Address - The Opening Of The California Theatre, San Francisco, January 19, 1870 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCC CCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJ CCKLCCMM NNFFOOPP QQRRSSHH| 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 |
Bret Harte (francis)
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