Ode Iv; To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Ode Iv; To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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How oft shall i survey	B
This humble roof the lawn the greenwood shade	C
The vale with sheaves o'erspread	C
The glassy brook the flocks which round thee stray	B
When will thy cheerful mind	C
Of these have utter'd all her dear esteem	D
Or tell me dost thou deem	D
No more to join in glory's toilsome race	E
But here content embrace	E
That happy leisure which thou had'st resign'd	C
Alas ye happy hours	F
When books and youthful sport the soul could share	G
Ere one ambitious care	G
Of civil life had aw'd her simpler powers	F
Oft as your winged train	H
Revisit here my friend in white array	B
Oh fail not to display	B
Each fairer scene where i perchance had part	C
That so his generous heart	C
The abode of even friendship may remain	H
For not imprudent of my loss to come	I
I saw from contemplation's quiet cell	J
His feet ascending to another home	K
Where public praise and envied greatness dwell	J
But shall we therefore o my lyre	L
Reprove ambition's best desire	M
Extinguish glory's flame	N
Far other was the task injoin'd	C
When to my hand thy strings were first assign'd	C
Far other faith belongs to friendship's honor'd name	N
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II	A
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Thee Townshend not the arms	O
Of slumbering ease nor pleasure's rosy chain	H
Were destin'd to detain	H
No nor bright science nor the Muse's charms	O
For them high heaven prepares	P
Their proper votaries an humbler band	C
And ne'er would Spenser's hand	C
Have deign'd to strike the warbling Tuscan shell	J
Nor Harrington to tell	J
What habit an immortal city wears	P
Had this been born to shield	C
The cause which Cromwell's impious hand betray'd	C
Or that like Vere display'd	C
His redcross banner o'er the Belgian field	C
Yet where the will divine	Q
Hath shut those loftiest paths it next remains	R
With reason clad in strains	R
Of harmony selected minds to inspire	L
And virtue's living fire	M
To feed and eternize in hearts like thine	Q
For never shall the herd whom envy sways	S
So quell my purpose or my tongue control	T
That I should fear illustrious worth to praise	S
Because it's master's friendship mov'd my soul	T
Yet if this undissembling strain	H
Should now perhaps thine ear detain	H
With any pleasing sound	C
Remember thou that righteous fame	N
From hoary age a strict account will claim	N
Of each auspicious palm with which thy youth was crown'd	C
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III	A
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Nor obvious is the way	B
Where heaven expects thee nor the traveler leads	U
Through flowers or fragrant meads	U
Or groves that hark to Philomela's lay	B
The impartial laws of fate	C
To nobler virtues wed severer cares	P
Is there a man who shares	P
The summit next where heavenly natures dwell	J
Ask him for he can tell	J
What storms beat round that rough laborious height	C
Ye heroes who of old	C
Did generous England freedom's throne ordain	H
From Alfred's parent reign	H
To Nassau great deliverer wise and bold	C
I know your perils hard	C
Your wounds your painful marches wintry seas	V
The night estrang'd from ease	V
The day by cowardice and falsehood vex'd	C
The head with doubt perplex'd	C
The indignant heart disdaining the reward	C
Which envy hardly grants But o renown	W
O praise from judging heaven and virtuous men	X
If thus they purchas'd thy divinest crown	W
Say who shall hesitate or who complain	H
And now they sit on thrones above	Y
And when among the gods they move	Z
Before the sovran mind	C
Lo these he saith lo these are they	B
Who to the laws of mine eternal sway	B
From violence and fear asserted human kind	C
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IV	Z
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Thus honor'd while the train	H
Of legislators in his presence dwell	J
If I may aught foretell	J
The statesman shall the second palm obtain	H
For dreadful deeds of arms	O
Let vulgar bards with undiscerning praise	S
More glittering trophies raise	S
But wisest heaven what deeds may chiefly move	Z
To favor and to love	Z
What save wide blessings or averted harms	O
Nor to the imbattled field	C
Shall these achievements of the peaceful gown	W
The green immortal crown	W
Of valor or the songs of conquest yield	C
Not Fairfax wildly bold	C
While bare of crest he hew'd his fatal way	B
Through Nasesby's firm array	B
To heavier dangers did his breast oppose	A2
Than Pym's free virtue chose	A2
When the proud force of Strafford he controul'd	C
But what is man at enmity with truth	B2
What were the fruits of Wentworth's copious mind	C
When blighted all the promise of his youth	B2
The patriot in a tyrant's league had join'd	C
Let Ireland's loud lamenting plains	R
Let Tyne's and Humber's trampled swain	H
Let menac'd London tell	J
How impious guile made wisdom base	E
How generous zeal to cruel rage gave place	E
And how unbless'd he liv'd and how dishonor'd fell	J
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V	Z
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Thence never hath the Muse	C2
Around his tomb Pierian roses flung	D2
Nor shall one poet's tongue	D2
His name for music's pleasing labor chuse	C2
And sure when nature kind	C
Hath deck'd some favor'd breast above the throng	E2
That man with grievous wrong	E2
Affronts and wounds his genius if he bends	F2
To guilt's ignoble ends	F2
The functions of his ill submitting mind	C
For worthy of the wise	G2
Nothing can seem but virtue nor earth yield	C
Their fame an equal field	C
Save where impartial freedom gives the prize	G2
There Somers fix'd his name	N
Inroll'd the next to William there shall Time	H2
To every wondering clime	H2
Point out that Somers who from faction's croud	C
The slanderous and the loud	C
Could fair assent and modest reverence claim	H2
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Nor aught did laws or social arts acquire	M
Nor this majestic weal of Albion's land	C
Did aught accomplish or to aught aspire	L
Without his guidance his superior hand	C
And rightly shall the Muse's care	G
Wreaths like her own for him prepare	G
Whose mind's inamor'd aim	H2
Could forms of civil beauty draw	I2
Sublime as ever sage or poet saw	I2
Yet still to life's rude scene the proud ideas tame	H2
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VI	Z
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Let none profane be near	J2
The Muse was never foreign to his breast	C
On power's grave seat confess'd	C
Still to her voice he bent a lover's ear	K2
And if the blessed know	L2
Their ancient cares even now the unfading groves	M2
Where haply Milton roves	M2
With Spenser hear the enchanted echo's round	C
Through farthest heaven resound	C
Wise Somers guardian of their fame below	L2
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He knew the patriot knew	N2
That letters and the Muses powerful art	C
Exalt the ingenuous heart	C
And brighten every form of just and true	N2
They lend a nobler sway	B
To civil wisdom than corruption's lure	O2
Could ever yet procure	O2
They too from envy's pale malignant light	C
Conduct her forth to sight	C
Cloath'd in the fairest colors of the day	B
O Townshend thus may Time the judge severe	J2
Instruct my happy tongue of thee to tell	J
And when I speak of one to freedom dear	J2
For planning wisely and for acting well	J
Of one whom glory loves to own	P2
Who still by liberal means alone	P2
Hath liberal ends pursu'd	C
Then for the guerdon of my lay	B
This man with faithful friendship will i say	B
From youth to honor'd age my arts and me hath view'd	C