The Vow Of Washington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHI JJKL MMNN OOPQ RROO SSTT UUVV CCWX YYCC ZZA2A2 B2B2C2C2 D2D2JJ E2E2F2F2 G2G2H2H2 I2I2J2J2 K2K2MM| The sword was sheathed in April's sun | A |
| Lay green the fields by Freedom won | A |
| And severed sections weary of debates | B |
| Joined hands at last and were United States | B |
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| O City sitting by the Sea | C |
| How proud the day that dawned on thee | C |
| When the new era long desired began | D |
| And in its need the hour had found the man | D |
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| One thought the cannon salvos spoke | E |
| The resonant bell tower's vibrant stroke | E |
| The voiceful streets the plaudit echoing halls | F |
| And prayer and hymn borne heavenward from St Paul's | F |
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| How felt the land in every part | G |
| The strong throb of a nation's heart | G |
| As its great leader gave with reverent awe | H |
| His pledge to Union Liberty and Law | I |
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| That pledge the heavens above him heard | J |
| That vow the sleep of centuries stirred | J |
| In world wide wonder listening peoples bent | K |
| Their gaze on Freedom's great experiment | L |
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| Could it succeed Of honor sold | M |
| And hopes deceived all history told | M |
| Above the wrecks that strewed the mournful past | N |
| Was the long dream of ages true at last | N |
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| Thank God the people's choice was just | O |
| The one man equal to his trust | O |
| Wise beyond lore and without weakness good | P |
| Calm in the strength of flawless rectitude | Q |
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| His rule of justice order peace | R |
| Made possible the world's release | R |
| Taught prince and serf that power is but a trust | O |
| And rule alone which serves the ruled is just | O |
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| That Freedom generous is but strong | S |
| In hate of fraud and selfish wrong | S |
| Pretence that turns her holy truths to lies | T |
| And lawless license masking in her guise | T |
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| Land of his love with one glad voice | U |
| Let thy great sisterhood rejoice | U |
| A century's suns o'er thee have risen and set | V |
| And God be praised we are one nation yet | V |
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| And still we trust the years to be | C |
| Shall prove his hope was destiny | C |
| Leaving our flag with all its added stars | W |
| Unrent by faction and unstained by wars | X |
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| Lo where with patient toil he nursed | Y |
| And trained the new set plant at first | Y |
| The widening branches of a stately tree | C |
| Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea | C |
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| And in its broad and sheltering shade | Z |
| Sitting with none to make afraid | Z |
| Were we now silent through each mighty limb | A2 |
| The winds of heaven would sing the praise of him | A2 |
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| Our first and best his ashes lie | B2 |
| Beneath his own Virginian sky | B2 |
| Forgive forget O true and just and brave | C2 |
| The storm that swept above thy sacred grave | C2 |
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| For ever in the awful strife | D2 |
| And dark hours of the nation's life | D2 |
| Through the fierce tumult pierced his warning word | J |
| Their father's voice his erring children heard | J |
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| The change for which he prayed and sought | E2 |
| In that sharp agony was wrought | E2 |
| No partial interest draws its alien line | F2 |
| 'Twixt North and South the cypress and the pine | F2 |
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| One people now all doubt beyond | G2 |
| His name shall be our Union bond | G2 |
| We lift our hands to Heaven and here and now | H2 |
| Take on our lips the old Centennial vow | H2 |
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| For rule and trust must needs be ours | I2 |
| Chooser and chosen both are powers | I2 |
| Equal in service as in rights the claim | J2 |
| Of Duty rests on each and all the same | J2 |
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| Then let the sovereign millions where | K2 |
| Our banner floats in sun and air | K2 |
| From the warm palm lands to Alaska's cold | M |
| Repeat with us the pledge a century old | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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