On Meeting Some Friends Of Youth At Cheltenham, For The First Time Since We Parted At Oxford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBADDAEEFFGAAGHHII| And wept to see the paths of life divide Shenstone | A |
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| Here the companions of our careless prime | B |
| Whom fortune's various ways have severed long | C |
| Since that fair dawn when Hope her vernal song | C |
| Sang blithe with features marked by stealing time | B |
| At these restoring springs are met again | A |
| We young adventurers on life's opening road | D |
| Set out together to their last abode | D |
| Some have sunk silent some a while remain | A |
| Some are dispersed of many growing old | E |
| In life's obscurer bourne no tale is told | E |
| Here ere the shades of the long night descend | F |
| And all our wanderings in oblivion end | F |
| The parted meet once more and pensive trace | G |
| Marked by that hand unseen whose iron pen | A |
| Writes mortal change upon the fronts of men | A |
| The creeping furrows in each other's face | G |
| Where shall we meet again Reflection sighs | H |
| Where In the dust Time rushing on replies | H |
| Then hail the hope that lights the pilgrim's way | I |
| Where there is neither change nor darkness nor decay | I |
William Lisle Bowles
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