Champions Of Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNOP QRQRAA| The pride of all our chivalry | A |
| The name of Worth will stand | B |
| While throbs the pulse of liberty | A |
| Within his native land | B |
| The wreath his brow was formed to wear | C |
| A nation's tears will freshen there | C |
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| The young companion of his fame | D |
| In war and peace allied | E |
| With garlands woven round his name | D |
| Reposes at his side | E |
| Duncan whose deeds for evermore | F |
| Will live amid his cannon's roar | F |
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| Gates in his country's quarrel bold | G |
| When she to arms appealed | H |
| Sought like the Christian knights of old | G |
| His laurels on the field | H |
| Where victory rent the welkin dome | I |
| He earned a sepulchre at home | I |
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| The drum beat of the bannered brave | J |
| The requiem and the knell | K |
| The volley o'er the soldier's grave | J |
| His comrades' last farewell | K |
| Are tributes rendered to the dead | L |
| And sermons to the living read | L |
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| But there's a glory brighter far | M |
| Than all that earth has given | N |
| A beacon like the index star | M |
| That points the way to heaven | N |
| It is a life well spent its close | O |
| The cloudless sundown of repose | P |
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| That such was theirs for whom we mourn | Q |
| These obsequies attest | R |
| And though in sorrow they are borne | Q |
| Unto their final rest | R |
| A guide will their example be | A |
| To future champions of the free | A |
George Pope Morris
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