How Lightly Mounts The Muse's Wing. (air--anonymous.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBEB FGFG| How lightly mounts the Muse's wing | A |
| Whose theme is in the skies | B |
| Like morning larks that sweeter sing | A |
| The nearer Heaven they rise | B |
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| Tho' love his magic lyre may tune | C |
| Yet ah the flowers he round it wreathes | B |
| Were plucked beneath pale Passion's moon | C |
| Whose madness in their ode breathes | B |
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| How purer far the sacred lute | D |
| Round which Devotion ties | B |
| Sweet flowers that turn to heavenly fruit | D |
| And palm that never dies | B |
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| Tho' War's high sounding harp may be | E |
| Most welcome to the hero's ears | B |
| Alas his chords of victory | E |
| Are wet all o'er with human tears | B |
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| How far more sweet their numbers run | F |
| Who hymn like Saints above | G |
| No victor but the Eternal One | F |
| No trophies but of Love | G |
Thomas Moore
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