Ode To The Woods And Forests. By One Of The Board Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HCHC IJIJ KLML NONO NPNP CQCR| Let other bards to groves repair | A |
| Where linnets strain their tuneful throats | B |
| Mine be the Woods and Forests where | A |
| The Treasury pours its sweeter notes | B |
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| No whispering winds have charms for me | C |
| Nor zephyr's balmy sighs I ask | D |
| To raise the wind for Royalty | C |
| Be all our Sylvan zephyr's task | D |
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| And 'stead of crystal brooks and floods | E |
| And all such vulgar irrigation | F |
| Let Gallic rhino thro' our Woods | G |
| Divert its course of liquidation | F |
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| Ah surely Vergil knew full well | H |
| What Woods and Forests ought to be | C |
| When sly he introduced in hell | H |
| His guinea plant his bullion tree | C |
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| Nor see I why some future day | I |
| When short of cash we should not send | J |
| Our Herries down he knows the way | I |
| To see if Woods in hell will lend | J |
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| Long may ye flourish sylvan haunts | K |
| Beneath whose branches of expense | L |
| Our gracious King gets all he wants | M |
| Except a little taste and sense | L |
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| Long in your golden shade reclined | N |
| Like him of fair Armida's bowers | O |
| May Wellington some wood nymph find | N |
| To cheer his dozenth lustrum's hours | O |
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| To rest from toil the Great Untaught | N |
| And soothe the pangs his warlike brain | P |
| Must suffer when unused to thought | N |
| It tries to think and tries in vain | P |
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| Oh long may Woods and Forests be | C |
| Preserved in all their teeming graces | Q |
| To shelter Tory bards like me | C |
| Who take delight in Sylvan places | R |
Thomas Moore
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