Lines, Addressed To The Young Gentlemen Leaving The Academy At Lenox, Massachusetts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFCCGGHHIIIJ JKLMMNNOOPPQQRRSS TTUUVVWWEEDDXXIIYYUU| Life is before ye and while now ye stand | A |
| Eager to spring upon the promised land | A |
| Fair smiles the way where yet your feet have trod | B |
| But few light steps upon a flowery sod | B |
| Round ye are youth's green bowers and to your eyes | C |
| Th' horizon's line joins earth with the bright skies | C |
| Daring and triumph pleasure fame and joy | D |
| Friendship unwavering love without alloy | D |
| Brave thoughts of noble deeds and glory won | E |
| Like angels beckon ye to venture on | F |
| And if o'er the bright scene some shadows rise | C |
| Far off they seem at hand the sunshine lies | C |
| The distant clouds which of ye pause to fear | G |
| Shall not a brightness gild them when more near | G |
| Dismay and doubt ye know not for the power | H |
| Of youth is strong within ye at this hour | H |
| And the great mortal conflict seems to ye | I |
| Not so much strife as certain victory | I |
| A glory ending in eternity | I |
| Life is before ye oh if ye could look | J |
| Into the secrets of that sealed book | J |
| Strong as ye are in youth and hope and faith | K |
| Ye should sink down and falter Give us death | L |
| Could the dread Sphinx's lips but once disclose | M |
| And utter but a whisper of the woes | M |
| Which must o'ertake ye in your lifelong doom | N |
| Well might ye cry Our cradle be our tomb | N |
| Could ye foresee your spirit's broken wings | O |
| Earth's brightest triumphs what despised things | O |
| Friendship how feeble love how fierce a flame | P |
| Your joy half sorrow half your glory shame | P |
| Hollowness weariness and worst of all | Q |
| Self scorn that pities not its own deep fall | Q |
| Fast gathering darkness and fast waning light | R |
| Oh could ye see it all ye might ye might | R |
| Cower in the dust unequal to the strife | S |
| And die but in beholding what is life | S |
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| Life is before ye from the fated road | T |
| Ye cannot turn then take ye up your load | T |
| Not yours to tread or leave the unknown way | U |
| Ye must go o'er it meet ye what ye may | U |
| Gird up your souls within ye to the deed | V |
| Angels and fellow spirits bid ye speed | V |
| What though the brightness dim the pleasure fade | W |
| The glory wane oh not of these is made | W |
| The awful life that to your trust is given | E |
| Children of God inheritors of heaven | E |
| Mourn not the perishing of each fair toy | D |
| Ye were ordained to do not to enjoy | D |
| To suffer which is nobler than to dare | X |
| A sacred burthen is this life ye bear | X |
| Look on it lift it bear it solemnly | I |
| Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly | I |
| Fail not for sorrow falter not for sin | Y |
| But onward upward till the goal ye win | Y |
| God guard ye and God guide ye on your way | U |
| Young pilgrim warriors who set forth to day | U |
Frances Anne Kemble (fanny)
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