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An Ode - In Commemoration Of The Founding, Of The Massachusetts Bay Colony In The Year 1623. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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They who maintained their rights	B
Through storm and stress	C
And walked in all the ways	D
That God made known	E
Led by no wandering lights	B
And by no guess	C
Through dark and desolate days	D
Of trial and moan	E
Here let their monument	F
Rise like a word	G
In rock commemorative	H
Of our Land's youth	I
Of ways the Puritan went	J
With soul love spurred	G
To suffer die and live	K
For faith and truth	I
Here they the corner stone	E
Of Freedom laid	L
Here in their hearts' distress	C
They lit the lights	B
Of Liberty alone	E
Here with God's aid	L
Conquered the wilderness	M
Secured their rights	B
Not men but giants they	N
Who wrought with toil	O
And sweat of brawn and brain	P
Their freehold here	Q
Who with their blood each day	N
Hallowed the soil	O
And left it without stain	P
And without fear	R
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II	A
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Yea here from men like these	S
Our country had its stanch beginning	T
Hence sprang she with the ocean breeze	S
And pine scent in her hair	U
Deep in her eyes the winning	T
The far off winning of the unmeasured West	V
And in her heart the care	U
The young unrest	V
Of all that she must dare	U
Ere as a mighty Nation she should stand	W
Towering from sea to sea	X
From land to moantained land	W
One with the imperishable beauty of the stars	Y
In absolute destiny	X
Part of that cosmic law no shadow mars	Y
To which all freedom runs	Z
That wheels the circles of the worlds and suns	Z
Along their courses through the vasty night	A2
Irrevocable and eternal as is Light	A2
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III	A
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What people has to day	N
Such faith as launched and sped	B2
With psalm and prayer the Mayflower on its way	N
Such faith as led	B2
The Dorchester fishers to this sea washed point	C2
This granite headland of Cape Ann	D2
Where first they made their bed	B2
Salt blown and wet with brine	E2
In cold and hunger where the storm wrenched pine	E2
Clung to the rock with desperate footing They	N
With hearts courageous whom hope did anoint	C2
Despite their tar and tan	D2
Worn of the wind and spray	N
Seem more to me than man	D2
With their unconquerable spirits Mountains may	N
Succumb to men like these to wills like theirs	F2
The Puritan's tenacity to do	G2
The stubbornness of genius holding to	G2
Their purpose to the end	H2
No New World hardship could deflect or bend	H2
That never doubted in their worst despairs	F2
But steadily on their way	N
Held to the last trusting in God who filled	I2
Their souls with fire of faith that helped them build	I2
A country greater than had ever thrilled	I2
Man's wildest dreams or entered in	J2
His highest hopes 'Twas thins that helped them win	J2
In spite of danger and distress	C
Through darkness and the din	J2
Of winds and waves unto a wilderness	M
Savage unbounded pathless as the sea	X
That said Behold me I am free	X
Giving itself to them for greater things	K2
Than filled their souls with dim imaginings	K2
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IV	K
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Let History record their stalwart names	K2
And catalogue their fortitude whence grew	G2
Swiftly as running flames	K2
Cities and civilazation	J2
How from a meeting house and school	L2
A few log huddled cabins Freedom drew	G2
Her rude beginnings Every pioneer station	J2
Each settlemeat though primitive of tool	L2
Had in it then the making of a Nation	J2
Had in it then the roofing of the plains	K2
With tragic and the piercing through and through	G2
Of forests with the iron veins	K2
Of industry	X
Would I could make you see	X
How these laboriously	X
These founders of New England every hour	M2
Faced danger death and misery	X
Conquering the wilderness	K2
With supernatural power	M2
Changing its features all its savage glower	M2
Of wild barbarity fierce hate duress	K2
To something human something that could bless	K2
Mankind with peace and lift its heart's elation	J2
Something at last that stood	N2
For universal brotherhood	N2
Astonishing the world a mighty Nation	J2
Hewn from the solitude	O2
Iron of purpose as of faith and daring	T
And of indomitable will	P2
With axe and hymn book still I see them faring	Q2
The Saxon Spirit of Conquest at their side	R2
With sword and flintlock still I see them stride	R2
As to some Roundhead rhyme	S2
Adown the aisles of Time	S2
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V	X
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Can praise be simply said of such as these	K2
Such men as Standish Winthrop Endicott	T2
Such souls as Roger Conant and John White	A2
Rugged and great as trees	K2
The oaks of that New World with which their lot	T2
Was cast forever proudly to remain	J2
That world in which each name still stands a light	A2
To beacon the Ship of State through stormy seas	K2
Can praise be simply said	B2
Of him the younger Vane	J2
Puritan and patriot	U2
Whose dedicated head	B2
Was laid upon the block	V2
In thy name Liberty	X
Can praise be simply said of such as he	X
Needs must the soul unlock	V2
All gates of eloquence to sing of these	K2
Such periods	K2
Such epic melodies	K2
As holds the utterance of the earlier gods	K2
The lords of song one needs	K2
To sing the praise of these	K2
No feeble music tinklings frail of glass	K2
No penny trumpetings twitterings of brass	K2
The moment's effort shak'n from pigmy bells	K2
Ephemeral drops from small Pierian wells	K2
With which the Age relieves a barren hour	M2
But such large music such melodious power	M2
As have our cataracts	K2
Pouring the iron facts	K2
The giant acts	K2
Of these such song as have our rock ridged deep	W2
And mountain steeps	K2
When winds like clanging eagles sweep the storm	X2
On tossing wood and farm	Y2
Such eloquence as in the torrent leaps	K2
Where the hoarse canyon sleeps	K2
Holding the heart with its terrific charm	Y2
Carrying its roaring message to the town	J2
To voice their high achievement and renown	J2
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VI	K
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Long long ago beneath heaven's stormy slope	Z2
In deeds of faith and hope	Z2
Our fathers laid Freedom's foundations here	Q
And raised invisible vast	A3
Embodying naught of doubt or fear	R
A monument whose greatness shall outlast	A3
The future as the past	A3
Of all the Old World's dynasties and kings	K2
A symbol of all things	K2
That we would speak but cannot say in words	K2
Of those who first began our Nation here	Q
Behold we now would rear	R
A different monument a thought that girds	K2
Itself with granite dream made visible	B3
In rock and bronze to tell	C3
To all the Future what here once befell	C3
Here where unknown to them	D3
A tree took root a tree of wondrous stem	D3
The tree of high ideals which has grown	J2
And has not withered since its seed was sown	J2
Was planted here by them in this new soil	O
Who watered it with tears and blood and toil	O
An heritage we mean to hold	E3
Keeping it stanch and beautiful as of old	E3
For never a State	F3
Or People yet was great	F3
Without its great ideals branch and root	G3
Of the deep tree of life where bud and blow	H3
The dreams the thoughts that grow	H3
To deeds the glowing fruit	G3
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VII	K
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The morn that breaks its heart of gold	E3
Above the purple hills	K2
The eve that spills	K2
Its nautilus splendor where the sea is rolled	E3
The night that leads the vast procession in	J2
Of stars and dreams	K2
The beauty that shall never die or pass	K2
The winds that spin	J2
Of rain the misty mantles of the grass	K2
And thunder raiment of the mountain streams	K2
The sunbeams needling with gold the dusk	I3
Green cowls of ancient woods	K2
The shadows thridding veiled with musk	I3
The moon pathed solitudes	K2
Call to my Fancy saying Follow follow	H3
Till following I see	K2
Fair as a cascade in a rainbowed hollow	H3
A dream a shape take form	X2
Clad on with every charm	Y2
The vision of that Ideality	E3
Which lured the pioneer in wood and hill	P2
And beckoned him from earth and sky	K
The dream that cannot die	K
Their children's children did fulfill	P2
In stone and iron and wood	E3
Out of the solitude	E3
And by a forthright act	E3
Create a mighty fact	E3
A Nation now that stands	K2
Clad on with hope and beauty strength and song	J3
Eternal young and strong	J3
Planting her heel on Wrong	J3
Her starry banner in triumphant hands	K2
Within her face the rose	K2
Of Alleghany dawns	K2
Limbed with Alaskan snows	K2
Floridian starlight in her eyes	K2
Eyes stern as steel yet tender as a fawn's	K2
And in her hair	U
The rapture of her river and the dare	U
As perishless as truth	I
That o'er the crags of her Sierras flies	K2
Urging the eagle ardor through her veins	K2
Behold her where	U
Around her radiant youth	I
The spirits of the cataracts and plains	K2
The genii of the floods and forests meet	E3
In rainbow mists circling her brow and feet	E3
The forces vast that sit	E3
In session round her powers paraclete	E3
That guard her presence awful forms and fair	U
Making secure her place	K2
Guiding her surely as the worlds through space	K2
Do laws sidereal edicts thunder lit	E3
Of skyed eternity in splendor borne	J2
On planetary wings of night and morn	J2
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VIII	K
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Behold her this is she	K2
Beautiful as morning on the summer sea	K2
Yet terrible as is the elemental gold	E3
That cleaves the tempest and in angles clings	K2
About its cloudy temples Manifold	E3
The dreams of daring in her fearless gaze	K2
Fixed on the future's days	K2
And round her brow a strand of astral beads	K2
Her soul's resplendent deeds	K2
And at her front one star	K3
Refulgent hope	Z2
Like that on morning's slope	Z2
Beaconing the world afar	K3
From her high place she sees	K2
Her long procession of accomplished acts	K2
Cloud wing'd refulgences	K2
Of thoughts in steel and stone of marble dreams	K2
Lift up tremendous battlements	K2
Sun blinding built of facts	K2
While in her soul she seems	K2
Listening to hear as from innumerable tents	K2
onian thunder wonder and applause	K2
Of all the heroic ages that are gone	J2
Feeling secure	L3
That as her Past her Future shall endure	L3
As did her Cause	K2
When redly broke the dawn	J2
Of fierce rebellion and beneath its star	K3
The firmaments of war	M3
Poured down infernal rain	J2
And North and South lay bleeding 'mid their slain	J2
And now no less shall her Cause still prevail	N3
More so in peace than war	M3
Through the thrilled wire and electric rail	N3
Carrying her message far	K3
Shaping her dream	O3
Within the brain of steam	O3
That with a myriad hands	K2
Labors unceasingly and knits her lands	K2
In firmer union joining plain and stream	O3
With steel and binding shore to shore	M3
With bands of iron nerves and arteries	K2
Along whose adamant forever pour	M3
Her concrete thoughts her tireless energies	K2