James Barron Hope

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Arms And The Man. - The New England Group Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IGIG JKJK LMNM OPOP GQGQ RSRS GGGG TGTG

At Plymouth Rock a handful of brave soulsA
Full armed in faith erected home and shrineB
And flourished where the wild Atlantic rollsA
Its pyramids of brineB
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There rose a manly race austere and strongC
On whom no lessons of their day were lostD
Earnest as some conventicle's deep songC
And keen as their own frostD
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But that shrewd frost became a friend to thoseE
Who fronted there the Ice King's bitter stormF
For see we not that underneath the snowsE
The growing wheat keeps warmF
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Soft ease and silken opulence they spurnedG
From sands of silver and from emerald boughsH
With golden ingots laden full they turnedG
Like Pilgrims under vowsH
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For them no tropic seas no slumbrous calmsI
No rich abundance generously unrolledG
In place of Cromwell's proffered flow'rs and palmsI
They chose the long drawn coldG
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The more it blew the more they faced the galeJ
The more it snowed the more they would not freezeK
And when crops failed on sterile hill and valeJ
They went to reap the seasK
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Far North through wild and stormy brine they ranL
With hands a cold plucked Winter by the locksM
Masterful mastered great LeviathanN
And drove the foam as flocksM
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Next in their order came the Middle GroupO
Perchance less hardy but as brave they grewP
Grew straight and tall with not a bend or stoopO
Heart timber through and throughP
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Midway between the ardent heat and coldG
They spread abroad and by a homely spellQ
The iron of their axes changed to goldG
As fast the forests fellQ
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Doing the things they found to do we seeR
That thus they drew a mighty empire's chartsS
And working for the present took in feeR
The future for their martsS
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And there unchallenged may the boast be madeG
Although they do not hold his sacred dustG
That Penn the Founder never once betrayedG
The simple Indian's trustG
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To them the genius which linked Silver LakesT
With the blue Ocean and the outer WorldG
And the fair banner which their commerce shakesT
Wise Clinton's hand unfurledG

James Barron Hope



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