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Lee In The Capitol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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April	B
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Hard pressed by numbers in his strait	C
Rebellion's soldier chief no more contends	D
Feels that the hour is come of Fate	C
Lays down one sword and widened warfare ends	D
The captain who fierce armies led	E
Becomes a quiet seminary's head	E
Poor as his privates earns his bread	E
In studious cares and aims engrossed	F
Strives to forget Stuart and Stonewall dead	E
Comrades and cause station and riches lost	G
And all the ills that flock when fortune's fled	E
No word he breathes of vain lament	H
Mute to reproach nor hears applause	I
His doom accepts perforce content	H
And acquiesces in asserted laws	I
Secluded now would pass his life	J
And leave to time the sequel of the strife	J
But missives from the Senators ran	K
Not that they now would gaze upon a swordless foe	L
And power made powerless and brought low	L
Reasons of state 'tis claimed require the man	K
Demurring not promptly he comes	M
By ways which show the blackened homes	N
And last the seat no more his own	O
But Honor's patriot grave yards fill	P
The forfeit slopes of that patrician hill	P
And fling a shroud on Arlington	Q
The oaks ancestral all are low	L
No more from the porch his glance shall go	L
Ranging the varied landscape o'er	R
Far as the looming Dome no more	S
One look he gives then turns aside	T
Solace he summons from his pride	T
So be it They await me now	U
Who wrought this stinging overthrow	L
They wait me not as on the day	V
Of Pope's impelled retreat in disarray	V
By me impelled when toward yon Dome	W
The clouds of war came rolling home	W
The burst the bitterness was spent	H
The heart burst bitterly turbulent	X
And on he fared	Y
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In nearness now	U
He marks the Capitol a show	L
Lifted in amplitude and set	Z
With standards flushed with a glow of Richmond yet	Z
Trees and green terraces sleep below	L
Through the clear air in sunny light	A2
The marble dazes a temple white	A2
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Intrepid soldier had his blade been drawn	B2
For yon stirred flag never as now	U
Bid to the Senate house had he gone	B2
But freely and in pageant borne	C2
As when brave numbers without number massed	D2
Plumed the broad way and pouring passed	D2
Bannered beflowered between the shores	E2
Of faces and the dinn'd huzzas	E2
And balconies kindling at the sabre flash	F2
'Mid roar of drums and guns and cymbal crash	F2
While Grant and Sherman shone in blue	G2
Close of the war and victory's long review	G2
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Yet pride at hand still aidful swelled	H2
And up the hard ascent he held	H2
The meeting follows In his mien	I2
The victor and the vanquished both are seen	I2
All that he is and what he late had been	J2
Awhile with curious eyes they scan	K
The Chief who led invasion's van	K
Allied by family to one	Q
Founder of the Arch the Invader warred upon	K2
Who looks at Lee must think of Washington	Q
In pain must think and hide the thought	L2
So deep with grievous meaning it is fraught	L2
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Secession in her soldier shows	E2
Silent and patient and they feel	M2
Developed even in just success	E2
Dim inklings of a hazy future steal	M2
Their thoughts their questions well express	E2
Does the sad South still cherish hate	C
Freely will Southen men with Northern mate	C
The blacks should we our arm withdraw	N2
Would that betray them some distrust your law	N2
And how if foreign fleets should come	O2
Would the South then drive her wedges home	W
And more hereof The Virginian sees	E2
Replies to such anxieties	E2
Discreet his answers run appear	P2
Briefly straightforward coldly clear	P2
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If now the Senators closing say	E2
Aught else remain speak out we pray	E2
Hereat he paused his better heart	Q2
Strove strongly then prompted a worthier part	Q2
Than coldly to endure his doom	R2
Speak out Ay speak and for the brave	S2
Who else no voice or proxy have	T2
Frankly their spokesman here become	O2
And the flushed North from her own victory save	S2
That inspiration overrode	U2
Hardly it quelled the galling load	U2
Of personal ill The inner feud	V2
He self contained a while withstood	W2
They waiting In his troubled eye	X2
Shadows from clouds unseen they spy	X2
They could not mark within his breast	Y2
The pang which pleading thought oppressed	Y2
He spoke nor felt the bitterness die	X2
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My word is given it ties my sword	Z2
Even were banners still abroad	A3
Never could I strive in arms again	B3
While you as fit that pledge retain	C3
Our cause I followed stood in field and gate	C
All's over now and now I follow Fate	C
But this is naught A People call	D3
A desolted land and all	D3
The brood of ills that press so sore	S
The natural offspring of this civil war	S
Which ending not in fame such as might rear	P2
Fitly its sculptured trophy here	E3
Yields harvest large of doubt and dread	E
To all who have the heart and head	E
To feel and know How shall I speak	F3
Thoughts knot with thoughts and utterance check	G3
Before my eyes there swims a haze	E2
Through mists departed comrades gaze	E2
First to encourage last that shall upbraid	H3
How shall I speak The South would fain	C3
Feel peace have quiet law again	B3
Replant the trees for homestead shade	H3
You ask if she recants she yields	E2
Nay and would more would blend anew	G2
As the bones of the slain in her forests do	G2
Bewailed alike by us and you	G2
A voice comes out from these charnel fields	E2
A plaintive yet unheeded one	Q
'Died all in vain both sides undone'	Q
Push not your triumph do not urge	I3
Submissiveness beyond the verge	I3
Intestine rancor would you bide	T
Nursing eleven sliding daggers in your side	T
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Far from my thought to school or threat	Z
I speak the things which hard beset	Z
Where various hazards meet the eyes	E2
To elect in magnanimity is wise	E2
Reap victory's fruit while sound the core	S
What sounder fruit than re established law	N2
I know your partial thoughts do press	E2
Solely on us for war's unhappy stress	E2
But weigh consider look at all	D3
And broad anathema you'll recall	D3
The censor's charge I'll not repeat	J3
The meddlers kindled the war's white heat	J3
Vain intermeddlers and malign	Q
Both of the palm and of the pine	Q
I waive the thought which never can be rife	J
Common's the crime in every civil strife	J
But this I feel that North and South were driven	Q
By Fate to arms For our unshriven	Q
What thousands truest souls were tried	T
As never may any be again	Q
All those who stemmed Secession's pride	T
But at last were swept by the urgent tide	T
Into the chasm I know their pain	Q
A story here may be applied	T
'In Moorish lands there lived a maid	H3
Brought to confess by vow the creed	K3
Of Christians Fain would priests persuade	H3
That now she must approve by deed	K3
The faith she kept What dead she asked	L3
Your old sire leave nor deem it sin	Q
And come with us Still more they tasked	L3
The sad one If heaven you'd win	Q
Far from the burning pit withdraw	N2
Then must you learn to hate your kin	Q
Yea side against them such the law	N2
For Moor and Christian are at war	S
Then will I never quit my sire	R
But here with him through every trial go	L
Nor leave him though in flames below	L
God help me in his fire	R
So in the South vain every plea	M3
'Gainst Nature's strong fidelity	M3
True to the home and to the heart	Q2
Throngs cast their lot with kith and kin	Q
Foreboding cleaved to the natural part	Q2
Was this the unforgivable sin	Q
These noble spirits are yet yours to win	Q
Shall the great North go Sylla's way	E2
Proscribe prolong the evil day	E2
Confirm the curse infix the hate	C
In Unions name forever alienate	C
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From reason who can urge the plea	M3
Freemen conquerors of the free	M3
When blood returns to the shrunken vein	Q
Shall the wound of the Nation bleed again	Q
Well may the wars wan thought supply	X2
And kill the kindling of the hopeful eye	X2
Unless you do what even kings have done	Q
In leniency unless you shun	Q
To copy Europe in her worst estate	C
Avoid the tyranny you reprobate	C
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He ceased His earnestness unforeseen	Q
Moved but not swayed their former mien	Q
And they dismissed him Forth he went	H
Through vaulted walks in lengthened line	Q
Like porches erst upon the Palatine	Q
Historic reveries their lesson lent	H
The Past her shadow through the Future sent	H
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But no Brave though the Soldier grave his plea	M3
Catching the light in the future's skies	E2
Instinct disowns each darkening prophecy	M3
Faith in America never dies	E2
Heaven shall the end ordained fulfill	P
We march with Providence cheery still	P
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Among those summoned during the spring just passed to appear before the Reconstruction Committee of Congress was Robert E Lee His testimony is deeply interesting both in itself and as coming from him After various questions had been put and briefly answered these words were addressed to him	N3
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If there be any other matter about which you wish to speak on this occasions do so freely Waiving this invitation he responded by a short personal explanation of some point in a previous answer and after a few more brief questions and replies the interview closed	O3
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In the verse a poetical liberty has been ventured Lee is not only represented as responding to the invitation but also as at last renouncing his cold reserve doubtless the cloak to feelings more or less poignant If for such freedom warrant be necessary the speeches in ancient histories not to speak of those in Shakespeare's historic plays may not unfitly perhaps be cited	P3
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The character of the original measures proposed about time in the National Legislature for the treatment of the as yet Congressionally excluded South and the spirit in which those measures were advocated these are circumstances which it is fairly supposable would have deeply influenced the thoughts whether spoken or withheld of a Southerner placed in the position of Lee before the Reconstruction Committee	M3