Fountain, The: A Conversation Poem Rhyme Scheme

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We talked with open heart and tongue	A
Affectionate and true	B
A pair of friends though I was young	A
And Matthew seventy two	B
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We lay beneath a spreading oak	C
Beside a mossy seat	D
And from the turf a fountain broke	C
And gurgled at our feet	D
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Now Matthew said I let us match	E
This water's pleasant tune	F
With some old border song or catch	E
That suits a summer's noon	F
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Or of the church clock and the chimes	G
Sing here beneath the shade	H
That half mad thing of witty rhymes	G
Which you last April made	H
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In silence Matthew lay and eyed	I
The spring beneath the tree	J
And thus the dear old Man replied	I
The grey haired man of glee	J
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No check no stay this Streamlet fears	K
How merrily it goes	L
'Twill murmur on a thousand years	K
And flow as now it flows	L
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And here on this delightful day	M
I cannot choose but think	N
How oft a vigorous man I lay	M
Beside this fountain's brink	N
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My eyes are dim with childish tears	O
My heart is idly stirred	P
For the same sound is in my ears	K
Which in those days I heard	P
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Thus fares it still in our decay	M
And yet the wiser mind	Q
Mourns less for what age takes away	M
Than what it leaves behind	Q
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The blackbird amid leafy trees	R
The lark above the hill	S
Let loose their carols when they please	R
Are quiet when they will	S
	-
With Nature never do 'they' wage	T
A foolish strife they see	J
A happy youth and their old age	T
Is beautiful and free	J
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But we are pressed by heavy laws	U
And often glad no more	V
We wear a face of joy because	U
We have been glad of yore	V
	-
If there be one who need bemoan	W
His kindred laid in earth	X
The household hearts that were his own	W
It is the man of mirth	X
	-
My days my Friend are almost gone	Y
My life has been approved	Z
And many love me but by none	A2
Am I enough beloved	B2
	-
Now both himself and me he wrongs	C2
The man who thus complains	D2
I live and sing my idle songs	C2
Upon these happy plains	D2
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And Matthew for thy children dead	E2
I'll be a son to thee	J
At this he grasped my hand and said	E2
Alas that cannot be	J
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We rose up from the fountain side	I
And down the smooth descent	F2
Of the green sheep track did we glide	I
And through the wood we went	F2
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And ere we came to Leonard's rock	G2
He sang those witty rhymes	G
About the crazy old church clock	G2
And the bewildered chimes	G

William Wordsworth

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