Plutus, Cupid, And Time Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Of all the burthens mortals bear	A
Time is most galling and severe	B
Beneath his grievous load oppressed	C
We daily meet a man distressed	C
I've breakfasted and what to do	D
I do not know we dine at two	D
He takes a pamphlet or the papers	E
But neither can dispel his vapours	E
He raps his snuff box hums an air	A
He lolls or changes now his chair	A
He sips his tea or bites his nails	E
Then finds a chum and then bewails	E
Unto his sympathising ear	F
The burthen they have both to bear	A
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I wish all hours were post meridiem	G
Said Tom so that I were well rid of 'm	G
Why won't men play piquet and ombre	A
Before the evening hour grows sombre	A
The women do it play quadrille	H
Morning and evening when they will	H
They cast away the spleen and vapours	E
By daylight as by midnight tapers	E
	-
My case is different said Will	H
I have the means but lack the skill	H
I am a courtier in attendance	E
And sleep the time out in dependence	E
I should have been until the dark	I
But for this rain now in the park	I
And then at court till coming night	J
Puts court and all my cares to flight	J
Then comes my dinner then away	K
From wine unto the stupid play	K
Till ten o'clock and then assemblies	E
And so my time which you contemn flies	E
I like to ramble midst the fair	A
And nothing I find vexes there	A
Save that time flies and then the club	L
Gives men their supper and their rub	L
And there we all enjoy ourselves	E
Till slumber lays us on her shelves	E
	-
My worthy friends Time which devours	E
Eats up the demons passing hours	E
Were you to books or business bred	M
Too fleetly then would they be sped	M
For time is fugitive as air	A
Now lay aside your spleen or care	A
And listen unto me and fable	H
That is to say if you are able	H
	-
Plutus one morn met Master Cupid	N
They stood a moment as though stupid	O
Until they recognised each other	A
They complimented with some pother	A
When Time overtook them in his walk	P
And then all three fell into talk	P
Of what each one had done for man	Q
And Plutus purse proud he began	Q
	-
Let kings or cobblers for that matter	A
Tell of the gifts which we bespatter	A
Deem ye that loyalty encumbers	E
The congregated courtly numbers	E
Be undeceived the strongest hold	R
Man has on fellow man is gold	R
Knaves have led senates swayed debates	E
Enriched themselves and beggared states	E
Flatter yourselves no more 'tis riches	E
The depth of pocket of the breeches	E
That rules the roast Unhappy wight	J
Is the poor soul with pocket light	J
His solitary day descends	E
Quite unencumbered by his friends	E
	-
Of human hearts and of their yearnings	E
Said Cupid I have some discernings	E
And own the power of gold Its power	A
Added to beauty as its dower	A
Has oftentimes there's no disputing	S
Added a charm was passed confuting	S
Ay marriage as has been professed	C
Is but a money job at best	C
But not so hearts and not so love	T
They are the power of gold above	T
Those who have true love known and tried	U
Have every pettier want defied	U
They nestle and beneath the storm	G
In their own love lie snug and warm	G
They every selfish feeling smother	A
And one lives only for the other	A
	-
Then Time who pulled his forelock said	M
To love and money man is wed	M
And very apt are both to flout me	G
And if they could would do without me	G
Fools I supply the vital space	E
In which they move and run their race	E
Without me they would be a dream	G
Behold the miser does he deem	G
Those hoards are his So long no more	A
Than I am with him is the store	A
Soon from him as I pass away	K
His heir will lavish them with play	K
To arts and learning matins' chime	G
Vespers and midnight seizing time	G
I never know an idle hour	A
Love not more fugitive in bower	A
But I have heard coquettes complain	V
That they have let the seasons wane	V
Nor caught me in my flight and sorrowed	M
To see the springtide was but borrowed	M
Not permanent and so had wasted	M
The tide of joy they never tasted	M
But myriads have their time employed	M
And myriads have their time enjoyed	M
Why then are mortals heedless grown	W
Nor care to make each hour their own	W
They should beware how we may sever	A
At unawares once and for ever	A
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Cupid and Plutus understood	M
Old Time was man's supremest good	M
To him they yielded and confessed	M
Time is of godlike blessings best	M

John Gay

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