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