A Poem On The Last Day - Book Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGH IIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPQQ RRSSTTUUVVAAVVWJFF XXYY ZZTTA2A2QQII FFB2C2D2D2E2E2 F2G2MMAALLRR H2H2D2D2I2J2F2K2L2L2 M2M2 D2D2N2N2O2P2Q2Q2R2R2 S2T2U2U2XX LLV2V2W2X2Y2Y2 Z2Z2FFN2N2SSA3 B3C3C3Q2Q2HH D3D3FFE3E3F3G3S2T2V2 V2H3H3GH VVI3I3 J3K3L3L3R2R2YY LLM3N3XXO3O3HH P3P3Q3Q3D3D3O2P2JNow man awakes and from his silent bed | A |
Where he has slept for ages lifts his head | A |
Shakes off the slumber of ten thousand years | B |
And on the borders of new worlds appears | B |
Whate'er the bold the rash adventure cost | C |
In wide Eternity I dare be lost | D |
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The Muse is wont in narrow bounds to sing | E |
To teach the swain or celebrate the king | E |
I grasp the whole no more to parts confined | F |
I lift my voice and sing to human kind | F |
I sing to men and angels angels join | G |
While such the theme their sacred songs with mine | H |
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Again the trumpet's intermitted sound | I |
Rolls the wide circuit of creation round | I |
An universal concourse to prepare | J |
Of all that ever breathed the vital air | J |
In some wide field which active whirlwinds sweep | K |
Drive cities forests mountains to the deep | K |
To smooth and lengthen out the' unbounded space | L |
And spread an area for all human race | L |
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Now monuments prove faithful to their trust | M |
And render back their long committed dust | M |
Now charnels rattle scatter'd limbs and all | N |
The various bones obsequious to the call | N |
Self moved advance the neck perhaps to meet | O |
The distant head the distant legs the feet | O |
Dreadful to view see through the dusky sky | P |
Fragments of bodies in confusion fly | P |
To distant regions journeying there to claim | Q |
Deserted members and complete the frame | Q |
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When the world bow'd to Rome's almighty sword | R |
Rome bow'd to Pompey and confess'd her lord | R |
Yet one day lost this deity below | S |
Became the scorn and pity of his foe | S |
His blood a traitor's sacrifice was made | T |
And smoked indignant on a ruffian's blade | T |
No trumpet's sound no gasping army's yell | U |
Bid with due horror his great soul farewell | U |
Obscure his fall all weltering in his gore | V |
His trunk was cast to perish on the shore | V |
While Julius frown'd the bloody monster dead | A |
Who brought the world in his great rival's head | A |
This sever'd head and trunk shall join once more | V |
Though realms now rise between and oceans roar | V |
The trumpet's sound each vagrant mote shall hear | W |
Or fix'd in earth or if afloat in air | J |
Obey the signal wafted in the wind | F |
And not one sleeping atom lag behind | F |
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So swarming bees that on a summer's day | X |
In airy rings and wild meanders play | X |
Charm'd with the brasen sound their wanderings end | Y |
And gently circling on a bough descend | Y |
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The body thus renew'd the conscious soul | Z |
Which has perhaps been fluttering near the pole | Z |
Or midst the burning planets wondering stray'd | T |
Or hover'd o'er where her pale corpse was laid | T |
Or rather coasted on her final state | A2 |
And fear'd or wish'd for her appointed fate | A2 |
This soul returning with a constant flame | Q |
Now weds for ever her immortal frame | Q |
Life which ran down before so high is wound | I |
The springs maintain an everlasting round | I |
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Thus a frail model of the work design'd | F |
First takes a copy of the builder's mind | F |
Before the structure firm with lasting oak | B2 |
And marble bowels of the solid rock | C2 |
Turns the strong arch and bids the columns rise | D2 |
And bear the lofty palace to the skies | D2 |
The wrongs of Time enabled to surpass | E2 |
With bars of adamant and ribs of brass | E2 |
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That ancient sacred and illustrious dome | F2 |
Where soon or late fair Albion's heroes come | G2 |
From camps and courts though great or wise or just | M |
To feed the worm and moulder into dust | M |
That solemn mansion of the royal dead | A |
Where passing slaves o'er sleeping monarchs tread | A |
Now populous o'erflows a numerous race | L |
Of rising kings fill all the' extended space | L |
A life well spent not the victorious sword | R |
Awards the crown and styles the greater lord | R |
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Nor monuments alone and burial earth | H2 |
Labour with man to this his second birth | H2 |
But where gay palaces in pomp arise | D2 |
And gilded theatres invade the skies | D2 |
Nations shall wake whose unrespected bones | I2 |
Support the pride of their luxurious sons | J2 |
The most magnificent and costly dome | F2 |
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb | K2 |
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave | L2 |
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave | L2 |
All's full of man and at this dreadful turn | M2 |
The swarm shall issue and the hive shall burn | M2 |
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Not all at once nor in like manner rise | D2 |
Some lift with pain their slow unwilling eyes | D2 |
Shrink backward from the terror of the light | N2 |
And bless the grave and call for lasting night | N2 |
Others whose long attempted virtue stood | O2 |
Fix'd as a rock and broke the rushing flood | P2 |
Whose firm resolve nor beauty could melt down | Q2 |
Nor raging tyrants from their posture frown | Q2 |
Such in this day of horrors shall be seen | R2 |
To face the thunders with a godlike mien | R2 |
The planets drop their thoughts are fix'd above | S2 |
The centre shakes their hearts disdain to move | T2 |
An earth dissolving and a heaven thrown wide | U2 |
A yawning gulf and fiends on every side | U2 |
Serene they view impatient of delay | X |
And bless the dawn of everlasting day | X |
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Here greatness prostrate falls there strength gives place | L |
Here lazars smile there beauty hides her face | L |
Christians and Jews and Turks and Pagans stand | V2 |
A blended throng one undistinguish'd band | V2 |
Some who perhaps by mutual wounds expired | W2 |
With zeal for their distinct persuasions fired | X2 |
In mutual friendship their long slumber break | Y2 |
And hand in hand their Saviour's love partake | Y2 |
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But none are flush'd with brighter joy or warm | Z2 |
With juster confidence enjoy the storm | Z2 |
Than those whose pious bounties unconfined | F |
Have made them public fathers of mankind | F |
In that illustrious rank what shining light | N2 |
With such distinguish'd glory fills my sight | N2 |
Bend down my grateful Muse that homage show | S |
Which to such worthies thou art proud to owe | S |
Wykeham Fox Chicheley hail illustrious names | A3 |
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Who to far distant times dispense your beams | B3 |
Beneath your shades and near your crystal springs | C3 |
I first presumed to touch the trembling strings | C3 |
All hail thrice honour'd 'Twas your great renown | Q2 |
To bless a people and oblige a crown | Q2 |
And now you rise eternally to shine | H |
Eternally to drink the rays Divine | H |
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Indulgent God O how shall mortal raise | D3 |
His soul to due returns of grateful praise | D3 |
For bounty so profuse to human kind | F |
Thy wondrous gift of an eternal mind | F |
Shall I who some few years ago was less | E3 |
Than worm or mite or shadow can express | E3 |
Was nothing shall I live when every fire | F3 |
And every star shall languish and expire | G3 |
When earth's no more shall I survive above | S2 |
And through the radiant files of angels move | T2 |
Or as before the throne of God I stand | V2 |
See new worlds rolling from His spacious hand | V2 |
Where our adventures shall perhaps be taught | H3 |
As we now tell how Michael sung or fought | H3 |
All that has being in full concert join | G |
And celebrate the depths of Love Divine | H |
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But O before this blissful state before | V |
The' aspiring soul this wondrous height can soar | V |
The Judge descending thunders from afar | I3 |
And all mankind is summon'd to the bar | I3 |
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This mighty scene I next presume to draw | J3 |
Attend great Anna with religious awe | K3 |
Expect not here the known successful arts | L3 |
To win attention and command our hearts | L3 |
Fiction be far away let no machine | R2 |
Descending here no fabled God be seen | R2 |
Behold the God of gods indeed descend | Y |
And worlds unnumber'd His approach attend | Y |
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Lo the wide theatre whose ample space | L |
Must entertain the whole of human race | L |
At Heaven's all powerful edict is prepared | M3 |
And fenced around with an immortal guard | N3 |
Tribes provinces dominions worlds o'erflow | X |
The mighty plain and deluge all below | X |
And every age and nation pours along | O3 |
Nimrod and Bourbon mingle in the throng | O3 |
Adam salutes his youngest son no sign | H |
Of all those ages which their births disjoin | H |
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How empty learning and how vain is art | P3 |
But as it mends the life and guides the heart | P3 |
What volumes have been swell'd what time been spent | Q3 |
To fix a hero's birth day or descent | Q3 |
What joy must it now yield what rapture raise | D3 |
To see the glorious race of ancient days | D3 |
To greet those worthies who perhaps have stood | O2 |
Illustrious on record before the flood | P2 |
Alas a nearer care | J |
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