To The University Of Cambridge, In New-england Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFFFGBFFFBHBBFI JFBKLMBNBK| While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write | A |
| The muses promise to assist my pen | B |
| 'Twas not long since I left my native shore | C |
| The land of errors and Egyptain gloom | D |
| Father of mercy 'twas thy gracious hand | E |
| Brought me in safety from those dark abodes | F |
| Students to you 'tis giv'n to scan the heights | F |
| Above to traverse the ethereal space | F |
| And mark the systems of revolving worlds | F |
| Still more ye sons of science ye receive | G |
| The blissful news by messengers from heav'n | B |
| How Jesus' blood for your redemption flows | F |
| See him with hands out stretcht upon the cross | F |
| Immense compassion in his bosom glows | F |
| He hears revilers nor resents their scorn | B |
| What matchless mercy in the Son of God | H |
| When the whole human race by sin had fall'n | B |
| He deign'd to die that they might rise again | B |
| And share with him in the sublimest skies | F |
| Life without death and glory without end | I |
| Improve your privileges while they stay | J |
| Ye pupils and each hour redeem that bears | F |
| Or good or bad report of you to heav'n | B |
| Let sin that baneful evil to the soul | K |
| By you be shun'd nor once remit your guard | L |
| Suppress the deadly serpent in its egg | M |
| Ye blooming plants of human race divine | B |
| An Ethiop tells you 'tis your greatest foe | N |
| Its transient sweetness turns to endless pain | B |
| And in immense perdition sinks the soul | K |
Phillis Wheatley
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