Thomas Frederick Young

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The Reading Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GAHA IJKJ LMEM NOPO QRSR KETE UVWV XYZY

With patient toil from day to dayA
The printed page he scann'dB
The page of learned book or sheetC
With news from foreign landB
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And people thought him wond'rous wiseD
And he himself was vainE
Of all the knowledge he had stor'dF
Within his jaded brainE
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What other men were working atG
He knew from day to dayA
But never dream'd his barren taskH
Was only idle playA
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Fill'd with the thoughts of other mindsI
His words were barren dryJ
He seldom coin'd a thought himselfK
He had so many byJ
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And when he found himself aloneL
Where self could only thinkM
He found the store within his brainE
A weight to make him sinkM
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What he had always thought were endsN
He saw were only meansO
And for his urgent purpose nowP
Were worth a row of beansO
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With loud and bitter voice he curs'dQ
Newspapers books and allR
That weaken'd his own manhood's forceS
And drove him to the wallR
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He saw that man must be himselfK
Or he will live in vainE
That nothing in this world can takeT
The place of his own brainE
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The man who rides but never walksU
Should surely never poutV
If in a race he falls behindW
Where horses are rul'd outV
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The man who thinks by press or bookX
No matter how profoundY
Will find a grave some day beneathZ
An ink and paper moundY

Thomas Frederick Young



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