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 YJYJZQA2A2B2QQB2I | A |
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For toils which patriots have endur'd | B |
For treason quell'd and laws secur'd | B |
In every nation Time displays | C |
The palm of honourable praise | C |
Envy may rail and faction fierce | D |
May strive but what alas can those | E |
Though bold yet blind and sordid foes | E |
To gratitude and love oppose | E |
To faithful story and persuasive verse | F |
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O nurse of freedom Albion say | G |
Thou tamer of despotic sway | G |
What man among thy sons around | H |
Thus heir to glory hast thou found | H |
What page in all thy annals bright | I |
Hast thou with purer joy survey'd | J |
Than that where truth by Hoadly's aid | J |
Shines through imposture's solemn shade | J |
Through kingly and through sacerdotal night | I |
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To him the Teacher bless'd | K |
Who sent religion from the palmy field | L |
By Jordan like the morn to cheer the west | K |
And lifted up the veil which heaven from earth conceal'd | L |
To Hoadly thus his mandate he address'd | K |
Go thou and rescue my dishonor'd law | M |
From hands rapacious and from tongues impure | N |
Let not my peaceful name be made a lure | N |
Fell persecution's mortal snares to aid | J |
Let not my words be impious chains to draw | M |
The freeborn soul in more than brutal awe | O |
To faith without assent allegiance unrepaid | J |
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II | A |
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No cold or unperforming hand | J |
Was arm'd by heaven with this command | J |
The world soon felt it and on high | A |
To William's ear with welcome joy | P |
Did Locke among the blest unfold | J |
The rising hope of Hoadly's name | Q |
Godolphin then confirm'd the fame | Q |
And Somers when from earth he came | Q |
And generous Stanhope the fair sequel told | J |
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Then drew the lawgivers around | J |
Sires of the Grecian name renown'd | J |
And listening ask'd and wondering knew | R |
What private force could thus subdue | R |
The vulgar and the great combin'd | J |
Could war with sacred folly wage | S |
Could a whole nation disengage | S |
From the dread bonds of many an age | S |
And to new habits mould the public mind | J |
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For not a conqueror's sword | J |
Nor the strong powers to civil founders known | T |
Were his but truth by faithful search explor'd | J |
And social sense like seed in genial plenty sown | T |
Wherever it took root the soul restor'd | J |
To freedom freedom too for others sought | J |
Not monkish craft the tyrant's claim divine | U |
Not regal zeal the bigot's cruel shrine | U |
Could longer guard from reason's warfare sage | S |
Not the wild rabble to sedition wrought | J |
Nor synods by the papal Genius taught | J |
Nor St John's spirit loose nor Atterbury's rage | S |
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III | A |
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But where shall recompence be found | J |
Or how such arduous merit crown'd | J |
For look on life's laborious scene | V |
What rugged spaces lie between | V |
Adventurous virtue's early toils | W |
And her triumphal throne The shade | J |
Of death mean time does oft invade | J |
Her progress nor to us display'd | J |
Wears the bright heroine her expected spoils | W |
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Yet born to conquer is her power | X |
O Hoadly if that favourite hour | X |
On earth arrive with thankful awe | O |
We own just heaven's indulgent law | M |
And proudly thy success behold | J |
We attend thy reverend length of days | C |
With benediction and with praise | C |
And hail Thee in our public ways | C |
Like some great spirit fam'd in ages old | J |
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While thus our vows prolong | Y |
Thy steps on earth and when by us resign'd | J |
Thou join'st thy seniors that heroic throng | Y |
Who rescu'd or preserv'd the rights of human kind | J |
O not unworthy may thy Albion's tongue | Z |
Thee still her friend and benefactor name | Q |
O never Hoadly in thy country's eyes | A2 |
May impious gold or pleasure's gaudy prize | A2 |
Make public virtue public freedom vile | B2 |
Nor our own manners tempt us to disclaim | Q |
That heritage our noblest wealth and fame | Q |
Which Thou hast kept intire from force and factious guile | B2 |
Mark Akenside
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