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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They who maintained their rightsB
Through storm and stressC
And walked in all the waysD
That God made knownE
Led by no wandering lightsB
And by no guessC
Through dark and desolate daysD
Of trial and moanE
Here let their monumentF
Rise like a wordG
In rock commemorativeH
Of our Land's youthI
Of ways the Puritan wentJ
With soul love spurredG
To suffer die and liveK
For faith and truthI
Here they the corner stoneE
Of Freedom laidL
Here in their hearts' distressC
They lit the lightsB
Of Liberty aloneE
Here with God's aidL
Conquered the wildernessM
Secured their rightsB
Not men but giants theyN
Who wrought with toilO
And sweat of brawn and brainP
Their freehold hereQ
Who with their blood each dayN
Hallowed the soilO
And left it without stainP
And without fearR
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Yea here from men like theseS
Our country had its stanch beginningT
Hence sprang she with the ocean breezeS
And pine scent in her hairU
Deep in her eyes the winningT
The far off winning of the unmeasured WestV
And in her heart the careU
The young unrestV
Of all that she must dareU
Ere as a mighty Nation she should standW
Towering from sea to seaX
From land to moantained landW
One with the imperishable beauty of the starsY
In absolute destinyX
Part of that cosmic law no shadow marsY
To which all freedom runsZ
That wheels the circles of the worlds and sunsZ
Along their courses through the vasty nightA2
Irrevocable and eternal as is LightA2
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What people has to dayN
Such faith as launched and spedB2
With psalm and prayer the Mayflower on its wayN
Such faith as ledB2
The Dorchester fishers to this sea washed pointC2
This granite headland of Cape AnnD2
Where first they made their bedB2
Salt blown and wet with brineE2
In cold and hunger where the storm wrenched pineE2
Clung to the rock with desperate footing TheyN
With hearts courageous whom hope did anointC2
Despite their tar and tanD2
Worn of the wind and sprayN
Seem more to me than manD2
With their unconquerable spirits Mountains mayN
Succumb to men like these to wills like theirsF2
The Puritan's tenacity to doG2
The stubbornness of genius holding toG2
Their purpose to the endH2
No New World hardship could deflect or bendH2
That never doubted in their worst despairsF2
But steadily on their wayN
Held to the last trusting in God who filledI2
Their souls with fire of faith that helped them buildI2
A country greater than had ever thrilledI2
Man's wildest dreams or entered inJ2
His highest hopes 'Twas thins that helped them winJ2
In spite of danger and distressC
Through darkness and the dinJ2
Of winds and waves unto a wildernessM
Savage unbounded pathless as the seaX
That said Behold me I am freeX
Giving itself to them for greater thingsK2
Than filled their souls with dim imaginingsK2
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Let History record their stalwart namesK2
And catalogue their fortitude whence grewG2
Swiftly as running flamesK2
Cities and civilazationJ2
How from a meeting house and schoolL2
A few log huddled cabins Freedom drewG2
Her rude beginnings Every pioneer stationJ2
Each settlemeat though primitive of toolL2
Had in it then the making of a NationJ2
Had in it then the roofing of the plainsK2
With tragic and the piercing through and throughG2
Of forests with the iron veinsK2
Of industryX
Would I could make you seeX
How these laboriouslyX
These founders of New England every hourM2
Faced danger death and miseryX
Conquering the wildernessK2
With supernatural powerM2
Changing its features all its savage glowerM2
Of wild barbarity fierce hate duressK2
To something human something that could blessK2
Mankind with peace and lift its heart's elationJ2
Something at last that stoodN2
For universal brotherhoodN2
Astonishing the world a mighty NationJ2
Hewn from the solitudeO2
Iron of purpose as of faith and daringT
And of indomitable willP2
With axe and hymn book still I see them faringQ2
The Saxon Spirit of Conquest at their sideR2
With sword and flintlock still I see them strideR2
As to some Roundhead rhymeS2
Adown the aisles of TimeS2
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Can praise be simply said of such as theseK2
Such men as Standish Winthrop EndicottT2
Such souls as Roger Conant and John WhiteA2
Rugged and great as treesK2
The oaks of that New World with which their lotT2
Was cast forever proudly to remainJ2
That world in which each name still stands a lightA2
To beacon the Ship of State through stormy seasK2
Can praise be simply saidB2
Of him the younger VaneJ2
Puritan and patriotU2
Whose dedicated headB2
Was laid upon the blockV2
In thy name LibertyX
Can praise be simply said of such as heX
Needs must the soul unlockV2
All gates of eloquence to sing of theseK2
Such periodsK2
Such epic melodiesK2
As holds the utterance of the earlier godsK2
The lords of song one needsK2
To sing the praise of theseK2
No feeble music tinklings frail of glassK2
No penny trumpetings twitterings of brassK2
The moment's effort shak'n from pigmy bellsK2
Ephemeral drops from small Pierian wellsK2
With which the Age relieves a barren hourM2
But such large music such melodious powerM2
As have our cataractsK2
Pouring the iron factsK2
The giant actsK2
Of these such song as have our rock ridged deepW2
And mountain steepsK2
When winds like clanging eagles sweep the stormX2
On tossing wood and farmY2
Such eloquence as in the torrent leapsK2
Where the hoarse canyon sleepsK2
Holding the heart with its terrific charmY2
Carrying its roaring message to the townJ2
To voice their high achievement and renownJ2
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Long long ago beneath heaven's stormy slopeZ2
In deeds of faith and hopeZ2
Our fathers laid Freedom's foundations hereQ
And raised invisible vastA3
Embodying naught of doubt or fearR
A monument whose greatness shall outlastA3
The future as the pastA3
Of all the Old World's dynasties and kingsK2
A symbol of all thingsK2
That we would speak but cannot say in wordsK2
Of those who first began our Nation hereQ
Behold we now would rearR
A different monument a thought that girdsK2
Itself with granite dream made visibleB3
In rock and bronze to tellC3
To all the Future what here once befellC3
Here where unknown to themD3
A tree took root a tree of wondrous stemD3
The tree of high ideals which has grownJ2
And has not withered since its seed was sownJ2
Was planted here by them in this new soilO
Who watered it with tears and blood and toilO
An heritage we mean to holdE3
Keeping it stanch and beautiful as of oldE3
For never a StateF3
Or People yet was greatF3
Without its great ideals branch and rootG3
Of the deep tree of life where bud and blowH3
The dreams the thoughts that growH3
To deeds the glowing fruitG3
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The morn that breaks its heart of goldE3
Above the purple hillsK2
The eve that spillsK2
Its nautilus splendor where the sea is rolledE3
The night that leads the vast procession inJ2
Of stars and dreamsK2
The beauty that shall never die or passK2
The winds that spinJ2
Of rain the misty mantles of the grassK2
And thunder raiment of the mountain streamsK2
The sunbeams needling with gold the duskI3
Green cowls of ancient woodsK2
The shadows thridding veiled with muskI3
The moon pathed solitudesK2
Call to my Fancy saying Follow followH3
Till following I seeK2
Fair as a cascade in a rainbowed hollowH3
A dream a shape take formX2
Clad on with every charmY2
The vision of that IdealityE3
Which lured the pioneer in wood and hillP2
And beckoned him from earth and skyK
The dream that cannot dieK
Their children's children did fulfillP2
In stone and iron and woodE3
Out of the solitudeE3
And by a forthright actE3
Create a mighty factE3
A Nation now that standsK2
Clad on with hope and beauty strength and songJ3
Eternal young and strongJ3
Planting her heel on WrongJ3
Her starry banner in triumphant handsK2
Within her face the roseK2
Of Alleghany dawnsK2
Limbed with Alaskan snowsK2
Floridian starlight in her eyesK2
Eyes stern as steel yet tender as a fawn'sK2
And in her hairU
The rapture of her river and the dareU
As perishless as truthI
That o'er the crags of her Sierras fliesK2
Urging the eagle ardor through her veinsK2
Behold her whereU
Around her radiant youthI
The spirits of the cataracts and plainsK2
The genii of the floods and forests meetE3
In rainbow mists circling her brow and feetE3
The forces vast that sitE3
In session round her powers paracleteE3
That guard her presence awful forms and fairU
Making secure her placeK2
Guiding her surely as the worlds through spaceK2
Do laws sidereal edicts thunder litE3
Of skyed eternity in splendor borneJ2
On planetary wings of night and mornJ2
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Behold her this is sheK2
Beautiful as morning on the summer seaK2
Yet terrible as is the elemental goldE3
That cleaves the tempest and in angles clingsK2
About its cloudy temples ManifoldE3
The dreams of daring in her fearless gazeK2
Fixed on the future's daysK2
And round her brow a strand of astral beadsK2
Her soul's resplendent deedsK2
And at her front one starK3
Refulgent hopeZ2
Like that on morning's slopeZ2
Beaconing the world afarK3
From her high place she seesK2
Her long procession of accomplished actsK2
Cloud wing'd refulgencesK2
Of thoughts in steel and stone of marble dreamsK2
Lift up tremendous battlementsK2
Sun blinding built of factsK2
While in her soul she seemsK2
Listening to hear as from innumerable tentsK2
onian thunder wonder and applauseK2
Of all the heroic ages that are goneJ2
Feeling secureL3
That as her Past her Future shall endureL3
As did her CauseK2
When redly broke the dawnJ2
Of fierce rebellion and beneath its starK3
The firmaments of warM3
Poured down infernal rainJ2
And North and South lay bleeding 'mid their slainJ2
And now no less shall her Cause still prevailN3
More so in peace than warM3
Through the thrilled wire and electric railN3
Carrying her message farK3
Shaping her dreamO3
Within the brain of steamO3
That with a myriad handsK2
Labors unceasingly and knits her landsK2
In firmer union joining plain and streamO3
With steel and binding shore to shoreM3
With bands of iron nerves and arteriesK2
Along whose adamant forever pourM3
Her concrete thoughts her tireless energiesK2

Madison Julius Cawein



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