To Frederick Henry Hedge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EFEF DBDG HIHI JDJD KDKD LMLM KMKM BDGD| AT A DINNER GIVEN HIM ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY | A |
| DECEMBER | B |
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| With a bronze statuette of John of Bologna's Mercury | C |
| presented by a few friends | D |
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| FIT emblem for the altar's side | E |
| And him who serves its daily need | F |
| The stay the solace and the guide | E |
| Of mortal men whate'er his creed | F |
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| Flamen or Auspex Priest or Bonze | D |
| He feeds the upward climbing fire | B |
| Still teaching like the deathless bronze | D |
| Man's noblest lesson to aspire | G |
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| Hermes lies prone by fallen Jove | H |
| Crushed are the wheels of Krishna's car | I |
| And o'er Dodona's silent grove | H |
| Streams the white ray from Bethlehem's star | I |
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| Yet snatched from Time's relentless clutch | J |
| A godlike shape that human hands | D |
| Have fired with Art's electric touch | J |
| The herald of Olympus stands | D |
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| Ask not what ore the furnace knew | K |
| Love mingled with the flowing mass | D |
| And lends its own unchanging hue | K |
| Like gold in Corinth's molten brass | D |
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| Take then our gift this airy form | L |
| Whose bronze our benedictions gild | M |
| The hearts of all its givers warm | L |
| With love by freezing years unchilled | M |
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| With eye undimmed with strength unworn | K |
| Still toiling in your Master's field | M |
| Before you wave the growths unshorn | K |
| Their ripened harvest yet to yield | M |
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| True servant of the Heavenly Sire | B |
| To you our tried affection clings | D |
| Bids you still labor still aspire | G |
| But clasps your feet and steals their wings | D |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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