingly and dejectedly	I
And rain and darkness mist and mud	S
They cling they close they sneak into the blood	S
They crawl and crowd upon the brain	L2
Till in a dull dense monotone of pain	L2
The past is found a kind of maze	G
At whose every coign and crook	A
Broad angle and privy nook	A
There waits a hooded Memory	S
Sad yet with strange bright unreproaching eyes	G
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XLVI	A
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In Shoreham River hurrying down	L2
To the live sea	S
By working marrying breeding Shoreham Town	L2
Breaking the sunset's wistful and solemn dream	J
An old black rotter of a boat	S
Past service to the labouring tumbling flote	S
Lay stranded in mid stream	J
With a horrid list a frightening lapse from the line	L2
That made me think of legs and a broken spine	L2
Soon all too soon	L2
Ungainly and forlorn to lie	I
Full in the eye	I
Of the cynical discomfortable moon	L2
That as I looked stared from the fading sky	I
A clown's face flour'd for work And by and by	I
The wide winged sunset wanned and waned	S
The lean night wind crept westward chilling and sighing	A
The poor old hulk remained	S
Stuck helpless in mid ebb And I knew why	I
Why as I looked my heart felt crying	A
For as I looked the good green earth seemed dying	A
Dying or dead	S
And as I looked on the old boat I said	S
'Dear God it's I '	-
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XLVII	A
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Come by my bed	S
What time the gray ghost shrieks and flies	G
Take in your hands my head	S
And look O look into my failing eyes	G
And by God's grace	G
Even as He sunders body and breath	N
The shadow of your face	G
Shall pass with me into the run	L2
Of the Beyond and I shall keep and save	A
Your beauty as it used to be	S
An absolute part of me	S
Lying there dead and done	L2
Far from the sovran bounty of the sun	L2
Down in the grisly colonies of the Grave	A
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XLVIII	A
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Gray hills gray skies gray lights	G
And still gray sea	S
O fond O fair	G
The Mays that were	G
When the wild days and wilder nights	G
Made it like heaven to be	S
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Gray head gray heart gray dreams	G
O breath by breath	N
Night tide and day	S
Lapse gentle and gray	S
As to a murmur of tired streams	G
Into the haze of death	N
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XLIX	G
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Silence loneliness darkness	G
These and of these my fill	I
While God in the rush of the Maytide	S
Without is working His will	I
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Without are the wind and the wall flowers	G
The leaves and the nests and the rain	L2
And in all of them God is making	A
His beautiful purpose plain	L2
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But I wait in a horror of strangeness	G
A tool on His workshop floor	G
Worn to the butt and banished	S
His hand for evermore	G
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L	I
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So let me hence as one	L2
Whose part in the world has been dreamed out and done	L2
One that hath fairly earned and spent	S
In pride of heart and jubilance of blood	S
Such wages be they counted bad or good	S
As Time the old taskmaster was moved to pay	S
And having warred and suffered and passed on	L2
Those gifts the Arbiters preferred and gave	A
Fare grateful and content	S
Down the dim way	S
Whereby races innumerable have gone	L2
Into the silent universe of the grave	A
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Grateful for what hath been	L2
For what my hand hath done mine eyes have seen	L2
My heart been privileged to know	S
With all my lips in love have brought	S
To lips that yearned in love to them and wrought	S
In the way of wrath and pity and sport and song	A
Content this miracle of being alive	A
Dwindling that I thrice weary of worst and best	S
May shed my duds and go	S
From right and wrong	A
And ceasing to regret and long and strive	A
Accept the past and be for ever at rest	S
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FINALE	S
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Schizzando ma con sentimento	S
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A sigh sent wrong	A
A kiss that goes astray	S
A sorrow the years endlong	A
So they say	S
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So let it be	S
Come the sorrow the kiss the sigh	A
They are life dear life all three	S
And we die	A
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WORTHING	A

William Ernest Henley

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