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Edmund Waller

A Panegyric Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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To my Lord Protector of the Present Greatness and Joint Interest of His Highness and this Nation	A
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While with a strong and yet a gentle hand	B
You bridle faction and our hearts command	B
Protect us from ourselves and from the foe	C
Make us unite and make us conquer too	D
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Let partial spirits still aloud complain	E
Think themselves injured that they cannot reign	E
And own no liberty but where they may	F
Without control upon their fellows prey	F
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Above the waves as Neptune showed his face	G
To chide the winds and save the Trojan race	G
So has your Highness raised above the rest	H
Storms of ambition tossing us repressed	H
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Your drooping country torn with civil hate	I
Restored by you is made a glorious state	I
The seat of empire where the Irish come	J
And the unwilling Scotch to fetch their doom	K
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The sea's our own and now all nations greet	L
With bending sails each vessel of our fleet	L
Your power extends as far as winds can blow	C
Or swelling sails upon the globe may go	C
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Heaven that has placed this island to give law	M
To balance Europe and her states to awe	N
In this conjunction does on Britain smile	O
The greatest leader and the greatest isle	O
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Whether this portion of the world were rent	P
By the rude ocean from the continent	Q
Or thus created it was sure designed	R
To be the sacred refuge of mankind	R
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Hither the oppressed shall henceforth resort	S
Justice to crave and succour at your court	S
And then your Highness not for ours alone	T
But for the world's protector shall be known	T
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Fame swifter than your winged navy flies	U
Through every land that near the ocean lies	U
Sounding your name and telling dreadful news	V
To all that piracy and rapine use	W
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With such a chief the meanest nation blessed	H
Might hope to lift her head above the rest	H
What may be thought impossible to do	D
For us embraced by the sea and you	D
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Lords of the world's great waste the ocean we	X
Whole forests send to reign upon the sea	X
And every coast may trouble or relieve	Y
But none can visit us without your leave	Y
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Angels and we have this prerogative	Z
That none can at our happy seat arrive	A2
While we descend at pleasure to invade	B2
The bad with vengeance and the good to aid	B2
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Our little world the image of the great	I
Like that amidst the boundless ocean set	C2
Of her own growth has all that Nature craves	D2
And all that's rare as tribute from the waves	D2
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As Egypt does not on the clouds rely	E2
But to her Nile owes more than to the sky	E2
So what our earth and what our heaven denies	U
Our ever constant friend the sea supplies	U
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The taste of hot Arabia's spice we know	C
Free from the scorching sun that makes it grow	C
Without the worm in Persian silks we shine	F2
And without planting drink of every vine	F2
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To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs	G2
Gold though the heaviest metal hither swims	G2
Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow	C
We plough the deep and reap what others sow	H2
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Things of the noblest kind our own soil breeds	I2
Stout are our men and warlike are our steeds	I2
Rome though her eagle through the world had flown	T
Could never make this island all her own	T
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Here the Third Edward and the Black Prince too	D
France conquering Henry flourished and now you	D
For whom we stayed as did the Grecian state	I
Till Alexander came to urge their fate	I
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When for more worlds the Macedonian cried	J2
He wist not Thetis in her lap did hide	J2
Another yet a world reserved for you	D
To make more great than that he did subdue	D
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He safely might old troops to battle lead	K2
Against the unwarlike Persian and the Mede	K2
Whose hasty flight did from the bloodless field	K2
More spoil than honour to the victor yield	K2
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A race unconquered by their clime made bold	K2
The Caledonians armed with want and cold	K2
Have by a fate indulgent to your fame	L2
Been from all ages kept for you to tame	L2
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Whom the old Roman wall so ill confined	K2
With a new chain of garrisons you bind	K2
Here foreign gold no more shall make them come	J
Our English iron holds them fast at home	M2
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They that henceforth must be content to know	C
No warmer region than their hills of snow	C
May blame the sun but must extol your grace	G
Which in our senate has allowed them place	G
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Preferred by conquest happily o'erthrown	C
Falling they rise to be with us made one	C
So kind dictators made when they came home	M2
Their vanquished foes free citizens of Rome	M2
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Like favour find the Irish with like fate	K2
Advanced to be a portion of our state	K2
While by your valour and your courteous mind	K2
Nations divided by the sea are joined	K2
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Holland to gain your friendship is content	K2
To be our outguard on the continent	K2
She from her fellow provinces would go	C
Rather than hazard to have you her foe	C
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In our late fight when cannons did diffuse	W
Preventing posts the terror and the news	V
Our neighbour princes trembled at their roar	N2
But our conjunction makes them tremble more	N2
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Your never failing sword made war to cease	O2
And now you heal us with the arts of peace	O2
Our minds with bounty and with awe engage	P2
Invite affection and restrain our rage	P2
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Less pleasure take brave minds in battles won	C
Than in restoring such as are undone	C
Tigers have courage and the rugged bear	Q2
But man alone can whom he conquers spare	Q2
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To pardon willing and to punish loath	R2
You strike with one hand but you heal with both	R2
Lifting up all that prostrate lie you grieve	Y
You cannot make the dead again to live	A2
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When fate or error had our age misled	K2
And o'er these nations such confusion spread	K2
The only cure which could from Heaven come down	C
Was so much power and clemency in one	C
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One whose extraction from an ancient line	C
Gives hope again that well born men may shine	C
The meanest in your nature mild and good	K2
The noble rest secured in your blood	K2
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Oft have we wondered how you hid in peace	O2
A mind proportioned to such things as these	S2
How such a ruling spirit you could restrain	C
And practise first over yourself to reign	C
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Your private life did a just pattern give	Z
How fathers husbands pious sons should live	A2
Born to command your princely virtues slept	K2
Like humble David's while the flock he kept	K2
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But when your troubled country called you forth	T2
Your flaming courage and your matchless worth	U2
Dazzling the eyes of all that did pretend	K2
To fierce contention gave a prosperous end	K2
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Still as you rise the state exalted too	K2
Finds no distemper while 'tis changed by you	K2
Changed like the world's great scene when without noise	V2
The rising sun night's vulgar light destroys	V2
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Had you some ages past this race of glory	X
Run with amazement we should read your story	X
But living virtue all achievements past	K2
Meets envy still to grapple with at last	K2
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This C sar found and that ungrateful age	P2
With losing him fell back to blood and rage	P2
Mistaken Brutus thought to break their yoke	W2
But cut the bond of union with that stroke	W2
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That sun once set a thousand meaner stars	X2
Gave a dim light to violence and wars	Y2
To such a tempest as now threatens all	Z2
Did not your mighty arm prevent the fall	Z2
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If Rome's great senate could not wield that sword	K2
Which of the conquered world had made them lord	K2
What hope had ours while yet their power was new	K2
To rule victorious armies but by you	K2
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You that had taught them to subdue their foes	A3
Could order teach and their high spirits compose	A3
To every duty could their minds engage	P2
Provoke their courage and command their rage	P2
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So when a lion shakes his dreadful mane	C
And angry grows if he that first took pain	C
To tame his youth approach the haughty beast	K2
He bends to him but frights away the rest	K2
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As the vexed world to find repose at last	K2
Itself into Augustus' arms did cast	K2
So England now do	K2