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Mahone's Brigade.[1] - A Metrical Address Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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In pace decus in bello praesidium Tacitus	A
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Your arms are stacked your splendid colors furled	B
Your drums are still aside your trumpets laid	B
But your dumb muskets once spoke to the world	B
And the world listened to Mahone's Brigade	B
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Like waving plume upon Bellona's crest	B
Or comet in red majesty arrayed	B
Or Persia's flame transported to the West	B
Shall shine the glory of Mahone's Brigade	B
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Not once in all those years so dark and grim	C
Your columns from the path of duty strayed	B
No craven act made your escutcheon dim	C
'Twas burnished with your blood Mahone's Brigade	B
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Not once on post on march in camp or field	B
Was your brave leader's trust in you betrayed	B
And never yet has old Virginia's shield	B
Suffered dishonor through Mahone's Brigade	B
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Who has forgotten at the deadly Mine	D
How our great Captain of great Captains bade	B
Your General to retake the captured line	D
How it was done you know Mahone's Brigade	B
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Who has forgotten how th' undying dead	B
And you yourselves won that for which Lee prayed	B
Who has forgotten how th' Immortal said	B
That heroes swept that field Mahone's Brigade	B
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From the far right beneath the stars and bars	A
You marched amain to Bushrod Johnson's aid	B
And when you charged an arrow shot by Mars	A
Went forward in your rush Mahone's Brigade	B
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In front stood death Such task as yours before	E
By mortal man has rarely been essayed	B
There you defeated Burnside's boasted corps	E
And did an army's work Mahone's Brigade	B
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And those who led you field or line or staff	F
Showed they were fit for more than mere parade	B
Their motto Victory or an epitaph	F
And well they did their part Mahone's Brigade	B
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II	-
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Were mine the gift to coin my heart of hearts	A
In living words fit tribute should be paid	B
To all the heroes whose enacted parts	A
Gave fame immortal to Mahone's Brigade	B
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But he who bore the musket is the man	G
Whose figure should for future time be made	B
Cleft from a rock by some new Thorwaldsen	G
The Private Soldier of Mahone's Brigade	B
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His was that sense of duty only felt	B
By souls heroic In the modest shade	B
He lived or fell but his Fame's Starry Belt	B
His Fame's own Galaxy Mahone's Brigade	B
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And in that Belt all luminous with stars	A
Unnamed and woven in a wondrous braid	B
A blaze of glory in the sky of Mars	A
Your orbs are thickly set Mahone's Brigade	B
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The Private Soldier is the man who comes	A
From mart or plain or grange or sylvan glade	B
To answer calls of trumpets and of drums	A
So came the Soldier of Mahone's Brigade	B
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His messmate hunger comrades heat and cold	B
His decorations death or wounds conveyed	B
To the brave patriot in ways manifold	B
But yet he flinched not in Mahone's Brigade	B
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When needing bread Fate gave him but a stone	G
Ragged he answered when the trumpet brayed	B
Barefoot he marched or died without a groan	G
True to his battle flag Mahone's Brigade	B
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Could some Supreme Intelligence proclaim	H
Arise from all the pomp of rank and grade	B
War's truest heroes oft we'd hear some name	H
Unmentioned by the world Mahone's Brigade	B
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And yet they have a name enriched with thanks	A
And tears and homage which shall never fade	B
Their name is simply this Men of the Ranks	A
The Knights without their spurs Mahone's Brigade	B
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And though unbelted and without their spurs	A
To them is due Fame's splendid accolade	B
And theirs the story which to day still stirs	A
The pulses of your heart Mahone's Brigade	B
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Men of the Ranks step proudly to the front	B
'Twas yours unknown through sheeted flame to wade	B
In the red battle's fierce and deadly brunt	B
Yours be full laurels in Mahone's Brigade	B
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For those who fell be yours the sacred trust	B
To see forgetfulness shall not invade	B
The spots made holy by their noble dust	B
Green keep them in your hearts Mahone's Brigade	B
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Oh keep them green with patriotic tears	A
Forget not now war's fever is allayed	B
Those valiant men who in the vanished years	A
Kept step with you in ranks Mahone's Brigade	B
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Each circling year in the sweet month of May	I
Your countrywomen matron and fair maid	B
Still pay their tribute to the Soldier's clay	I
And strew his grave with flow'rs Mahone's Brigade	B
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Join in the task with retrospective eye	-
Men's mem'ries should not perish 'neath the spade	B
Pay homage to the dead whose dying cry	-
Was for the Commonwealth Mahone's Brigade	B
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Raise up O State a shaft to pierce the sky	-
To him the Private who was but afraid	B
To fail in his full duty not to die	-
And on its base engrave Mahone's Brigade	B
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IV	F
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Now that the work of blood and tears is done	G
Whether of stern assault or sudden raid	B
Yours is a record second yet to none	G
None takes your right in line Mahone's Brigade	B
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Now that we've lost as was fore doomed the day	I
Now that the good by ill has been outweighed	B
Let us plant olives on the rugged way	I
Once proudly trodden by Mahone's Brigade	B
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And when some far stretchen future folds the past	B
To us so recent in its purple shade	B
High up as if on some tall Admiral's mast	B
Shall fly your battle flags Mahone's Brigade	B
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V	F
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Each battle flag shall float abroad and fling	J
A radiance round as from a new lit star	K
Or light the air about as when a King	J
Flashes in armor in his royal car	K
And Fame's own vestibule I see inlaid	B
With their proud images Mahone's Brigade	B
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Your battle flags shall fly throughout all time	L
By History's self exultingly unfurled	B
And stately prose and loud resounding rhyme	L
Nobler than mine shall tell to all the world	B
How dauntless moved and how all undismayed	B
Through good and ill stood Mahone's Brigade	B
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O glorious flags No victory could stain	G
Your tattered folds with one unworthy deed	B
O glorious flags No country shall again	G
Fly nobler symbols in its hour of need	B
Success stained not nor could defeat degrade	B
Spotless they float to day Mahone's Brigade	B
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Immortal flags upon Time's breezes flung	M
Seen by the mind in forests or in marts	A
Cherished in visions praised from tongue to tongue	M
Wrapped in the very fibres of your hearts	A
And gazing on them none may dare upbraid	B
Your Leader or your men Mahone's Brigade	B
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VI	F
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That splendid Leader's name is yours and he	F
Flesh of your flesh himself bone of your bone	G
His simple name maketh a history	F
Which stands itself grand glorious and alone	G
Or 'tis a trophy splendidly arrayed	B
With all your battle flags Mahone's Brigade	B
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His name itself a history Yes and none	G
May halt me here In war and peace	A
It challenges the full rays of the sun	G
And when the passions of our day shall cease	A
'Twill stand undying for all time displayed	B
Itself a battle flag Mahone's Brigade	B
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He rose successor of that mighty man	G
Who was the right arm of immortal Lee	F
Whose genius put defeat beneath a ban	G
Who swept the field as tempest sweeps the sea	F
Who fought full hard and yet full harder prayed	B
You knew that man full well Mahone's Brigade	B
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And here that great man's shadow claims a place	A
Within my mind I see his image rise	A
With Cromwell's will and Havelock's Christian grace	A
As daring as the Swede as Frederick wise	A
Swift as Napoleon ere his hopes decayed	B
You knew the hero well Mahone's Brigade	B
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And when he fell his fall shook all the land	B
As falling oak shakes mountain side and glen	G
But soon men saw his good sword in the hand	B
Of one himself born leader among men	G
Of him who led you through the fusilade	B
The storm of shot and shell Mahone's Brigade	B
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Immortal Lee who triumphed o'er despair	N
Greater than all the heroes I have named	B
Whose life has made a Westminster where'er	O
His name is spoken he so wise and famed	B
Gave Jackson's duties unto him whose blade	B
Was lightning to your storms Mahone's Brigade	B
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Ere Jackson fell Mahone shone day by day	B
A burnished lance amid that crop of spears	A
None rose above him in that grand array	B
And Lee who stood Last of the Cavaliers	A
Knew he had found of War's stupendous trade	B
A Master at your head Mahone's Brigade	B
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O Countrymen I see the coming days	A
When he above all hinderances and lets	A
Shall stand in Epic form lit by the rays	A
Of Fame's eternal sun that never sets	A
The first great chapter of his life is made	B
And spoken in two words Mahone's Brigade	B
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O Countrymen I see historic brass	A
Leap from the furnace in a blazing tide	B
I see it through strange transformations pass	A
Into a form of energy and pride	B
Beneath our Capitol's majestic shade	B
In bronze I see Mahone Mahone's Brigade	B
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O Countrymen When dust has gone to dust	B
Still shall he live in story and in rhyme	L
Then History's self shall multiply his bust	B
And he defy the silent Conqueror Time	L
My song is sung My prophecy is made	B
The State will make it good Mahone's Brigade	B