A Welcome To Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDCD EF F CGCG EBEB HIHI JKKK KLKL MNON KKKK PQPQ| ON HIS RETURN FROM SOUTH AMERICA | A |
| AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS DEVOTED TO CATALOGUING THE | A |
| STARS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE | B |
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| ONCE more Orion and the sister Seven | C |
| Look on thee from the skies that hailed thy birth | D |
| How shall we welcome thee whose home was heaven | C |
| From thy celestial wanderings back to earth | D |
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| Science has kept her midnight taper burning | E |
| To greet thy coming with its vestal flame | F |
| Friendship has murmured 'When art thou returning ' | - |
| 'Not yet Not yet ' the answering message came | F |
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| Thine was unstinted zeal unchilled devotion | C |
| While the blue realm had kingdoms to explore | G |
| Patience like his who ploughed the unfurrowed ocean | C |
| Till o'er its margin loomed San Salvador | G |
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| Through the long nights I see thee ever waking | E |
| Thy footstool earth thy roof the hemisphere | B |
| While with thy griefs our weaker hearts are aching | E |
| Firm as thine equatorial's rock based pier | B |
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| The souls that voyaged the azure depths before thee | H |
| Watch with thy tireless vigils all unseen | I |
| Tycho and Kepler bend benignant o'er thee | H |
| And with his toy like tube the Florentine | I |
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| He at whose word the orb that bore him shivered | J |
| To find her central sovereignty disowned | K |
| While the wan lips of priest and pontiff quivered | K |
| Their jargon stilled their Baal disenthroned | K |
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| Flamsteed and Newton look with brows unclouded | K |
| Their strife forgotten with its faded scars | L |
| Titans who found the world of space too crowded | K |
| To walk in peace among its myriad stars | L |
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| All cluster round thee seers of earliest ages | M |
| Persians Ionians Mizraim's learned kings | N |
| From the dim days of Shinar's hoary sages | O |
| To his who weighed the planet's fluid rings | N |
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| And we for whom the northern heavens are lighted | K |
| For whom the storm has passed the sun has smiled | K |
| Our clouds all scattered all our stars united | K |
| We claim thee clasp thee like a long lost child | K |
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| Fresh from the spangled vault's o'er arching splendor | P |
| Thy lonely pillar thy revolving dome | Q |
| In heartfelt accents proud rejoicing tender | P |
| We bid thee welcome to thine earthly home | Q |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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