Laissez-faire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBFBFB GHGHIJI KLKLMNM| We'd harbored them on hovels and in dens | A |
| Altho' in price they counted less than cattle | B |
| Had they not still the right that ws all men's | A |
| To strive and in a place in life's stern battle | B |
| Had they not still the gift of God's free air | C |
| His glorious sun and every freeman's birthright | D |
| To fight the snarling pack and snatch a share | C |
| Why should the task be ours to set the earth right | D |
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| Man may not win we'd said to earthly ease | E |
| Saving thro' strength or birth or lucky gamble | B |
| Why then a truce to sentimental pleas | E |
| Let us continue with the merry scramble | B |
| In which the valiant strong to gain high place | F |
| Pulls down and climbs upon some weaker rival | B |
| 'Tis Nature's law And thus a stalwart race | F |
| Is e'er upheld by glorious survival | B |
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| Upon the olden road to Jericho | G |
| We watched not one but myriads fall and sicken | H |
| We grieved but saw no duty to stoop low | G |
| Were we accountable for all Earth's stricken | H |
| Shrewdly we passed by on the other side | I |
| Planning such schemes as trouble a man's mind most | J |
| 'Not ours to alter Nature's law ' we cried | I |
| 'Each for himself and devil take the hindmost ' | - |
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| And so the devil took them not for death | K |
| But to live on where want and squalor cherish | L |
| Undreamed of evils whose miasmal breath | K |
| So taints the air that all the race may perish | L |
| Is it too late to stay the avenging hand | M |
| Too late to hold at bay this savage Reaper | N |
| Men have invoked Till all shall understand | M |
| And cry at last 'I am my brother's keeper ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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