Freeman E. Miller

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Truest Heroes Are Unknown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFF GHHGII JKKJLL MJJMNN OPPOJJ

All worthies are not sung in songA
That live their lives and do their deedsB
Where wounded nature writhes and bleedsB
Beneath the savage blows of wrongA
From humble duties tender grownC
The truest heroes are unknownC
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The heart that toils where none may knowD
And uncomplaining conquers careE
To save his loved ones or to spareE
His fellows from the pangs of woeD
Is more the hero than who shieldsF
His country on the bleeding fieldsF
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He claims no praises for his loveG
He seeks no tribute for his worthH
But sows the desert hearts of earthH
With blossoms from the vales aboveG
And in their sunshine warm and brightI
He holds these duties as his rightI
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Where lives are dark with dismal groansJ
Great men are often chained by fateK
And oft are slaves more truly greatK
Than princes on their purple thronesJ
But servant brows are bound with shameL
While monarchs flutter into fameL
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Deeds pure and noble gladly doneM
Unselfish work for sickly soulsJ
When sorrow in black surges rollsJ
And gloomy darkness hides the sunM
These in their truth make more the manN
Than royal aim or princely planN
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But sometime man shall rule by thoughtO
And worth shall gain her just returnP
Till all shall every singer spurnP
Who in the ancient cycles taughtO
That heroes rest in royal gravesJ
But never in the tombs of slavesJ

Freeman E. Miller



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