The Fudge Family In Paris Letter Iv. From Phelim Connor To ---- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCDDEEFFGHII JJDDKKLLL MNOOPPQQRRSSSTTUUVVW WXXYZA2B2B2C2C2D2D2E 2E2F2F2F2 G2G2H2H2I2I2I2J2J2K2 K2NN L2L2K2K2M2M2N2N2NNO2 O2K P2P2K2K2K2K2CCM2M2K2 K2AAH2H2N2N2Q2 PL RRR2S2 T2T2

Return no never while the withering handA
Of bigot power is on that hapless landA
While for the faith my fathers held to GodB
Even in the fields where free those fathers trodB
I am proscribed and like the spot left bareC
In Israel's halls to tell the proud and fairC
Amidst their mirth that Slavery had been thereC
On all I love home parents friends I traceD
The mournful mark of bondage and disgraceD
No let them stay who in their country's pangsE
See naught but food for factions and haranguesE
Who yearly kneel before their masters' doorsF
And hawk their wrongs as beggars do their soresF
Still let yourG
H
Still hope and suffer all who can but II
Who durst not hope and cannot bear must flyI
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But whither every where the scourge pursuesJ
Turn where he will the wretched wanderer viewsJ
In the bright broken hopes of all his raceD
Countless reflections of the Oppressor's faceD
Every where gallant hearts and spirits trueK
Are served up victims to the vile and fewK
While England every where the general foeL
Of Truth and Freedom wheresoe'er they glowL
Is first when tyrants strike to aid the blowL
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Oh England could such poor revenge atoneM
For wrongs that well might claim the deadliest oneN
Were it a vengeance sweet enough to sateO
The wretch who flies from thy intolerant hateO
To hear his curses on such barbarous swayP
Echoed where'er he bends his cheerless wayP
Could this content him every lip he meetsQ
Teems for his vengeance with such poisonous sweetsQ
Were this his luxury never is thy nameR
Pronounced but he doth banquet on thy shameR
Hears maledictions ring from every sideS
Upon that grasping power that selfish prideS
Which vaunts its own and scorns all rights besideS
That low and desperate envy which to blastT
A neighbor's blessings risks the few thou hastT
That monster Self too gross to be concealedU
Which ever lurks behind thy proffered shieldU
That faithless craft which in thy hour of needV
Can court the slave can swear he shall be freedV
Yet basely spurns him when thy point is gainedW
Back to his masters ready gagged and chainedW
Worthy associate of that band of KingsX
That royal ravening flock whose vampire wingsX
O'er sleeping Europe treacherously broodY
And fan her into dreams of promist goodZ
Of hope of freedom but to drain her bloodA2
If thus to hear thee branded be a blissB2
That Vengeance loves there's yet more sweet than thisB2
That 'twas an Irish head an Irish heartC2
Made thee the fallen and tarnisht thing thou artC2
That as the centaur gave the infected vestD2
In which he died to rack his conqueror's breastD2
We sent thee CASTLEREAGH as heaps of deadE2
Have slain their slayers by the pest they spreadE2
So hath our land breathed out thy fame to dimF2
Thy strength to waste and rot thee soul and limbF2
Her worst infections all condensed in himF2
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When will the world shake off such yokes oh whenG2
Will that redeeming day shine out on menG2
That shall behold them rise erect and freeH2
As Heaven and Nature meant mankind should beH2
When Reason shall no longer blindly bowI2
To the vile pagod things that o'er her browI2
Like him of Jaghernaut drive trampling nowI2
Nor Conquest dare to desolate God's earthJ2
Nor drunken Victory with a NERO'S mirthJ2
Strike her lewd harp amidst a people's groansK2
But built on love the world's exalted thronesK2
Shall to the virtuous and the wise be givenN
Those bright those sole Legitimates of HeavenN
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When will this be or oh is it in truthL2
But one of those sweet day break dreams of youthL2
In which the Soul as round her morning springsK2
'Twixt sleep and waking see such dazzling thingsK2
And must the hope as vain as it is brightM2
Be all resigned and are they only rightM2
Who say this world of thinking souls was madeN2
To be by Kings partitioned truckt and weighedN2
In scales that ever since the world begunN
Have counted millions but as dust to oneN
Are they the only wise who laugh to scornO2
The rights the freedom to which man was bornO2
WhoK
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Who proud to kiss each separate rod of powerP2
Bless while he reigns the minion of the hourP2
Worship each would be god that o'er them movesK2
And take the thundering of his brass for JOVE'SK2
If this be wisdom then farewell my booksK2
Farewell ye shrines of old ye classic brooksK2
Which fed my soul with currents pure and fairC
Of living Truth that now must stagnate thereC
Instead of themes that touch the lyre with lightM2
Instead of Greece and her immortal fightM2
For Liberty which once awaked my stringsK2
Welcome the Grand Conspiracy of KingsK2
The High Legitimates the Holy BandA
Who bolder' even than He of Sparta's landA
Against whole millions panting to be freeH2
Would guard the pass of right line tyrannyH2
Instead of him the Athenian bard whose bladeN2
Had stood the onset which his pen portrayedN2
WelcomeQ2
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And 'stead of ARISTIDES woe the dayP
Such names should mingle welcome CastlereaghL
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Here break we off at this unhallowed nameR
Like priests of old when words ill omened cameR
My next shall tell thee bitterly shall tellR2
Thoughts thatS2
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Thoughts that could patience hold 'twere wiser farT2
To leave still hid and burning where they areT2

Thomas Moore



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