To The Right Reverend Benjamin Lord Bishop Of Winchester Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEEEF GGHHIJJJI KLKLKMNNJMOJ A JJAPJQQQJ JJRRJSSSJ JTJTJJUUSJJS A JJVVWJJJW XXOMJCCCJ YJYJZQA2A2B2QQB2

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For toils which patriots have endur'dB
For treason quell'd and laws secur'dB
In every nation Time displaysC
The palm of honourable praiseC
Envy may rail and faction fierceD
May strive but what alas can thoseE
Though bold yet blind and sordid foesE
To gratitude and love opposeE
To faithful story and persuasive verseF
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O nurse of freedom Albion sayG
Thou tamer of despotic swayG
What man among thy sons aroundH
Thus heir to glory hast thou foundH
What page in all thy annals brightI
Hast thou with purer joy survey'dJ
Than that where truth by Hoadly's aidJ
Shines through imposture's solemn shadeJ
Through kingly and through sacerdotal nightI
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To him the Teacher bless'dK
Who sent religion from the palmy fieldL
By Jordan like the morn to cheer the westK
And lifted up the veil which heaven from earth conceal'dL
To Hoadly thus his mandate he address'dK
Go thou and rescue my dishonor'd lawM
From hands rapacious and from tongues impureN
Let not my peaceful name be made a lureN
Fell persecution's mortal snares to aidJ
Let not my words be impious chains to drawM
The freeborn soul in more than brutal aweO
To faith without assent allegiance unrepaidJ
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No cold or unperforming handJ
Was arm'd by heaven with this commandJ
The world soon felt it and on highA
To William's ear with welcome joyP
Did Locke among the blest unfoldJ
The rising hope of Hoadly's nameQ
Godolphin then confirm'd the fameQ
And Somers when from earth he cameQ
And generous Stanhope the fair sequel toldJ
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Then drew the lawgivers aroundJ
Sires of the Grecian name renown'dJ
And listening ask'd and wondering knewR
What private force could thus subdueR
The vulgar and the great combin'dJ
Could war with sacred folly wageS
Could a whole nation disengageS
From the dread bonds of many an ageS
And to new habits mould the public mindJ
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For not a conqueror's swordJ
Nor the strong powers to civil founders knownT
Were his but truth by faithful search explor'dJ
And social sense like seed in genial plenty sownT
Wherever it took root the soul restor'dJ
To freedom freedom too for others soughtJ
Not monkish craft the tyrant's claim divineU
Not regal zeal the bigot's cruel shrineU
Could longer guard from reason's warfare sageS
Not the wild rabble to sedition wroughtJ
Nor synods by the papal Genius taughtJ
Nor St John's spirit loose nor Atterbury's rageS
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But where shall recompence be foundJ
Or how such arduous merit crown'dJ
For look on life's laborious sceneV
What rugged spaces lie betweenV
Adventurous virtue's early toilsW
And her triumphal throne The shadeJ
Of death mean time does oft invadeJ
Her progress nor to us display'dJ
Wears the bright heroine her expected spoilsW
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Yet born to conquer is her powerX
O Hoadly if that favourite hourX
On earth arrive with thankful aweO
We own just heaven's indulgent lawM
And proudly thy success beholdJ
We attend thy reverend length of daysC
With benediction and with praiseC
And hail Thee in our public waysC
Like some great spirit fam'd in ages oldJ
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While thus our vows prolongY
Thy steps on earth and when by us resign'dJ
Thou join'st thy seniors that heroic throngY
Who rescu'd or preserv'd the rights of human kindJ
O not unworthy may thy Albion's tongueZ
Thee still her friend and benefactor nameQ
O never Hoadly in thy country's eyesA2
May impious gold or pleasure's gaudy prizeA2
Make public virtue public freedom vileB2
Nor our own manners tempt us to disclaimQ
That heritage our noblest wealth and fameQ
Which Thou hast kept intire from force and factious guileB2

Mark Akenside



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