William Gilmore Simms

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Flight To Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MFMF NANA OPOP QRQR RARA BSBS LTLT

SICK of the crowd the toil the strifeA
Sweet Nature how I turn to theeB
Seeking for renovated lifeA
By brawling brook and shady treeB
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I knew thy rocks had spells of oldC
To soothe the wanderer's woe to calmD
And in thy waters clear and coldC
My fev'rish brow would seek for balmD
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I've bent beneath thy ancient oakE
And sought for slumber in its shadeF
And as the clouds above me brokeE
I dream'd to find the boon I pray'dF
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For light a blessed light was givenG
Wide streaming round me from aboveH
And in the deep deep vaults of heavenG
There shone methought a look of loveH
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And through the long long summer hoursI
When every bird had won its wingJ
How sweet to think amidst thy flowersI
That youth might yet renew its springJ
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That sacred season of the heartK
When every pulse with hope is strongL
And still untaught by selfish artK
Truth fears no guile and love no wrongL
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And who but nature's self could yieldM
The blessing in the prayer I madeF
Throned in her realm of wood and fieldM
Of rocky realm and haunted shadeF
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Who but that magic queen whose swayN
Drives winter from his path of strifeA
Whilst all her thousand fingers playN
With bud and bird in games of lifeA
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With these a kindred life I askO
Not wealth that mortals vainly seekP
But in heaven's sunshine let me baskO
My heart as glowing as my cheekP
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An idle heart that would not heedQ
That chiding voice when duty comesR
To drag the soul but freshly freedQ
Back to cold toils and weary gloomsR
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No lure she finds in mortal schemesR
Which wiser fancies still reproveA
Far happier in her woodland dreamsR
With one sweet teacher taught by loveA
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Thou Nature that magician beB
Restore each dream that taught the boyS
That warm'd his hope that made him freeB
While wisdom took the shape of joyS
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And I will bless thee with a songL
As fond as hers that idle birdT
That sings above me all day longL
As if she knew I watch'd and heardT

William Gilmore Simms



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