Fragment Of An Indian Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEDD EEFDDDDF GGGHIIIH JJJKLLLLLK BCBCDEDEDD DDMM NNOOPPJJ QQRRLLSS BBTTUV

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They come Be firm in silence rallyB
The long knives our retreat have foundC
Hark their tramp is in the valleyB
And they hem the forest roundC
The burdened boughs with pale scouts quiverD
The echoing hills tumultuous ringE
While across the eddying riverD
Their barks like foaming war steeds springE
The blood hounds darken land and waterD
They come like buffaloes for slaughterD
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See their glittering ranks advancingE
See upon the free winds dancingE
Pennon proud and gaudy plumeF
The strangers come in evil hourD
In pomp and panoply and powerD
But while upon our tribes they lowerD
Think they our manly hearts will cowerD
To meet a warrior's doomF
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Right they forget while strength they feelG
Our veins they drain our land they stealG
And should the vanquished Indian kneelG
They spurn him from their sightH
Be set for ever in disgraceI
The glory of the red man's raceI
If from the foe we turn our faceI
Or safety seek in flightH
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They come Up and upon them bravesJ
Fight for your alters and your gravesJ
Drive back the stern invading slavesJ
In fight till now victoriousK
Like lightning from storm clouds on highL
The hurtling death winged arrows flyL
And wind rows of pale warriors dieL
Oh never was the sun's bright eyeL
Looked from his hill tops in the skyL
Upon a field so gloriousK
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They're gone again the red men rallyB
With dance and song the woods resoundC
The hatchet's buried in the valleyB
No foe profanes our hunting groundC
The green leaves on the blithe boughs quiverD
The verdant hills with song birds ringE
While our bark canoes the riverD
Skim like swallows on the wingE
Mirth pervades the land and waterD
Free from famine sword and slaughterD
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Let us by this gentle riverD
Blunt the axe and break the quiverD
While as leaves upon the sprayM
Peaceful flow our cares awayM
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Yet alas the hour is briefN
Left for either joy or griefN
All on earth that we inheritO
From the hands of the Great SpiritO
Wigwam hill plain lake and fieldP
To the white man must we yieldP
For like sun down on the wavesJ
We are sinking to our gravesJ
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From this wilderness of woQ
Like the caravan we goQ
Leaving all our groves and streamsR
For the far off land of dreamsR
There are prairies waving highL
Boundless as the sheeted skyL
Where our fathers' spirits roamS
And the red man has a homeS
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Let tradition tell our storyB
As we fade in cloudless gloryB
As we seek the land of restT
Beyond the borders of the westT
No eye but ours may look uponU
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE SUNV
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George Pope Morris



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