Rhapsody



LOVERS, are you faring forth?   
 Will you seek the icy north?   
Are you steering by the sun?   
Where you journey there is none   
But a frozen viking’s targe           
Resting idly on the marge.   
  
Lovers, do you make your way   
To a land of larger day?   
Do you track the homing flight   
Of the birds that seek the light?           
They will lead you to your death   
In the desert’s scorching breath.   
  
North or east or south or west,   
Lovers, you will lose your quest,   
For the prize of your demand           
Yields not to the hunter’s hand;   
He who searches love or truth   
Leaves them hid behind his youth.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 629
Words 109
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

Arthur Maquarie

Arthur Maquarie was born in Dubbo, NSW, as Arthur Frank Macquarie Mullens, later changed his name by deed poll. After graduating from the University of Sydney in 1895 he worked in England as a freelance writer, in Italy as a teacher of English, and also lived in France and Spain; he was active in the Royal Society of Literature and organised the British committee which promoted intellectual harmony among the Allies in the First World War. He wrote several plays on medieval subjects and several volumes of lyrical verse, but is most significant for the assistance he provided to Henry Lawson in London in 1900-1; as well as writing articles about Lawson which helped introduce him to literary London, Maquarie arranged meetings with editors, publishers and literary agents, and lived with Lawson while part of the Joe Wilson sequence was being written. Lawson's poignant portrait of Maquarie's struggle as a hack writer in London forms part of recently discovered material and is included in Brian Kiernan's The Essential Henry Lawson (1982). more…

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