Arms And The Man. - Heroes And Statesmen Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Of their great names I may record but few	A
He who beholds the Ocean white with sails	B
And copies each confuses all the view	A
He paints too much and fails	B
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His picture shows no high emphatic light	C
Its shadows in full mass refuse to fall	D
And as its broken details meet the light	C
Men turn it to the wall	D
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Of those great names but few may pass my lips	E
For he who speaks of Salamis then sees	F
Not men who there commanded Grecian ships	E
But grand Themistocles	E
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Yet some I mark and these discreetly take	G
To grace my verse through duty and design	H
As one notes barks that leave the broadest wake	G
Upon the stormy Brine	H
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These rise before me and there Mason stands	E
The Constitution maker firm and bold	I
Like Bernal Diaz planting with kind hands	E
Fair trees to blaze in gold	I
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Amid the lofty group sedate I see	E
Great Franklin muse where Truth had locked her stores	E
Holding within his steady hand the key	E
That opened many doors	E
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And Trumbull strong as hammered steel of old	I
Stands boldly out in clear and high relief	J
A blade unbending worth a hilt of gold	I
He never failed his Chief	J
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Then Robert Morris glides into my Verse	E
Turning the very stones at need to bread	K
Filling the young Republic's slender purse	E
When Credit's self seemed dead	K
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Tylers I see sprung from the sturdy Wat	L
A strong armed rebel of an ancient date	M
With Falkland Carys come to draw the lot	N
Cast in the helm of Fate	M
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And Marshall in his ermine white as snow	O
Wise learned and profound Fame loves to draw	P
His noble function on the Bench to show	O
That Reason is the Law	P
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His sword unbuckled and his brows unbent	M
The gallant Hamilton again appears	E
And in fair Freedom's mighty Parliament	M
He marches with the Peers	E
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Henry is there beneath his civic crown	Q
He speaks in words that thunder as they flow	O
And as he speaks his thunder tones bring down	Q
An avalanche below	O
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Nor does John Adams in the picture lag	R
He was as bold as resolute and free	E
As is the eagle on a misty crag	R
Above a stormy sea	E
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And 'mid his fellows in those days of need	M
Impassioned Jefferson burns like a sun	S
The New World's Prophet of the New World's Creed	M
Prophet and Priest in one	S
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These two together stood in our great past	M
When Independence flamed across the land	M
On Independence Day these two at last	M
Departed hand in hand	M
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And they are taken by a patriot's mind	M
As kindred types of our great Saxon stock	R
And that same thinker hopes some day to find	M
Both statues in one block	R
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But here I number splendid names too fast	M
Heroes and Sages throng behind this group	T
And thick they come as came in Homer's past	M
A Goddess and her troop	T
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And as that troop 'mid frays and fell alarms	E
Swept all a glitter on their mission bent	M
And bore from Vulcan the resplendent arms	E
To great Achilles sent	M
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So came the names that light my pious Song	R
Came bearing Union forged in high debates	E
A sun illuminated Shield and strong	R
To guard these mighty States	E
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The Shield sent to the son of Peleus glowed	M
With hammered wonders all without a flaw	P
The Shield of Union in its splendor showed	M
The Compromise of Law	P
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And as the Epic lifts a form sublime	U
For all the Ages on its plinth of gold	M
So does our Story challenging all time	U
Its crowning shape uphold	M

James Barron Hope

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