The Princes' Quest - Part The Seventh Poem Rhyme Scheme

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But Sleep who makes a mist about the sense	A
Doth ope the eyelids of the soul and thence	A
Lifteth a heavier cloud than that whereby	B
He veils the vision of the fleshly eye	B
And not alone by dreams doth Sleep make known	C
The seal d things and covert not alone	C
In	-
visions	D
of the night do mortals hear	E
The fatal feet and whispering wings draw near	F
But dimly and in darkness doth the soul	G
Drink of the streams of slumber as they roll	G
And win fine secrets from their waters deep	H
Yea of a truth the spirit doth grow in sleep	H
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Howbeit I know not whether as he slept	I
A voice from out the depth of dream upleapt	I
And whispered in his ear or whether he	J
Grew to the knowledge blindly as a tree	J
Waxes from bloom to fruitage knowing not	I
The manner of its growth but this I wot	I
That rising from that sleep beside the spring	K
The Prince had knowledge of a certain thing	K
Whereof he had not wist until that hour	L
To wit that two contending spirits had power	L
Over	L
his	M
spirit ruling him with sway	N
Altern as 'twere dominion now of Day	N
And now of Dark for one was of the light	I
And one was of the blackness of the night	I
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Now there be certain evil spirits whom	O
The mother of the darkness in her womb	O
Conceived ere darkness' self and one of these	P
Did rule that island of the middle seas	P
Hemmed round with silence and enchantment dim	Q
Nothing in all the world so pleasured him	Q
As filling human hearts with dolorousness	P
And banning where another sprite did bless	P
But chiefly did his malice take delight	I
In thwarting lovers' hopes and breathing blight	I
Into the blossoms newly open d	I
Of sweet desire till all of sweet were fled	I
And for he knew what secret hopes did fill	R
The minds of men 'twas even now his will	R
To step between the Prince and his desire	L
Nor suffer him to fare one furlong nigher	L
Unto that distant shining golden goal	G
That beacon'd through the darkness to his soul	G
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And so the days the sultry summer days	P
Went by and wimpled over with fine haze	P
The noiseless nights stole after them as steals	P
The moon made shadow at some traveller's heels	P
And day by day and night by night the Prince	P
Dwelt in that island of enchantment since	P
The hour when Evil Hap in likeness of	S
An eagle swooping from the clouds above	S
Did bind him body and soul unto that place	P
And in due time the summer waxed apace	P
And in due time the summer waned and now	T
The withered leaf had fallen from the bough	T
And now the winter came and now the spring	K
Yea summer's self was toward on the wing	K
From wandering overseas and all this while	U
The Prince abode in that enchanted isle	U
Marvelling much at Fortune and her ways	P
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And by degrees the slowly sliding days	P
Gathered themselves together into years	P
And oftentimes his spirit welled in tears	P
From dawn to darkness and from dark to dawn	V
By reason of the light of life withdrawn	V
And if the night brought sleep a fitful sleep	H
The phantoms of a buried time would creep	H
Out of their hollow hiding places vast	I
Peopling his Present from the wizard Past	I
Sometimes between the whirl of dream and dream	W
All in a doubtful middle world a gleam	W
Went shivering past him through the chill grey space	P
And lo he knew it for his mother's face	P
And wept and all the silence where he stood	I
Wept with him And at times the dreamer would	I
Dream himself back beneath his father's roof	X
At eventide and there would hold aloof	X
In silence clothed upon with shadows dim	Q
To hear if any spake concerning him	Q
But the hours came and went and went and came	Y
And no man's mouth did ever name his name	Y
And year by year he saw the queen and king	K
Wax older and beheld a shadowy thing	K
Lurking behind them till it came between	Z
His dreamsight and the semblance of the queen	Z
From which time forth he saw her not and when	A2
Another year had been it came again	A2
And after that he saw his sire the king	K
No more by reason of the shadowy thing	K
Stepping between and all the place became	Y
As darkness and the echo of a name	Y
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	-
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What need to loiter o'er the chronicle	B2
Of days that brought no change What boots it tell	C2
The tale of hours whereof each moment was	P
As like its fellow as one blade of grass	P
Is to another when the dew doth fall	D2
Without respect of any amongst them all	D2
Enow that time in that enchanted air	L
Nor slept nor tarried more than otherwhere	L
And so at last the captive lived to see	I
The fiftieth year of his captivity	I
And on a day within that fiftieth year	L
He wandered down unto the beach to hear	L
The breaking of the breakers on the shore	L
As he had heard them ofttimes heretofore	L
In days when he would sit and watch the sea	I
If peradventure there some ship might be	I
But now his soul no longer yearned as then	A2
To win her way back to the world of men	A2
For what could now his freedom profit him	Q
The hope that filled youth's beaker to its brim	Q
The tremulous hand of age had long outspilled	I
And whence might now the vessel be refilled	I
Moreover after length of days and years	P
The soul had ceased to beat her barriers	P
And like a freeborn bird that cag d sings	P
Had grown at last forgetful of her wings	P
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And so he took his way toward the sea	I
Not as in former days if haply he	I
Might spy some ship upon the nether blue	E2
And beckon with his hands unto the crew	E2
But rather with an easeful heart to hear	L
What things the waves might whisper to his ear	L
Of counsel wise and comfortable speech	F2
But while he walked about the yellow beach	F2
There came upon his limbs an heaviness	I
For languor of the sultry time's excess	I
And so he lay him down under a tree	I
Hard by a little cove and there the sea	I
Sang him to sleep And sleeping thus he dreamed	I
A dream of very wonderment himseemed	I
The spirit that half an hundred years before	L
In likeness of an eagle came and bore	L
His body to that island on a day	I
Came yet again and found him where he lay	I
And taking him betwixt his talons flew	E2
O'er seas and far off countries till they drew	E2
Nigh to a city that was built between	Z
Four mountains in a pleasant land and green	Z
And there upon the highest mountain's top	G2
The bird that was no bird at all let drop	G2
Its burthen and was seen of him no more	L
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Thereat he waked and issuing from the door	L
Of dream did marvel in his heart because	I
He found he had but dreamed the thing that was	I
For there assuredly was neither sea	I
Nor Isle Enchanted and assuredly	I
He sat upon the peak of a great hill	R
And far below him looking strangely still	R
Uptowered a city exceeding fair to ken	A2
And murmurous with multitude of men	A2

William Watson

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