To The Union Savers Of Cleveland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBE BFGF BHIH BJBJ KLML CDND DBMB OEBE PMQM DRSR| Men of Cleveland had a vulture | A |
| Sought a timid dove for prey | B |
| Would you not with human pity | C |
| Drive the gory bird away | B |
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| Had you seen a feeble lambkin | D |
| Shrinking from a wolf so bold | E |
| Would ye not to shield the trembler | B |
| In your arms have made its fold | E |
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| But when she a hunted sister | B |
| Stretched her hands that ye might save | F |
| Colder far than Zembla's regions | G |
| Was the answer that ye gave | F |
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| On the Union's bloody altar | B |
| Was your hapless victim laid | H |
| Mercy truth and justice shuddered | I |
| But your hands would give no aid | H |
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| And ye sent her back to the torture | B |
| Robbed of freedom and of fright | J |
| Thrust the wretched captive stranger | B |
| Back to slavery's gloomy night | J |
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| Back where brutal men may trample | K |
| On her honor and her fame | L |
| And unto her lips so dusky | M |
| Press the cup of woe and shame | L |
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| There is blood upon our city | C |
| Dark and dismal is the stain | D |
| And your hands would fail to cleanse it | N |
| Though Lake Erie ye should drain | D |
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| There's a curse upon your Union | D |
| Fearful sounds are in the air | B |
| As if thunderbolts were framing | M |
| Answers to the bondsman's prayer | B |
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| Ye may offer human victims | O |
| Like the heathen priests of old | E |
| And may barter manly honor | B |
| For the Union and for gold | E |
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| But ye can not stay the whirlwind | P |
| When the storm begins to break | M |
| And our God doth rise in judgment | Q |
| For the poor and needy's sake | M |
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| And your sin cursed guilty Union | D |
| Shall be shaken to its base | R |
| Till ye learn that simple justice | S |
| Is the right of every race | R |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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