Morley's Farewell To The Cottage Of Isaak Walton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNOPPQQRS| TO KENNA | A |
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| England a long farewell a long farewell | B |
| My country to thy woods and streams and hills | C |
| Where I have heard in youth the Sabbath bell | B |
| For many a year now mute affection fills | C |
| Mine eyes with tears yet resolute to wait | D |
| Whatever ills betide whatever fate | D |
| Far from my native land from sights of woe | E |
| From scaffolds drenched in generous blood I go | E |
| Sad in a land of strangers when I bend | F |
| With grief of heart without a home or friend | F |
| And chiefly when with weary thoughts oppressed | G |
| I see the sun sink slowly in the west | G |
| Then doubly feeling my forsaken lot | H |
| I shall remember far away this cot | H |
| Of humble piety and prayer and peace | I |
| And thee dear friend till my heart's beatings cease | I |
| Warm from that heart I breathe one parting prayer | J |
| My good old friend may God Almighty spare | J |
| Spare for the sake of that poor child thy life | K |
| Long spare it for thy meek and duteous wife | K |
| Perhaps o'er them when the hard storm blows loud | L |
| We both may be at rest and in our shroud | L |
| Or we may live to talk of these sad times | M |
| When virtue was reviled and direst crimes | M |
| Faith's awful name usurped We may again | N |
| Hear heavenly truths in the time hallowed fane | O |
| And the full chant Oh if that day arrive | P |
| And we old friend though bowed with age survive | P |
| How happy whilst our days on earth shall last | Q |
| To pray and think of seasons that are past | Q |
| Till on our various way the night shall close | R |
| And in one hallowed pile at last our bones repose | S |
William Lisle Bowles
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