The Latest Martyr (mexico 1926) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIFF BBFF| The morn is sweet and radiant with blue sky over all | A |
| There s a flame of Oleanders over the adobe wall | A |
| And the birds are singing gaily I must crush my sorrow down | B |
| Why should a woman weep whose son doth wear a martyr s crown | B |
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| Tis many hundred years since Stephen knelt in the market place | C |
| Facing the cruel heathen stones battering his boyish face | C |
| St Stephen first of the martyred bans And he my little son | D |
| My little black eyed Juan he is the latest one | D |
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| It is almost too much honour ah Madre de Dios be kind | E |
| I am only a human mother sinful and weak and blind | E |
| I could not say They will be done on that terror haunted day | F |
| When he faced their coward bullets with a Viva Cristo Rey | F |
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| I can see the fearless flashing eyes I can hear the ringing cry | G |
| As he fell mid the blood stained flowers neath the cruel smiling sky | G |
| His young form riddled with bullets and I ran and held him fast | H |
| And he smiled Adios Madre for comfort at the last | H |
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| The nights are long in the adobe hut as I kneel and think of my dead | I |
| For We must not pray for a Martyr so Padre Felipo said | I |
| He is throned near to Our Lord s Dear Heart no need for me to pray | F |
| So I sit and hold the crimson scarf he wore on a festa day | F |
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| And I ask Our Lady for patience for strength to bear my crown | B |
| To smile as a martyr s mother should and tread my sorrow down | B |
| I pray for our tortured country to hasten freedom s day | F |
| When we may hail Our Heavenly King with a Viva Cristo Rey | F |
Alice Guerin Crist
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