California's Greeting To Seward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLI NONO POPQ| We know him well no need of praise | A |
| Or bonfire from the windy hill | B |
| To light to softer paths and ways | A |
| The world worn man we honor still | B |
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| No need to quote the truths he spoke | C |
| That burned through years of war and shame | D |
| While History carves with surer stroke | C |
| Across our map his noonday fame | D |
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| No need to bid him show the scars | E |
| Of blows dealt by the Scaean gate | F |
| Who lived to pass its shattered bars | E |
| And see the foe capitulate | G |
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| Who lived to turn his slower feet | H |
| Toward the western setting sun | I |
| To see his harvest all complete | H |
| His dream fulfilled his duty done | I |
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| The one flag streaming from the pole | J |
| The one faith borne from sea to sea | K |
| For such a triumph and such goal | J |
| Poor must our human greeting be | K |
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| Ah rather that the conscious land | L |
| In simpler ways salute the Man | M |
| The tall pines bowing where they stand | L |
| The bared head of El Capitan | I |
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| The tumult of the waterfalls | N |
| Pohono's kerchief in the breeze | O |
| The waving from the rocky walls | N |
| The stir and rustle of the trees | O |
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| Till lapped in sunset skies of hope | P |
| In sunset lands by sunset seas | O |
| The Young World's Premier treads the slope | P |
| Of sunset years in calm and peace | Q |
Bret Harte
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