The Travellers In Haste; Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FFGGHHFF IIJJKKLLMMBBBNJJEEBB JJJJBNJJMMOOFFJJPPQQ FFRR| ADDRESSED TO | A |
| THOMAS CLARKSON ESQ | B |
| IN | C |
| WHEN MANY ENGLISH ARRIVED AT PARIS BUT | D |
| REMAINED A VERY SHORT TIME | E |
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| LOV'D ENGLAND now the narrow sea | F |
| In vain would sep'rate France and thee | F |
| May fav'ring zephyrs swell the sail | G |
| That wafts the crowd my wishes hail | G |
| Strangers to me they hither roam | H |
| But English accents speak of home | H |
| And SCOTIA still more dear to me | F |
| Are those which lead me back to thee | F |
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| Accents that wake with magic powers | I |
| The spirits of departed hours | I |
| Ah lost to me thy fir clad hills | J |
| The music of thy mountain rills | J |
| Yet ever shall the mem'ry last | K |
| 'Pleasant and mournful' of the past | K |
| But here from scenes so new so strange | L |
| Where meditation long might range | L |
| And taste might fix her ardent eye | M |
| How swift the rapid travellers fly | M |
| What haste to come what haste to go | B |
| Unknowing half they wish to know | B |
| Delighted as they rush along | B |
| But not less eager to be gone | N |
| In vain the arts unfold their gates | J |
| For there no stranger ever waits | J |
| In vain unlock that wealth sublime | E |
| Immortal genius wrests from time | E |
| Ah wherefore ope the classic book | B |
| For those who have no time to look | B |
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| Who 'midst the academic bowers | J |
| On BREGUET call to mark the hours | J |
| Through the long gall'ry swift advance | J |
| And judge perfection with a glance | J |
| But to what class does he belong | B |
| Who comes less eager to be gone | N |
| And yet inflexibly refuses | J |
| To heed the Arts or court the Muses | J |
| The groups that press to give th' 'Apollo' | M |
| A parting glance he scorns to follow | M |
| In vain the 'Venus' may expect | O |
| One look and wonder at neglect | O |
| For CLARKSON slights all forms of beauty | F |
| Not that he thinks indiff'rence duty | F |
| But dearer pleasures fill the space | J |
| Of classic charms and attic grace | J |
| He comes at this decisive hour | P |
| In Pity's cause to plead with power | P |
| His embassy is from the slave | Q |
| His diplomatic skill to save | Q |
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| He comes the fetter'd to unbind | F |
| To stipulate for half mankind | F |
| And when applause records his name | R |
| Sighs that philanthropy is fame | R |
Helen Maria Williams
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