To The Heroic Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDDB EFGEFG A GHHGGHHG IJKIJK F LDDMLDDL NONONP| I | A |
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| Nurture thyself O Soul from the clear spring | B |
| That wells beneath the secret inner shrine | C |
| Commune with its deep murmur 'tis divine | C |
| Be faithful to the ebb and flow that bring | B |
| The outer tide of Spirit to trouble and swing | B |
| The inlet of thy being Learn to know | D |
| These powers and life with all its venom and show | D |
| Shall have no force to dazzle thee or sting | B |
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| And when Grief comes thou shalt have suffered more | E |
| Than all the deepest woes of all the world | F |
| Joy dancing in shall find thee nourished with mirth | G |
| Wisdom shall find her Master at thy door | E |
| And Love shall find thee crowned with love empearled | F |
| And death shall touch thee not but a new birth | G |
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| II | A |
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| Be strong O warring soul For very sooth | G |
| Kings are but wraiths republics fade like rain | H |
| Peoples are reaped and garnered as the grain | H |
| And that alone prevails which is the truth | G |
| Be strong when all the days of life bear ruth | G |
| And fury and are hot with toil and strain | H |
| Hold thy large faith and quell thy mighty pain | H |
| Dream the great dream that buoys thine age with youth | G |
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| Thou art an eagle mewed in a sea stopped cave | I |
| He poised in darkness with victorious wings | J |
| Keeps night between the granite and the sea | K |
| Until the tide has drawn the warder wave | I |
| Then from the portal where the ripple rings | J |
| He bursts into the boundless morning free | K |
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| RETROSPECT | F |
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| This is the mockery of the moving years | L |
| Youth's colour dies the fervid morning glow | D |
| Is gone from off the foreland slow slow | D |
| Even slower than the fount of human tears | M |
| To empty the consuming shadow nears | L |
| That Time is casting on the worldly show | D |
| Of pomp and glory But falter not below | D |
| That thought is based a deeper thought that cheers | L |
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| Glean thou thy past that will alone inure | N |
| To catch thy heart up from a dark distress | O |
| It were enough to find one deed mature | N |
| Deep rooted mighty 'mid the toil and press | O |
| To save one memory of the sweet and pure | N |
| From out life's failure and its bitterness | P |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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