Ode For Washington-s Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEFEF BGBGCHCH IJIJKLKL AMAMNONO PQPQRSR STSTCBCB| CELEBRATION OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | A |
| FEBRUARY | B |
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| WELCOME to the day returning | C |
| Dearer still as ages flow | D |
| While the torch of Faith is burning | C |
| Long as Freedom's altars glow | D |
| See the hero whom it gave us | E |
| Slumbering on a mother's breast | F |
| For the arm he stretched to save us | E |
| Be its morn forever blest | F |
| - | |
| Hear the tale of youthful glory | B |
| While of Britain's rescued band | G |
| Friend and foe repeat the story | B |
| Spread his fame o'er sea and land | G |
| Where the red cross proudly streaming | C |
| Flaps above the frigate's deck | H |
| Where the golden lilies gleaming | C |
| Star the watch towers of Quebec | H |
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| Look The shadow on the dial | I |
| Marks the hour of deadlier strife | J |
| Days of terror years of trial | I |
| Scourge a nation into life | J |
| Lo the youth become her leader | K |
| All her baffled tyrants yield | L |
| Through his arm the Lord hath freed her | K |
| Crown him on the tented field | L |
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| Vain is Empire's mad temptation | A |
| Not for him an earthly crown | M |
| He whose sword hath freed a nation | A |
| Strikes the offered sceptre down | M |
| See the throneless Conqueror seated | N |
| Ruler by a people's choice | O |
| See the Patriot's task completed | N |
| Hear the Father's dying voice | O |
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| 'By the name that you inherit | P |
| By the sufferings you recall | Q |
| Cherish the fraternal spirit | P |
| Love your country first of all | Q |
| Listen not to idle questions | R |
| If its bands maybe untied | S |
| Doubt the patriot whose suggestions | R |
| Strive a nation to divide ' | - |
| - | |
| Father We whose ears have tingled | S |
| With the discord notes of shame | T |
| We whose sires their blood have mingled | S |
| In the battle's thunder flame | T |
| Gathering while this holy morning | C |
| Lights the land from sea to sea | B |
| Hear thy counsel heed thy warning | C |
| Trust us while we honor thee | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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