Odes From Horace. - To The Hon. Thomas Erskine. Horace, Book The Second, Ode The Third, Imitated Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFE GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPKP QRQR SMSM TUTU KVKV| OCTOBER | A |
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| Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast | B |
| O ERSKINE still an equal mind maintain | C |
| That wild Ambition ne'er may goad thy rest | B |
| Nor Fortune's smile awake thy triumph vain | C |
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| Whether thro' toilsome tho' renowned years | D |
| 'T is thine to trace the Law's perplexing maze | E |
| Or win the SACRED SEALS whose awful cares | F |
| To high decrees devote thy honor'd days | E |
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| Where silver'd Poplars with the stately Pines | G |
| Mix their thick branches in the summer sky | H |
| And the cool stream whose trembling surface shines | G |
| Laboriously oblique is hurrying by | H |
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| There let thy duteous Train the banquet bring | I |
| In whose bright cups the liquid ruby flows | J |
| As Life's warm season on expanded wing | I |
| Presents her too too transitory rose | J |
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| While every Muse and Grace auspicious wait | K |
| As erst thy Handmaids when with brow serene | L |
| Gay thou didst rove where Buxton views elate | K |
| A golden Palace deck her savage scene | L |
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| At frequent periods woo th' inspiring Band | M |
| Before thy days their summer course have run | N |
| While with clos'd shears the fatal Sisters stand | M |
| Nor aim to cut the brilliant thread they spun | N |
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| Precarious Tenant of that gay Retreat | O |
| Fann'd by pure gales on Hampstead's airy downs | P |
| Where filial troops for thee delighted wait | K |
| And their fair Mother's smile thy banquet crowns | P |
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| Precarious Tenant shortly thou may'st leave | Q |
| These and propitious Fortune's golden hoard | R |
| Then spare not thou the stores that shall receive | Q |
| When set thy orb a less illustrious Lord | R |
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| What can it then avail thee that thy pleas | S |
| Charm'd every ear with TULLY's periods bland | M |
| Or that the subject Passions they could seize | S |
| And with the thunder of the GREEK command | M |
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| What can it then avail thee that thy fame | T |
| Threw tenfold lustre on thy noble Line | U |
| Since neither birth nor self won glory claim | T |
| One hour's exemption from the sable shrine | U |
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| E'en now thy lot shakes in the Urn whence Fate | K |
| Throws her pale edicts in reverseless doom | V |
| Each issues in its turn or soon or late | K |
| And lo the great Man's prize a SILENT TOMB | V |
Anna Seward
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