The Tree Of Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDC AEAEFGHG IDIDJKLK MDMDNKOK APAPQGAG| WE LL PLANT a Tree of Liberty | A |
| In the centre of the land | B |
| And round it ranged as guardians be | A |
| A vowed and trusty band | B |
| And sages bold and mighty soul d | A |
| Shall dress it day by day | C |
| But woe unto the traitor who | D |
| Would break one branch away | C |
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| Then sing the Tree of Liberty | A |
| For the vow that we have made | E |
| May it so flourish that when we | A |
| Are buried in its shade | E |
| Fair Womanhood and Love and Good | F |
| All pilgrims pure shall go | G |
| Its growth to bless for happiness | H |
| O may it flourish so | G |
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| Till felled by gold as bards have told | I |
| In the Old World once it grew | D |
| But there its fruits were ever sold | I |
| And only to the Few | D |
| But here at last uncurs d by caste | J |
| Each man at Nature s call | K |
| Shall pluck as well what none may sell | L |
| The fruit that blooms for All | K |
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| By gold twas felled as bards have held | M |
| In the Old World where it grew | D |
| But here the power that there dispelled | M |
| Its life shall be its dew | D |
| The evil bout of Time is out | N |
| And gold no more a thrall | K |
| Shall here but build for Truth and gild | O |
| The fruit that blooms for All | K |
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| Then sing the Tree of Liberty | A |
| And the men who shall defend | P |
| Its glorious future righteously | A |
| For this all glorious end | P |
| That happiness all men to bless | Q |
| Out with its growth may grow | G |
| Our Southern Tree of Liberty | A |
| Shall flourish even so | G |
Charles Harpur
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