To The Lord Falkland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGHIJJKKEELL MMNNOOPPQQPPRRSSTTJJ UPVV| FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN | A |
| EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS | B |
| Great is thy Charge O North be wise and just | C |
| England commits her Falkland to thy trust | C |
| Return him safe Learning would rather choose | D |
| Her Bodley or her Vatican to lose | D |
| All things that are but writ or printed there | E |
| In his unbounded breast engraven are | F |
| There all the sciences together meet | G |
| And every art does all her kindred greet | G |
| Yet justle not nor quarrel but as well | H |
| Agree as in some common principle | I |
| So in an Army govern'd right we see | J |
| Though out of several countries rais'd it be | J |
| That all their order and their place maintain | K |
| The English Dutch the Frenchman and the Dane | K |
| So thousand divers species fill the air | E |
| Yet neither crowd nor mix confus'dly there | E |
| Beasts houses trees and men together lie | L |
| Yet enter undisturb'd into the eye | L |
| And this great prince of knowledge is by Fate | M |
| Thrust into th' noise and business of a state | M |
| All virtues and some customs of the court | N |
| Other men's labour are at least his sport | N |
| Whilst we who can no action undertake | O |
| Whom idleness itself might learned make | O |
| Who hear of nothing and as yet scarce know | P |
| Whether the Scots in England be or no | P |
| Pace dully on oft tire and often stay | Q |
| Yet see his nimble Pegasus fly away | Q |
| 'Tis Nature's fault who did thus partial grow | P |
| And her estate of wit on one bestow | P |
| Whilst we like younger brothers get at best | R |
| But a small stock and must work out the rest | R |
| How could he answer't should the state think fit | S |
| To question a monopoly of wit | S |
| Such is the man whom we require the same | T |
| We lent the North untouch'd as is his fame | T |
| He is too good for war and ought to be | J |
| As far from danger as from fear he's free | J |
| Those men alone and those are useful too | U |
| Whose valour is the only art they know | P |
| Were for sad war and bloody battles born | V |
| Let them the state defend and he adorn | V |
Abraham Cowley
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