Sequel To The "beggars," 1802 - Composed Many Years After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDCDEFGEHIHHBJJ KBGGLLMNDDOPPQQODDRR SS| Where are they now those wanton Boys | A |
| For whose free range the daedal earth | B |
| Was filled with animated toys | A |
| And implements of frolic mirth | B |
| With tools for ready wit to guide | C |
| And ornaments of seemlier pride | C |
| More fresh more bright than princes wear | D |
| For what one moment flung aside | C |
| Another could repair | D |
| What good or evil have they seen | E |
| Since I their pastime witnessed here | F |
| Their daring wiles their sportive cheer | G |
| I ask but all is dark between | E |
| They met me in a genial hour | H |
| When universal nature breathed | I |
| As with the breath of one sweet flower | H |
| A time to overrule the power | H |
| Of discontent and check the birth | B |
| Of thoughts with better thoughts at strife | J |
| The most familiar bane of life | J |
| Since parting Innocence bequeathed | K |
| Mortality to Earth | B |
| Soft clouds the whitest of the year | G |
| Sailed through the sky the brooks ran clear | G |
| The lambs from rock to rock were bounding | L |
| With songs the budded groves resounding | L |
| And to my heart are still endeared | M |
| The thoughts with which it then was cheered | N |
| The faith which saw that gladsome pair | D |
| Walk through the fire with unsinged hair | D |
| Or if such faith must needs deceive | O |
| Then Spirits of beauty and of grace | P |
| Associates in that eager chase | P |
| Ye who within the blameless mind | Q |
| Your favourite seat of empire find | Q |
| Kind Spirits may we not believe | O |
| That they so happy and so fair | D |
| Through your sweet influence and the care | D |
| Of pitying Heaven at least were free | R |
| From touch of 'deadly' injury | R |
| Destined whate'er their earthly doom | S |
| For mercy and immortal bloom | S |
William Wordsworth
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