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 T2T2Return no never while the withering hand | A |
Of bigot power is on that hapless land | A |
While for the faith my fathers held to God | B |
Even in the fields where free those fathers trod | B |
I am proscribed and like the spot left bare | C |
In Israel's halls to tell the proud and fair | C |
Amidst their mirth that Slavery had been there | C |
On all I love home parents friends I trace | D |
The mournful mark of bondage and disgrace | D |
No let them stay who in their country's pangs | E |
See naught but food for factions and harangues | E |
Who yearly kneel before their masters' doors | F |
And hawk their wrongs as beggars do their sores | F |
Still let your | G |
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Still hope and suffer all who can but I | I |
Who durst not hope and cannot bear must fly | I |
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But whither every where the scourge pursues | J |
Turn where he will the wretched wanderer views | J |
In the bright broken hopes of all his race | D |
Countless reflections of the Oppressor's face | D |
Every where gallant hearts and spirits true | K |
Are served up victims to the vile and few | K |
While England every where the general foe | L |
Of Truth and Freedom wheresoe'er they glow | L |
Is first when tyrants strike to aid the blow | L |
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Oh England could such poor revenge atone | M |
For wrongs that well might claim the deadliest one | N |
Were it a vengeance sweet enough to sate | O |
The wretch who flies from thy intolerant hate | O |
To hear his curses on such barbarous sway | P |
Echoed where'er he bends his cheerless way | P |
Could this content him every lip he meets | Q |
Teems for his vengeance with such poisonous sweets | Q |
Were this his luxury never is thy name | R |
Pronounced but he doth banquet on thy shame | R |
Hears maledictions ring from every side | S |
Upon that grasping power that selfish pride | S |
Which vaunts its own and scorns all rights beside | S |
That low and desperate envy which to blast | T |
A neighbor's blessings risks the few thou hast | T |
That monster Self too gross to be concealed | U |
Which ever lurks behind thy proffered shield | U |
That faithless craft which in thy hour of need | V |
Can court the slave can swear he shall be freed | V |
Yet basely spurns him when thy point is gained | W |
Back to his masters ready gagged and chained | W |
Worthy associate of that band of Kings | X |
That royal ravening flock whose vampire wings | X |
O'er sleeping Europe treacherously brood | Y |
And fan her into dreams of promist good | Z |
Of hope of freedom but to drain her blood | A2 |
If thus to hear thee branded be a bliss | B2 |
That Vengeance loves there's yet more sweet than this | B2 |
That 'twas an Irish head an Irish heart | C2 |
Made thee the fallen and tarnisht thing thou art | C2 |
That as the centaur gave the infected vest | D2 |
In which he died to rack his conqueror's breast | D2 |
We sent thee CASTLEREAGH as heaps of dead | E2 |
Have slain their slayers by the pest they spread | E2 |
So hath our land breathed out thy fame to dim | F2 |
Thy strength to waste and rot thee soul and limb | F2 |
Her worst infections all condensed in him | F2 |
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When will the world shake off such yokes oh when | G2 |
Will that redeeming day shine out on men | G2 |
That shall behold them rise erect and free | H2 |
As Heaven and Nature meant mankind should be | H2 |
When Reason shall no longer blindly bow | I2 |
To the vile pagod things that o'er her brow | I2 |
Like him of Jaghernaut drive trampling now | I2 |
Nor Conquest dare to desolate God's earth | J2 |
Nor drunken Victory with a NERO'S mirth | J2 |
Strike her lewd harp amidst a people's groans | K2 |
But built on love the world's exalted thrones | K2 |
Shall to the virtuous and the wise be given | N |
Those bright those sole Legitimates of Heaven | N |
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When will this be or oh is it in truth | L2 |
But one of those sweet day break dreams of youth | L2 |
In which the Soul as round her morning springs | K2 |
'Twixt sleep and waking see such dazzling things | K2 |
And must the hope as vain as it is bright | M2 |
Be all resigned and are they only right | M2 |
Who say this world of thinking souls was made | N2 |
To be by Kings partitioned truckt and weighed | N2 |
In scales that ever since the world begun | N |
Have counted millions but as dust to one | N |
Are they the only wise who laugh to scorn | O2 |
The rights the freedom to which man was born | O2 |
Who | K |
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Who proud to kiss each separate rod of power | P2 |
Bless while he reigns the minion of the hour | P2 |
Worship each would be god that o'er them moves | K2 |
And take the thundering of his brass for JOVE'S | K2 |
If this be wisdom then farewell my books | K2 |
Farewell ye shrines of old ye classic brooks | K2 |
Which fed my soul with currents pure and fair | C |
Of living Truth that now must stagnate there | C |
Instead of themes that touch the lyre with light | M2 |
Instead of Greece and her immortal fight | M2 |
For Liberty which once awaked my strings | K2 |
Welcome the Grand Conspiracy of Kings | K2 |
The High Legitimates the Holy Band | A |
Who bolder' even than He of Sparta's land | A |
Against whole millions panting to be free | H2 |
Would guard the pass of right line tyranny | H2 |
Instead of him the Athenian bard whose blade | N2 |
Had stood the onset which his pen portrayed | N2 |
Welcome | Q2 |
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And 'stead of ARISTIDES woe the day | P |
Such names should mingle welcome Castlereagh | L |
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Here break we off at this unhallowed name | R |
Like priests of old when words ill omened came | R |
My next shall tell thee bitterly shall tell | R2 |
Thoughts that | S2 |
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Thoughts that could patience hold 'twere wiser far | T2 |
To leave still hid and burning where they are | T2 |
Thomas Moore
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