Hymn For The Inauguration Of The Statue Of Governor Andrew, Hingham, October 7, 1875 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKK LLAA| Behold the shape our eyes have known | A |
| It lives once more in changeless stone | A |
| So looked in mortal face and form | B |
| Our guide through peril's deadly storm | B |
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| But hushed the beating heart we knew | C |
| That heart so tender brave and true | C |
| Firm as the rooted mountain rock | D |
| Pure as the quarry's whitest block | D |
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| Not his beneath the blood red star | E |
| To win the soldier's envied sear | F |
| Unarmed he battled for the right | G |
| In Duty's never ending fight | G |
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| Unconquered will unslumbering eye | H |
| Faith such as bids the martyr die | H |
| The prophet's glance the master's hand | I |
| To mould the work his foresight planned | I |
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| These were his gifts what Heaven had lent | J |
| For justice mercy truth he spent | J |
| First to avenge the traitorous blow | K |
| And first to lift the vanquished foe | K |
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| Lo thus he stood in danger's strait | L |
| The pilot of the Pilgrim State | L |
| Too large his fame for her alone | A |
| A nation claims him as her own | A |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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