Address - The Opening Of The California Theatre, San Francisco, January 19, 1870 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Brief words when actions wait are well	A
The prompter's hand is on his bell	A
The coming heroes lovers kings	B
Are idly lounging at the wings	B
Behind the curtain's mystic fold	C
The glowing future lies unrolled	C
And yet one moment for the Past	C
One retrospect the first and last	C
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The world's a stage the Master said	C
To night a mightier truth is read	C
Not in the shifting canvas screen	D
The flash of gas or tinsel sheen	D
Not in the skill whose signal calls	E
From empty boards baronial halls	E
But fronting sea and curving bay	F
Behold the players and the play	F
	-
Ah friends beneath your real skies	G
The actor's short lived triumph dies	G
On that broad stage of empire won	H
Whose footlights were the setting sun	H
Whose flats a distant background rose	I
In trackless peaks of endless snows	I
Here genius bows and talent waits	J
To copy that but One creates	J
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Your shifting scenes the league of sand	C
An avenue by ocean spanned	C
The narrow beach of straggling tents	K
A mile of stately monuments	L
Your standard lo a flag unfurled	C
Whose clinging folds clasp half the world	C
This is your drama built on facts	M
With twenty years between the acts	M
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One moment more if here we raise	N
The oft sung hymn of local praise	N
Before the curtain facts must sway	F
Here waits the moral of your play	F
Glassed in the poet's thought you view	O
What money can yet cannot do	O
The faith that soars the deeds that shine	P
Above the gold that builds the shrine	P
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And oh when others take our place	Q
And Earth's green curtain hides our face	Q
Ere on the stage so silent now	R
The last new hero makes his bow	R
So may our deeds recalled once more	S
In Memory's sweet but brief encore	S
Down all the circling ages run	H
With the world's plaudit of Well done	H

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Address - The Opening Of The California Theatre, San Francisco, January 19, 1870 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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