The Secret Of The Stars - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Is man's the only throbbing heart that hides	A
The silent spring that feeds its whispering tides	A
Speak from thy caverns mystery breeding Earth	B
Tell the half hinted story of thy birth	B
And calm the noisy champions who have thrown	C
The book of types against the book of stone	C
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Have ye not secrets ye refulgent spheres	D
No sleepless listener of the starlight hears	E
In vain the sweeping equatorial pries	F
Through every world sown corner of the skies	F
To the far orb that so remotely strays	G
Our midnight darkness is its noonday blaze	G
In vain the climbing soul of creeping man	H
Metes out the heavenly concave with a span	H
Tracks into space the long lost meteor's trail	I
And weighs an unseen planet in the scale	I
Still o'er their doubts the wan eyed watchers sigh	J
And Science lifts her still unanswered cry	J
Are all these worlds that speed their circling flight	K
Dumb vacant soulless baubles of the night	K
Warmed with God's smile and wafted by his breath	L
To weave in ceaseless round the dance of Death	L
Or rolls a sphere in each expanding zone	C
Crowned with a life as varied as our own	C
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Maker of earth and stars If thou hast taught	M
By what thy voice hath spoke thy hand hath wrought	M
By all that Science proves or guesses true	N
More than thy poet dreamed thy prophet knew	N
The heavens still bow in darkness at thy feet	O
And shadows veil thy cloud pavilioned seat	O
Not for ourselves we ask thee to reveal	P
One awful word beneath the future's seal	P
What thou shalt tell us grant us strength to bear	Q
What thou withholdest is thy single care	Q
Not for ourselves the present clings too fast	R
Moored to the mighty anchors of the past	R
But when with angry snap some cable parts	S
The sound re echoing in our startled hearts	S
When through the wall that clasps the harbor round	T
And shuts the raving ocean from its bound	T
Shattered and rent by sacrilegious hands	U
The first mad billow leaps upon the sands	U
Then to the Future's awful page we turn	V
And what we question hardly dare to learn	V
Still let us hope for while we seem to tread	W
The time worn pathway of the nations dead	W
Though Sparta laughs at all our warlike deeds	X
And buried Athens claims our stolen creeds	X
Though Rome a spectre on her broken throne	C
Beholds our eagle and recalls her own	C
Though England fling her pennons on the breeze	Y
And reign before us Mistress of the seas	Y
While calm eyed History tracks us circling round	T
Fate's iron pillar where they all were bound	T
Still in our path a larger curve she finds	Z
The spiral widening as the chain unwinds	Z
Still sees new beacons crowned with brighter flame	A2
Than the old watch fires like but not the same	A2
No shameless haste shall spot with bandit crime	B2
Our destined empire snatched before its time	B2
Wait wait undoubting for the winds have caught	C2
From our bold speech the heritage of thought	M
No marble form that sculptured truth can wear	Q
Vies with the image shaped in viewless air	Q
And thought unfettered grows through speech to deeds	Z
As the broad forest marches in its seeds	Z
What though we perish ere the day is won	D2
Enough to see its glorious work begun	D2
The thistle falls before a trampling clown	E2
But who can chain the flying thistle down	E2
Wait while the fiery seeds of freedom fly	J
The prairie blazes when the grass is dry	J
What arms might ravish leave to peaceful arts	Z
Wisdom and love shall win the roughest hearts	Z
So shall the angel who has closed for man	H
The blissful garden since his woes began	H
Swing wide the golden portals of the West	F2
And Eden's secret stand at length confessed	F2
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The reader paused in truth he thought it time	B2
Some threatening signs accused the drowsy rhyme	B2
The Mistress nodded the Professor dozed	G2
The two Annexes sat with eyelids closed	G2
Not sleeping no But when one shuts one's eyes	Z
That one hears better no one sure denies	Z
The Doctor whispered in Delilah's ear	H2
Or seemed to whisper for their heads drew near	I2
Not all the owner's efforts could restrain	J2
The wild vagaries of the squinting brain	J2
Last of the listeners Number Five alone	C
The patient reader still could call his own	C
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Teacups arouse 'T was thus the spell I broke	K2
The drowsy started and the slumberers woke	K2
The sleep I promised you have now enjoyed	L2
Due to your hour of labor well employed	L2
Swiftly the busy moments have been passed	R
This our first 'Teacups ' must not be our last	R
Here on this spot now consecrated ground	T
The Order of 'The Teacups' let us found	T
By winter's fireside and in summer's bower	M2
Still shall it claim its ever welcome hour	M2
In distant regions where our feet may roam	N2
The magic teapot find or make a home	N2
Long may its floods their bright infusion pour	O2
Till time and teacups both shall be no more	O2

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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