Gow's Watch : Act Iv. Scene 4. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BCDEBFGHIB J KBLMNB O PIB Q D R S B B P B B T U V I B| The Head of the Bargi Pass in snow Gow and Ferdinand with their Captains | A |
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| GOW to Ferdinand The Queen's host would be delivered me to day but that these Mountain Men have sent battalia to hold the Pass They're shod helmed and torqued with soft gold For the rest naked By no argument can I persuade 'em their gilt carcasses against my bombards avail not What's to do Fox | B |
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| FERDINAND Fatherless folk go furthest These loud pagans | B |
| Are doubly fatherless Consider they came | C |
| Over the passes out of all man's world | D |
| Adullamites unable to endure | E |
| Its ancient pinch and belly ache full of revenges | B |
| Or wilfully forgetful The land they found | F |
| Was manless her raw airs uncloven by speech | G |
| Earth without wheel track hoof mark hearth or ploughshare | H |
| Since God created nor even a cave where men | I |
| When night was a new thing had hid themselves | B |
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| GOW Excellent Do I fight them or let go | J |
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| FERDINAND Unused earth air and water for their spoil | K |
| And none to make comparison of their deeds | B |
| No unbribed dead to judge accuse 'em or comfort | L |
| Their present all their future and their past | M |
| What should they know of reason litters of folk | N |
| New whelped to emptiness | B |
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| GOW Nothing They bar my path | O |
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| FERDINAND Turn it then turn it | P |
| Give them their triumph They'll be wiser anon | I |
| Some thirty generations hence | B |
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| GOW Amen I'm no disposed murderer To the Mountain Men Most magnificent Se ors Lords of all Suns Moons Firmaments Sole Architects of Yourselves and this present Universe Yon Philosopher in the hairy cloak bids me wait only a thousand years till ye've sorted yourselves more to the likeness of mankind | Q |
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| THE PRIEST OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN There are none beside ourselves to lead the world | D |
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| GOW That is common knowledge I supplicate you to allow us the head of the Pass that we may better reach the Queen's host yonder Ye will not Why | R |
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| THE PRIEST Because it is our will There is none other law for all the earth | S |
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| GOW That a few feet of snow on a nest of rocky mountains should have hatched this dream people To Priest Ye have reason in nature all you've known of it But a thousand years I fear they will not suffice | B |
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| THE PRIEST Go you back We hold the passes into and out of the world Do you defy us | B |
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| FERDINAND To Gow I warned you There's none like them under Heaven Say it | P |
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| GOW Defy your puissance Se ors Not I We'll have our bombards away all by noon and our poor hosts with them And you Se ors shall have your triumph upon us | B |
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| FERDINAND Ah That touches Let them shout and blow their horns half a day and they'll not think of aught else | B |
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| GOW Fall to your riots then Se ors ye have won We'll leave you the head of the Pass for thirty generations Loudly The mules to the bombards and away | T |
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| FERDINAND Most admirably you spoke to my poor text | U |
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| GOW Maybe the better Fox because the discourse has drawn them to the head of the Pass Meantime our main body has taken the lower road with all the Artillery | V |
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| FERDINAND Had you no bombards here then | I |
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| GOW None Innocence at all None except your talk and theirs | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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