Ambition And Content: A Fable Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Optat quietem Hor	B
	A
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While yet the world was young and men were few	C
Nor lurking fraud nor tyrant rapine knew	C
In virtue rude the gaudy arts they scorn'd	D
Which virtue lost degenerate times adorn'd	D
No sumptuous fabrics yet were seen to rise	E
Nor gushing fountains taught to invade the skies	E
With nature art had not begun the strife	F
Nor swelling marble rose to mimic life	F
No pencil yet had learn'd to express the fair	B
The bounteous earth was all their homely care	B
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Then did Content exert her genial sway	G
And taught the peaceful world her power to obey	G
Content a female of celestial race	H
Bright and complete in each celestial grace	H
Serenely fair she was as rising day	G
And brighter than the sun's meridian ray	G
Joy of all hearts delight of every eye	I
Nor grief nor pain appear'd when she was by	I
Her presence from the wretched banish'd care	B
Dispers'd the swelling sigh and stopt the falling tear	B
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Long did the nymph her regal state maintain	J
As long mankind were blest beneath her reign	J
Till dire Ambition hellish fiend arose	K
To plague the world and banish man's repose	K
A monster sprung from that rebellious crew	C
Which mighty Jove's Phlegr an thunder slew	C
Resolv'd to dispossess the royal fair	B
On all her friends he threaten'd open war	B
Fond of the novelty vain fickle man	L
In crowds to his infernal standard ran	L
And the weak maid defenceless left alone	M
To avoid his rage was forc'd to quit the throne	M
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It chanc'd as wandering through the fields she stray'd	N
Forsook of all and destitute of aid	N
Upon a rising mountain's flowery side	O
A pleasant cottage roof'd with turf she spied	O
Fast by a gloomy venerable wood	P
Of shady planes and ancient oaks it stood	P
Around a various prospect charm'd the sight	Q
Here waving harvests clad the fields with white	Q
Here a rough shaggy rock the clouds did pierce	R
From which a torrent rush'd with rapid force	S
Here mountain woods diffus'd a dusky shade	N
Here flocks and herds in flowery valleys play'd	N
While o'er the matted grass the liquid crystal stray'd	N
In this sweet place there dwelt a cheerful pair	B
Though bent beneath the weight of many a year	B
Who wisely flying public noise and strife	F
In this obscure retreat had pass'd their life	F
The husband Industry was call'd Frugality the wife	F
With tenderest Friendship mutually blest	T
No household jars had e'er disturb'd their rest	T
A numerous offspring grac'd their homely board	U
That still with Nature's simple gifts was stor'd	U
The father rural business only knew	C
The sons the same delightful art pursue	C
An only daughter as a goddess fair	B
Above the rest was the fond mother's care	B
Plenty the brightest nymph of all the plain	J
Each heart's delight ador'd by every swain	J
Soon as Content this charming scene espied	U
Joyful within herself the goddess cried	U
This happy sight my drooping heart doth raise	V
The gods I hope will grant me gentler days	V
When with prosperity my life was blest	U
In yonder house I've been a welcome guest	U
There now perhaps I may protection find	U
For royalty is banish'd from my mind	U
I'll thither haste how happy should I be	W
If such a refuge were reserv'd for me	W
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Thus spoke the fair and straight she bent her way	G
To the tall mountain where the cottage lay	G
Arriv'd she makes her chang'd condition known	M
Tells how the rebels drove her from the throne	M
What painful dreary wilds she'd wander'd o'er	B
And shelter from the tyrant doth implore	B
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The faithful aged pair at once were seiz'd	U
With joy and grief at once were pain'd and pleas'd	U
Grief for their banish'd queen their hearts possest	U
And joy succeeded for their future guest	U
And if you'll deign bright goddess here to dwell	X
And with your presence grace our humble cell	X
Whate'er the gods have given with bounteous hand	U
Our harvests fields and flocks our all command	U
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Meantime Ambition on his rival's flight	U
Sole lord of man attain'd his wish's height	U
Of all dependence on his subjects eas'd	U
He rag'd without a curb and did whate'er he pleas'd	U
As some wild flame driven on by furious winds	Y
Wide spreads destruction nor resistance finds	Z
So rush'd the fiend destructive o'er the plain	J
Defac'd the labours of the industrious swain	J
Polluted every stream with human gore	B
And scatter'd plagues and death from shore to shore	B
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Great Jove beheld it from the Olympian towers	A2
Where sate assembled all the heavenly powers	A2
Then with a nod that shook the empyrean throne	M
Thus the Saturnian thunderer begun	B2
You see immortal inmates of the skies	E
How this vile wretch almighty power defies	E
His daring crimes the blood which he has spilt	U
Demand a torment equal to his guilt	U
Then Cyprian goddess let thy mighty boy	C2
Swift to the tyrant's guilty palace fly	I
There let him choose his sharpest hottest dart	U
And with his former rival wound his heart	U
And thou my son the god to Hermes said	U
Snatch up thy wand and plume thy heels and head	U
Dart through the yielding air with all thy force	S
And down to Pluto's realms direct thy course	S
There rouse Oblivion from her sable cave	D2
Where dull she sits by Lethe's sluggish wave	D2
Command her to secure the sacred bound	U
Where lives Content retir'd and all around	U
Diffuse the deepest glooms of Stygian night	U
And screen the virgin from the tyrant's sight	U
That the vain purpose of his life may try	I
Still to explore what still eludes his eye	I
He spoke loud praises shake the bright abode	U
And all applaud the justice of the god	U

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