Enthusiasm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Oh for the spirit which inspired of old	A
The seer's prophetic song the voice that spake	B
Through Israel's warrior king The strains that burst	C
In thrilling tones from Zion's heaven strung harp	D
Float down the tide of ages shedding light	E
On pagan shores and nations far remote	F
Eternal as the God they celebrate	G
Their fame shall last when Time's long race is run	H
And you refulgent eye of this fair world	I
Its light and centre into darkness shrinks	J
Eclipsed for ever by the glance of Him	K
Whose rising sheds abroad eternal day	L
Almighty uncreated Source of life	M
To Thee I dedicate my soul and song	N
In humble adoration bending low	O
Before thy footstool Thou alone canst stamp	P
A lasting glory on the works of man	Q
Tuning the shepherd's reed or monarch's harp	D
To sounds harmonious Immortality	R
Exists alone in Thee The proudest strain	S
That ever fired the poet's soul or drew	T
Melodious breathings from his gifted lyre	U
Unsanctioned by thy smile shall die away	L
Like the faint sound which the soft summer breeze	V
Wins from the stately lily's silver bells	W
A passing murmur a half whispered sigh	X
Heard for a moment in the deep repose	Y
Of Nature's midnight rest then hushed for ever	Z
Parent of genius bright Enthusiasm	A2
Bold nurse of high resolve and generous thought	B2
'Tis to thy soul awakening power we owe	O
The preacher's eloquence the painter's skill	C2
The poet's lay the patriot's noble zeal	D2
The warrior's courage and the sage's lore	E2
Oh till the soul is quickened by thy breath	F2
Wit wisdom eloquence and beauty fail	G2
To make a just impression on the heart	H2
The tide of life creeps lazily along	N
Soiled with the stains of earth and man debased	I2
Sinks far below the level of the stream	J2
Alas that thy bright flame should be confined	K2
To passion's maddening vortex and the soul	L2
Waste all its glorious energies on earth	M2
The world allows its votaries to feel	D2
A glowing ardour an intense delight	E
On every subject but the one that lifts	N2
The soul above its sensual vain pursuits	O2
And elevates the mind and thoughts to God	P2
Zeal in a sacred cause alone is deemed	Q2
An aberration of our mental powers	R2
The sons of pleasure cannot bear that light	E
Of heavenly birth which penetrates the souls	S2
Of men who deeply conscious of their guilt	T2
Mourn o'er their lost degraded state and seek	U2
Through faith in Christ's atonement to regain	S
The glorious liberty of sons of God	P2
Who as redeemed account it their chief joy	V2
To praise and celebrate the wondrous love	W2
That called them out of darkness into light	E
Severed the chain which bound them to the dust	X2
Unclosed the silent portals of the grave	Y2
And gave Hope wings to soar again to heaven	H
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Oh thou bright spirit of whose power I sing	Z2
Electric deathless energy of mind	K2
Harp of the soul by genius swept awake	B
Inspire my strains and aid me to portray	L
The base and joyless vanities which man	Q
Madly prefers to everlasting bliss	A3
Come let us mount gay Fancy's rapid car	B3
And trace through forest and o'er mountain rude	C3
The bounding footsteps of the youthful bard	D3
Yet new to life a stranger to the woes	Y
His harp is doomed to mourn in plaintive tones	E3
His ardent unsophisticated mind	K2
On all things beautiful delighted dwells	W
Earth is to him a paradise No cloud	F3
Floats o'er the golden promise of the morn	G3
Hope daily weaves fresh roses for his brow	H3
Shrouding the grim and ghastly phantom Death	F2
Beneath her soft and rainbow tinted wings	I3
Ere Care has tainted with her poisonous breath	F2
Life's opening buds all objects wear to him	K
A lovely aspect and he peoples space	J3
With creatures of his own The glorious forms	K3
Which haunt his solitude and brightly fill	C2
Imagination's airy hall atone	L3
For all the faults and follies of his kind	K2
Nor marvel that he cannot comprehend	M3
The speculative aims of worldly men	N3
Dearer to him a leaf or bursting bud	O3
Culled fresh from Nature's treasury than all	P3
The golden dreams that cheat the care worn crowd	F3
His world is all within He mingles not	Q3
In their society he cannot drudge	R3
To win the wealth they toil to realize	S3
A different spirit animates his breast	T3
Their eager calculations hopes and fears	U3
Still flit before him like dim shadows thrown	L3
By April's passing clouds upon the stream	J2
A moment mirrored in its azure depths	V3
Till the next sunbeam turns them into light	E
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Rashly confiding still to be deceived	W3
Our youthful poet overleaps the bounds	X3
Of probability He walks this earth	M2
Like an enfranchised spirit and the storms	K3
That darken and convulse a guilty world	I
Come like faint peals of thunder on his ear	Y3
Or hoarser murmurs of the mighty deep	Z3
Which heard in some dark forest's leafy shade	A4
But add a solemn grandeur to the scene	B4
The genial tide of thought still swiftly flows	Y
Rejoicing onward ere the icy breath	F2
Of sorrow falls upon the sunny fount	A4
And chains the music of its dancing waves	C4
What is the end of all his lovely dreams	D4
The bright fulfilment of his earthly hopes	E4
Too often penury and dire disease	V
Neglect a broken heart an early grave	Y2
Oh had he tuned his harp to truths divine	F4
With saints and martyrs sought a heavenly crown	G4
How had his theme immortalized his song	N
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Behold the man who to the poet's fire	Z
Unites the painter's fascinating art	A4
His touch embodies all that fancy brings	I3
To charm the mental vision and he dives	H4
Into the rich and shadowy world of thought	A4
Soars up to heaven or plunges down to hell	I4
In search of forms to mortal eyes unknown	L3
To animate the canvass His bold eye	X
Confronts the king of terrors Through the gates	J4
Of that dark prison house of woe and dread	A4
Hails the infernal monarch on his throne	L3
Crowned with ambition's diadem of fire	Z
Unsatisfied with all that Nature gives	K4
To charm the wandering heart and roving eye	X
He would portray Omnipotence Rash man	Q
Reason revolting shudders at the act	A4
God is a Spirit without form or parts	L4
And canst thou from a human model trace	J3
The awful grandeur of Creation's King	Z2
Nature supplies thee with no perfect draught	A4
Of human beauty in its sinless state	A4
Man bears upon his brow the curse of guilt	A4
The shadow of mortality that marks	M4
E'en in the sunny season of his youth	N4
The melancholy sentence of decay	L
Is it from such the painter would depict	A4
The vision of Jehovah and from eyes	S3
Dimmed with the tears of passion woe and pain	S
Seek to portray the dread all seeing eye	X
Which at a momentary glance can read	A4
The inmost secrets of all hearts and pierce	O4
The dark and fathomless abyss of night	A4
Oh drop the pencil Angels cannot gaze	P4
On Him who sits upon the jasper throne	L3
Robed in the splendour of immortal light	A4
But cast their crowns before him whilst they veil	G2
The brow in rapt devotion and adore	E2
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Nature will furnish subjects far beyond	A4
The grasp of human genius Didst thou e'er	Z
On mossy bank or grassy plot reclined	A4
Watch the effect of sunlight on the boughs	Q4
Of some tall graceful ash or maple tree	R
Each leaf illumin'd by the noon tide beam	J2
Transparent shines Anon a heavy cloud	A4
Floats for a moment o'er the car of day	L
And gloom descends upon the forest bowers	R2
A ray steals forth and on the topmost twig	R4
Falls like a silver star From leaf to leaf	S4
The glory spreads shoots down the rugged trunk	T4
And gilds each spray till the whole tree stands forth	U4
Arrayed in light This is beyond thy art	A4
All thy enthusiasm all thy boasted skill	C2
But poorly imitates a forest tree	R
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But let us leave the painter Let us turn	V4
To those who never swept the sounding lyre	U
Or grasped the pencil ardent minds that hold	A4
A deep communion with the winds and waves	C4
The youthful worshippers at Nature's shrine	F4
What says the soft voice of the plaintive breeze	V
Mournfully sweeping through the forest boughs	Q4
In airy play moved gently by its breath	F2
To such it hath a language and it wins	W4
A tender echo from the youthful heart	A4
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With throbbing bosom Nature's student treads	X4
The sylvan haunts exultingly leaps forth	U4
To hail the coming of the genial spring	Z2
Shedding around from her green lap the buds	Y4
In winter's rugged casket long enshrined	A4
To form the chaplet of the infant year	Z4
Young pensive moralist 'tis sweet to muse
On beauties which escape the vulgar eye	X
To talk with Nature 'mid her woodland paths
And hear an answering voice in every breeze	V
You court her beauties with a lover's zeal	D2
You hear her voice nor understand the sound	A4
Which speaks to you to all The volume spread	A4
Before your dazzled eyes so rich with life	M
Is a closed book a fair illumined scroll	L2
Traced in strange characters unknown to you	T
Would you unfold the mystery and read	A4
The record the eternal hand of God	A4
Has of himself on Nature's tablets graved	A4
You must explore another wondrous book
Of deeper interest far the book of life	M
The glorious volume of unsullied truth	N4
Time's rapid and undeviating march
Tramples down empires blots out names that once
Bid fair for perpetuity of fame
Truth is alone eternal as the God	A4
Who on this everlasting basis placed	A4
His own immutable and moveless throne	L3
Time to these writings daily adds new force
Deepening the traces of Jehovah's love	W2
His fathomless unbounded love to man	Q
Peruse this volume and then walk abroad	A4
And meditate in silence on the scenes
Which lately charmed your unassisted sense
Till your soul burns within you and breaks forth	U4
In holy hymns of gratitude and praise	P4
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Faith gives a grandeur to created things	I3
Beyond the poet's lay or painter's art	A4
Or upward flight of Fancy's eagle wing	Z2
Earth is the vista through which heaven is seen	B4
By him who journeying through life's narrow vale	G2
Seeks in the objects which around him rise	S3
To hold communion with his God to trace	J3
The wisdom goodness majesty and love	W2
That clothed the lilies of the field and twined	A4
The simple diadem of buds and leaves
So rich in their diversity of shade	A4
Round Nature's brow and o'er the rugged hills
Cast the light floating veil of purple haze	P4
Which harmonizes to its own soft hue	T
The broken precipice and barren heath
Here admiration may have ample scope
The spirit soaring upward drinks in light	A4
From other worlds and in the choral song	N
Of happy birds among the forest bowers	R2
Hears the seraphic and harmonious strains
That angels chant around the eternal throne	L3
To him there is an anthem in the breeze	V
A burst of triumph in the thunder's peal	D2
Which slowly rolling through the troubled air
Strikes man with terror and yet praises God	A4
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O'er Fancy's glass another shadow flits	V
Which shows a bolder aspect than the gay	L
Impassioned votaries of Nature wear
Mark his majestic port his eagle eye	X
The stern erection of his haughty brow	H3
Partially shaded by the snowy plumes	V
That lightly wave and wanton in the breeze	V
Is this a pensioner of hope Is this	V
A dreamer of wild dreams All eyes are turned	A4
To gaze upon him as with measured step
The weaponed warrior slowly passes by	X
Oh this is one of War's tremendous sons	V
Glory's intrepid champion his stout heart	A4
Leaps as the war horse to the trumpet's sound	A4
And hails the storm of battle from afar	B3
He loves the press the tumult and the strife	M
Where horror holds the gory steeds of death	F2
And slaughter hews a passage for the brave	Y2
He too is an enthusiast his zeal	D2
Impels him onward with resistless force	V
Severs his heart from nature's kindred ties	V
And feeds the wild ambition which consumes	V
All that is good and lovely in his path
He flashes like a meteor on the sight	A4
Seen 'mid the angry thunder clouds of war	E2
Seeking a living name in fields where Death	F2
Holds his imperial banquet and the blood	A4
Of thousands flows to furnish forth the feast	A4
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There was a time when softer feelings held	A4
Their mild dominion o'er that haughty breast	A4
When at his mother's feet a rosy boy	V2
He wove bright garlands for his artless brow	H3
And sought with playful dalliance to detain	S
The busy hand that could not pause to bind	A4
His cumbrous wreath or answer the caress	V
Of him who climbed her knees to steal the kiss	V
But even at those tender years his braid	A4
Of April blossoms was his crown the twig	R4
Of golden willow with white daisies bound	A4
His jewelled sceptre and the mossy bank
Where he reclined in floral state his throne	L3
The lambs that sported in the yellow meads	V
His lawful subjects while his azure eye	X
Looked up to heaven with all a child's delight	A4
And thought that earth was only made for him	K
How often has he wept for that fair moon
That shed her trembling glory o'er his path
Wearied his slender limbs to reach the spot	A4
On which the rainbow based its splendid arch
And felt his heart with disappointment beat	A4
When the fair pageant faded from his view	T
	-
Ah simple boy well had it been for thee	R
Had thy ambitious longings been confined	A4
To objects wisely placed beyond thy grasp
But years stole on thy ardent spirit broke
Its childish trammels and with eager joy	V2
Explored the warlike annals of the past	A4
And called up spirits of the mighty dead	A4
To set their hostile armies in array	L
And fight for thee their sanguine battles o'er	Z
Oh while such visions burst upon thy sight	A4
Whilst shouts of victory and dying groans	V
Rang on thine ear time backward rolled his tide	A4
Rome in her ancient splendour proudly rose	V
And murdered C sar lived again in thee	R
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Young fiery soldier let us track thy steps	V
Through danger's stormy paths to win the goal	L2
Of all thy lofty and ambitious hopes	V
Wedded to glory thy brave heart springs forth	U4
To win thy bride from valour's armed hand	A4
And pluck the laurel from the brow of death	F2
A novice in the camp and new to arms	V
The bugle lulls thee to repose the trumpet	A4
Thrills on thy sleeping ear and bids thee dream	J2
Of deathless fields in fancy fought and won	H
At length the day of trial comes the day	L
Which puts thy boasted courage to the proof
Thy first in battle and perchance thy last	A4
The camp is broken up the air is rent	A4
With strains of martial music the loud neigh
Of prancing steeds impatient for the strife
With clang of arms and oft repeated shouts	V
Of warriors who impatiently leap forth	U4
With reckless hardihood to meet their doom
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With beating heart firm step and flashing eye	X
The young recruit of glory proudly grasps	V
The standard he must only yield with life
The march commences deep excitement grows	V
To fiery expectation he forgets	V
Amidst the hurried interest of the scene	B4
The crown he fights for only can be won	H
Through seas of slaughter and the waste of life
Alas how few devoted hearts like his	V
Survive their first engagement with the foe
Death strikes the hero to the dust He falls	V
In honour's mantle the triumphant cry	X
Of victory on his pallid lip expires	V
But what are conquests of the bow and spear	Z4
And Alexander's victories compared	A4
With the stern warfare which the soul maintains	V
Against the subtle tempter of mankind	A4
The base corruptions of a sinful world	A4
An evil conscience and a callous heart	A4
Oh vanquish these and through the gates of death	F2
Triumphant pass and win a heavenly crown	G4
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Oh that my soul could find a voice to speak	U2
That human language could express the thoughts	V
Which fill the secret chambers of the brain	S
In vain the lips pour forth harmonious sounds	V
In vain the eager eye is raised to heaven	H
Swimming in tears and bright with ecstasy	R
The senses still are debtors to the heart	A4
Which trembling throbs for utterance in vain	S
Does the salvation of a deathless soul	L2
Kindle no hope in the possessor's breast	A4
Awaken no desire to be restored	A4
To that most pure and perfect state of bliss	V
Man by transgression lost the noble thought	A4
Of claiming kindred with the skies give birth	M2
To no anticipations of delight	A4
Joys such as angels share and saints who dwell	I4
Within the circle of Jehovah's throne	L3
A light is breaking on my mental eye	X
Visions of glory in succession rise	V
And fill the airy palace of the soul	L2
I see afar the promised land An arch
Of golden radiance canopies the gates	V
Of that celestial city Beautiful
Unbuilt by hands the New Jerusalem	A2
And holy to the Lord the happy home
Of pilgrims who to reach that heavenly shrine	F4
Sojourned as strangers on this goodly earth	M2
Counting all things but loss yea life itself
To win an entrance through those gates of pearl
And dwell within the temple of their God	A4
Alas earth's dusky shadow lies between	B4
My ardent spirit and that blissful shore	E2
Eye hath not seen nor mortal ear hath heard	A4
How then can mortal pen portray the joys	V
Prepared for those who live and die in Christ	A4
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Before me flows the rapid stream of time
Dark fathomless encumbered with the wrecks	V
Of twice three thousand years They too shall sink
Beneath those turbid waters swallowed up
In the vast ocean of eternity	R
Leaving few fragments on the boundless waste	A4
To tell to coming years that such have been
How shall the naked spirit cross the flood	A4
And land in safety on the happy shore	E2
'Tis not an earthly pilot that can steer	Z4
So frail a bark through such a stormy tide	A4
Cannot the eye of faith look up and see	R
The clouds of sorrow part the day star rise	V
Above life's trackless ocean shedding light	A4
Upon the darkened nations From its beams	V
The mist of error flies the angry waves	V
Of passion which so long have vexed the world	A4
Are hushed to rest controlled by Him who rose	V
From tranquil sleep and to the roaring waste	A4
Of midnight waters mustering all their wrath
Said Peace be still The howling winds obeyed	A4
And silence sank upon the storm tossed main	S
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Oh look to Him and to his glorious word	A4
His universal sovereignty demands	V
That deep devotion of the heart which men	N3
Miscall enthusiasm Zeal alone deserves	V
The name of madness in a worldly cause	V
Light misdirected ever leads astray	L
But hope inspired by faith will guide to heaven	H
To win the laurel wreath the soldier fights	V
To free his native land the patriot bleeds	V
And to secure his crown the martyr dies	V
For beauteous Rachel Isaac's son endured	A4
Seven years of bitter servitude and deemed	A4
The weary months but moments to obtain	S
From crafty Laban's hand his promised bride	A4
To prove his friendship for the man he loved	A4
The generous Jonathan forgot his claims	V
To royalty intent to save the life
Of him whom God had called to fill his throne	L3
And wilt thou feel less zealous to regain	S
The love and favour of thy heavenly King	Z2
And shrink because the path to glory lies	V
Up the steep hill of duty He who saved	A4
Amidst the tempest on Gennesaret	A4
Peter when sinking in the waves will aid	A4
Thy feeble steps and guide thee to the rock
Of everlasting strength
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Spirit divine	F4
Whose name I erst invoked whose influence fills	V
The narrow confines of this human breast	A4
If I have dared to sing of truths sublime
Oh shed a glory round my rugged lyre	U
Hallow the feeble strains that would reveal	D2
The dazzling light which streaming from thy wings	V
Gilds all the dark and troubled tide of thought	A4
Lifted by thee above the gulf of time
My eye explores the regions of the blessed	A4
And hopes long chained to earth are raised to heaven	H
Never while reason holds her steady rein	S
To curb imagination's fiery steeds	V
May I to joyless apathy resign	F4
The high and holy thoughts inspired by thee	R

Susanna Moodie

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