Orson's Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NFNF OPHO QGQG RSGS ETJT UVUV FWFW| ORSON GROUT | A |
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| One of the victims of the Southern Prisons | B |
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| Sit by me comrade thou and I have stood | C |
| Shoulder to shoulder on the battle field | D |
| And bore us there like men of British blood | E |
| But comrade this is death and I must yield | D |
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| You have been leal my friend and true and tried | F |
| In battle in captivity of me | G |
| Since we went up to worship side by side | F |
| O'er the green hills I never more shall see | G |
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| From this dread prison pen thou shalt go forth | H |
| But I I know it never more shall rise | I |
| Nor see my home in the cool pleasant North | H |
| Nor see again my wife's dark mournful eyes | I |
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| Nor see my children every shining head | J |
| And merry eye for what know they of grief | K |
| 'Twill still their play to know that I am dead | J |
| But childhood's woe thank God is always brief | K |
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| Try to cheer Annie in her widowed woe | L |
| Let her hear words of comfort at thy mouth | M |
| But friend I charge thee do not let her know | L |
| Aught of the tender mercies of the South | M |
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| Tell her that I have never been alone | N |
| One like the Son of Man was by my side | F |
| The Everlasting arms were round me thrown | N |
| Of my dear Lord who for our freedom died | F |
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| I don't regret that though of British birth | O |
| I have been true to the cause unto death | P |
| 'Tis not alone the Union or the North | H |
| It is the people's cause o'er all the earth | O |
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| And it shall prosper and this slaughter pen | Q |
| Shall be a monument of Southern chivalry | G |
| Before the world thus proving to all men | Q |
| Slave power begets and sanctions cruelty | G |
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| From here went up for years the bondman's cry | R |
| In the same glaring sun and rotting dew | S |
| The white war prisoners' cry of agony | G |
| To the great God of Battles rises too | S |
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| And He who was by suffering perfected | E |
| Watches the nation's life the captive's pain | T |
| And from the strife beside her martyred dead | J |
| With shield blood cleansed from slavery's broad stain | T |
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| Columbia shall arise renewed and wear | U |
| Her coronet of stars and round her fold | V |
| Her robe of stripes by righteousness made fair | U |
| Which still exalts the nations as of old | V |
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| But I shall rest upon the other side | F |
| Rest in that place of which no tongue can tell | W |
| And thitherward my wife and babes He'll guide | F |
| Friend life's for thee and death for me Farewell' | W |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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