Liberty Lighting The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADBEEFGHIJJK LMLMBB BNBOPPP QQPPLLPPRRSS TUVTW BBXY XXZZXXA2A2PP| MAJESTIC warder by the Nation's gate | A |
| Spike crowned flame armed like Agony or Glory | B |
| Holding the tablets of some unknown law | C |
| With gesture eloquent and mute as Fate | A |
| We stand about thy feet in solemn awe | D |
| Like desert tribes who seek their Sphinx's story | B |
| And question thee in spirit and in speech | E |
| What art thou Whence What comest thou to teach | E |
| What vision hold those introverted eyes | F |
| Of Revolutions framed in centuries | G |
| Thy flame what threat or guide for sacred way | H |
| Thy tablet what commandment What Sinai | I |
| Lo as the waves make murmur at thy base | J |
| We watch the somber grandeur of thy face | J |
| And ask thee what thou art | K |
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| I am Liberty God's daughter | L |
| My symbols a law and a torch | M |
| Not a sword to threaten slaughter | L |
| Nor a flame to dazzle or scorch | M |
| But a light that the world may see | B |
| And a truth that shall make men free | B |
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| I am the sister of Duty | B |
| And I am the sister of Faith | N |
| To day adored for my beauty | B |
| To morrow led forth to death | O |
| I am she whom ages prayed for | P |
| Heroes suffered undismayed for | P |
| Whom the martyrs were betrayed for | P |
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| I am a herald republican from a land grown free under feet of kings | Q |
| My radiance lighting a century's span a sister's love to Columbia brings | Q |
| I am a beacon to ships at sea and a warning to watchers ashore | P |
| In palace and prairie and street through me shall be heard the ominous ocean roar | P |
| I am a threat to oppression's sin and a pharos light to the weak endeavor | L |
| Mine is the love that men may win but lost it is lost forever | L |
| Mine are the lovers who deepest pain with weapon and word still wounding sore | P |
| With sanguined hands they caress and chain and crown and trample and still adore | P |
| Cities have flamed in my name and Death has reaped wild harvest of joy and peace | R |
| Till mine is a voice that stills the breath my advent an omen that love shall cease | R |
| In My name timid ones crazed with terror In My name Law with a scourging rod | S |
| In My name Anarchy Cruelty Error I who am Liberty daughter of God | S |
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| Peace Be still See my torch uplifted | T |
| Heedless of Passion or Mammon's cause | U |
| Round my feet are the ages drifted | V |
| Under mine eyes are the rulers sifted | T |
| Ever forever my changeless laws | W |
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| I am Liberty Fame of nation or praise of statute is naught to me | B |
| Freedom is growth and not creation one man suffers one man is free | B |
| One brain forges a constitution but how shall the million souls be won | X |
| Freedom is more than a resolution he is not free who is free alone | Y |
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| Justice is mine and it grows by loving changing the world like the circling sun | X |
| Evil recedes from the spirit's proving as mist from the hollows when night is done | X |
| I am the test O silent toilers holding the scales of error and truth | Z |
| Proving the heritage held by spoilers from hard hands empty and wasted youth | Z |
| Hither ye blind from your futile banding know the rights and the rights are won | X |
| Wrong shall die with the understanding one truth clear and the work is done | X |
| Nature is higher than Progress or Knowledge whose need is ninety enslaved for ten | A2 |
| My word shall stand against mart and college THE PLANET BELONGS TO ITS LIVING MEN | A2 |
| And hither ye weary ones and breathless searching the seas for a kindly shore | P |
| I am Liberty patient deathless set by Love at the Nation's door | P |
John Boyle O'reilly
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