Thus Saith The Lord, I Offer Thee Three Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DEFGFE HIJJJI KLMMML NBOOOB PQRRRQ| In poisonous dens where traitors hide | A |
| Like bats that fear the day | B |
| While all the land our charters claim | C |
| Is sweating blood and breathing flame | C |
| Dead to their country's woe and shame | C |
| The recreants whisper STAY | B |
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| In peaceful homes where patriot fires | D |
| On Love's own altars glow | E |
| The mother hides her trembling fear | F |
| The wife the sister checks a tear | G |
| To breathe the parting word of cheer | F |
| Soldier of Freedom Go | E |
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| In halls where Luxury lies at ease | H |
| And Mammon keeps his state | I |
| Where flatterers fawn and menials crouch | J |
| The dreamer startled from his couch | J |
| Wrings a few counters from his pouch | J |
| And murmurs faintly WAIT | I |
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| In weary camps on trampled plains | K |
| That ring with fife and drum | L |
| The battling host whose harness gleams | M |
| Along the crimson flowing streams | M |
| Calls like a warning voice in dreams | M |
| We want you Brother COME | L |
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| Choose ye whose bidding ye will do | N |
| To go to wait to stay | B |
| Sons of the Freedom loving town | O |
| Heirs of the Fathers' old renown | O |
| The servile yoke the civic crown | O |
| Await your choice To DAY | B |
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| The stake is laid O gallant youth | P |
| With yet unsilvered brow | Q |
| If Heaven should lose and Hell should win | R |
| On whom shall lie the mortal sin | R |
| That cries aloud It might have been | R |
| God calls you answer NOW | Q |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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