To William H. Seward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDDEEFFGGHIEJJEK K| STATESMAN I thank thee and if yet dissent | A |
| Mingles reluctant with my large content | A |
| I cannot censure what was nobly meant | A |
| But while constrained to hold even Union less | B |
| Than Liberty and Truth and Righteousness | C |
| I thank thee in the sweet and holy name | D |
| Of peace for wise calm words that put to shame | D |
| Passion and party Courage may be shown | E |
| Not in defiance of the wrong alone | E |
| He may be bravest who unweaponed bears | F |
| The olive branch and strong in justice spares | F |
| The rash wrong doer giving widest scope | G |
| To Christian charity and generous hope | G |
| If without damage to the sacred cause | H |
| Of Freedom and the safeguard of its laws | I |
| If without yielding that for which alone | E |
| We prize the Union thou canst save it now | J |
| From a baptism of blood upon thy brow | J |
| A wreath whose flowers no earthly soil have known | E |
| Woven of the beatitudes shall rest | K |
| And the peacemaker be forever blest | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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