Cathair Fhargus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DECED EEEEE FGFGF EHEHE CECEC IJIJI EKEKE DLDMD NONPN QEDEQ RERER ERERE STSUS EVEV FEF F| FERGUS'S SEAT | A |
| A mountain in the Island of Arran the summit of which resembles a gigantic | B |
| human profile | C |
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| WITH face turned upward to the changeful sky | D |
| I Fergus lie supine in frozen rest | E |
| The maiden morning clouds slip rosily | C |
| Unclasped unclasping down my granite breast | E |
| The lightning strikes my brow and passes by | D |
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| There's nothing new beneath the sun I wot | E |
| I 'Fergus' called the great pre Adamite | E |
| Who for my mortal body blindly sought | E |
| Rash immortality and on this height | E |
| Stone bound forever am and yet am not | E |
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| There's nothing new beneath the sun I say | F |
| Ye pigmies of a later race who come | G |
| And play out your brief generation's play | F |
| Below me know I too spent my life's sum | G |
| And revelled through my short tumultuous day | F |
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| O what is man that he should mouth so grand | E |
| Through his poor thousand as his seventy years | H |
| Whether as king I ruled a trembling land | E |
| Or swayed by tongue or pen my meaner peers | H |
| Or earth's whole learning once did understand | E |
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| What matter The star angels know it all | C |
| They who came sweeping through the silent night | E |
| And stood before me yet did not appal | C |
| Till fighting 'gainst me in their courses bright | E |
| Celestial smote terrestrial Hence my fall | C |
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| Hence Heaven cursed me with a granted prayer | I |
| Made my hill seat eternal bade me keep | J |
| My pageant of majestic lone despair | I |
| While one by one into the infinite deep | J |
| Sank kindred realm throne world yet I lay there | I |
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| There still I lie Where are my glories fled | E |
| My wisdom that I boasted as divine | K |
| My grand primeval women fair who shed | E |
| Their whole life's joy to crown one hour of mine | K |
| And live to curse the love they coveted | E |
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| 'The stars in their courses fought against Sisera ' | - |
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| Gone gone Uncounted ons have rolled by | D |
| And still my ghost sits by its corpse of stone | L |
| And still the blue smile of the new formed sky | D |
| Finds me unchanged Slow centuries crawling on | M |
| Bring myriads happy death I cannot die | D |
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| My stone shape mocks the dead man's peaceful face | N |
| And straightened arm that will not labor more | O |
| And yet I yearn for a mean six foot space | N |
| To moulder in with daisies growing o'er | P |
| Rather than this unearthly resting place | N |
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| Where pinnacled my silent effigy | Q |
| Against the sunset rising clear and cold | E |
| Startles the musing mstranger sailing by | D |
| And calls up thoughts that never can be told | E |
| Of life and death and immortality | Q |
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| While I I watch this after world that creeps | R |
| Nearer and nearer to the feet of God | E |
| Ay though it labors struggles sins and weeps | R |
| Yet love drawn follows ever Him who trod | E |
| Through dim Gethsemane to Cavalry's steeps | R |
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| O glorious shame O royal servitude | E |
| High lowliness and ignorance all wise | R |
| Pure life with death and death with life imbued | E |
| My centuried splendors crumble 'neath Thine eyes | R |
| Thou Holy One who died upon the Rood | E |
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| Therefore face upward to the Christian heaven | S |
| I Fergus lie expectant humble calm | T |
| Dumb emblem of the faith to me not given | S |
| The clouds drop chrism the stars their midnight psalm | U |
| Chant over one who passed away unshriven | S |
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| 'I am the Resurrection and the Life ' | - |
| So from yon mountain graveyard cries the dust | E |
| Of child to parent husband unto wife | V |
| Consoling and believing in the Just | E |
| Christ lives though all the universe died in strife | V |
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| Therefore my granite lips forever pray | F |
| 'O rains wash out my sin of self abhorred | E |
| O sun melt thou my heart of stone away | F |
| Out of Thy plenteous mercy save me Lord ' | - |
| And thus I wait till Resurrection day | F |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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