Vignettes 26: Elegy On Edward Betham, Lost In The Duchess Of Gordon East Indiaman, Off The Cape Of G Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Lovely as are the wide and sudden calms	A
Upon a lake when all the waters rise	B
To smooth each undulation and present	C
A plain of molten silver is the hope	D
Dear Edward of thy safety which now comes	E
To fill expand and elevate my heart	F
String every nerve and give to every vein	G
A warmer and a sweeter sense of life	H
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Welcome oh welcome that most healing hope	D
Pouring abroad an efficacious ray	I
Into the aching bosom Tidings sweet	J
Those of such prompt return with wisdom gain'd	K
By suffering but with all thy innocence	L
All thy accustomed gaiety of heart	F
And all thy deep quick sensibilities	M
Those gems of virtue which concentre still	N
In narrow limits stores of moral wealth	O
Beyond all estimate whose value known	P
The dealer sells his other merchandize	M
His ivory and curious workmanship	Q
The silkworm's product and the cloth of gold	R
To purchase that imperishable store	S
More highly prized than all Possessing all	T
The properties most precious of the rest	U
In a superior measure and degree	V
Without alloy sparkling with inward light	W
Unseen untraced the process of his growth	X
No aid from any human hand or care	Y
No nourishment from any earthly dews	M
No ripening from our bright material sun	Z
But secretly supplied by Providence	M
With some more pure diviner aliment	W
And with more heavenly searching radiance fill'd	W
For the superior comfort higher bliss	M
Of that in drinking eye the soul of man	A2
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Thus sang I when fallacious hopes were rais'd	W
Of his dear safety whom howe'er belov'd	W
However strong in health and firmly built	W
Like a fine statue of the antique world	W
As if he might have reach'd a century	V
Without decrepitude we ne'er again	B2
Nor we alone no other human eye	C2
Can e'er behold Then had I painted him	D2
Returning as he lately left our shores	M
With all the fairness and the bloom of youth	E2
The light brown hair and its soft yellow gleams	M
Brightened with silver thickening into shade	W
Now with a dove like now a chesnut hue	F2
The smile of Peace and Love and joyful Hope	D
And those blue eyes through whose dark lash the soul	G2
Rejoicing from its kind and happy home	H2
Look'd forth with rapture artless and uncheck'd	W
Eyes where Delight in careless luxury	V
Lay nestling and indulging blissful thoughts	M
With every day dream for whose food the world	W
Offers magnificence and loveliness	M
All graceful motions and all graceful forms	M
The ripened nectar of delicious sounds	M
The social haunt the lonely quiet hour	I2
The Hopes embodying innocent and gay	I
As those of Childhood whose soft footstep past	W
Not long before not yet forgotten by	C2
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The letter dearest blotted with thy tears	M
In answer to a caution fear express'd	W
By much too strongly often gives my heart	W
A secret pang but of remorse for nought	W
But paining thee too tender to endure	J2
The thought that self indulgence or neglect	W
Causing increas'd disquietude and care	Y
Might by increased disquietude and care	Y
Open the grave for him who gave thee birth	K2
How often and how warmly did'st thou ask	L2
With epithets of fondness how I dar'd	W
Imagine such a horror and to one	Z
Present who would have died or borne extremes	M
Of any hard endurance not to give	M2
The slightest anguish to a parent's breast	W
Alas the cruel rashness of reproof	M2
The busy vigilance of human pride	W
Like a too eager partizan may strike	N2
To ward off danger from his chieftain's head	W
A fellow soldier zealous in the cause	M
	-
As of this world this visible wide world	W
This earth with all its forests all its plants	M
All its deep mines its rivers and its seas	M
Yea all that breathes and moves and clings to life	M2
By any subtler impulse which eludes	M
Our blunted observation as of this	M
All that appears and all that is so much	O2
Remains in scorn of science unexplor'd	W
So in the not less wond'rous moral world	W
The innermost recesses of the mind	W
We see as little save Phoenician like	N2
By petty trade and parley on its coasts	M
Talk by interpreters impatient guess	M
Or careless resting in incertitude	W
At meanings in a tongue almost unknown	P
Or so corrupted by this intercourse	M
That all its native harmony is lost	W
Its irresistible persuasions o'er	I2
The clearness and the sweetness of its tones	M
Its loftiness simplicity and truth	E2
	-
All that we hear is coarse and limited	W
And yet we sail along and search no more	S
And look no farther though the ear is pall'd	W
With the vile din of tame monotony	V
The taste perverted judgment led astray	I
By soul annihilating idleness	M
By universal strengthless poverty	V
Which leans upon its neighbour for support	W
And lifts the eye for sanction or assent	W
To weakness still more helpless than its own	P
	-
Two thousand years the sanctuary's veil	P2
Has now been rent asunder shewing all	T
That to the patient and unsandall'd foot	W
Egress and regress freely are allowed	W
Through that most glorious temple where abstract	W
And long a stranger to the vulgar eye	C2
Thought held her silent rule and mission'd forth	Q2
Her sealed and unquestion'd messengers	M
Yet those who follow nature when the track	R2
Is finer than a hair those who can cleave	M2
The subtile and combined elements	M
That form a drop of water those can shrink	S2
From the more holy alchemy enjoin'd	W
Call'd for by that disgust the heart conceives	M
At the usurping empire of pretence	M
At all those useless and disgraceful chains	M
Which tie us down and imp with aptest wings	M
Falsehood and selfishness who ought to creep	T2
In their own reptile slime and dart away	I
When eyes perceiv'd their presence Oh could those	M
Adventure in too perilous a path	U2
If without other guide than the bright stars	M
The love of what is lofty and divine	V2
Or the desire of gaining for mankind	W
Now fettered and held down to poison'd food	W
Its unpolluted birth right	W
they dared on	W2
Plunging at once into untravelled realms	M
And bringing as the harvest of their toil	X2
Arms which will make each potent talisman	Z
Each charm and spell and dire enchantment sink	S2
In endless infamy without a hope	D
To trick their bloated and their wither'd limbs	M
In any Proteus vestment of disguise	M
Again to awe and ruinate the world	W
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Oh my dear brother little did I think	S2
These lines would be prophetic yet to me	V
They seem so for I since have felt deep woe	Y2
And passed through seas of anguish to attain	G
A view of mysteries wonderful and sad	W
Since they are rivetted through every clime	V
With shame and guilt and wretchedness on all	T
That bear what only is the curse of life	M2
Whilst they remain which have confronted time	V
Wearing the semblance sporting with the names	M
Of truth and valour liberty and God	W
Successfully through each recorded age	Z2
But yet may fall and will I trust and hope	D

Matilda Betham

Vignettes 26: Elegy On Edward Betham, Lost In The Duchess Of Gordon East Indiaman, Off The Cape Of G Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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