Birthday Of Daniel Webster (january 18, 1856) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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When life hath run its largest round	A
Of toil and triumph joy and woe	B
How brief a storied page is found	A
To compass all its outward show	B
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The world tried sailor tires and droops	C
His flag is rent his keel forgot	D
His farthest voyages seem but loops	C
That float from life's entangled knot	D
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But when within the narrow space	C
Some larger soul hath lived and wrought	E
Whose sight was open to embrace	C
The boundless realms of deed and thought	E
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When stricken by the freezing blast	F
A nation's living pillars fall	G
How rich the storied page how vast	F
A word a whisper can recall	G
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No medal lifts its fretted face	C
Nor speaking marble cheats your eye	H
Yet while these pictured lines I trace	C
A living image passes by	H
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A roof beneath the mountain pines	C
The cloisters of a hill girt plain	I
The front of life's embattled lines	C
A mound beside the heaving main	I
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These are the scenes a boy appears	C
Set life's round dial in the sun	J
Count the swift arc of seventy years	C
His frame is dust his task is done	J
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Yet pause upon the noontide hour	K
Ere the declining sun has laid	L
His bleaching rays on manhood's power	K
And look upon the mighty shade	L
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No gloom that stately shape can hide	M
No change uncrown its brow behold I	H
Dark calm large fronted lightning eyed	M
Earth has no double from its mould	N
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Ere from the fields by valor won	J
The battle smoke had rolled away	O
And bared the blood red setting sun	J
His eyes were opened on the day	O
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His land was but a shelving strip	P
Black with the strife that made it free	Q
He lived to see its banners dip	P
Their fringes in the Western sea	Q
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The boundless prairies learned his name	R
His words the mountain echoes knew	S
The Northern breezes swept his fame	R
From icy lake to warm bayou	S
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In toil he lived in peace he died	M
When life's full cycle was complete	T
Put off his robes of power and pride	M
And laid them at his Master's feet	T
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His rest is by the storm swept waves	C
Whom life's wild tempests roughly trie	H
Whose heart was like the streaming eaves	C
Of ocean throbbing at his side	M
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Death's cold white hand is like the snow	B
Laid softly on the furrowed hill	U
It hides the broken seams below	B
And leaves the summit brighter still	U
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In vain the envious tongue upbraids	C
His name a nation's heart shall keep	V
Till morning's latest sunlight fades	C
On the blue tablet of the deep	V

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Birthday Of Daniel Webster (january 18, 1856) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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