The Centennial Cantata. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DDEFGGHHII J KLKKK M LLNNN OPQ RRSSCCTTL U VVVVWWKKDDD XT IILLYY J ZHZHZHZ T DDDD| The Centennial Meditation of Columbia A Cantata | A |
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| Musical Annotations in angled brackets precede each section | B |
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| Full chorus sober measured and yet majestic progressions of chords | C |
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| From this hundred terraced height | D |
| Sight more large with nobler light | D |
| Ranges down yon towering years | E |
| Humbler smiles and lordlier tears | F |
| Shine and fall shine and fall | G |
| While old voices rise and call | G |
| Yonder where the to and fro | H |
| Weltering of my Long Ago | H |
| Moves about the moveless base | I |
| Far below my resting place | I |
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| Chorus the sea and the winds mingling their voices with human sighs | J |
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| Mayflower Mayflower slowly hither flying | K |
| Trembling westward o'er yon balking sea | L |
| Hearts within Farewell dear England' sighing | K |
| Winds without But dear in vain' replying | K |
| Gray lipp'd waves about thee shouted crying | K |
| 'No It shall not be ' | - |
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| Quartette a meagre and despairing minor | M |
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| Jamestown out of thee | L |
| Plymouth thee thee Albany | L |
| Winter cries Ye freeze ' away | N |
| Fever cries Ye burn ' away | N |
| Hunger cries Ye starve ' away | N |
| Vengeance cries Your graves shall stay ' | - |
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| Full chorus return of the motive' of the second movement | O |
| but worked up with greater fury to the climax of the shout | P |
| at the last line | Q |
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| Then old Shapes and Masks of Things | R |
| Framed like Faiths or clothed like Kings | R |
| Ghosts of Goods once fleshed and fair | S |
| Grown foul Bads in alien air | S |
| War and his most noisy lords | C |
| Tongued with lithe and poisoned swords | C |
| Error Terror Rage and Crime | T |
| All in a windy night of time | T |
| Cried to me from land and sea | L |
| No Thou shalt not be ' | - |
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| A rapid and intense whisper chorus | U |
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| Hark | V |
| Huguenots whispering yea' in the dark | V |
| Puritans answering yea' in the dark | V |
| Yea' like an arrow shot true to his mark | V |
| Darts through the tyrannous heart of Denial | W |
| Patience and Labor and solemn souled Trial | W |
| Foiled still beginning | K |
| Soiled but not sinning | K |
| Toil through the stertorous death of the Night | D |
| Toil when wild brother wars new dark the Light | D |
| Toil and forgive and kiss o'er and replight | D |
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| Chorus of jubilation until the appeal of the last two lines | X |
| introduces a tone of doubt it then sinks to pianissimo' | T |
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| Now Praise to God's oft granted grace | I |
| Now Praise to Man's undaunted face | I |
| Despite the land despite the sea | L |
| I was I am and I shall be | L |
| How long Good Angel O how long | Y |
| Sing me from Heaven a man's own song | Y |
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| Basso solo the good Angel replies | J |
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| 'Long as thine Art shall love true love | Z |
| Long as thy Science truth shall know | H |
| Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove | Z |
| Long as thy Law by law shall grow | H |
| Long as thy God is God above | Z |
| Thy brother every man below | H |
| So long dear Land of all my love | Z |
| Thy name shall shine thy fame shall glow ' | - |
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| Full chorus jubilation and welcome | T |
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| O Music from this height of time my Word unfold | D |
| In thy large signals all men's hearts Man's heart behold | D |
| Mid heaven unroll thy chords as friendly flags unfurled | D |
| And wave the world's best lover's welcome to the world | D |
Sidney Lanier
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