Road-hymn For The Start Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDE FGFGG HIHII JKLJKM NONOO| Leave the early bells at chime | A |
| Leave the kindled hearth to blaze | B |
| Leave the trellised panes where children linger out the waking time | A |
| Leave the forms of sons and fathers trudging through the misty ways | B |
| Leave the sounds of mothers taking up their sweet laborious days | B |
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| Pass them by even while our soul | C |
| Yearns to them with keen distress | D |
| Unto them a part is given we will strive to see the whole | C |
| Dear shall be the banquet table where their singing spirits press | D |
| Dearer be our sacred hunger and our pilgrim loneliness | E |
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| We have felt the ancient swaying | F |
| Of the earth before the sun | G |
| On the darkened marge of midnight heard sidereal rivers playing | F |
| Rash it was to bathe our souls there but we plunged and all was done | G |
| That is lives and lives behind us lo our journey is begun | G |
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| Careless where our face is set | H |
| Let us take the open way | I |
| What we are no tongue has told us Errand goers who forget | H |
| Soldiers heedless of their harry Pilgrim people gone astray | I |
| We have heard a voice cry Wander That was all we heard it say | I |
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| Ask no more 't is much 't is much | J |
| Down the road the day star calls | K |
| Touched with change in the wide heavens like a leaf the frost winds | L |
| touch | J |
| Flames the failing moon a moment ere it shrivels white and falls | K |
| Hid aloft a wild throat holdeth sweet and sweeter intervals | M |
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| Leave him still to ease in song | N |
| Half his little heart's unrest | O |
| Speech is his but we may journey toward the life for which we long | N |
| God who gives the bird its anguish maketh nothing manifest | O |
| But upon our lifted foreheads pours the boon of endless quest | O |
William Vaughn Moody
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