On An Engraving Of Hindoo Temples Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHIG JKKK KLLK KMMK LLLL NOON PQQR LSSL KTTK LUQL VLLV KWWK| LITTLE the present careth for the past | A |
| Too little 'tis not well | B |
| For careless ones we dwell | B |
| Beneath the mighty shadow it has cast | A |
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| Its blessings are around our daily path | C |
| We share its mighty spoil | D |
| We live on its great toil | D |
| And yet how little gratitude it hath | C |
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| Look on these temples they were as a shrine | E |
| From whence to the far north | F |
| The human mind went forth | F |
| The moral sunshine of a world divine | E |
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| That inward world which maketh of our clay | G |
| Its temporary home | H |
| From whence those lightnings come | I |
| That kindle from a far and better day | G |
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| The light that is of heaven shone there the first | J |
| The elements of art | K |
| Mankind's diviner part | K |
| There was young science in its cradle nurst | K |
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| Mighty the legacies by mind bequeathed | K |
| For glorious were its pains | L |
| Amid those giant fanes | L |
| And mighty were the triumphs it achieved | K |
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| A woman's triumph mid them is imprest | K |
| One who upon the scroll | M |
| Flung the creative soul | M |
| Disdainful of life's flowers and of its rest | K |
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| Vast was the labour vast the enterprise | L |
| For she was of a race | L |
| Born to the lowest place | L |
| Earth insects lacking wings whereon to rise | L |
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| How must that youthful cheek have lost its bloom | N |
| How many a dream above | O |
| Of early hope and love | O |
| Must that young heart have closed on like a tomb | N |
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| Such throw life's flowers behind them and aspire | P |
| To ask the stars their lore | Q |
| And from each ancient store | Q |
| Seek food to stay the mind's consuming fire | R |
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| Her triumph was complete and long the chords | L |
| She struck are yet alive | S |
| Not vainly did she strive | S |
| To leave her soul immortal on her words | L |
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| A great example has she left behind | K |
| A lesson we should take | T |
| Whose first task is to wake | T |
| The general wish to benefit our kind | K |
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| Our sword has swept o'er India there remains | L |
| A nobler conquest far | U |
| The mind's ethereal war | Q |
| That but subdues to civilize its plains | L |
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| Let us pay back the past the debt we owe | V |
| Let us around dispense | L |
| Light hope intelligence | L |
| Till blessings track our steps where'er we go | V |
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| O England thine be the deliverer's meed | K |
| Be thy great empire known | W |
| By hearts made all thine own | W |
| By thy free laws and thy immortal creed | K |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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