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"Crabbed | age and | youth Cannot | live to | -gether; Youth is | full of | pleasance, Age is | full of | care: Youth, like | summer | morn, Age, like | winter | weather; Youth, like | summer, | brave; Age, like | winter, | bare.
Youth is | full of | sport, Age's | breath is | short, Youth is | nimble, | age is | lame; Youth is | hot and | bold, Age is | weak and | cold; Youth is | wild, and | age is | tame."
_The Pa.s.sionate Pilgrim_; SINGER'S SHAKSPEARE, Vol. ii p. 594.
_Example II--Common Sense and Genius_.
3.
"While I | touch the | string, Wreathe my | brows with | laurel; For the | tale I | sing, Has, for | once, a | moral!
4.
Common | Sense went | on, Many | wise things | saying; While the | light that | shone, Soon set | Genius | straying.
5.
One his eye ne'er | rais'd From the | path be | -fore him; T' other | idly | gaz'd On each | night-cloud | o'er him.
6.
While I | touch the | string, Wreathe my | brows with | laurel; For the | tale I | sing, Has, for | once, a | moral!
7.
So they | came, at | last, To a | shady | river; Common | Sense soon |pa.s.s'd Safe,--as | he doth | ever.
8.
While the | boy whose | look Was in | heav'n that | minute, Never | saw the | brook,-- _But tum_ | _-bled head_ | _-long in it_."
_Six Stanzas from Twelve_.--MOORE'S MELODIES, p. 271.
This short measure is much oftener used in stanzas, than in couplets. It is, in many instances, combined with some different order or metre of verse, as in the following:--
_Example III.--Part of a Song_.
"Go where | glory | waits thee, But while | fame e | -lates thee, _Oh! still | remem | -ber me_.
When the | praise thou | meetest, To thine | ear is | sweetest, _Oh! then | remem | -ber me_.
Other | arms may | press thee, Dearer | friends ca | -ress thee, All the | joys that | bless thee, Sweeter | far may | be: But when | friends are | nearest, And when | joys are | dearest, _Oh! then | remem | -ber me._
When, at | eve, thou | rovest, By the | star thou | lovest, _Oh! then | remem | -ber me_.
Think when | home re | -turning, Bright we've | seen it | burning; _Oh! thus | remem | -ber me_.
Oft as | summer | closes, When thine | eye re | -poses On its | ling'ring | roses, Once so | loved by | thee, Think of | her who | wove them, Her who | made thee | love them; _Oh! then | remem | -ber me_."
MOORE'S _Melodies, Songs, and Airs_, p. 107.
_Example IV.--From an Ode to the Thames_.
"On thy | shady | margin, Care its | load dis | -charging, _Is lull'd | to gen | -tle rest_:
Britain | thus dis | -arming, Nothing | her a | -larming, _Shall sleep on Cae | -sar's breast_."
See ROWE'S POEMS: _Johnson's British Poets_, Vol. iv, p. 58.
_Example V.--"The True Poet"--First Two of Nine Stanzas_.
1.
"Poet | of the | heart, Delving | in its | mine, From man | -kind a | -part, Yet where | jewels | s.h.i.+ne; Heaving | upward | to the | light, Precious | wealth that | charms the | sight;
2.
Toil thou | still, deep | down, For earth's | hidden | gems; They shall | deck a | crown, Blaze in | dia | -dems; _And when | thy hand | shall fall | to rest_, Brightly | jewel | beauty's | breast."
JANE B. LOCKE: _N. Y. Evening Post; The Examiner, No. 98_.
_Example VI.--"Summer Longings"--First Two of Five Stanzas_.
"Ah! my | heart is | ever | waiting, Waiting | for the | May,-- Waiting | for the | pleasant | rambles Where the | fragrant | hawthorn | brambles, With the | woodbine | alter | -nating, Scent the | dewy | way.
Ah! my | heart is | weary | waiting, Waiting | for the | May.
Ah! my | heart is | sick with | longing, Longing | for the | May,-- Longing | to e | -scape from | study, To the | young face | fair and | ruddy, And the | thousand | charms be | -longing To the | Summer's | day.
Ah! my | heart is | sick with | longing, Longing | for the | May."
"D. F. M. C.:" _Dublin University Magazine; Liberator, No_. 952.
MEASURE VII.--TROCHAIC OF TWO FEET, OR DIMETER.
_Example I.--Three Short Excerpts._
1.
"My flocks | feed not, My ewes | breed not, My rams | speed not, All is | _amiss_: Love's de | -nying, Faith's de | -fying, Heart's re | -nying, Causer | _of this_."
2.
"In black | mourn I, All fears | scorn I, Love hath | lorn me, Living | _in thrall_: Heart is | bleeding, All help | needing.
(Cruel | speeding,) Fraughted | _with gall_."
3.
"Clear wells | spring not.
Sweet birds | sing not, Loud bells | ring not _Cheerfully_; Herds stand | weeping, Flocks all | sleeping, Nymphs back | creeping _Fearfully_."
SHAKSPEARE: _The Pa.s.sionate Pilgrim_. See Sec. xv.
_Example II.--Specimen with Single Rhyme.
"To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain"_
A LILLIPUTIAN ODE
I.
"In a | -maze, Lost, I | gaze.
