The Pleasures Of Hope: Part 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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At summer eve when Heaven's ethereal bow	A
Spans with bright arch the glittering bills below	B
Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye	C
Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky	C
Why do those clifts of shadowy tint appear	D
More sweet than all the landscape smiling near	D
'T is distance lends enchantment to the view	E
And robes the mountain in its azure hue	E
Thus with delight we linger to survey	F
The promised joys of life's unmeasured way	F
Thus from afar each dim discovered scene	G
More pleasing seems than all the past hath been	H
And every form that Fancy can repair	I
From dark oblivion glows divinely there	I
What potent spirit guides the raptured eye	C
To pierce the shades of dim futurity	J
Can Wisdom lend with all her heavenly power	K
The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour	K
Ah no she darkly sees the fate of man	L
Her dim horizon bounded to a span	L
Or if she hold an image to the view	E
'T is Nature pictured too severely true	E
With thee sweet Hope resides the heavenly light	J
That pours remotest rapture on the sight	J
Thine is the charm of life's bewildered way	F
That calls each slumbering passion into play	F
Waked by thy touch I see the sister band	J
On tiptoe watching staft at thy command	J
And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer	D
To Pleasure's path or Glory's bright career	D
Primeval Hope the Aonian Muses say	F
When Man and Nature mourned their first decay	F
When every form of death and every woe	B
Shot from malignant stars to earth below	B
When Murder bared her arm and rampant War	M
Yoked the red dragons of her iron car	N
When Peace and Mercy banished from the plain	O
Sprung on the viewless winds to Heaven again	P
All all forsook the friendless guilty mind	J
But Hope the charmer lingered still behind	J
Thus while Elijah's burning wheels prepare	I
From Carmel's heights to sweep the fields of air	I
The prophet's mantle ere his fight began	L
Dropt on the world a sacred gift to man	L
Auspicious Hope in thy sweet garden grow	B
Wreaths for each toil a charm for every woe	B
Won by their sweets in Nature's languid hour	K
The way worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower	K
There as the wild bee murmurs on the wing	Q
What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring	Q
What viewless forms th' olian organ play	F
And sweep the furrowed lines of anxious thought away	F
Angel of life thy glittering wings explore	M
Earth's loneliest bounds and Ocean's wildest shore	M
Lo to the wintry winds the pilot yields	R
His bark careering o'er unfathomed fields	R
Now on Atlantic waves he rides afar	N
Where Andes giant of the western star	N
With meteor standard to the winds unfurled	J
Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world	J
Now far he sweeps where scarce a summer smiles	S
On Behring's rocks or Greenland's naked isles	S
Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow	B
From wastes that slumber in eternal snow	B
And waft across the waves' tumultuous roar	M
The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore	M
Poor child of danger nursling of the storm	T
Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form	T
Rocks waves and winds the shattered bark delay	F
Thy heart is sad thy home is far away	F
But Hope can here her moonlight vigils keep	U
And sing to charm the spirit of the deep	U
Swift as yon streamer lights the starry pole	V
Her visions warm the watchman's pensive soul	V
His native hills that rise in happier climes	W
The grot that heard his song of other times	W
His cottage home his bark of slender sail	X
His glassy lake and broomwood blossomed vale	X
Rush on his thought he sweeps before the wind	J
Treads the loved shore he sighed to leave behind	J
Meets at each step a friend's familiar face	Y
And flies at last to Helen's long embrace	Y
Wipes from her cheek the rapture speaking tear	I
And clasps with many a sigh his children dear	D
While long neglected but at length caressed	J
His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest	J
Points to the master's eyes where'er they roam	Z
His wistful face and whines a welcome home	Z
Friend of the brave in peril's darkest hour	K
Intrepid Virtue looks to thee for power	K
To thee the heart its trembling homage yields	R
On stormy floods and carnage covered fields	R
When front to front the bannered hosts combine	A2
Halt ere they close and form the dreadful line	A2
When all is still on Death's devoted soil	B2
The march worn soldier mingles for the toil	B2
As rings his glittering tube he lifts on high	C
The dauntless brow and spirit speaking eye	C
Hails in his heart the triumph yet to come	C2
And hears thy stormy music in the drum	C2
And such thy strength inspiring aid that bore	M
The hardy Byron to his native shore	M
In horrid climes where Chiloe's tempests sweep	U
Tumultuous murmurs o'er the troubled deep	U
'T was his to mourn Misfortune's rudest shock	D2
Scourged by the winds and cradled on the rock	D2
To wake each joyless morn and search again	P
The famished haunts of solitary men	P
Whose race unyielding as their native storm	T
Know not a trace of Nature but the form	T
Yet at thy call the hardy tar pursued	J
Pale but intrepid sad but unsubdued	J
Pierced the deep woods and hailing from afar	N
The moon's pale planet and the northern star	N
Paused at each dreary cry unheard before	M
Hy nas in the wild and mermaids on the shore	M
Till led by thee o'er many a cliff sublime	E2
He found a warmer world a milder clime	E2
A home to rest a shelter to defend	J
Peace and repose a Briton and a friend	J
Congenial Hope thy passion kindling power	K
How bright how strong in youth's untroubled hour	K
On you proud height with Genius hand in hand	J
I see thee 'light and wave thy golden wand	J
Go child of Heaven thy winged words pro claim	E2
'T is thine to search the boundless fields of fame	E2
Lo Newton priest of Nature shines afar	N
Scans the wide world and numbers every star	N
Wilt thou with him mysterious rites apply	C
And watch the shrine with wonder beaming eye	C
Yes thou shalt mark with magic art profound	J
The speed of light the circling march of sound	J
With Franklin grasp the lightning's fiery wing	Q
Or yield the lyre of Heaven another string	Q
The Swedish sage admires in yonder bowers	F2
His winged insects and his rosy flowers	F2
Calls from their woodland haunts the savage train	O
With sounding horn and counts them on the plain	O
So once at Heaven's command the wanderers came	E2
To Eden's shade and heard their various name	E2
Far from the world in yen sequestered clime	E2
Slow pass the sons of Wisdom more sublime	E2
Calm as the fields of Heaven his sapient eye	C
The loved Athenian lifts to realms on high	C
Admiring Plato on his spotless page	G2
Stamps the bright dictates of the Father sage	G2
'Shall Nature bound to Earth's diurnal span	L
The fire of God th' immortal soul of man '	H2
Turn child of Heaven thy rapture lightened eye	C
To Wisdom's walks the sacred Nine are nigh	C
Hark from bright spires that gild the Delphian height	J
From streams that wander in eternal light	J
Ranged on their hill Harmonia's daughters swell	I2
The mingling tones of horn and harp and shell	I2
Deep from his vaults the Loxian murmurs flow	B
And Pythia's awful organ peals below	B
Beloved of Heaven the smiling Muse shall shed	J
Her moonlight halo on thy beauteous head	J
Shall swell thy heart to rapture unconfined	J
And breathe a holy madness o'er thy mind	J
I see thee roam her guardian power beneath	J2
And talk with spirits en the midnight heath	J2
Enquire of guilty wanderers whence they came	E2
And ask each blood stained form his earthly name	E2
Then weave in rapid verse the deeds they tell	I2
And read the trembling world the tales of hell	I2
When Venus throned in clouds of rosy hue	E
Flings from her golden urn the vesper dew	E
And bids fond man her glimmering noon employ	K2
Sacred to love and walks of tender joy	K2
A milder mood the goddess shall recall	L2
And soft as dew thy tones of music fall	L2
While Beauty's deeply pictured smiles impart	J
A pang more dear than pleasure to the heart	J
Warm as thy sighs shall flow the Lesbian strain	O
And plead in Beauty's ear nor plead in vain	O
Or wilt thou Orphean hymns more sacred deem	E2
And steep thy song in Mercy's mellow stream	E2
To pensive drops the radiant eye beguile	M2
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile	M2
On Nature's throbbing anguish pour relief	N2
And teach impassioned souls the joy of grief	N2
Yes to thy tongue shall seraph words be given	O2
And power on earth to plead the cause of Heaven	O2
The proud the cold untroubled heart of stone	P2
That never mused on sorrow but its own	P2
Unlocks a generous store at thy command	J
Like Horeb's rocks beneath the prophet's hand	J
The living lumber of his kindred earth	Q2
Charmed into soul receives a second birth	Q2
Feels thy dread power another heart afford	J
Whose passion touched harmonious strings accord	J
True as the circling spheres to Nature's plan	L
And man the brother lives the friend of man	L
Bright as the pillar rose at Heaven' s command	J
When Israel marched along the desert land	J
Blazed through the night on lonely wilds afar	N
And told the path a never setting star	N
So heavenly genius in thy course divine	A2
Hope is thy star her light is ever thine	A2
Propitious Power when rankling cares annoy	K2
The sacred home of Hymenean joy	K2
When doomed to Poverty's sequestered dell	I2
The wedded pair of love and virtue dwell	I2
Unpitied by the world unknown to fame	E2
Their woes their wishes and their hearts the same	E2
Oh there prophetic Hope thy smile bestow	B
And chase the pangs that worth should never know	B
There as the parent deals his scanty store	M
To friendless babes and weeps to give no more	M
Tell that his manly race shall yet assuage	G2
Their father's wrongs and shield his latter age	G2
What through for him no Hybla sweets distil	R2
Nor bloomy vices wave purple on the hill	R2
Tell that when silent years have passed away	F
That when his eye grows dim his tresses gray	F
These busy hands a lovelier cot shall build	J
And deck with fairer flowers his little field	J
And call from Heaven propitious dews to breathe	S2
Arcadian beauty on the barren heath	J2
Tell that while Love's spontaneous smile endears	F2
The days of peace the sabbath of his years	F2
Health shall prolong to many a festive hour	K
The social pleasures of his humble bower	K
Lo at the couch where infant beauty sleeps	F2
Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps	F2
She while the lovely babe unconscious lies	F2
Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes	F2
And weaves a song of melancholy joy	K2
Sleep image of thy father sleep my boy	K2
No lingering hour of sorrow shall be thine	A2
No sigh that rends thy father's heart and mine	A2
Bright as his manly sire the son shall be	T2
In form and soul but ah more blest than he	T2
Thy fame thy worth thy filial love at last	J
Shall soothe his aching heart for all the past	J
With many a smile my solitude repay	F
And chase the world's ungenerous scorn away	F
And say when summoned from the world and thee	T2
I lay my head beneath the willow tree	T2
Wilt thou sweet mourner at my stone appear	D
And soothe my parted spirit lingering near	D
Oh wilt thou come at evening hour to shed	J
The tears of Memory o'er my narrow bed	J
With aching temples on thy hand reclined	J
Muse on the last farewell I leave behind	J
Breathe a deep sigh to winds that murmur low	B
And think on all my love and all my woe	B
So speaks affection ere the infant eye	C
Can look regard or brighten in reply	C
But when a cherub lip hath learnt to claim	E2
A mother's ear by that endearing name	E2
Soon as the playful innocent can prove	U2
A tear of pity or a smile of love	V2
Or cons his murmuring task beneath her care	I
Or lisps with holy look his evening prayer	I
Or gazing mutely pensive sits to hear	W2
The mournful ballad warbled in his ear	W2
How fondly looks admiring Hope the while	M2
At every artless tear and every smile	M2
How glows the joyous parent to descry	W2
A guileless bosom true to sympathy	T2
Where is the troubled heart consigned to share	W2
Tumultuous toils or solitary care	W2
Unblest by visionary thoughts that stray	W2
To count the joys of Fortune's better day	W2
Lo nature life and liberty relume	E2
The dim eyed tenant of the dungeon gloom	E2
A long lost friend or hapless child restored	J
Smiles at its blazing hearth and social board	J
Warm from his heart the tears of rapture flow	B
And virtue triumphs o'er remembered woe	B
Chide not his peace proud Reason nor destroy	W2
The shadowy forms of uncreated joy	W2
That urge the lingering tide of life and pour	W2
Spontaneous slumber on his midnight hour	W2
Hark the wild maniac sings to chide the gale	X
That wafts so slow her lover's distant sail	X
She sad spectatress on the wintry shore	W2
Watched the rude surge his shroudless corse that bore	W2
Knew the pale form and shrieking in amaze	F2
Clasped her cold hands and fixed her maddening gaze	F2
Poor widowed wretch 't was there she wept in vain	O
Till Memory fled her agonizing brain	O
But Mercy gave to charm the sense of woe	B
Ideal peace that truth could ne'er bestow	B
Warm oil her heart the joys of Fancy beam	E2
And aimless Hope delights her darkest dream	E2
Oft when yon moon has climbed the midnight sky	C
And the lone sea bird wakes its wildest cry	C
Piled on the steep her blazing fagots burn	X2
To hail the bark that never can return	X2
And still she waits but scarce forbears to weep	U
That constant love can linger on the deep	U
And mark the wretch whose wanderings never knew	E
Thie world's regard that soothes though half untrue	E
Whose erring heart the lash of sorrow bore	W2
But found not pity when it erred no more	W2
Yon friendless man at whose dejected eye	C
Th' unfeeling proud one looks and passes by	C
Condemned on Penury's barren path to roam	E2
Scorned by thie world and left without a home	E2
Even he at evening should he chance to stray	W2
Down by the hamlet's hawthorn scented way	W2
Where round the cot's romantic glade are seen	G
The blossomed bean field and the sloping green	G
Leans o'er its humble gate and thinks the while	M2
Oh that for me some home like this would smile	M2
Some hamlet shade to yield my sickly form	E2
Health in the breeze and shelter in the storm	E2
There should my hand no stinted boon assign	A2
To wretched hearts with sorrow such as mine	A2
That generous wish can soothe unpitied care	W2
And Hope half mingles with the poor man's prayer	W2
Hope when I mourn with sympathizing mind	J
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The wrongs of fate the woes of human kind	J
Thy blissful omens bid my spirit see	T2
The boundless fields of rapture yet to be	T2
I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan	L
And learn the future by the past of man	L
Come bright Improvement on the car of Time	E2
And rule the spacious world from clime to clime	E2
Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore	W2
Trace every wave and culture every shore	W2
On Erie's banks where tigers steal along	Y2
And the dread Indian chants a dismal song	Y2
Where human fiends on midnight errands walk	Z2
And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk	Z2
There shall the flocks on thymy pasture stray	W2
And shepherds dance at Summer's opening day	W2
Each wandering genius of the lonely glen	P
Shall start to view the glittering haunts of men	P
And silent watch on woodland heights around	J
The village curfew as it tolls profound	J
In Libyan groves where damned rites are done	O2
That bathe the rocks in blood and veil the sun	O2
Truth shall arrest the murderous arm profane	O
Wild Obi flies the veil is rent in twain	O
Where barbarous hordes on Scythian mountains roam	E2
Truth Mercy Freedom yet shall find a home	E2
Where'er degraded Nature bleeds and pines	F2
From Guinea's coast to Sibir's dreary mines	F2
Truth shall pervade th' unfathomed darkness there	W2
And light the dreadful features of despair	W2
Hark the stern captive spurns his heavy load	J
And asks thie image back that Heaven bestowed	J
Fierce in his eye the fire of valor burns	F2
And as the slave departs the man returns	F2
Oh sacred Truth thy triumph ceased awhile	M2
And Hope thy sister ceased with thee to smile	M2
When leagued Oppression poured to Northern wars	F2
Her whiskered pandoors and her fierce hussars	F2
Waved her dread standard to the breeze of morn	A3
Pealed her loud drum and twanged her trumpet horn	A3
Tumultous horror brooded o'er her van	L
Presaging wrath to Poland and to man	L
Warsaw's last champion from her height surveyed	J
Wide o'er the fields a waste of ruin laid	J
Oh Heaven he cried my bleeding country save	B3
Is there no hand on high to shield the brave	B3
Yet though destruction sweep those lovehy plains	F2
Rise fellow men our country yet remains	F2
By that dread name we wave the sword on high	C
And swear for her to live with her to die	C
He said and on the rampart heights arrayed	J
His trusty warriors few but undismayed	J
Firm paced and slow a horrid front they form	E2
Still as the breeze but dreadful as the storm	E2
Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly	C
Revenge or death the watchword and reply	C
Then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm	E2
And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm	E2
In vain alas in vain ye gallant few	E
From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew	E
Oh bloodiest picture in the book of Time	E2
Sarmatia fell unwept without a cnme	E2
Found not a generous friend a pitying foe	B
Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe	B
Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear	W2
Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career	W2
Hope for a season bade the world farewell	I2
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusxo fell	I2
The sun went down nor ceased the carnage there	W2
Tumultuous Murder shook the midnight air	W2
On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow	B
His blood dyed waters murmuring far below	B
The storm prevails the rampart yields a way	W2
Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay	W2
Hark as the smouldering piles with thunder fall	L2
A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call	L2
Earth shook red meteors flashed along the sky	C
And conscious Nature shuddered at the cry	C
Oh righteous Heaven ere Freedom found a grave	B3
Why slept the sword omnipotent to save	B3
Where was thine arm O Vengeance where thy rod	J
That smote the foes of Zion and of God	J
That crushed proud Ammon when his iron ear	W2
Was yoked in wrath and thundered from afar	W2
Where was the storm that slumbered till the host	J
Of blood stained Pharaoh left thcir trembling coast	J
Then bade the deep in wild commotion flow	B
And heaved an ocean on their march below	B
Departed spirits of the mighty dead	J
Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled	J
Friends of the world restore your swords to man	L
Fight in his sacred cause and lead the van	L
Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone	P2
And make her arm puissant as your own	P2
Oh once again to Freedom's cause return	X2
The patriot Tell the Bruce of Bannockburn	X2
Yes thy proud lords unpitied land shall see	F2
That man bath yet a soul and dare be free	F2
A little while along thy saddening plains	F2
This starless night of Desolation reigns	F2
Truth shall restore the light by Nature given	X2
And like Prometheus bring the fire of Heaven	X2
Prone to the dust Oppression shall be hurled	J
Her name her nature withered from the world	J
Ye that the rising morn invidious mark	C3
And hate the light because your deeds are dark	C3
Ye that expanding truth invidious view	E
And think or wish the song of Hope untrue	E
Perhaps your little hands presume to span	X2
The march of Genius and the powers of man	X2
Perhaps ye watch at Pride's unhallowed shrine	X2
Her victims newly slain and thus divine	X2
Here shall tiny triumph Genius cease and here	W2
Truth Science Virtue close your short career	W2
Tyrants in vain ye trace the wizard ring	Q
In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring	Q
What can ye lull the winged winds asleep	U
Arrest the rolling world or chain the deep	U
No the wild wave contemns your sceptred hand	J
It rolled not back when Canute gave command	J
Man can thy doom no brighter soul allow	A
Still must thou live a blot on Nature's brow	A
Shall war's polluted banner ne'er be furled	J
Shall crimes and tyrants cease but with the world	J
What are thou triumphs sacred Truth belied	J
Why then hath Plato lived or Sidney died	J
Ye fond adorers of departed fame	E2
Who warm at Scipio's worth or Tully's name	E2
Ye that in fancied vision can admire	W2
The sword of Brutus and the Theban lyre	W2
Rapt in historic ardor who adore	W2
Each classic haunt and well remembered shore	W2
Where Valor tuned amidst her chosen throng	Y2
The Thiracian trumpet and the Spartan song	Y2
Or wandering thence behold the later charms	F2
Of England's glory and Helvetia's arms	F2
See Roman fire in Hampden's bosom swell	I2
And fate and freedom in the shaft of Tell	I2
Say ye fond zealots to the worth of yore	W2
Hath Valor left the world to live no more	W2
No more shall Brutus bid a tyrant die	J
And sternly smile with vengeance in his eye	J
Hampden no more when suffering Freedom calls	F2
Encounter Fate and triumph as he falls	F2
Nor Tell disclose through peril and alarm	E2
The might that slumbers in a peasant's arm	E2
Yes in that generous cause for ever strong	Y2
The patriot's virtue and the poet's song	Y2
Still as the tide of ages rolls away	W2
Shall charm the world unconscious of decay	W2
Yes there are hearts prophetic Hope may trust	J
That slumber yet in uncreated dust	J
Ordained to fire th' adoring sons of earth	Q2
With every charm of wisdom and of worth	Q2
Ordained to light with intellectual day	W2
The mazy wheels of nature as they play	W2
Or warm with Fancy's energy to glow	B
And rival all but Shakspeare's name below	B
And say supernal Powers who deeply scan	X2
Heaven's dark decrees unfathomed yet by man	X2
When shall the world call down to cleanse her shame	E2
That embryo spirit yet without a name	E2
That friend of Nature whose avenging hands	F2
Shall burst the Libyan's adamantine bands	F2
Who sternly marking on his native soil	B2
The blood the tears the anguish and the toil	B2
Shall bid each righteous heart exult to see	F2
Peace to the slave and vengeance on the free	F2
Yet yet degraded men th' expected day	W2
That breaks your bitter cup is far away	W2
Trade wealth and fashion ask you still to bleed	J
And holy men give Scripture for the deed	J
Scourged and debased no Briton stoops to save	B3
A wretch a coward yes because a slave	B3
Eternal Nature when thy giant hand	J
Had heaved the floods and fixed the trembling land	J
When life sprang startling at thy plastic call	L2
Endless her forms auiol man the lord of all	L2
Say was that lordly form inspired by thee	F2
To wear eternal chains and bow the knee	F2
Was man ordained the slave of man to toil	B2
Yoked with the brutes and fettered to the soil	B2
Weighed in a tyrant's balance witli his gold	J
No Nature stamped us in a heavenly mould	J
She bade no wretch his thankless labor urge	D3
Nor trembling take the pittance and the scourge	D3
No homeless Libyan on the stormy deep	U
To call upon his country's name and weep	U
Lo once in triumph on his boundless plain	X2
The quivered chief of Congo loved to reign	X2
With fires proportioned to his native sky	J
Strength in his arm and lightning in his eye	J
Scoured with wild feet his sun illumined zone	X2
The spear the lion and the woods his own	X2
Or led the combat bold without a plan	X2
An artless savage but a fearless man	X2
The plunderer came alas no glory smiles	F2
For Congo's chief on yonder Indian Isles	F2
Forever fallen no son of Nature now	A
With Freedom chartered on his manly I brow	A
Faint bleeding bound he weeps the night away	W2
And when the sea wind wafts the dewless daiy	J
Starts with a bursting heart for evermore	W2
To curse the sun that lights their guilty shore	W2
The shrill horn blew at that alarum knell	I2
His guardian angel took a last farewell	I2
That funeral dirge to darkness hath resigned	J
The fiery grandeur of a generous mind	J
Poor fettered man I bear thee whispering how	A
Unhallowed vows to Guilt the child of Woe	B
Friendless thy heart and canst thou harbor there	W2
A wish but death a passion but despair	W2
The widowed Indian when her lord expires	F2
Mounts the dread pile and braves thie funeral fires	F2
So falls the heart at Thraldom's bitter sigh	J
So Virtue dies the spouse of Liberty	J
But not to Libya's barren climes alone	X2
To Chili or the wild Siberian zone	X2
Belong the wretched heart and haggard eye	J
Degraded worth and poor misfortune's sigh	J
Ye orient realms where Ganges' waters run	X2
Prolific fields dominions of the sun	X2
How long your tribes have trembled and obeyed	J
How long was Timour's iron sceptre swayed	J
Whouse marshalled hosts the lions of the plain	X2
From Scythia's northern mountains to the main	X2
Raged o'er your plundered shrines and altars bare	W2
With blazing torch and gory scymetar	W2
Stunned with the cries of death each gentle gale	X
And bathed in blood the verdure of the vale	X
Yet could no pangs the immortal spirit tame	E2
When Brama's children perished for his name	E2
The martyrsm led beneath avenging power	W2
And braved the tyrant in his torturing hour	W2
When Europe sought your subject realms to gain	X2
And stretched her giant sceptre o'er the main	X2
Taught her proud barks the winding way to shape	E3
And braved the stormy Spirit of the Cape	E3
Children of Brama then was Mercy nigh	J
To wash the stain of blood's eternal dye	J
Did Peace descend to triumph and to save	B3
When freeborn Britons crossed the Indian wave	B3
Ah no to more than Rome's ambition true	W2
The Nurse of Freedom gave it not to you	W2
She the bold route of Europe's guilt began	X2
And in the march of nations led the van	X2
Rich in the gems of India's gaudy zone	X2
And plunder piled from kingdoms not their own	X2
Degenerate trade thy minions could despise	F2
The heart born anguish of a thousand cries	F2
Could lock with impious hands their store	W2
While famished nations died along the shore	W2
Could mock the groans of felhow men and bear	W2
The curse of kingdoms peopled with despair	W2
Could stamp disgrace on man's polluted name	E2
And barter with their gold eternal shame	E2
But hark as bowed to earth the Bramin kneels	F2
From heavenly climes propitious thunder peals	F2
Of India's fate her guardian spirits tell	I2
Prophetic murmurs breathing on the shell	I2
And solemn sound that awe the listening mind	J
Roll on the azure paths of every wind	J
Foes of mankind her guardian spirits say	F2
Revolving ages bring the bitter day	F2
When Heaven's unerring arm shall fall on you	W2
And blood for blood these Indian plains bedew	F2
Nine times have Brama's wheels of lightning hurled	F2
His awful presence o'er the alarmed world	F2
Nine times hath Guilt through all his giant frame	E2
Convulsive trembled as the Mighty came	E2
Nine times hath suffering Mercy spared in vain	X2
But Heaven shall burst her starry gates again	X2
He comes dread Brama shakes the sunless sky	J
With murmuring wrath and thunders from on high	J
Heaven's fiery horse beneath his warrior form	E2
Paws the light clouds and gallops on the storm	E2
Wide waves his flickering sword his bright arms glow	B
Like summer suns and light the world below	B
Earth and her trembling isles in Ocean's bed	F2
Are shook and Nature rocks beneath his tread	F2
To pour redress on India's injured realm	E2
The oppressor to dethrone the proud to whelm	E2
To chase destruction from her plundered shore	W2
With arts and arms that triumphed once before	W2
The tenth Avatar comes at Heaven's command	F2
Shall Seriswatte wave her hallowed wand	F2
And Camdeo bright and Ganesa sublime	E2
Shall bless with joy their own propitious clime	E2
Come Heavenly Powers primeval peace restore	W2
Love Mercy Wisdom rule for evermore	W2

Thomas Campbell

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