Conductor Bradley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCC DDD EFF GH III JKJ GGG LLL MMM NNN| A railway conductor who lost his life in an accident on a Connecticut | A |
| railway May | B |
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| CONDUCTOR BRADLEY always may his name | C |
| Be said with reverence as the swift doom came | C |
| Smitten to death a crushed and mangled frame | C |
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| Sank with the brake he grasped just where he stood | D |
| To do the utmost that a brave man could | D |
| And die if needful as a true man should | D |
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| Men stooped above him women dropped their tears | E |
| On that poor wreck beyond all hopes or fears | F |
| Lost in the strength and glory of his years | F |
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| What heard they Lo the ghastly lips of pain | G |
| Dead to all thought save duty's moved again | H |
| 'Put out the signals for the other train ' | - |
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| No nobler utterance since the world began | I |
| From lips of saint or martyr ever ran | I |
| Electric through the sympathies of man | I |
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| Ah me how poor and noteless seem to this | J |
| The sick bed dramas of self consciousness | K |
| Our sensual fears of pain and hopes of bliss | J |
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| Oh grand supreme endeavor Not in vain | G |
| That last brave act of failing tongue and brain | G |
| Freighted with life the downward rushing train | G |
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| Following the wrecked one as wave follows wave | L |
| Obeyed the warning which the dead lips gave | L |
| Others he saved himself he could not save | L |
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| Nay the lost life was saved He is not dead | M |
| Who in his record still the earth shall tread | M |
| With God's clear aureole shining round his head | M |
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| We bow as in the dust with all our pride | N |
| Of virtue dwarfed the noble deed beside | N |
| God give us grace to live as Bradley died | N |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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