Nelson, Pitt, Fox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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To mute and to material thingsA
New life revolving summer bringsA
The genial call dead Nature hearsB
And in her glory reappearsC
But oh my Country's wintry stateD
What second spring shall renovateD
What powerful call shall bid ariseE
The buried warlike and the wiseE
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The mind that thought for Britain's wealF
The hand that grasp'd the victor steelF
The vernal sun new life bestowsG
Even on the meanest flower that blowsG
But vainly vainly may he shineH
Where glory weeps o'er Nelson's shrineH
And vainly pierce the solemn gloomI
That shrouds O Pitt thy hallow'd tombI
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Deep graved in every British heartJ
O never let those names departJ
Say to your sons Lo here his graveK
Who victor died on Gadite waveK
To him as to the burning levinL
Short bright resistless course was givenM
Where'er his country's foes were foundN
Was heard the fated thunder's soundN
Till burst the bolt on yonder shoreO
Roll'd blazed destroy'd and was no moreO
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Nor mourn ye less his perish'd worthP
Who bade the conqueror go forthQ
And launch'd that thunderbolt of warO
On Egypt Hafnia TrafalgarR
Who born to guide such high empriseE
For Britain's weal was early wiseE
Alas to whom the Almighty gaveK
For Britain's sins an early graveK
His worth who in his mightiest hourR
A bauble held the pride of powerR
Spurn'd at the sordid lust of pelfK
And served his Albion for herselfK
Who when the frantic crowd amainM
Strain'd at subjection's bursting reinM
O'er their wild mood full conquest gain'dS
The pride he would not crush restrain'dS
Show'd their fierce zeal a worthier causeT
And brought the freeman's arm to aid the freeman's lawsU
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Hadst thou but lived though stripp'd of powerR
A watchman on the lonely towerR
Thy thrilling trump had roused the landV
When fraud or danger were at handV
By thee as by the beacon lightW
Our pilots had kept course arightW
As some proud column though aloneM
Thy strength had propp'd the tottering throneM
Now is the stately column brokeX
The beacon light is quench'd in smokeX
The trumpet's silver voice is stillF
The warder silent on the hillF
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O think how to his latest dayW
When Death just hovering claim'd his preyW
With Palinure's unalter'd moodW
Firm at his dangerous post he stoodW
Each call for needful rest repell'dW
With dying hand the rudder heldW
Till in his fall with fateful swayW
The steerage of the realm gave wayW
Then while on Britain's thousand plainsY
One polluted church remainsY
Whose peaceful bells ne'er sent aroundW
The bloody tocsin's maddening soundW
But still upon the hallow'd dayW
Convoke the swains to praise and prayW
While faith and civil peace are dearZ
Grace this cold marble with a tearA2
He who preserved them Pitt lies hereB2
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Nor yet suppress the generous sighK
Because his rival slumbers nighK
Nor be thy Requiescat dumbC2
Lest it be said o'er Fox's tombI
For talents mourn untimely lostW
When best employ'd and wanted mostW
Mourn genius high and lore profoundW
And wit that loved to play not woundW
And all the reasoning powers divineM
To penetrate resolve combineM
And feelings keen and fancy's glowF
They sleep with him who sleeps belowF
And if thou mourn'st they could not saveK
From error him who owns this graveK
Be every harsher thought suppress'dW
And sacred be the last long restW
Here where the end of earthly thingsA
Lays heroes patriots bards and kingsA
Where stiff the hand and still the tongueD2
Of those who fought and spoke and sungD2
Here where the fretted vaults prolongE2
The distant notes of holy songE2
As if some angel spoke agenM
'All peace on earth good will to men'M
If ever from an English heartW
O here let prejudice departW
And partial feeling cast asideW
Record that Fox a Briton diedW
When Europe crouch'd to France's yokeX
And Austria bent and Prussia brokeX
And the firm Russian's purpose braveK
Was barter'd by a timorous slaveK
Even then dishonour's peace he spurn'dW
The sullied olive branch return'dW
Stood for his country's glory fastW
And nail'd her colours to the mastW
Heaven to reward his firmness gaveK
A portion in this honour'd graveK
And ne'er held marble in its trustW
Of two such wondrous men the dustW
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With more than mortal powers endow'dW
How high they soar'd above the crowdW
Theirs was no common party raceF2
Jostling by dark intrigue for placeF2
Like fabled gods their mighty warO
Shook realms and nations in its jarG2
Beneath each banner proud to standW
Look'd up the noblest of the landW
Till through the British world were knownM
The names of Pitt and Fox aloneM
Spells of such force no wizard graveK
E'er framed in dark Thessalian caveK
Though his could drain the ocean dryK
And force the planets from the skyK
These spells are spent and spent with theseH2
The wine of life is on the leesH2
Genius and taste and talent goneM
For ever tomb'd beneath the stoneM
Where taming thought to human prideW
The mighty chiefs sleep side by sideW
Drop upon Fox's grave the tearA2
'Twill trickle to his rival's bierB2
O'er Pitt's the mournful requiem soundW
And Fox's shall the notes reboundW
The solemn echo seems to cryK
'Here let their discord with them dieK
Speak not for those a separate doomI
Whom fate made Brothers in the tombI
But search the land of living menM
Where wilt thou find their like agen '-

Walter Scott (sir)



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