The Loving Cup Of The Papyrus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FDFD GCHCCCCCC IDJD KDKD CLCL CCCC MNM| WISE men use days as husbandmen use bees | A |
| And steal rich drops from every pregnant hour | B |
| Others like wasps on blossomed apple trees | A |
| Find gall not honey in the sweetest flower | B |
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| Congratulations for a scene like this | C |
| The olden times are here these shall be olden | D |
| When years to come remembering present bliss | C |
| We sigh for past Papyrian dinners golden | D |
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| We thank the gods we call them back to light | E |
| Call back to hoary Egypt for Osiris | C |
| Who first made wine to join our board to night | E |
| And drain this loving cup with the Papyrus | C |
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| He comes the Pharaoh's god fling wide the door | F |
| Welcome Osiris See thine old prescription | D |
| Is honored here and thou shalt drink once more | F |
| With men whose treasured ensign is Egyptian | D |
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| A toast a toast our guest shall give a toast | G |
| By Nilus' flood we pray thee god inspire us | C |
| He smiles he wills let not a word be lost | H |
| His hand upon the cup he speaks | C |
| 'Papyrus | C |
| I greet ye and mine ancient nation shares | C |
| In greeting fair from Ammon Ptah and Isis | C |
| Whose leaf ye love dead Egypt's leaf that bears | C |
| Our tale of pride from Cheops to Cambyses | C |
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| 'We gods of Egypt who are wise with age | I |
| Five thousand years have washed us clean of passion | D |
| A golden era for this board presage | J |
| While ye do keep this cup in priestly fashion | D |
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| 'We love to see the bonds of fellowship | K |
| Made still more sacred by a fine tradition | D |
| We bless this bowl that moves from lip to lip | K |
| In love's festoons renewed by every mission | D |
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| 'Intern the vessel from profaning eyes | C |
| The lip that kisses should have special merit | L |
| Thus every sanguine draught shall symbolize | C |
| And consecrate the true Papyrian spirit | L |
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| 'For brotherhood not wine this cup should pass | C |
| Its depths should ne'er reflect the eye of malice | C |
| Drink toasts to strangers with the social glass | C |
| But drink to brothers with this loving chalice | C |
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| 'And now Papyrus each one pledge to each | M |
| And let this formal tie be warmly cherished | N |
| No words are needed for a kindly speech | M |
| The loving thought will live when words have perished ' | - |
John Boyle O'reilly
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