Tirocinium; Or, A Review Of Schools Poem Rhyme Scheme

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It is not from his form in which we trace	A
Strength join'd with beauty dignity with grace	A
That man the master of this globe derives	B
His right of empire over all that lives	C
That form indeed the associate of a mind	D
Vast in its powers ethereal in its kind	D
That form the labour of Almighty skill	E
Framed for the service of a freeborn will	E
Asserts precedence and bespeaks control	F
But borrows all its grandeur from the soul	F
Hers is the state the splendour and the throne	G
An intellectual kingdom all her own	G
For her the memory fills her ample page	H
With truths pour d down from every distant age	H
For her amasses an unbounded store	I
The wisdom of great nations now no more	I
Though laden not encumber d with her spoil	J
Laborious yet unconscious of her toil	J
When copiously supplied then most enlarged	K
Still to be fed and not to be surcharged	K
For her the Fancy roving unconfined	K
The present muse of every pensive mind	K
Works magic wonders adds a brighter hue	L
To Nature s scenes than Nature ever knew	L
At her command winds rise and waters roar	I
Again she lays them slumbering on the shore	I
With flower and fruit the wilderness supplies	M
Or bids the rocks in ruder pomp arise	M
For her the Judgment umpire in the strife	N
That Grace and Nature have to wage through life	N
Quick sighted arbiter of good and ill	E
Appointed sage preceptor to the Will	E
Condemns approves and with a faithful voice	O
Guides the decision of a doubtful choice	O
Why did the fiat of a God give birth	P
To yon fair Sun and his attendant Earth	P
And when descending he resigns the skies	M
Why takes the gentler Moon her turn to rise	M
Whom Ocean feels through all his countless waves	Q
And owns her power on every shore he laves	Q
Why do the seasons still enrich the year	R
Fruitful and young as in their first career	R
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees	Q
Rock d in the cradle of the western breeze	Q
Summer in haste the thriving charge receives	Q
Beneath the shade of her expanded leaves	Q
Till Autumn s fiercer heats and plenteous dews	Q
Dye them at last in all their glowing hues	Q
Twere wild profusion all and bootless waste	K
Power misemploy d munificence misplaced	K
Had not its Author dignified the plan	S
And crown d it with the majesty of man	S
Thus form d thus placed intelligent and taught	K
Look where he will the wonders God has wrought	K
The wildest scorner of his Maker s laws	Q
Finds in a sober moment time to pause	Q
To press the important question on his heart	K
Why form d at all and wherefore as thou art	K
If man be what he seems this hour a slave	T
The next mere dust and ashes in the grave	T
Endued with reason only to descry	R
His crimes and follies with an aching eye	U
With passions just that he may prove with pain	V
The force he spends against their fury vain	V
And if soon after having burnt by turns	Q
With every lust with which frail Nature burns	Q
His being end where death dissolves the bond	K
The tomb take all and all be blank beyond	K
Then he of all that Nature has brought forth	W
Stands self impeach d the creature of least worth	P
And useless while he lives and when he dies	Q
Brings into doubt the wisdom of the skies	Q
Truths that the learn d pursue with eager thought	K
Are not important always as dear bought	K
Proving at last though told in pompous strains	Q
A childish waste of philosophic pains	Q
But truths on which depends our main concern	X
That tis our shame and misery not to learn	X
Shine by the side of every path we tread	K
With such a lustre he that runs may read	K
Tis true that if to trifle life away	Y
Down to the sunset of their latest day	Y
Then perish on futurity s wide shore	R
Like fleeting exhalations found no more	R
Were all that Heaven required of human kind	K
And all the plan their destiny design d	K
What none could reverence all might justly blame	Z
And man would breathe but for his Maker s shame	Z
But reason heard and nature well perused	K
At once the dreaming mind is disabused	K
If all we find possessing earth sea air	R
Reflect His attributes who placed them there	R
Fulfil the purpose and appear design d	K
Proofs of the wisdom of the all seeing mind	K
Tis plain the creature whom he chose to invest	K
With kingship and dominion o er the rest	K
Received his nobler nature and was made	K
Fit for the power in which he stands array d	K
That first or last hereafter if not here	R
He too might make his author s wisdom clear	R
Praise him on earth or obstinately dumb	A2
Suffer his justice in a world to come	A2
This once believed twere logic misapplied	K
To prove a consequence by none denied	K
That we are bound to cast the minds of youth	B2
Betimes into the mould of heavenly truth	B2
That taught of God they may indeed be wise	Q
Nor ignorantly wandering miss the skies	Q
In early days the conscience has in most	K
A quickness which in later life is lost	K
Preserved from guilt by salutary fears	Q
Or guilty soon relenting into tears	Q
Too careless often as our years proceed	K
What friends we sort with or what books we read	K
Our parents yet exert a prudent care	R
To feed our infant minds with proper fare	R
And wisely store the nursery by degrees	Q
With wholesome learning yet acquired with ease	Q
Neatly secured from being soil d or torn	C2
Beneath a pane of thin translucent horn	C2
A book to please us at a tender age	H
Tis call d a book though but a single page	H
Presents the prayer the Saviour deign d to teach	D2
Which children use and parsons when they preach	D2
Lisping our syllables we scramble next	K
Through moral narrative or sacred text	K
And learn with wonder how this world began	S
Who made who marr d and who has ransom d man	S
Points which unless the Scripture made them plain	V
The wisest heads might agitate in vain	V
O thou whom borne on fancy s eager wing	E2
Back to the season of life s happy spring	E2
I pleased remember and while memory yet	K
Holds fast her office here can ne er forget	K
Ingenious dreamer in whose well told tale	F2
Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail	F2
Whose humorous vein strong sense and simple style	G2
May teach the gayest make the gravest smile	G2
Witty and well employ d and like thy Lord	K
Speaking in parables his slighted word	K
I name thee not lest so despised a name	Z
Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame	Z
Yet e en in transitory life s late day	Y
That mingles all my brown with sober grey	Y
Revere the man whose Pilgrim marks the road	K
And guides the Progress of the soul to God	K
Twere well with most if books that could engage	H
Their childhood pleased them at a riper age	H
The man approving what had charm d the boy	H2
Would die at last in comfort peace and joy	H2
And not with curses on his heart who stole	F
The gem of truth from his unguarded soul	F
The stamp of artless piety impress d	K
By kind tuition on his yielding breast	K
The youth now bearded and yet pert and raw	R
Regards with scorn though once received with awe	R
And warp d into the labyrinth of lies	Q
That babblers call d philosophers devise	Q
Blasphemes his creed as founded on a plan	S
Replete with dreams unworthy of a man	S
Touch but his nature in its ailing part	K
Assert the native evil of his heart	K
His pride resents the charge although the proof	I2
Rise in his forehead and seem rank enough	J2
Point to the cure describe a Saviour s cross	Q
As God s expedient to retrieve his loss	Q
The young apostate sickens at the view	L
And hates it with the malice of a Jew	L
How weak the barrier of mere nature proves	Q
Opposed against the pleasures nature loves	Q
While self betray d and wilfully undone	K2
She longs to yield no sooner woo d than won	K2
Try now the merits of this blest exchange	L2
Of modest truth for wit s eccentric range	L2
Time was he closed as he began the day	Y
With decent duty not ashamed to pray	Y
The practice was a bond upon his heart	K
A pledge he gave for a consistent part	K
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William Cowper

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