The Princes' Quest - Part The Tenth Poem Rhyme Scheme

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That night within the City of Youth there stood	A
Musicians playing to the multitude	B
On many a gold and silver instrument	C
Whose differing souls yet chimed in glad consent	D
And sooth tongued singers throated like the bird	E
All darkness holds its breath to hear were heard	E
Chanting aloud before the comely folk	F
Chanting aloud till none for listening spoke	F
Chanting aloud that all the city rang	G
And whoso will may hear the song they sang	G
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O happy hearts O youths and damsels pray	H
What new and wondrous thing hath chanced to day	H
O happy hearts what wondrous thing and new	I
Set the gold sun with kinglier mightful glance	J
Rose the maid moon with queenlier countenance	K
Came the stars forth a merrier madder crew	I
Than ever sun or maiden moon before	L
Or jostling stars that shook the darkness' floor	L
With night wide tremor 'neath their dizzy dance	J
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Strong is the Sun but strong alway was he	M
The Moon is fair but ever fair showed she	M
The Stars are many and who hath known them few	I
As now they be so heretofore were they	H
What is the wondrous thing hath chanced to day	H
O happy hearts the wondrous thing and new	I
Whereof ye are glad together even more	L
Than of the sunlight or the moonlight or	L
The light o' the stars that strow the milky way	H
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For all your many maidens have the head	N
In goodly festal wise engarlanded	N
With flowers at noon the banquet of the bees	O
And leaves that in some grove at midday grew	I
And ever since the falling of the dew	I
Your streets are full of pomps and pageantries	O
Laughter and song feasting and dancing nay	H
Surely some wondrous thing hath chanced to day	H
O happy hearts what wondrous thing and new	I
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No no ye need not answer any word	N
Heard have we all who lives and hath not heard	N
What thing the sovran Fates have done to day	H
Who turn the tides of life which way they please	O
And sit themselves aloft aloof at ease	O
Dwellers in courts of marble silence they	H
No need to ask what thing the Fates have done	P
Between the sunrise and the set of sun	P
Mute moving in their twilight fastnesses	O
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Changeless aloft aloof mute moving dim	Q
In ancient fastnesses of twilight him	Q
Have they not sent this day the long foretold	N
The long foretold and much desired of whom	R
'Twas whilom written in the rolls of doom	R
How in a dream he should this land behold	N
And hither come from worldwide wandering	S
Hither where all the folk should hail him king	S
Our king foredestined from his mother's womb	R
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Long time he tarried but the time is past	N
And he hath come ye waited for at last	N
The long foretold the much desired hath come	T
And ye command your minstrels noise abroad	N
With lyre and tongue your joyance and his laud	N
And sooth to say the minstrels are not dumb	T
And ever in the pauses of our chant	N
So for exceeding perfect joy ye pant	N
We hear the beating of your hearts applaud	N
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And she our Queen ah who shall tell what hours	O
She bode his coming in her palace towers	O
Unmated she in all the land alone	U
'Twas yours O youths and maids to clasp and kiss	O
Desiring and desired ye had your bliss	O
The Queen she sat upon her loveless throne	U
Sleeping she saw his face but could not find	N
Its phantom's phantom when she waked nor wind	N
About her finger one gold hair of his	O
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Often when evening sobered all the air	V
No doubt but she would sit and marvel where	V
He tarried by the bounds of what strange sea	O
And peradventure look at intervals	O
Forth of the windows of her palace walls	O
And watch the gloaming darken fount and tree	O
And think on twilight shores with dreaming caves	O
Full of the groping of bewildered waves	O
Full of the murmur of their hollow halls	O
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As flowers desire the kisses of the rain	W
She his and many a year desired in vain	W
She waits no more who waited long enow	W
Nor listeth he to wander any more	L
Who went as go the winds from sea to shore	L
From shore to sea who went as the winds go	X
The winds do seek a place of rest the flowers	O
Look for the rain but in a while the showers	O
Come and the winds lie down their wanderings o'er	Y

William Watson

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