Vision Of Columbus - Book 7 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKLL MMNOPPMMQQRSLLTTHHMM UUKKVVQQTTWWEEMMXXQQ TTMMYYKKZZLLA2B2TTC2 D2E2E2PPHHOF2KKG2G2H 2I2PPVVJ2J2A2A2VVMMK 2K2L2TGGCCC2D2TTE2E2 EEGGQQONMMVVZZM2M2KK MMHHN2N2O2O2P2P2ZZQ2 Q2R2R2S2T2QQU2U2EEV2 B2W2X2MMY2Y2QQABL2Hail sacred Peace who claim'st thy bright abode | A |
Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God | B |
Before his arm around the shapeless earth | C |
Stretch'd the wide heavens and gave to nature birth | C |
Ere morning stars his glowing chambers hung | D |
Or songs of gladness woke an angel's tongue | D |
Veil'd in the brightness of the Almighty's mind | E |
In blest repose thy placid form reclined | E |
Borne through the heavens with his creating voice | F |
Thy presence bade the unfolding worlds rejoice | F |
Gave to seraphic harps their sounding lays | G |
Their joys to angels and to men their praise | G |
From scenes of blood these beauteous shores that stain | H |
From gasping friends that press the sanguine plain | H |
From fields long taught in vain thy flight to mourn | I |
I rise delightful Power and greet thy glad return | J |
Too long the groans of death and battle's bray | K |
Have rung discordant through the unpleasing lay | K |
Let pity's tear its balmy fragrance shed | L |
O'er heroes' wounds and patriot warriors dead | L |
Accept departed Shades these grateful sighs | M |
Your fond attendants to the approving skies | M |
And thou my earliest friend my Brother dear | N |
Thy fall untimely wakes the tender tear | O |
In youthful sports in toils in blood allied | P |
My kind companion and my hopeful guide | P |
When Heaven's sad summons from our infant eyes | M |
Had call'd our last loved parent to the skies | M |
Tho' young in arms and still obscure thy name | Q |
Thy bosom panted for the deeds of fame | Q |
Beneath Montgomery's eye when by thy steel | R |
In northern wilds the lurking savage fell | S |
'Yet hapless youth when thy great leader bled | L |
Thro' the same wound thy parting spirit fled | L |
But now the untuneful trump shall grate no more | T |
Ye silver streams no longer swell with gore | T |
Bear from your beauteous banks the crimson stain | H |
With yon retiring navies to the main | H |
While other views unfolding on my eyes | M |
And happier themes bid bolder numbers rise | M |
Bring bounteous Peace in thy celestial throng | U |
Life to my soul and rapture to my song | U |
Give me to trace with pure unclouded ray | K |
The arts and virtues that attend thy sway | K |
To see thy blissful charms that here descend | V |
Through distant realms and endless years extend | V |
To cast new glories o'er the changing clime | Q |
The Seraph now reversed the flight of time | Q |
Roll'd back the years that led their course before | T |
And stretch'd immense the wild uncultured shore | T |
The paths of peaceful science raised to view | W |
And show'd the ascending crouds that useful arts pursue | W |
As o'er the canvass when the master's mind | E |
Glows with a future landscape well design'd | E |
While gardens vales and streets and structures rise | M |
A new creation to his kindling eyes | M |
He smiles o'er all and in delightful strife | X |
The pencil moves and calls the whole to life | X |
So while the great Columbus stood sublime | Q |
And saw wild nature clothe the trackless clime | Q |
The green banks heave the winding currents pour | T |
The bays and harbours cleave the yielding shore | T |
The champaigns spread the solemn groves arise | M |
And the rough mountains lengthen round the skies | M |
Through all the scene he traced with skillful ken | Y |
The unform'd seats and future walks of men | Y |
Mark'd where the fields should bloom and streamers play | K |
And towns and empires claim their peaceful sway | K |
When sudden waken'd by the Angel's hand | Z |
They rose in pomp around the cultured land | Z |
In western wilds where still the natives tread | L |
From sea to sea an inland commerce spread | L |
O'er the dim streams and thro' the gloomy grove | A2 |
The trading bands their cumberous burdens move | B2 |
Where furrs and skins and all the exhaustless store | T |
Of midland realms descended to the shore | T |
Where summer's suns along the northern coast | C2 |
With feeble force dissolve the chains of frost | D2 |
Prolific waves the scaly nations trace | E2 |
And tempt the toils of man's laborious race | E2 |
Though rich Peruvian strands beneath the tide | P |
Their rocks of pearl and sparkling pebbles hide | P |
Lured by the gaudy prize the adventurous train | H |
Plunge the dark deep and brave the surging main | H |
Whole realms of slaves the dangerous labours dare | O |
To stud a sceptre or emblaze a star | F2 |
Yet wealthier stores these genial tides display | K |
And busy throngs with nobler spoils repay | K |
The hero saw the hardy hosts advance | G2 |
Cast the long line and aim the barbed lance | G2 |
Load the deep floating barks and bear abroad | H2 |
To each far clime the life sustaining food | I2 |
While growing swarms by nature's hand supplied | P |
People the shoals and fill the exhaustless tide | P |
Where southern streams thro' broad savannahs bend | V |
The rice clad vales their verdant rounds extend | V |
Tobago's plant its leaf expanding yields | J2 |
The maize luxuriant clothes a thousand fields | J2 |
Steeds herds and flocks o'er northern regions rove | A2 |
Embrown the hill and wanton thro' the grove | A2 |
The wood lands wide their sturdy honours bend | V |
The pines the live oaks to the shores descend | V |
Along the strand unnumber'd keels arise | M |
The huge hulls heave and masts ascend the skies | M |
Launch'd in the deep o'er eastern waves they fly | K2 |
Feed every isle and distant lands supply | K2 |
Silent he gazed when thus the guardian Power | L2 |
These works of peace awhile adorn the shore | T |
But other joys and deeds of lasting praise | G |
Shall crown their labours and thy rapture raise | G |
Each orient realm the former pride of earth | C |
Where men and science drew their ancient birth | C |
Shall soon behold on this enlighten'd coast | C2 |
Their fame transcended and their glory lost | D2 |
That train of arts that graced mankind before | T |
Warm'd the glad sage or taught the Muse to soar | T |
Here with superior sway their progress trace | E2 |
And aid the triumphs of thy filial race | E2 |
While rising crouds with genius unconfined | E |
Through deep inventions lead the astonish'd mind | E |
Wide o'er the world their name unrivall'd raise | G |
And bind their temples with immortal bays | G |
In youthful minds to wake the ardent flame | Q |
To nurse the arts and point the paths of fame | Q |
Behold their liberal sires with guardian care | O |
Thro' all the realms their seats of science rear | N |
Great without pomp the modest mansions rise | M |
Harvard and Yale and Princeton greet the skies | M |
Penn's ample walls o'er Del'ware's margin bend | V |
On James's bank the royal spires ascend | V |
Thy turrets York Columbia's walks command | Z |
Bosom'd in groves see growing Dartmouth stand | Z |
While o'er the realm reflecting solar fires | M2 |
On yon tall hill Rhode Island's seat aspires | M2 |
O'er all the shore with sails and cities gay | K |
And where rude hamlets stretch their inland sway | K |
With humbler walls unnumber'd schools arise | M |
And youths unnumber'd sieze the solid prize | M |
In no blest land has Science rear'd her fane | H |
And fix'd so firm her wide extended reign | H |
Each rustic here that turns the furrow'd soil | N2 |
The maid the youth that ply mechanic toil | N2 |
In freedom nurst in useful arts inured | O2 |
Know their just claims and see their rights secured | O2 |
And lo descending from the seats of art | P2 |
The growing throngs for active scenes depart | P2 |
In various garbs they tread the welcome land | Z |
Swords at their side or sceptres in their hand | Z |
With healing powers bid dire diseases cease | Q2 |
Or sound the tidings of eternal peace | Q2 |
In no blest land has fair Religion shone | R2 |
And fix'd so firm her everlasting throne | R2 |
Where o'er the realms those spacious temples shine | S2 |
Frequent and full the throng'd assemblies join | T2 |
There fired with virtue's animating flame | Q |
The sacred task unnumber'd sages claim | Q |
The task for angels great in early youth | U2 |
To lead whole nations in the walks of truth | U2 |
Shed the bright beams of knowledge on the mind | E |
For social compact harmonize mankind | E |
To life to happiness to joys above | V2 |
The soften'd soul with ardent zeal to move | B2 |
For this the voice of Heaven in early years | W2 |
Tuned the glad songs of life inspiring seers | X2 |
For this consenting seraphs leave the skies | M |
The God compassionates the Saviour dies | M |
Tho' different faiths their various orders show | Y2 |
That seem discordant to the train below | Y2 |
Yet one blest cause one universal flame | Q |
Wakes all their joys and centres every aim | Q |
They tread the same bright steps and smoothe the road | A |
Lights of the world and messengers of God | B |
So the galaxy broad o'er | L2 |
Joel Barlow
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