Vision Of Columbus - Book 9 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEBBFFGGHHII JJKLMMDDNNDDOPQQKKRP SSBBTTUUVAWWJJXYZZA2 A2DDJJB2B2C2C2D2D2E2 E2F2F2DDFFRRUUJJKKRP G2G2EEH2H2JJG2G2UUDD FFI2I2JJJ2J2K2K2DDGG L2M2GGFFDDEEG2G2BBFF N2N2H2H2O2FG2G2UUG2G 2P2P2Q2E2DDF2F2UUM2L 2H2H2R2R2AVS2S2C2C2U UYYLLIT2Now round the yielding canopy of shade | A |
Again the Guide his heavenly power display'd | A |
Sudden the stars their trembling fires withdrew | B |
Returning splendors burst upon the view | B |
Floods of unfolding light the skies adorn | C |
And more than midday glories grace the morn | C |
So shone the earth as all the starry train | D |
Broad as full suns had sail'd the ethereal plain | D |
When no distinguish'd orb could strike the sight | E |
But one clear blaze of all surrounding light | E |
O'erflow'd the vault of heaven For now in view | B |
Remoter climes and future ages drew | B |
While deeds of happier fame in long array | F |
Call'd into vision fill the new born day | F |
Far as the Angelic Power could lift the eye | G |
Or earth or ocean bend the yielding sky | G |
Or circling suns awake the breathing gale | H |
Drake lead the way or Cook extend the sail | H |
All lands all seas that boast a present name | I |
And all that unborn time shall give to fame | I |
Around the chief in fair expansion rise | J |
And earth's whole circuit bounds the level'd skies | J |
He saw the nations tread their different shores | K |
Ply their own toils and claim their local powers | L |
He mark'd what tribes still rove the savage waste | M |
What happier realms the sweets of plenty taste | M |
Where arts and virtues fix their golden reign | D |
Or peace adorns or slaughter dyes the plain | D |
He saw the restless Tartar proud to roam | N |
Move with his herds and spread his transient home | N |
Thro' the vast tracts of China's fixt domain | D |
The sons of dull contentment plough the plain | D |
The gloomy Turk ascends the blood stain'd car | O |
And Russian banners shade the plains of war | P |
Brazilia's wilds and Afric's burning sands | Q |
With bickering strife inflame the furious bands | Q |
On blest Atlantic isles and Europe's shores | K |
Proud wealth and commerce heap their growing stores | K |
While his own western world in prospect fair | R |
Calms her brave sons now breathing from the war | P |
Unfolds her harbours spreads the genial soil | S |
And welcomes freemen to the cheerful toil | S |
When thus the Power In this extended view | B |
Behold the paths thy changing race pursue | B |
See thro' the whole the same progressive plan | T |
That draws for mutual succour man to man | T |
From friends to tribes from tribes to realms ascend | U |
Their powers their interests and their passions blend | U |
Adorn their manners social virtues spread | V |
Enlarge their compacts and extend their trade | A |
While chiefs like thee with persevering soul | W |
Bid venturous barks to new discoveries roll | W |
High in the north and tow'rd the southern skies | J |
New isles and nations greet the roving eyes | J |
Till each remotest realm by friendship join'd | X |
Links in the chain that binds all human kind | Y |
The union'd banners rise at last unfurl'd | Z |
And wave triumphant round the accordant world | Z |
As small swift streams their furious course impel | A2 |
Till meeting waves their winding currents swell | A2 |
Then widening sweep thro' each descending plain | D |
And move majestic to the boundless main | D |
'Tis thus society's small sources rise | J |
Through passions wild their devious progress lies | J |
Interest and faith and pride and power withstand | B2 |
And mutual ills the growing views expand | B2 |
Till tribes and states and empires find their place | C2 |
And one wide interest sways the peaceful race | C2 |
And see in haste the ascending scenes advance | D2 |
The ports unfold the glimmering navies dance | D2 |
For commerce arm'd the different Powers combine | E2 |
And Heaven approving aids the blest design | E2 |
Tho' jarring realms awhile the combat wage | F2 |
And hold in lingering strife the unsettled age | F2 |
Yet no rude war that sweeps the crimson plain | D |
Shall dare disturb the labours of the main | D |
For Heaven impartial spread the watery way | F |
Liberal as air and unconfined as day | F |
That every distant land the wealth might share | R |
Exchange their fruits and fill their treasures there | R |
Their speech assimilate their empires blend | U |
And mutual interest fix the mutual friend | U |
The hero look'd beneath his wondering eyes | J |
Bright streamers lengthen round the seas and skies | J |
The countless nations open all their stores | K |
Load every wave and croud the masted shores | K |
The sails in mingling mazes sweep the air | R |
And commerce triumphs o'er the rage of war | P |
From Baltic streams that swell in lonely pride | G2 |
From Rhine's long course and Texel's labouring tide | G2 |
From Gallia's coast from Albion's hoary height | E |
And fair Hibernia clothed in purer light | E |
Hispania's strand that two broad oceans lave | H2 |
From Senegal's and Tagus' winding wave | H2 |
The gathering masts in peaceful squadrons rise | J |
And wave their cloudly curtains to the skies | J |
Thro' the deep strait that leads the midland tide | G2 |
The sails look forth and swell their beauteous pride | G2 |
Where Asia's isles and utmost shores extend | U |
Like rising suns the sheeted masts ascend | U |
And join with peaceful toil the friendly train | D |
No more to combat on the liquid plain | D |
In distant glory where the watery way | F |
Spreads the blue borders of descending day | F |
The flowing flags unfold in lengthening sweep | I2 |
Pride of the world and daughters of the deep | I2 |
From Arctic heavens and deep in southern skies | J |
Where frost recedes as blooms of culture rise | J |
Where eastern Amur's lengthening current glides | J2 |
Where California breaks the billowy tides | J2 |
Peruvian streams their golden margins boast | K2 |
And spreading Chili leads the channel'd coast | K2 |
The pinions swell till all the cloud like train | D |
From pole to pole o'ershades the whitening main | D |
So some imperial Seraph placed on high | G |
From heaven's sublimest tower o'erlook'd the sky | G |
When space unfolding heard the voice of God | L2 |
And suns and stars and systems roll'd abroad | M2 |
Caught their first splendors from the all beaming Eye | G |
Began their years and vaulted round the sky | G |
Their mingling spheres in bright confusion play | F |
Exchange their beams and fill the new born day | F |
He saw as widely spreads the unchannel'd plain | D |
Where inland realms for ages bloom'd in vain | D |
Canals long winding ope a watery flight | E |
And distant streams and seas and lakes unite | E |
Where Darien hills o'erlook the gulphy tide | G2 |
By human art the ridgy banks divide | G2 |
Ascending sails the opening pass pursue | B |
And waft the sparkling treasures of Peru | B |
Jeneiro's stream from Plata winds his way | F |
And bold Madera opes from Paraguay | F |
From fair Albania tow'rd the falling sun | N2 |
Back thro' the midland lengthening channels run | N2 |
Meet the far lakes their beauteous towns that lave | H2 |
And Hudson join to broad Ohio's wave | H2 |
From dim Superior whose unfathom'd sea | O2 |
Drinks the mild splendors of the setting day | F |
New paths unfolding lead their watery pride | G2 |
And towns and empires rise along their side | G2 |
To Missisippi's source the passes bend | U |
And to the broad Pacific main extend | U |
From the red banks of blest Arabia's tide | G2 |
Thro' the dread Isthmus waves unwonted glide | G2 |
From Europe's crouded coasts while bounding sails | P2 |
Look through the pass and call the Asian gales | P2 |
Volga and Oby distant oceans join | Q2 |
And the long Danube meets the rolling Rhine | E2 |
While other streams that cleave the midland plain | D |
Spread their new courses to the distant main | D |
He saw the aspiring genius of the age | F2 |
Soar in the bard and strengthen in the sage | F2 |
With daring thought thro' time's long flight extend | U |
Rove the wide earth and with the heaven ascend | U |
Bid each fond wish that leads the soul abroad | M2 |
Breathe to all men to nature and to God | L2 |
He saw where pale diseases wont to brave | H2 |
The pride of art and croud the untimely grave | H2 |
With long wrought life the nations learn to glow | R2 |
And blooming health adorn the locks of snow | R2 |
A countless train the healing science aid | A |
Its power establish and its blessings spread | V |
In every shape that varying matter gives | S2 |
That rests or ripens vegetates or lives | S2 |
By chymic power the springs of health they trace | C2 |
And add new beauties to the joyous race | C2 |
While thus the realms their mutual glories lend | U |
Unnumber'd sires the cares of state attend | U |
Blest with each human art and skill'd to find | Y |
Each wild device that prompts the wayward mind | Y |
What soft restraints the untemper'd breast requires | L |
To caste new joys and cherish new desires | L |
Expand the selfish to the social flame | I |
And fire the soul to deeds of | T2 |
Joel Barlow
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