Benjamin Peirce - Astronomer, Mathematician. 1809-1890 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF FFFF GGFF FFHH IIJJ DDKK LLMM NNOO| For him the Architect of all | A |
| Unroofed our planet's starlit hall | A |
| Through voids unknown to worlds unseen | B |
| His clearer vision rose serene | B |
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| With us on earth he walked by day | C |
| His midnight path how far away | C |
| We knew him not so well who knew | D |
| The patient eyes his soul looked through | D |
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| For who his untrod realm could share | E |
| Of us that breathe this mortal air | E |
| Or camp in that celestial tent | F |
| Whose fringes gild our firmament | F |
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| How vast the workroom where he brought | F |
| The viewless implements of thought | F |
| The wit how subtle how profound | F |
| That Nature's tangled webs unwound | F |
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| That through the clouded matrix saw | G |
| The crystal planes of shaping law | G |
| Through these the sovereign skill that planned | F |
| The Father's care the Master's hand | F |
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| To him the wandering stars revealed | F |
| The secrets in their cradle sealed | F |
| The far off frozen sphere that swings | H |
| Through ether zoned with lucid rings | H |
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| The orb that rolls in dim eclipse | I |
| Wide wheeling round its long ellipse | I |
| His name Urania writes with these | J |
| And stamps it on her Pleiades | J |
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| We knew him not Ah well we knew | D |
| The manly soul so brave so true | D |
| The cheerful heart that conquered age | K |
| The childlike silver bearded sage | K |
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| No more his tireless thought explores | L |
| The azure sea with golden shores | L |
| Rest wearied frame I the stars shall keep | M |
| A loving watch where thou shalt sleep | M |
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| Farewell the spirit needs must rise | N |
| So long a tenant of the skies | N |
| Rise to that home all worlds above | O |
| Whose sun is God whose light is love | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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