Song Ii: Have No Thought For Tomorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACB DEDEE FGFGG HIHII JKJLK HFHFF| Love is enough have no thought for to morrow | A |
| If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain | B |
| Ye who have paid for your bliss with great sorrow | A |
| For as it was once so it shall be again | C |
| Ye shall cry out for death as ye stretch forth in vain | B |
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| Feeble hands to the hands that would help but they may not | D |
| Cry out to deaf ears that would hear if they could | E |
| Till again shall the change come and words your lips say not | D |
| Your hearts make all plain in the best wise they would | E |
| And the world ye thought waning is glorious and good | E |
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| And no morning now mocks you and no nightfall is weary | F |
| The plains are not empty of song and of deed | G |
| The sea strayeth not nor the mountains are dreary | F |
| The wind is not helpless for any man's need | G |
| Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed | G |
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| O surely this morning all sorrow is hidden | H |
| All battle is hushed for this even at least | I |
| And no one this noontide may hunger unbidden | H |
| To the flowers and the singing and the joy of your feast | I |
| Where silent ye sit midst the world's tale increased | I |
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| Lo the lovers unloved that draw nigh for your blessing | J |
| For your tale makes the dreaming whereby yet they live | K |
| The dreams of the day with their hopes of redressing | J |
| The dreams of the night with the kisses they give | L |
| The dreams of the dawn wherein death and hope strive | K |
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| Ah what shall we say then but that earth threatened often | H |
| Shall live on for ever that such things may be | F |
| That the dry seed shall quicken the hard earth shall soften | H |
| And the spring bearing birds flutter north o'er the sea | F |
| That earth's garden may bloom round my love's feet and me | F |
William Morris
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