Hymn To The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDCC EFFFGFFFHFI EJAKKKKFLL IMNKMKOKPB IQQKKKRKS IJTSSKUKUVWWFF ISSSSSSFF ISSXYXZSSA2JA2B2J| Light of the World and Ruler of the Year | A |
| With happy Speed begin Thy great Career | A |
| And as Thou dost thy radiant Journeys run | B |
| Through every distant Climate own | C |
| That in fair Albion Thou hast seen | D |
| The greatest Prince the brightest Queen | D |
| That ever sav'd a Land or blest a Throne | C |
| Since first Thy Beams were spread or Genial Power was known | C |
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| II | E |
| So may Thy Godhead be confest | F |
| So the returning Year be blest | F |
| As His Infant Months bestow | F |
| Springing Wreaths for William's Brow | G |
| As His Summer's Youth shall shed | F |
| Eternal Sweets around Maria's Head | F |
| From the Blessings They bestow | F |
| Our Times are dated and our ra's move | H |
| They govern and enlighten all Below | F |
| As Thou dost all Above | I |
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| III | E |
| Let our Hero in the War | J |
| Active and fierce like Thee appear | A |
| Like Thee great Son of Jove like Thee | K |
| When clad in rising Majesty | K |
| Thou marchest down o'er Delos' Hills confest | K |
| With all Thy Arrows arm'd in all Thy Glory drest | K |
| Like Thee the Hero does his Arms imploy | F |
| The raging Python to destroy | L |
| And give the injur'd Nations Peace and Joy | L |
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| IV | I |
| From fairest Years and Time's more happy Stores | M |
| Gather all the smiling Hours | N |
| Such as with friendly Care have guarded | K |
| Patriots and Kings in rightful Wars | M |
| Such as with Conquest have rewarded | K |
| Triumphant Victors happy Cares | O |
| Such as Story has recorded | K |
| Sacred to Nassau's long Renown | P |
| For Countries sav'd and Battels won | B |
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| V | I |
| March Them again in fair Array | Q |
| And bid Them form the happy Day | Q |
| The happy Day design'd to wait | K |
| On William's Fame and Europe's Fate | K |
| Let the happy Day be crown'd | K |
| With great Event and fair Success | R |
| No brighter in the Year be found | K |
| But That which brings the Victor home in Peace | S |
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| VI | I |
| Again Thy Godhead We implore | J |
| Great in Wisdom as in Power | T |
| Again for good Maria's Sake and Our's | S |
| Chuse out other smiling Hours | S |
| Such as with Joyous Wings have fled | K |
| When happy Counsels were advising | U |
| Such as have lucky Omens shed | K |
| O'er forming Laws and Empires rising | U |
| Such as many Courses ran | V |
| Hand in Hand a goodly Train | W |
| To bless the great Eliza's Reign | W |
| And in the Typic Glory show | F |
| What fuller Bliss Maria shall bestow | F |
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| VII | I |
| As the solemn Hours advance | S |
| Mingled send into the Dance | S |
| Many fraught with all the Treasures | S |
| Which Thy Eastern Travels views | S |
| Many wing'd with all the Pleasures | S |
| Man can ask or Heav'n diffuse | S |
| That great Maria all those Joys may know | F |
| Which from Her Cares upon Her Subjects flow | F |
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| VIII | I |
| For Thy own Glory sing our Soveraign's Praise | S |
| God of Verses and of Days | S |
| Let all Thy tuneful Sons adorn | X |
| Their lasting Work with William's Name | Y |
| Let chosen Muses yet unborn | X |
| Take great Maria for their future Theme | Z |
| Eternal Structures let Them raise | S |
| On William's and Maria's Praise | S |
| Nor want new Subject for the Song | A2 |
| Nor fear they can exhaust the Store | J |
| 'Till Nature's Musick lyes unstrung | A2 |
| 'Till Thou great God shalt lose Thy double Pow'r | B2 |
| And touch Thy Lyre and shoot Thy Beams no more | J |
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