Threnodia Augustalis: Overture - Pastorale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDEEFFEGHGHIIJJ KLLK MNNOO APEQEGAGARRMLM AEESSTTSURUVWXWYSZSA 2B2C2 SA2B2D2B2 AE2F2E2F2CCFSFSOOIIG 2G2H2 D2I2I2E2J2J2E2 AFJFJD2K2D2K2D2SD2SD 2PD2PC2L2C2 K2D2SD2S M2L2C2L2 C2C2L2C2L2MAN SPEAKER | A |
FAST by that shore where Thames' translucent stream | B |
Reflects new glories on his breast | C |
Where splendid as the youthful poet's dream | B |
He forms a scene beyond Elysium blest | C |
Where sculptur'd elegance and native grace | D |
Unite to stamp the beauties of the place | D |
While sweetly blending still are seen | E |
The wavy lawn the sloping green | E |
While novelty with cautious cunning | F |
Through ev'ry maze of fancy running | F |
From China borrows aid to deck the scene | E |
There sorrowing by the river's glassy bed | G |
Forlorn a rural bard complain'd | H |
All whom Augusta's bounty fed | G |
All whom her clemency sustain'd | H |
The good old sire unconscious of decay | I |
The modest matron clad in homespun gray | I |
The military boy the orphan'd maid | J |
The shatter'd veteran now first dismay'd | J |
These sadly join beside the murmuring deep | K |
And as they view | L |
The towers of Kew | L |
Call on their mistress now no more and weep | K |
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CHORUS AFFETTUOSO LARGO | M |
Ye shady walks ye waving greens | N |
Ye nodding towers ye fairy scenes | N |
Let all your echoes now deplore | O |
That she who form'd your beauties is no more | O |
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MAN SPEAKER | A |
First of the train the patient rustic came | P |
Whose callous hand had form'd the scene | E |
Bending at once with sorrow and with age | Q |
With many a tear and many a sigh between | E |
'And where ' he cried 'shall now my babes have bread | G |
Or how shall age support its feeble fire | A |
No lord will take me now my vigour fled | G |
Nor can my strength perform what they require | A |
Each grudging master keeps the labourer bare | R |
A sleek and idle race is all their care | R |
My noble mistress thought not so | M |
Her bounty like the morning dew | L |
Unseen though constant used to flow | M |
And as my strength decay'd her bounty grew ' | - |
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WOMAN SPEAKER | A |
In decent dress and coarsely clean | E |
The pious matron next was seen | E |
Clasp'd in her hand a godly book was borne | S |
By use and daily meditation worn | S |
That decent dress this holy guide | T |
Augusta's care had well supplied | T |
'And ah ' she cries all woe begone | S |
'What now remains for me | U |
Oh where shall weeping want repair | R |
To ask for charity | U |
Too late in life for me to ask | V |
And shame prevents the deed | W |
And tardy tardy are the times | X |
To succour should I need | W |
But all my wants before I spoke | Y |
Were to my Mistress known | S |
She still reliev'd nor sought my praise | Z |
Contented with her own | S |
But ev'ry day her name I'll bless | A2 |
My morning prayer my evening song | B2 |
I'll praise her while my life shall last | C2 |
A life that cannot last me long ' | - |
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SONG BY A WOMAN | S |
Each day each hour her name I'll bless | A2 |
My morning and my evening song | B2 |
And when in death my vows shall cease | D2 |
My children shall the note prolong | B2 |
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MAN SPEAKER | A |
The hardy veteran after struck the sight | E2 |
Scarr'd mangled maim'd in every part | F2 |
Lopp'd of his limbs in many a gallant fight | E2 |
In nought entire except his heart | F2 |
Mute for a while and sullenly distress'd | C |
At last the impetuous sorrow fir'd his breast | C |
'Wild is the whirlwind rolling | F |
O'er Afric's sandy plain | S |
And wild the tempest howling | F |
Along the billow'd main | S |
But every danger felt before | O |
The raging deep the whirlwind's roar | O |
Less dreadful struck me with dismay | I |
Than what I feel this fatal day | I |
Oh let me fly a land that spurns the brave | G2 |
Oswego's dreary shores shall be my grave | G2 |
I'll seek that less inhospitable coast | H2 |
And lay my body where my limbs were lost ' | - |
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SONG BY A MAN BASSO SPIRITOSO | D2 |
Old Edward's sons unknown to yield | I2 |
Shall crowd from Crecy's laurell'd field | I2 |
To do thy memory right | E2 |
For thine and Britain's wrongs they feel | J2 |
Again they snatch the gleamy steel | J2 |
And wish the avenging fight | E2 |
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WOMAN SPEAKER | A |
In innocence and youth complaining | F |
Next appear'd a lovely maid | J |
Affliction o'er each feature reigning | F |
Kindly came in beauty's aid | J |
Every grace that grief dispenses | D2 |
Every glance that warms the soul | K2 |
In sweet succession charmed the senses | D2 |
While pity harmonized the whole | K2 |
'The garland of beauty' 'tis thus she would say | D2 |
'No more shall my crook or my temples adorn | S |
I'll not wear a garland Augusta's away | D2 |
I'll not wear a garland until she return | S |
But alas that return I never shall see | D2 |
The echoes of Thames shall my sorrows proclaim | P |
There promised a lover to come but O me | D2 |
'Twas death 'twas the death of my mistress that came | P |
But ever for ever her image shall last | C2 |
I'll strip all the spring of its earliest bloom | L2 |
On her grave shall the cowslip and primrose be cast | C2 |
And the new blossomed thorn shall whiten her tomb ' | - |
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SONG BY A WOMAN PASTORALE | K2 |
With garlands of beauty the queen of the May | D2 |
No more will her crook or her temples adorn | S |
For who'd wear a garland when she is away | D2 |
When she is remov'd and shall never return | S |
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On the grave of Augusta these garlands be plac'd | M2 |
We'll rifle the spring of its earliest bloom | L2 |
And there shall the cowslip and primrose be cast | C2 |
And the new blossom'd thorn shall whiten her tomb | L2 |
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CHORUS ALTRO MODO | C2 |
On the grave of Augusta this garland be plac'd | C2 |
We'll rifle the spring of its earliest bloom | L2 |
And there shall the cowslip and primrose be cast | C2 |
And the tears of her country shall water her tomb | L2 |
Oliver Goldsmith
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