Ethnogenesis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDEDEFGHHIFIJIJKL JMMLNOOKN PQMMRSTTSRUUVWWVVXXX YXZA2B2A2B2 C2D2C2D2E2E2F2F2G2H2 MMNNI2I2HHIIJ2K2L2J2 SM2AAM2S L2 N2O2O2N2P2Q2AAR2R2G2 S2H2T2T2U2U2XXV2V2W2 W2| Written During the Meeting of the First Southern Congress at Montgomery | A |
| February | A |
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| I | - |
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| Hath not the morning dawned with added light | B |
| And shall not evening call another star | C |
| Out of the infinite regions of the night | B |
| To mark this day in Heaven At last we are | C |
| A nation among nations and the world | D |
| Shall soon behold in many a distant port | E |
| Another flag unfurled | D |
| Now come what may whose favor need we court | E |
| And under God whose thunder need we fear | F |
| Thank Him who placed us here | G |
| Beneath so kind a sky the very sun | H |
| Takes part with us and on our errands run | H |
| All breezes of the ocean dew and rain | I |
| Do noiseless battle for us and the Year | F |
| And all the gentle daughters in her train | I |
| March in our ranks and in our service wield | J |
| Long spears of golden grain | I |
| A yellow blossom as her fairy shield | J |
| June flings her azure banner to the wind | K |
| While in the order of their birth | L |
| Her sisters pass and many an ample field | J |
| Grows white beneath their steps till now behold | M |
| Its endless sheets unfold | M |
| THE SNOW OF SOUTHERN SUMMERS Let the earth | L |
| Rejoice beneath those fleeces soft and warm | N |
| Our happy land shall sleep | O |
| In a repose as deep | O |
| As if we lay intrenched behind | K |
| Whole leagues of Russian ice and Arctic storm | N |
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| II | - |
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| And what if mad with wrongs themselves have wrought | P |
| In their own treachery caught | Q |
| By their own fears made bold | M |
| And leagued with him of old | M |
| Who long since in the limits of the North | R |
| Set up his evil throne and warred with God | S |
| What if both mad and blinded in their rage | T |
| Our foes should fling us down their mortal gage | T |
| And with a hostile step profane our sod | S |
| We shall not shrink my brothers but go forth | R |
| To meet them marshaled by the Lord of Hosts | U |
| And overshadowed by the mighty ghosts | U |
| Of Moultrie and of Eutaw who shall foil | V |
| Auxiliars such as these Nor these alone | W |
| But every stock and stone | W |
| Shall help us but the very soil | V |
| And all the generous wealth it gives to toil | V |
| And all for which we love our noble land | X |
| Shall fight beside and through us sea and strand | X |
| The heart of woman and her hand | X |
| Tree fruit and flower and every influence | Y |
| Gentle or grave or grand | X |
| The winds in our defence | Z |
| Shall seem to blow to us the hills shall lend | A2 |
| Their firmness and their calm | B2 |
| And in our stiffened sinews we shall blend | A2 |
| The strength of pine and palm | B2 |
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| III | - |
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| Nor would we shun the battle ground | C2 |
| Though weak as we are strong | D2 |
| Call up the clashing elements around | C2 |
| And test the right and wrong | D2 |
| On one side creeds that dare to teach | E2 |
| What Christ and Paul refrained to preach | E2 |
| Codes built upon a broken pledge | F2 |
| And Charity that whets a poniard's edge | F2 |
| Fair schemes that leave the neighboring poor | G2 |
| To starve and shiver at the schemer's door | H2 |
| While in the world's most liberal ranks enrolled | M |
| He turns some vast philanthropy to gold | M |
| Religion taking every mortal form | N |
| But that a pure and Christian faith makes warm | N |
| Where not to vile fanatic passion urged | I2 |
| Or not in vague philosophies submerged | I2 |
| Repulsive with all Pharisaic leaven | H |
| And making laws to stay the laws of Heaven | H |
| And on the other scorn of sordid gain | I |
| Unblemished honor truth without a stain | I |
| Faith justice reverence charitable wealth | J2 |
| And for the poor and humble laws which give | K2 |
| Not the mean right to buy the right to live | L2 |
| But life and home and health | J2 |
| To doubt the end were want of trust in God | S |
| Who if he has decreed | M2 |
| That we must pass a redder sea | A |
| Than that which rang to Miriam's holy glee | A |
| Will surely raise at need | M2 |
| A Moses with his rod | S |
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| IV | L2 |
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| But let our fears if fears we have be still | N2 |
| And turn us to the future Could we climb | O2 |
| Some mighty Alp and view the coming time | O2 |
| The rapturous sight would fill | N2 |
| Our eyes with happy tears | P2 |
| Not only for the glories which the years | Q2 |
| Shall bring us not for lands from sea to sea | A |
| And wealth and power and peace though these shall be | A |
| But for the distant peoples we shall bless | R2 |
| And the hushed murmurs of a world's distress | R2 |
| For to give labor to the poor | G2 |
| The whole sad planet o'er | S2 |
| And save from want and crime the humblest door | H2 |
| Is one among the many ends for which | T2 |
| God makes us great and rich | T2 |
| The hour perchance is not yet wholly ripe | U2 |
| When all shall own it but the type | U2 |
| Whereby we shall be known in every land | X |
| Is that vast gulf which lips our Southern strand | X |
| And through the cold untempered ocean pours | V2 |
| Its genial streams that far off Arctic shores | V2 |
| May sometimes catch upon the softened breeze | W2 |
| Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas | W2 |
Henry Timrod
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