A Voice Of The Loyal North Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDEFEF GHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMN OGOGPQPQ GRGRSTST UVU GWGW| A | |
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| JANUARY THIRD | B |
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| WE sing 'Our Country's' song to night | C |
| With saddened voice and eye | D |
| Her banner droops in clouded light | C |
| Beneath the wintry sky | D |
| We'll pledge her once in golden wine | E |
| Before her stars have set | F |
| Though dim one reddening orb may shine | E |
| We have a Country yet | F |
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| 'T were vain to sigh o'er errors past | G |
| The fault of sires or sons | H |
| Our soldier heard the threatening blast | G |
| And spiked his useless guns | H |
| He saw the star wreathed ensign fall | I |
| By mad invaders torn | J |
| But saw it from the bastioned wall | I |
| That laughed their rage to scorn | J |
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| What though their angry cry is flung | K |
| Across the howling wave | L |
| They smite the air with idle tongue | K |
| The gathering storm who brave | L |
| Enough of speech the trumpet rings | M |
| Be silent patient calm | N |
| God help them if the tempest swings | M |
| The pine against the palm | N |
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| Our toilsome years have made us tame | O |
| Our strength has slept unfelt | G |
| The furnace fire is slow to flame | O |
| That bids our ploughshares melt | G |
| 'T is hard to lose the bread they win | P |
| In spite of Nature's frowns | Q |
| To drop the iron threads we spin | P |
| That weave our web of towns | Q |
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| To see the rusting turbines stand | G |
| Before the emptied flumes | R |
| To fold the arms that flood the land | G |
| With rivers from their looms | R |
| But harder still for those who learn | S |
| The truth forgot so long | T |
| When once their slumbering passions burn | S |
| The peaceful are the strong | T |
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| The Lord have mercy on the weak | U |
| And calm their frenzied ire | V |
| And save our brothers ere they shriek | U |
| 'We played with Northern fire ' | - |
| The eagle hold his mountain height | G |
| The tiger pace his den | W |
| Give all their country each his right | G |
| God keep us all Amen | W |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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