Thomas Babbington Macaulay

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The Battle Of Moncontour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGCC HHII JJKK

Oh weep for Moncontour Oh weep for the hourA
When the children of darkness and evil had powerA
When the horsemen of Valois triumphantly trodB
On the bosoms that bled for their rights and their GodB
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Oh weep for Moncontour Oh weep for the slainC
Who for faith and for freedom lay slaughtered in vainC
Oh weep for the living who linger to bearD
The renegade's shame or the exile's despairD
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One look one last look to our cots and our towersE
To the rows of our vines and the beds of our flowersE
To the church where the bones of our fathers decayedF
Where we fondly had deemed that our own would be laidF
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Alas we must leave thee dear desolate homeG
To the spearmen of Uri the shavelings of RomeG
To the serpent of Florence the vulture of SpainC
To the pride of Anjou and the guile of LorraineC
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Farewell to thy fountains farewell to thy shadesH
To the song of thy youths and the dance of thy maidsH
To the breath of thy gardens the hum of thy beesI
And the long waving line of the blue PyreneesI
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Farewell and for ever The priest and the slaveJ
May rule in the halls of the free and the braveJ
Our hearths we abandon our lands we resignK
But Father we kneel to no altar but thineK

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