Cymru Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDDDDEEFFGDDD HIJJKKLL MMNNDDOODD NNBBMMPPQQ DDQQDDRRSS NNTTUUDDDD VVWWDDTT DDXXJJDDYYQQDim in the mist of ages seeking a resting place | A |
Broke on the shores of Britain the wave of an Aryan race | A |
Clear thro the mist of ages ere ever the White Christ came | B |
Songs of the Cymric singers have chanted the Brython fame | B |
Dark with the fate of nations and swift as a broadspear hurled | C |
The breath of the God of Battles swept o er the western world | C |
Where are the old time peoples men of the war like front | D |
From the surge of the wild Atlantic to the shores of the Hellespont | D |
Come and gone like the breezes ebbed and flowed like the tide | D |
Race and feature and language are lost in that vortex wide | D |
Rich is thy soil O Cymru drenched with thy heroes blood | D |
Where mid the changeful ons changeless thy people stood | D |
Land of the birch and buckthorn home of the hoary oak | E |
Where the songs of Llywarch linger and the words that Merlin spoke | E |
Land of the tarn and torrent where broods by the rock bound springs | F |
The spirit of stern Cunedda the first of the Brython Kings | F |
Land of the mellow marshes deep valley and barren scar | G |
Sweet with the dreams of Cadoc and the lore of Howel Dda | D |
Where upon dark Pymlimmon the snowy cloudwreaths rest | D |
Where wild Demetia s forelands spurn the billows from her breast | D |
Comes to the heart that loves thee under the changeful skies | H |
Rich with a rhythmic measure the surge of the centuries | I |
Days when the Cymric armies marching in thousands strong | J |
Followed the fierce Aneurin chanting his battle song | J |
Deeds of a desperate valour that turned thro the wavering years | K |
The thrust of the Roman pila the rush of the Saxon spears | K |
The charge of the Norman barons met by the stern reply | L |
Of a land that had taught the Caesars whether her sons could die | L |
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Men of the blood of Meuric of Maelgwn the leonine | M |
Who smile at the Saxon hierarchs who laugh at the Norman line | M |
Who are sprung from the loins of hunters who followed the mighty Hu | N |
Wherever the broad spear glittered wherever the battle grew | N |
Kin of the warrior princes who sank in the bloody tide | D |
That raged on the field at Hexham where brave Cadwallon died | D |
Forget not the land that bore you Be true to the breath that fills | O |
The heart of her singing valleys the heights of her storm crowned hills | O |
The soul of the nation stirreth yet as it did of old | D |
When the helm of the great Pendragon flamed o er his torque of gold | D |
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The myths of the Greek and Roman dim in the Eastward grew | N |
And o er the realms of Asia the banner of Islam blew | N |
High in the halls of honour bright on the scroll of fame | B |
Deep in the hearts of heroes is written great Arthur s name | B |
A star on the heights of morning clear in the pearl of dawn | M |
It carried the White Christ s message wherever a sword was drawn | M |
It flashed on the heathen darkness it nursed with its golden ray | P |
The strength of the early Churches that grew under David s sway | P |
Ill shall the oak have blossomed and warped shall its branches be | Q |
When Britain forgets to honour the dawn of her chivalry | Q |
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Wherever grows Britain s glory wherever her power is felt | D |
Tis won by the fire that flushes the blood of the restless Celt | D |
Scottish or Welsh or Irish whatever the branches be | Q |
The Gael and the Brython together are stems of the self same tree | Q |
In song in battle in council by land or by stormy tide | D |
They move in the van of progress wherever her realms are wide | D |
The seed of the self same people still dwell by the Cambrian shore | R |
The tramp of the Roman legions is heard on the hills no more | R |
Saxon and Dane and Norman the spirit you could not quell | S |
Deem not it died in darkness when the last Llewelyn fell | S |
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Hemmed and harried and fettered ever it rose anew | N |
Twas first neath the Cambrian Tudors the greatness of England grew | N |
Now torque and lance and tarian hang high in the castle hall | T |
The bay of the Cymric war hound is mute neath the Roman wall | T |
The voice of the Seer is silent in dim vast forest aisles | U |
By grove and haunted streamlet no white procession files | U |
Past are the days of prowess the fame of the strong right hand | D |
But the hearts of the Cambrian peasants still cleave to the motherland | D |
Still with the stern persistence that kept them a race apart | D |
They live for a Nation s glory they toil for a Nation s art | D |
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True to a high ideal never to falter nor swerve | V |
The fire of a strong endeavour glows thro their calm reserve | V |
Still to the living Present the power of the Past can reach | W |
The spring of a Nation s culture wells thro their pensive speech | W |
Burns and rises and surges thro class and order and sect | D |
The thirst for a wider knowledge the passion of intellect | D |
From the fenlands of Tremadoc to where Severn s waters fall | T |
The many are one with the purpose the purpose is one with all | T |
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Far from the Cambrian mountains far from the Tivyside | D |
Or Penmaenmawr uplifted above the foaming tide | D |
Where the stars above calm Gwynant watch while the waters sleep | X |
Or where Conwy darts its arrow by Degannwy s rocky steep | X |
Far from that gloomy chasm where the weirs with thundershake | J |
And the rocks of dark Llyn Idwal frown o er the darker lake | J |
Far from the Mercian Marches where the rivers keep their tryst | D |
Or where the corn is waving down the vale of sweet Llanrwst | D |
Wherever their fate may lead them wherever their footsteps fare | Y |
The soul of the Cambrian people is free as their mountain air | Y |
However our days may darken our dreams of that land shall be | Q |
As the glint of a sunbeam shining at dawn on a wintry sea | Q |
George Essex Evans
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