Fragment Of An Indian Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEDD EEFDDDDF GGGHIIIH JJJKLLLLLK BCBCDEDEDD DDMM NNOOPPJJ QQRRLLSS BBTTUVA | |
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They come Be firm in silence rally | B |
The long knives our retreat have found | C |
Hark their tramp is in the valley | B |
And they hem the forest round | C |
The burdened boughs with pale scouts quiver | D |
The echoing hills tumultuous ring | E |
While across the eddying river | D |
Their barks like foaming war steeds spring | E |
The blood hounds darken land and water | D |
They come like buffaloes for slaughter | D |
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See their glittering ranks advancing | E |
See upon the free winds dancing | E |
Pennon proud and gaudy plume | F |
The strangers come in evil hour | D |
In pomp and panoply and power | D |
But while upon our tribes they lower | D |
Think they our manly hearts will cower | D |
To meet a warrior's doom | F |
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Right they forget while strength they feel | G |
Our veins they drain our land they steal | G |
And should the vanquished Indian kneel | G |
They spurn him from their sight | H |
Be set for ever in disgrace | I |
The glory of the red man's race | I |
If from the foe we turn our face | I |
Or safety seek in flight | H |
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They come Up and upon them braves | J |
Fight for your alters and your graves | J |
Drive back the stern invading slaves | J |
In fight till now victorious | K |
Like lightning from storm clouds on high | L |
The hurtling death winged arrows fly | L |
And wind rows of pale warriors die | L |
Oh never was the sun's bright eye | L |
Looked from his hill tops in the sky | L |
Upon a field so glorious | K |
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They're gone again the red men rally | B |
With dance and song the woods resound | C |
The hatchet's buried in the valley | B |
No foe profanes our hunting ground | C |
The green leaves on the blithe boughs quiver | D |
The verdant hills with song birds ring | E |
While our bark canoes the river | D |
Skim like swallows on the wing | E |
Mirth pervades the land and water | D |
Free from famine sword and slaughter | D |
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Let us by this gentle river | D |
Blunt the axe and break the quiver | D |
While as leaves upon the spray | M |
Peaceful flow our cares away | M |
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Yet alas the hour is brief | N |
Left for either joy or grief | N |
All on earth that we inherit | O |
From the hands of the Great Spirit | O |
Wigwam hill plain lake and field | P |
To the white man must we yield | P |
For like sun down on the waves | J |
We are sinking to our graves | J |
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From this wilderness of wo | Q |
Like the caravan we go | Q |
Leaving all our groves and streams | R |
For the far off land of dreams | R |
There are prairies waving high | L |
Boundless as the sheeted sky | L |
Where our fathers' spirits roam | S |
And the red man has a home | S |
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Let tradition tell our story | B |
As we fade in cloudless glory | B |
As we seek the land of rest | T |
Beyond the borders of the west | T |
No eye but ours may look upon | U |
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN | V |
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George Pope Morris
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