Poet Thomas Moore

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A Dream Of Turtle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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BY SIR W CURTISA
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'Twas evening time in the twilight sweetB
I sailed along when whom should I meetB
But a Turtle journeying o'er the seaC
On the service of his MajestyC
When spying him first thro' twilight dimD
I didn't know what to make of himD
But said to myself as slow he pliedE
His fins and rolled from side to sideE
Conceitedly o'er the watery pathF
'Tis my Lord of Stowell taking a bathF
And I hear him now among the fishesG
Quoting Vatel and BurgersdiciusG
But no 'twas indeed a Turtle wideE
And plump as ever these eyes descriedE
A turtle juicy as ever yetE
Glued up the lips of a BaronetE
And much did it grieve my soul to seeG
That an animal of such dignityG
Like an absentee abroad should roamH
When he ought to stay and be ate at homeH
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But now a change came o'er my dreamI
Like the magic lantern's shifting sliderJ
I lookt and saw by the evening beamI
On the back of that Turtle sat a riderJ
A goodly man with an eye so merryG
I knew 'twas our Foreign SecretaryG
Who there at his ease did sit and smileK
Like Waterton on his crocodileK
Cracking such jokes at every motionL
As made the Turtle squeak with gleeG
And own they gave him a lively notionL
Of what his forced meat balls would beG
So on the Sec in his glory wentE
Over that briny elementE
Waving his hand as he took farewellM
With graceful air and bidding me tellM
Inquiring friends that the Turtle and heG
Were gone on a foreign embassyG
To soften the heart of a DiplomatE
Who is known to dote upon verdant fatE
And to let admiring Europe seeG
That calipash and calipeeN
Are the English forms of DiplomacyG

Thomas Moore



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