Lament For Thomas Davis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDED FGHGIJKJ LMLMBNKN CBOBCLLL APQPRLCL LSTSUVCL BWHWKXWW HYZYWLLL KA2KA2CB2KB2| I walked through Ballinderry in the spring time | A |
| When the bud was on the tree | B |
| And I said in every fresh ploughed field beholding | C |
| The sowers striding free | B |
| Scattering broadside forth the corn in golden plenty | B |
| On the quick seed clasping soil | D |
| Even such this day among the fresh stirred hearts of Erin | E |
| Thomas Davis is thy toil | D |
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| I Sat by Ballyshannon in the summer | F |
| And saw the salmon leap | G |
| And I said as I beheld the gallant creatures | H |
| Spring glittering from the deep | G |
| Through the spray and through the prone heaps striving onward | I |
| To the calm clear streams above | J |
| So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom Thomas Davis | K |
| In thy brightness of strength and love | J |
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| I stood in Derrybawn in the autumn | L |
| And I heard the eagle call | M |
| With a clangorous cry of wrath and lamentation | L |
| That filled the wide mountain hall | M |
| O'er the bare deserted place of his plundered eyrie | B |
| And I said as he screamed and soared | N |
| So callest thou thou wrathful soaring Thomas Davis | K |
| For a nation's rights restored | N |
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| And alas to think but now and thou art lying | C |
| Dear Davis dead at thy mother's knee | B |
| And I no mother near on my own sick bed | O |
| That face on earth shall never see | B |
| I may lie and try to feel that I am dreaming | C |
| I may lie and try to say Thy will be done | L |
| But a hundred such as I will never comfort Erin | L |
| For the loss of the noble son | L |
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| Young husbandman of Erin's fruitful seed time | A |
| In the fresh track of danger's plough | P |
| Who will walk the heavy toilsome perilous furrow | Q |
| Girt with freedom's seed sheets now | P |
| Who will banish with the wholesome crop of knowledge | R |
| The daunting weed and the bitter thorn | L |
| Now that thou thyself art but a seed for hopeful planting | C |
| Against the Resurrection morn | L |
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| Young salmon of the flood tide of freedom | L |
| That swells round Erin's shore | S |
| Thou wilt leap against their loud oppressive torrent | T |
| Of bigotry and hate no more | S |
| Drawn downward by their prone material instinct | U |
| Let them thunder on their rocks and foam | V |
| Thou hast leapt aspiring soul to founts beyond their raging | C |
| Where troubled waters never come | L |
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| But I grieve not Eagle of the empty eyrie | B |
| That thy wrathful cry is still | W |
| And that the songs alone of peaceful mourners | H |
| Are heard to day on Earth's hill | W |
| Better far if brothers' war be destined for us | K |
| God avert that horrid day I pray | X |
| That ere our hands be stained with slaughter fratricidal | W |
| Thy warm heart should be cold in clay | W |
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| But my trust is strong in God Who made us brothers | H |
| That He will not suffer their right hands | Y |
| Which thou hast joined in holier rites than wedlock | Z |
| To draw opposing brands | Y |
| Oh many a tuneful tongue that thou madest vocal | W |
| Would lie cold and silent then | L |
| And songless long once more should often widowed Erin | L |
| Mourn the loss of her brave young men | L |
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| Oh brave young men my love my pride my promise | K |
| 'Tis on you my hopes are set | A2 |
| In manliness in kindliness in justice | K |
| To make Erin a nation yet | A2 |
| Self respecting self relying self advancing | C |
| In union or in severance free and strong | B2 |
| And if God grant this then under God to Thomas Davis | K |
| Let the greater praise belong | B2 |
Sir Samuel Ferguson
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