Poet Thomas Moore

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The Song Of O'ruark, Prince Of Breffni.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADADEFEF EGHGIJIJ IKIKLMNM

The valley lay smiling before meA
Where lately I left her behindB
Yet I trembled and something hung o'er meA
That saddened the joy of my mindB
I looked for the lamp which she told meA
Should shine when her Pilgrim returnedC
But tho' darkness began to infold meA
No lamp from the battlements burnedC
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I flew to her chamber 'twas lonelyA
As if the loved tenant lay deadD
Ah would it were death and death onlyA
But no the young false one had fledD
And there hung the lute that could softenE
My very worst pains into blissF
While the hand that had waked it so oftenE
Now throbbed to a proud rival's kissF
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There was a time falsest of womenE
When Breffni's good sword would have soughtG
That man thro' a million of foe menH
Who dared but to wrong thee in thoughtG
While now oh degenerate daughterI
Of Erin how fallen is thy fameJ
And thro' ages of bondage and slaughterI
Our country shall bleed for thy shameJ
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Already the curse is upon herI
And strangers her valleys profaneK
They come to divide to dishonorI
And tyrants they long will remainK
But onward the green banner rearingL
Go flesh every sword to the hiltM
On our side is Virtue and ErinN
On theirs is the Saxon and GuiltM

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