Louvain To Dom Bruno Destrée, O.s.b. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC ADAE FGFG HI AJKJK LMLM NONO PP| I | A |
| It was the very heart of Peace that thrilled | B |
| In the deep minster bell's wide throbbing sound | C |
| When over old roofs evening seemed to build | B |
| Security this world has never found | C |
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| Your cloister looked from Caesar's rampart high | A |
| O'er the fair city clustered orchard trees | D |
| Married their murmur with the dreaming sky | A |
| It was the house of lore and living peace | E |
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| And there we talked of youth's delightful years | F |
| In Italy in England Now O Friend | G |
| I know not if I speak to living ears | F |
| Or if upon you too is come the end | G |
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| Peace is on Louvain dead peace of spilt blood | H |
| Upon the mounded ashes where she stood | I |
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| II | A |
| But from that blood those ashes there arose | J |
| Not hoped for terror cowering as it ran | K |
| But divine anger flaming upon those | J |
| Defamers of the very name of man | K |
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| Abortions of their blind hyena creed | L |
| Who for protection'' of their battle host | M |
| Against the unarmed of them they had made to bleed | L |
| Whose hearts they had tortured to the utter most | M |
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| Without a cause past pardon fired and tore | N |
| The towers of fame and beauty while they shot | O |
| And butchered the defenceless in the door | N |
| But History shall hang them high to rot | O |
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| Unburied in the face of times unborn | P |
| Mankind's abomination and last scorn | P |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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