Epistle To John Sargent, Esq. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKLL MMNNOPQQMMRRAASSHHTT UUVVWWXXQQYYZZA2A2B2 B2EEB2B2C2C2 GGD2D2B2B2B2B2E2E2MF 2MMMMG2G2H2I2J2J2K2K 2GGFFL2A| OCTOBER | A |
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| Friend of my vernal and autumnal day | B |
| In life's gay bloom and in its slow decay | B |
| Sargent who leav'st thy hermit's studious cell | C |
| To act thy busier part and act it well | C |
| In courts of rural justice to preside | D |
| In temperate dignity unstain'd with pride | D |
| Oft let us meet that friendship's honour'd chain | E |
| In its extension may new lustre gain | E |
| So let us cheer'd by memory's social blaze | F |
| Live o'er again our long departed days | F |
| I thank kind Heaven that made the pleasure mine | G |
| Beneath my roof to see thy virtues shine | G |
| When Providence thy fondest wishes crown'd | H |
| Casting thy lot on fair and southern ground | H |
| When the gay songs of Eartham's friendly grove | I |
| Proclaim'd the triumph of thy prosperous love | J |
| Tis sweet to plant a friend in genial land | K |
| And see his branches round the world expand | K |
| I share thy joy the heart's parental feast | L |
| To learn thy filial pilgrim in the East | L |
| Thy youthful Harry is among the prime | M |
| Whom learning honours in her Indian clime | M |
| Nor less the joy to hear thy eldest born | N |
| Whom gifts of sacred eloquence adorn | N |
| Has with Cicestria's liberal applause | O |
| Those gifts exerted in the noblest cause | P |
| Pleas'd to promote the most sublime emprise | Q |
| That Christian charity could e'er devise | Q |
| To blend her votaries of every name | M |
| In one harmonious universal aim | M |
| To make the word of God that truest wealth | R |
| The heart's nutrition and the spirit's health | R |
| As common as the food by heavenly power | A |
| Pour'd from the skies a life preserving shower | A |
| On deserts pour'd in hopeless hunger's track | S |
| When He who gather'd little felt no lack | S |
| My friend of many years we both have found | H |
| Darkness and sunshine on the chequer'd ground | H |
| In different paths appointed to our feet | T |
| You in the world your host in his retreat | T |
| Yet blest be Heaven that grants us to behold | U |
| Wonders of Providence like those of old | U |
| When mortals in the waste they murmuring trod | V |
| Saw and rever'd the guidance of their God | V |
| We have beheld and with one heart and voice | W |
| Hail'd the bright scene that bids the globe rejoice | W |
| Nature releas'd from devastation's flood | X |
| And peace emerging from a sea of blood | X |
| Wonders yet happier to devotion's eyes | Q |
| In blissful vision will now widely rise | Q |
| From pure diffusive zeal in Britain sprung | Y |
| Bidding the Gospel speak in every tongue | Y |
| Till its effect earth's utmost bounds attest | Z |
| Jesus enthron'd in every human breast | Z |
| And all his subjects as his mercy will'd | A2 |
| Feeling within themselves his joy fulfill'd | A2 |
| Yes my time honoured friend with one accord | B2 |
| We bless the promised advent of our Lord | B2 |
| In heavenly prospect tho' we still sustain | E |
| Our unexhausted share of earthly pain | E |
| But whatsoever ills yet undisplay'd | B2 |
| May o'er our eve of life throw deeper shade | B2 |
| We have the constant comfort to possess | C2 |
| An antidote against the mind's distress | C2 |
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| That settled trust in Providence divine | G |
| Which lets the Christian at no lot repine | G |
| But when most tried his faith's prime power employ | D2 |
| And make affliction minister to joy | D2 |
| We both have past thro' many a troubled day | B2 |
| And felt adversity's heart searching sway | B2 |
| But when most wounded both have kiss'd the rod | B2 |
| And blest the pangs assign'd us by our God | B2 |
| To wean us from a world which Nature sees | E2 |
| None estimate aright or quit with ease | E2 |
| But souls Heaven taught that free from doubt's alarm | M |
| Hail death their herald to the Saviour's arms | F2 |
| We both my friend in mind sedate and firm | M |
| Enter'd with thankfulness life's latest term | M |
| And I might claim could years such right assume | M |
| First to attain the quiet of the tomb | M |
| There show me still the friendship of our youth | G2 |
| And still speak of me with indulgent truth | G2 |
| May'st thou less worn by griefs of many a year | H2 |
| Still rich in filial gems that earth endear | I2 |
| Thy public duties long with grace discharge | J2 |
| Esteem'd and honour'd by the world at large | J2 |
| Thy elder idler friend that world may spare | K2 |
| And yet allow his name a station there | K2 |
| For he long literary zeal has shown | G |
| To honour merit that surpassed his own | G |
| And hop'd to live beyond his mortal days | F |
| In England's memory and friendship's praise | F |
| High hopes o'er which his holier thoughts aspire | L2 |
| And make the peace of God his paramount desire | A |
William Hayley
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