The Wardens Of The Seas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCD EEFFGHIH JKLLCMCM NNOOOPOP OOMMCQCQ DDRROSOS TTDDGRGR OOUVCNCN WWDDODOD XXDDNONO| Like star points in the ether to guide a homing soul | A |
| Towards God's Eternal Haven above the wash and roll | A |
| Across and o'er the oceans on all the coasts they stand | B |
| Tall seneschals of commerce High Wardens of the Strand | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The white lights slowly turning | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Their kind eyes far and wide | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The red and green lights burning | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Along the waterside | D |
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| When Night with breath of aloes magnolia spice and balm | E |
| Creeps down the darkened jungles and mantles reef and palm | E |
| By velvet waters making soft music as they surge | F |
| The shore lights of dark Asia will one by one emerge | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Oh Ras Marshig by Aden | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Shows dull on hazy nights | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And Bombay Channel's laid in | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Its quot In quot and quot Outer quot lights | H |
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| When Night in rain wet garments comes sobbing cold and grey | J |
| Across the German Ocean and South from Stornoway | K |
| Thro' snarling darkness slowly some fixed and some a turn | L |
| The bright shore lights of Europe like welcome tapers burn | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From fierce Fruholmen streaming | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp O'er Northern ice and snow | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To Cape St Vincent gleaming | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp These lamps of danger glow | M |
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| The dark Etruscan tending his watchfires by the shore | N |
| On sacred altars burning the world shall know no more | N |
| His temple's column standing against the ancient stars | O |
| Is gone Now bright catoptrics flash out electric bars | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Slow swung his stately Argos | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Unto the Tiber's mouth | P |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But now the Tuscan cargoes | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Screw driven stagger South | P |
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| The lantern of Genoa guides home no Eastern fleets | O |
| As when the boy Columbus played in its narrow streets | O |
| No more the Keltic dolmens' their fitful warnings throw | M |
| Across the lone Atlantic so long so long ago | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No more the beaked prows dashing | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Shall dare a shoreward foam | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No more will great oars threshing | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Sweep Dorian galleys home | Q |
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| No more the Vikings roaring their sagas wild and weird | D |
| Proclaim that Rome has fallen no more a consul feared | D |
| Shall quench the Roman pharos lest Northern pirates free | R |
| Be pointed to their plunder on coasts of Italy | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Nor shall unwilling lovers | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From Lethean pleasures torn | S |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fare nor'ward with those rovers | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To frozen lands forlorn | S |
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| The bale fires and the watch fires the wrecker's foul false lure | T |
| No more shall vex the shipmen and on their course secure | T |
| Past Pharos in the starlight the tow'ring hulls of Trade | D |
| Race in and out from Suez in iron cavalcade | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp So rode one sunset olden | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Across the dark'ning sea | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With banners silk and golden | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The Barge of Antony | R |
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| They loom along the foreshores they gleam across the Straits | O |
| They guide the feet of Commerce unto the harbor gates | O |
| In nights of storm and thunder thro' fog and sleet and rain | U |
| Like stars on angels' foreheads they give man heart again | V |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Oh hear the high waves smashing | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp On Patagonia's shore | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Oh hear the black waves threshing | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Their weight on Skerryvore | N |
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| He searches night's grim chances upon his bridge alone | W |
| And seeks the distant glimmer of hopeful Eddystone | W |
| And thro' a thick fog creeping with chart and book and lead | D |
| The homeward skipper follows their green and white and red | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp By day his lighthouse wardens | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In sunlit quiet stand | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But in the night the burdens | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are theirs of Sea and Land | D |
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| They fill that night with Knowledge A thousand ships go by | X |
| A thousand captains bless them so bright and proud and high | X |
| The world's dark capes they glamour or low on sand banks dread | D |
| They crouching mark a pathway between the Quick and Dead | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Like star points in the ether | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp They bring the seamen ease | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp These Lords of Wind and Weather | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp These Wardens of the Seas | O |
Edwin James Brady
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