An Ode - Presented To The King, On His Majesty's Arrival In Holland, After The Queen's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme

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An Ode - Presented To The King, On His Majesty's Arrival In Holland, After The Queen's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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At Mary's tomb sad sacred place	A
The Virtues shall their vigils keep	B
And every Muse and every Grace	A
In solemn state shall ever weep	B
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The future pious mournful fair	C
Oft as the rolling years return	D
With fragrant wreaths and flowering hair	C
Shall visit her distinguish'd urn	D
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For her the wise and great shall mourn	E
When late records her deeds repeat	F
Ages to come and men unborn	E
Shall bless her name and sigh her fate	G
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Fair Albion shall with faithful trust	H
Her holy Queen's sad relics guard	I
Till Heaven awakes the precious dust	H
And gives the saint her full reward	J
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But let the King dismiss his woes	K
Reflecting on his fair renown	L
And take the cypress from his brows	M
To put his wonted laurels on	N
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If press'd by grief our monarch stoops	O
In vain the British lions roar	P
If he whose hand sustain'd them droops	O
The Belgic darts will wound no more	P
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Embattled princes wait the chief	Q
Whose voice should rule whose arm should lead	R
And in kind murmurs chide that grief	Q
Which hinders Europe being freed	S
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The great example they demand	T
Who still to conquest led the way	U
Wishing him present to command	T
As they stand ready to obey	U
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They seek that joy which used to glow	V
Expanded on the hero's face	O
When the thick squadrons press'd the foe	V
And William led the glorious chase	O
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To give the mournful nations joy	W
Restore them thy auspicious light	X
Great Sun with radiant beams destroy	W
Those clouds which keep thee from our sight	X
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Let thy sublime meridian course	O
For Mary's setting rays atone	Y
Our lustre with redoubled force	O
Must now proceed from thee alone	Y
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See pious King with different strife	Z
Thy struggling Albion's bosom torn	E
So much she fears for William's life	Z
That Mary's fate she dare not mourn	E
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Her beauty in thy softer half	A2
Buried and lost she ought to grieve	B2
But let her strength in thee be safe	C2
And let her weep but let her live	D2
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Thou guardian angel save the land	T
From thy own grief her fiercest foe	V
Lest Britain rescued by thy hand	T
Should bend and sink beneath thy wo	V
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Her former triumphs all are vain	E2
Unless new trophies still be sought	F2
And hoary Majesty sustain	E2
The battles which thy youth has fought	F2
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Where now is all that fearful love	G2
Which made her hate the war's alarms	O
That soft excess with which she strove	H2
To keep her hero in her arms	O
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While still she chid the coming spring	I2
Which call'd him o'er his subject seas	O
While for the safety of the king	I2
She wish'd the victor's glory less	O
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'Tis changed 'tis gone sad Britain now	J2
Hastens her lord to foreign wars	O
Happy if toils may break his wo	V
Or danger may divert his cares	O
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In martial din she drowns her sighs	O
Lest he the rising grief should hear	K2
She pulls her helmet o'er his eyes	O
Lest she should see the falling tear	C
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Go mighty prince let France be taught	F2
How constant minds by grief are tried	L2
How great the land that wept and fought	F2
When William led and Mary died	L2
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Fierce in the battle make it known	Y
Where Death with all his darts is seen	M2
That he can touch thy heart with none	N2
But that which struck the beauteous Queen	M2
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Belgia indulged her open grief	Q
While yet her master was not near	O2
With sullen pride refused relief	Q
And sate obdurate in despair	C
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As waters from her sluices flow'd	P2
Unbounded sorrow from her eyes	O
To earth her bended front she bow'd	Q2
And sent her wailings to the skies	O
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But when her anxious lord return'd	R2
Raised is her head her eyes are dried	L2
She smiles as William ne'er had mourn'd	S2
She looks as Mary ne'er had died	L2
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That freedom which all sorrows claim	T2
She does for thy content resign	U2
Her piety itself would blame	T2
If her regrets should weaken thine	U2
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To cure thy wo she shows thy fame	T2
Lest the great mourner should forget	V2
That all the race whence Orange came	T2
Made Virtue triumph over Fate	G
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William his country's cause could fight	X
And with his blood her freedom seal	W2
Maurice and Henry guard that right	X
For which their pious parents fell	X2
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How heroes rise how patriots set	V2
Thy father's bloom and death may tell	X2
Excelling others these were great	G
Thou greater still must these excel	X2
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The last fair instance thou must give	Y2
Whence Nassaus's virtue can be tried	L2
And show the world that thou canst live	D2
Intrepid as thy consort died	L2
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Thy virtue whose resistless force	O
No dire event could ever stay	U
Must carry on its destined course	O
Though Death and Envy stop the way	U
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For Britain's sake for Belgia's live	D2
Pierced by their grief forget thy own	Y
New toils endure new conquest give	Y2
And bring them ease though thou hast none	N2
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Vanquish again though she be gone	Z2
Whose garland crown'd the victor's hair	C
And reign though she has left the throne	Y
Who made thy glory worth thy care	C
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Fair Britain never yet before	P
Breathed to her king a useless prayer	C
Fond Belgia never did implore	P
While William turn'd averse his ear	K2
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But should the weeping hero now	J2
Relentless to their wishes prove	A3
Should he recal with pleasing wo	V
The object of his grief and love	G2
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Her face with thousand beauties bless'd	B3
Her mind with thousand virtues stored	J
Her power with boundless joy confess'd	B3
Her person only not adored	J
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Yet ought his sorrow to be check'd	C3
Yet ought his passions to abate	G
If the great mourner would reflect	C3
Her glory in her death complete	F
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She was instructed to command	T
Great king by long obeying there	C
Her sceptre guided by thy hand	T
Preserved the isles and ruled the sea	O
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But oh 'twas little that her life	Z
O'er earth and water bears thy fame	T2
In death 'twas worthy William's wife	Z
Amidst the stars to fix his name	T2
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Beyond where matter moves or place	O
Receives its forms thy virtues roll	D3
From Mary's glory angels trace	O
The beauty of her partner's soul	D3
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Wise fate which does its heaven decree	O
To heroes when they yield their breath	E3
Hastens thy triumph Half of thee	O
Is deified before thy death	E3
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Alone to thy renown 'tis given	N2
Unbounded through all worlds to go	V
While she great saint rejoices heaven	N2
And thou sustain'st the orb below	V