Poet John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Garibaldi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBACCCDEFEGFGDGCCH HCIJCKKLMMLNN

In trance and dream of old God's prophet sawA
The casting down of thrones Thou watching loneB
The hot Sardinian coast line hazy hilledC
Where fringing round Caprera's rocky zoneB
With foam the slow waves gather and withdrawA
Behold'st the vision of the seer fulfilledC
And hear'st the sea winds burdened with a soundC
Of falling chains as one by one unboundC
The nations lift their right hands up and swearD
Their oath of freedom From the chalk white wallE
Of England from the black Carpathian rangeF
Along the Danube and the Theiss through allE
The passes of the Spanish PyreneesG
And from the Seine's thronged banks a murmur strangeF
And glad floats to thee o'er thy summer seasG
On the salt wind that stirs thy whitening hairD
The song of freedom's bloodless victoriesG
Rejoice O Garibaldi Though thy swordC
Failed at Rome's gates and blood seemed vainly pouredC
Where in Christ's name the crowned infidelH
Of France wrought murder with the arms of hellH
On that sad mountain slope whose ghostly deadC
Unmindful of the gray exorcist's banI
Walk unappeased the chambered VaticanJ
And draw the curtains of Napoleon's bedC
God's providence is not blind but full of eyesK
It searches all the refuges of liesK
And in His time and way the accursed thingsL
Before whose evil feet thy battle gageM
Has clashed defiance from hot youth to ageM
Shall perish All men shall be priests and kingsL
One royal brotherhood one church made freeN
By love which is the law of libertyN

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