Verses Written In Westminster Abbey. [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIIJJCCKK IILLMMNNOOPPQQRRASTT DDUUVVCCSSWX| Whoe'er thou art approach and with a sigh | A |
| Mark where the small remains of Greatness lie | A |
| There sleeps the dust of Him for ever gone | B |
| How near the Scene where once his Glory shone | C |
| And tho' no more ascends the voice of Prayer | D |
| Tho' the last footsteps cease to linger there | D |
| Still like an awful Dream that comes again | E |
| Alas at best as transient and as vain | F |
| Still do I see while thro' the vaults of night | G |
| The funeral song once more proclaims the rite | G |
| The moving Pomp along the shadowy Isle | H |
| That like a Darkness fill'd the solemn Pile | H |
| The illustrious line that in long order led | I |
| Of those that lov'd Him living mourn'd Him dead | I |
| Of those the Few that for their Country stood | J |
| Round Him who dar'd be singularly good | J |
| All of all ranks that claim'd Him for their own | C |
| And nothing wanting but Himself alone | C |
| Oh say of Him now rests there but a name | K |
| Wont as He was to breathe ethereal flame | K |
| Friend of the Absent Guardian of the Dead | I |
| Who but would here their sacred sorrows shed | I |
| Such as He shed on NELSON'S closing grave | L |
| How soon to claim the sympathy He gave | L |
| In Him resentful of another's wrong | M |
| The dumb were eloquent the feeble strong | M |
| Truth from his lips a charm celestial drew | N |
| Ah who so mighty and so gentle too | N |
| What tho' with War the madding Nations rung | O |
| 'Peace ' when He spoke dwelt ever on his tongue | O |
| Amidst the frowns of Power the tricks of State | P |
| Fearless resolv'd and negligently great | P |
| In vain malignant vapours gather'd round | Q |
| He walk'd erect on consecrated ground | Q |
| The clouds that rise to quench the Orb of day | R |
| Reflect its splendour and dissolve away | R |
| When in retreat He laid his thunder by | A |
| For letter'd ease and calm Philosophy | S |
| Blest were his hours within the silent grove | T |
| Where still his god like Spirit deigns to rove | T |
| Blest by the orphan's smile the widow's prayer | D |
| For many a deed long done in secret there | D |
| There shone his lamp on Homer's hallow'd page | U |
| There listening sate the hero and the sage | U |
| And they by virtue and by blood allied | V |
| Whom most He lov'd and in whose arms He died | V |
| Friend of all Human kind not here alone | C |
| The voice that speaks was not to Thee unknown | C |
| Wilt Thou be miss'd O'er every land and sea | S |
| Long long shall England be rever'd in Thee | S |
| And when the Storm is hush'd in distant years | W |
| Foes on thy grave shall meet and mingle tears | X |
Samuel Rogers
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