Ode Vi: Hymn To Cheerfulness Poem Rhyme Scheme

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How thick the shades of evening close	A
How pale the sky with weight of snows	B
Haste light the tapers urge the fire	C
And bid the joyless day retire	D
Alas in vain i try within	E
To brighten the dejected scene	F
While rouz'd by grief these fiery pains	G
Tear the frail texture of my veins	G
While winter's voice that storms around	H
And yon deep death bell's groaning sound	H
Renew my mind's oppressive gloom	I
Till starting horror shakes the room	I
	-
Is there in nature no kind power	C
To sooth affliction's lonely hour	C
To blunt the edge of dire disease	J
And teach these wintry shades to please	J
Come Cheerfulness triumphant fair	K
Shine through the hovering cloud of care	K
O sweet of language mild of mien	F
O virtue's friend and pleasure's queen	F
Asswage the flames that burn my breast	L
Compose my jarring thoughts to rest	L
And while thy gracious gifts i feel	M
My song shall all thy praise reveal	M
	-
As once 'twas in Astr a's reign	N
The vernal powers renew'd their train	N
It happen'd that immortal Love	O
Was ranging through the spheres above	O
And downward hither cast his eye	P
The year's returning pomp to spy	P
He saw the radiant god of day	Q
Waft in his car the rosy May	Q
The fragrant Airs and genial Hours	R
Were shedding round him dews and flowers	R
Before his wheels Aurora pass'd	S
And Hesper's golden lamp was last	S
But fairest of the blooming throng	T
When Health majestic mov'd along	T
Delighted to survey below	U
The joys which from her presence flow	U
While earth enliven'd hears her voice	V
And swains and flocks and fields rejoice	V
Then mighty Love her charms confess'd	L
And soon his vows inclin'd her breast	L
And known from that auspicious morn	W
The pleasing Cheerfulness was born	W
	-
Thou Cheerfulness by heaven design'd	X
To sway the movements of the mind	X
Whatever fretful passion springs	Y
Whatever wayward fortune brings	Y
To disarrange the power within	E
And strain the musical machine	F
Thou Goddess thy attempering hand	Z
Doth each discordant string command	Z
Refines the soft and swells the strong	T
And joining nature's general song	T
Through many a varying tone unfolds	A2
The harmony of human souls	B2
	-
Fair guardian of domestic life	C2
Kind banisher of homebred strife	C2
Nor sullen lip nor taunting eye	P
Deforms the scene where thou art by	P
No sickening husband damns the hour	C
Which bound his joys to female power	C
No pining mother weeps the cares	D2
Which parents waste on thankless heirs	D2
The officious daughters pleas'd attend	E2
The brother adds the name of friend	E2
By thee with flowers their board is crown'd	H
With songs from thee their walks resound	H
And morn with welcome lustre shines	F2
And evening unperceiv'd declines	F2
	-
Is there a youth whose anxious heart	G2
Labors with love's unpitied smart	G2
Though now he stray by rills and bowers	R
And weeping waste the lonely hours	R
Or if the nymph her audience deign	N
Debase the story of his pain	N
With slavish looks discolor'd eyes	H2
And accents faltering into sighs	H2
Yet thou auspicious power with ease	J
Can'st yield him happier arts to please	J
Inform his mien with manlier charms	I2
Instruct his tongue with nobler arms	I2
With more commanding passion move	J2
And teach the dignity of love	O
	-
Friend to the Muse and all her train	N
For thee i court the Muse again	K2
The Muse for thee may well exert	L2
Her pomp her charms her fondest art	G2
Who owes to thee that pleasing sway	Q
Which earth and peopled heaven obey	Q
	-
Let melancholy's plaintive tongue	M2
Repeat what later bards have sung	M2
But thine was Homer's ancient might	N2
And thine victorious Pindar's flight	N2
Thy hand each Lesbian wreathe attir'd	O2
Thy lip Sicilian reeds inspir'd	P2
Thy spirit lent the glad perfume	I
Whence yet the flowers of Teos bloom	I
Whence yet from Tibur's Sabine vale	Q2
Delicious blows the inlivening gale	Q2
While Horace calls thy sportive choir	C
Heroes and nymphs around his lyre	D
	-
But see where yonder pensive sage	R2
A prey perhaps to fortune's rage	R2
Perhaps by tender griefs oppress'd	L
Or glooms congenial to his breast	L
Retires in desart scenes to dwell	S2
And bids the joyless world farewell	S2
Alone he treads the autumnal shade	T2
Alone beneath the mountain laid	T2
He sees the nightly damps ascend	E2
And gathering storms aloft impend	E2
He hears the neighbouring surges roll	U2
And raging thunders shake the pole	U2
Then struck by every object round	H
And stunn'd by every horrid sound	H
He asks a clue for nature's ways	V2
But evil haunts him through the maze	V2
He sees ten thousand demons rise	H2
To wield the empire of the skies	H2
And chance and fate assume the rod	W2
And malice blot the throne of God	W2
O thou whose pleasing power i sing	X2
Thy lenient influence hither bring	X2
Compose the storm dispell the gloom	I
Till nature wear her wonted bloom	I
Till fields and shades their sweets exhale	Q2
And music swell each opening gale	Q2
Then o'er his breast thy softness pour	Y2
And let him learn the timely hour	C
To trace the world's benignant laws	Z2
And judge of that presiding cause	A3
Who founds on discord beauty's reign	N
Converts to pleasure every pain	N
Subdues each hostile form to rest	L
And bids the universe be bless'd	L
	-
O thou whose pleasing power i sing	X2
If right i touch the votive string	X2
If equal praise i yield thy name	B3
Still govern thou thy poet's flame	B3
Still with the Muse my bosom share	K
And sooth to peace intruding care	K
	-
But most exert thy pleasing power	C
On friendship's consecrated hour	C
And while my Sophron points the road	C3
To godlike wisdom's calm abode	C3
Or warm in freedom's ancient cause	A3
Traceth the source of Albion's laws	Z2
Add thou o'er all the generous toil	D3
The light of thy unclouded smile	E3
But if by fortune's stubborn sway	Q
From him and friendship torn away	Q
I court the Muse's healing spell	S2
For griefs that still with absence dwell	S2
Do thou conduct my fancy's dreams	F3
To such indulgent placid themes	F3
As just the struggling breast may cheer	G3
And just suspend the starting tear	K
Yet leave that sacred sense of woe	U
Which none but friends and lovers know	U

Mark Akenside

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