March Of The Monks Of Bangor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGHHEE IIJJHHEE KKLLIIEE MMNNOOEE| When the heathen trumpet's clang | A |
| Round beleaguer'd Chester rang | A |
| Veiled nun and friar grey | B |
| March'd from Bangor's fair Abbaye | C |
| High their holy anthem sounds | D |
| Cestria's vale the hymn rebounds | D |
| Floating down the silvan Dee | E |
| O miserere Domine | E |
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| On the long procession goes | F |
| Glory round their crosses glows | F |
| And the Virgin mother mild | G |
| In their peaceful banner smiled | G |
| Who could think such saintly band | H |
| Doom'd to feel unhallow'd hand | H |
| Such was the Divine decree | E |
| O miserere Domine | E |
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| Bands that masses only sung | I |
| Hands that censers only swung | I |
| Met the northern bow and bill | J |
| Heard the war cry wild and shrill | J |
| Woe to Brockmael's feeble hand | H |
| Woe to Olfrid's bloody brand | H |
| Woe to Saxon cruelty | E |
| O miserere Domine | E |
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| Weltering amid warriors slain | K |
| Spurn'd by steeds with bloody mane | K |
| Slaughter'd down by heathen blade | L |
| Bangor's peaceful monks are laid | L |
| Word of parting rest unspoke | I |
| Mass unsung and bread unbroke | I |
| For their souls for charity | E |
| O miserere Domine | E |
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| Bangor o'er the murder wail | M |
| Long thy ruins told the tale | M |
| Shatter'd towers and broken arch | N |
| Long recall'd the woeful march | N |
| On thy shrine no tapers burn | O |
| Never shall thy priests return | O |
| The pilgrim sighs and sings for thee | E |
| O miserere Domine | E |
Walter Scott (sir)
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