To My Father (translated From Milton) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Oh that Pieria's spring would thro' my breast	A
Pour its inspiring influence and rush	B
No rill but rather an o'erflowing flood	C
That for my venerable Father's sake	D
All meaner themes renounced my Muse on wings	E
Of Duty borne might reach a loftier strain	F
For thee my Father howsoe'er it please	G
She frames this slender work nor know I aught	C
That may thy gifts more suitably requite	C
Though to requite them suitably would ask	H
Returns much nobler and surpassing far	I
The meagre stores of verbal gratitude	C
But such as I possess I send thee all	J
This page presents thee in their full amount	C
With thy son's treasures and the sum is nought	C
Naught save the riches that from airy dreams	K
In secret grottos and in laurel bow'rs	K
I have by golden Clio's gift acquir'd	C
Verse is a work divine despise not thou	L
Verse therefore which evinces nothing more	M
Man's heav'nly source and which retaining still	N
Some scintillations of Promethean fire	O
Bespeaks him animated from above	P
The Gods love verse the infernal Pow'rs themselves	K
Confess the influence of verse which stirs	K
The lowest Deep and binds in triple chains	K
Of adamant both Pluto and the shades	K
In verse the Delphic priestess and the pale	Q
Tremulous Sybil make the Future known	R
And He who sacrifices on the shrine	S
Hangs verse both when he smites the threat'ning bull	T
And when he spreads his reeking entrails wide	C
To scrutinize the Fates envelop'd there	U
We too ourselves what time we seek again	V
Our native skies and one eternal Now	L
Shall be the only measure of our Being	W
Crown'd all with gold and chanting to the lyre	X
Harmonious verse shall range the courts above	P
And make the starry firmament resound	C
And even now the fiery Spirit pure	Y
That wheels yon circling orbs directs himself	Z
Their mazy dance with melody of verse	K
Unutt'rable immortal hearing which	A2
Huge Ophiuchus holds his hiss suppress'd	C
Orion soften'd drops his ardent blade	C
And Atlas stands unconscious of his load	C
Verse graced of old the feasts of kings ere yet	C
Luxurious dainties destin'd to the gulph	Z
Immense of gluttony were known and ere	U
Lyaeus deluged yet the temp'rate board	C
Then sat the bard a customary guest	C
To share the banquet and his length of locks	K
With beechen honours bound proposed in verse	K
The characters of Heroes and their deeds	K
To imitation sang of Chaos old	C
Of Nature's birth of Gods that crept in search	B2
Of acorns fall'n and of the thunderbolt	C
Not yet produc'd from Aetna's fiery cave	Z
And what avails at last tune without voice	K
Devoid of matter Such may suit perhaps	K
The rural dance but such was ne'er the song	C2
Of Orpheus whom the streams stood still to hear	D2
And the oaks follow'd Not by chords alone	R
Well touch'd but by resistless accents more	M
To sympathetic tears the Ghosts themselves	K
He mov'd these praises to his verse he owes	K
Nor Thou persist I pray thee still to slight	C
The sacred Nine and to imagine vain	F
And useless Pow'rs by whom inspir'd thyself	Z
Art skillfill to associate verse with airs	K
Harmonious and to give the human voice	K
A thousand modulations heir by right	C
Indisputable of Arion's fame	E2
Now say what wonder is it if a son	F2
Of thine delight in verse if so conjoin'd	C
In close affinity we sympathize	K
In social arts and kindred studies sweet	C
Such distribution of himself to us	K
Was Phoebus' choice thou hast thy gift and I	G2
Mine also and between us we receive	Z
Father and son the whole inspiring God	C
No Howsoe'er the semblance thou assume	H2
Of hate thou hatest not the gentle Muse	K
My Father for thou never bad'st me tread	C
The beaten path and broad that leads right on	I2
To opulence nor did'st condemn thy son	F2
To the insipid clamours of the bar	I
To laws voluminous and ill observ'd	C
But wishing to enrich me more to fill	N
My mind with treasure led'st me far away	J2
From city din to deep retreats to banks	K
And streams Aonian and with free consent	C
Didst place me happy at Apollo's side	C
I speak not now on more important themes	K
Intent of common benefits and such	K2
As Nature bids but of thy larger gifts	K
My Father who when I had open'd once	K
The stores of Roman rhetoric and learn'd	C
The full ton'd language of the eloquent Greeks	K
Whose lofty music grac'd the lips of Jove	Z
Thyself did'st counsel me to add the flow'rs	K
That Gallia boasts those too with which the smooth	L2
Italian his degentrate speech adorns	K
That witnesses his mixture with the Goth	M2
And Palestine's prophetic songs divine	S
To sum the whole whate'er the Heav'n contains	K
The Earth beneath it and the Air between	N2
The Rivers and the restless deep may all	J
Prove intellectual gain to me my wish	O2
Concurring with thy will Science herself	Z
All cloud removed inclines her beauteous head	C
And offers me the lip if dull of heart	C
I shrink not and decline her gracious boon	P2
Go now and gather dross ye sordid minds	K
That covet it what could my Father more	M
What more could Jove himself unless he gave	Z
His own abode the heav'n in which he reigns	K
More eligible gifts than these were not	C
Apollo's to his son had they been safe	Z
As they were insecure who made the boy	Q2
The world's vice luminary bade him rule	R2
The radiant chariot of the day and bind	C
To his young brows his own all dazzling wreath	S2
I therefore although last and least my place	K
Among the Learned in the laurel grove	Z
Will hold and where the conqu'ror's ivy twines	K
Henceforth exempt from th'unletter'd throng	C2
Profane nor even to be seen by such	K2
Away then sleepless Care Complaint away	J2
And Envy with thy 'jealous leer malign'	P2
Nor let the monster Calumny shoot forth	T2
Her venom'd tongue at me Detested foes	K
Ye all are impotent against my peace	K
For I am privileged and bear my breast	C
Safe and too high for your viperean wound	C
But thou my Father since to render thanks	K
Equivalent and to requite by deeds	K
Thy liberality exceeds my power	O
Sufffice it that I thus record thy gifts	K
And bear them treasur'd in a grateful mind	C
Ye too the favourite pastime of my youth	U2
My voluntary numbers if ye dare	U
To hope longevity and to survive	Z
Your master's funeral pile not soon absorb'd	C
In the oblivious Lethaean gulph	Z
Shall to Futurity perhaps convey	Z
This theme and by these praises of my sire	O
Improve the Fathers of a distant age	V2

William Cowper

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