To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg For His "jubilaeum" At Berlin, November 5, 1868 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCCDCD DEDEEFEFFGFGGHGHHIHI IJIJ JKJKKLKLLMLM| Thou who hast taught the teachers of mankind | A |
| How from the least of things the mightiest grow | B |
| What marvel jealous Nature made thee blind | A |
| Lest man should learn what angels long to know | B |
| Thou in the flinty rock the river's flow | B |
| In the thick moted sunbeam's sifted light | C |
| Hast trained thy downward pointed tube to show | B |
| Worlds within worlds unveiled to mortal sight | C |
| Even as the patient watchers of the night | C |
| The cyclope gleaners of the fruitful skies | D |
| Show the wide misty way where heaven is white | C |
| All paved with suns that daze our wondering eyes | D |
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| Far o'er the stormy deep an empire lies | D |
| Beyond the storied islands of the blest | E |
| That waits to see the lingering day star rise | D |
| The forest tinctured Eden of the West | E |
| Whose queen fair Freedom twines her iron crest | E |
| With leaves from every wreath that mortals wear | F |
| But loves the sober garland ever best | E |
| That science lends the sage's silvered hair | F |
| Science who makes life's heritage more fair | F |
| Forging for every lock its mastering key | G |
| Filling with life and hope the stagnant air | F |
| Pouring the light of Heaven o'er land and sea | G |
| From her unsceptred realm we come to thee | G |
| Bearing our slender tribute in our hands | H |
| Deem it not worthless humble though it be | G |
| Set by the larger gifts of older lands | H |
| The smallest fibres weave the strongest bands | H |
| In narrowest tubes the sovereign nerves are spun | I |
| A little cord along the deep sea sands | H |
| Makes the live thought of severed nations one | I |
| Thy fame has journeyed westering with the sun | I |
| Prairies and lone sierras know thy name | J |
| And the long day of service nobly done | I |
| That crowns thy darkened evening with its flame | J |
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| One with the grateful world we own thy claim | J |
| Nay rather claim our right to join the throng | K |
| Who come with varied tongues but hearts the same | J |
| To hail thy festal morn with smiles and song | K |
| Ah happy they to whom the joys belong | K |
| Of peaceful triumphs that can never die | L |
| From History's record not of gilded wrong | K |
| But golden truths that while the world goes by | L |
| With all its empty pageant blazoned high | L |
| Around the Master's name forever shine | M |
| So shines thy name illumined in the sky | L |
| Such joys such triumphs such remembrance thine | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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