The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Fifth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJKLMNOPQRS STUVTWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F 2G2H2I2J2K2L2M2N2O2L 2P2Q2TR2S2T2R2U2B2V2 W2X2Y2PO2W2P2Z2GA3FB 3C3C2D3E3C3F3C3BG3D3 H3MC3I3J3C3K3L3W2M3L 3C3FC3C3C3Q2C3C3N3C3 C3FTAB3T2UC3C3AEC3O3 L2C3FC3C3GTP3R2B3TTB Q3C3R3TC3S3C3X2T3U3A C3V3RE3W3U3C3C3L2TX3 C3C3VY3C3Z3A4RAZB4C4 K2D4C3E4TF4MC3TG4H4T I4C3J4TK4L4M4P3N4O4O 4O4O4C3P4TO4TC3C3Such are thy views DISCOVERY The great world | A |
Rolls to thine eye revealed to thee the Deep | B |
Submits its awful empire Industry | C |
Awakes and Commerce to the echoing marts | D |
From east to west unwearied pours her wealth | E |
Man walks sublimer and Humanity | C |
Matured by social intercourse more high | F |
More animated lifts her sovereign mien | G |
And waves her golden sceptre Yet the heart | H |
Asks trembling is no evil found Oh turn | I |
Meek Charity and drop a human tear | J |
For the sad fate of Afric's injured sons | K |
And hide for ever hide the sight of chains | L |
Anguish and bondage Yes the heart of man | M |
Is sick and Charity turns pale to think | N |
How soon for pure religion's holy beam | O |
Dark crimes that sullied the sweet day pursued | P |
Like vultures the Discoverer's ocean tract | Q |
Screaming for blood to fields of rich Peru | R |
Or ravaged Mexico while Gold more Gold | S |
The caverned mountains echoed Gold more Gold | S |
Then see the fell eyed prowling buccaneer | T |
Grim as a libbard He his jealous look | U |
Turns to the dagger at his belt his hand | V |
By instinct grasps a bloody scymitar | T |
And ghastly is his smile as o'er the woods | W |
He sees the smoke of burning villages | X |
Ascend and thinks ev'n now he counts his spoil | Y |
See thousands destined to the lurid mine | Z |
Never to see the sun again all names | A2 |
Of husband sire all tender charities | B2 |
Of love deep buried with them in that grave | C2 |
Where life is as a thing long passed and hope | D2 |
No more its sickly ray to cheer the gloom | E2 |
Extends | F2 |
Thou too dread Ocean toss thine arms | G2 |
Exulting for the treasures and the gems | H2 |
That thy dark oozy realm emblaze and call | I2 |
The pale procession of the dead from caves | J2 |
Where late their bodies weltered to attend | K2 |
Thy kingly sceptre and proclaim thy might | L2 |
Lord of the Hurricane bid all thy winds | M2 |
Swell and destruction ride upon the surge | N2 |
Where after the red lightning flash that shows | O2 |
The labouring ship all is at once deep night | L2 |
And long suspense till the slow dawn of day | P2 |
Gleams on the scattered corses of the dead | Q2 |
That strew the sounding shore | T |
Then think of him | R2 |
Ye who rejoice with those you love at eve | S2 |
When winds of winter shake the window frame | T2 |
And more endear your fire oh think of him | R2 |
Who saved alone from the destroying storm | U2 |
Is cast on some deserted rock who sees | B2 |
Sun after sun descend and hopeless hears | V2 |
At morn the long surge of the troubled main | W2 |
That beats without his wretched cave meantime | X2 |
He fears to wake the echoes with his voice | Y2 |
So dread the solitude | P |
Let Greenland's snows | O2 |
Then shine and mark the melancholy train | W2 |
There left to perish whilst the cold pale day | P2 |
Declines along the further ice that binds | Z2 |
The ship and leaves in night the sinking scene | G |
Sad winter closes on the deep the smoke | A3 |
Of frost that late amusive to the eye | F |
Rose o'er the coast is passed and all is now | B3 |
One torpid blank the freezing particles | C3 |
Blown blistering and the white bear seeks her cave | C2 |
Ill fated outcasts when the morn again | D3 |
Shall streak with feeble beam the frozen waste | E3 |
Your air bleached and unburied carcases | C3 |
Shall press the ground and as the stars fade off | F3 |
Your stony eyes glare 'mid the desert snows | C3 |
These triumphs boast fell Demon of the Deep | B |
Though never more the universal shriek | G3 |
Of all that perish thou shalt hear as when | D3 |
The deep foundations of the guilty earth | H3 |
Were shaken at the voice of God and man | M |
Ceased in his habitations yet the sea | C3 |
Thy might tempestuous still and joyless rule | I3 |
Confesses Ah what bloodless shadows throng | J3 |
Ev'n now slow rising from their oozy beds | C3 |
From Mete and those gates of burial | K3 |
That guard the Erythraean from the vast | L3 |
Unfathomed caverns of the Western main | W2 |
Or stormy Orcades whilst the sad shell | M3 |
Of poor Arion to the hollow blast | L3 |
Slow seems to pour its melancholy tones | C3 |
And faintly vibrate as the dead pass by | F |
I see the chiefs who fell in distant lands | C3 |
The prey of murderous savages when yells | C3 |
And shouts and conch resounded through the woods | C3 |
Magellan and De Solis seem to lead | Q2 |
The mournful train Shade of Perouse oh say | C3 |
Where in the tract of unknown seas thy bones | C3 |
Th' insulting surge has swept | N3 |
But who is he | C3 |
Whose look though pale and bloody wears the trace | C3 |
Of pure philanthropy The pitying sigh | F |
Forbid not he was dear to Britons dear | T |
To every beating heart far as the world | A |
Extends and my faint faltering touch ev'n now | B3 |
Dies on the strings when I pronounce thy name | T2 |
Oh lost lamented generous hapless Cook | U |
But cease the vain complaint turn from the shores | C3 |
Wet with his blood Remembrance cast thine eyes | C3 |
Upon the long seas and the wider world | A |
Displayed from his research Smile glowing Health | E |
For now no more the wasted seaman sinks | C3 |
With haggard eye and feeble frame diseased | O3 |
No more with tortured longings for the sight | L2 |
Of fields and hillocks green madly he calls | C3 |
On Nature when before his swimming eye | F |
The liquid long expanse of cheerless seas | C3 |
Seems all one flowery plain Then frantic dreams | C3 |
Arise his eye's distemper'd flash is seen | G |
From the sunk socket as a demon there | T |
Sat mocking till he plunges in the flood | P3 |
And the dark wave goes o'er him | R2 |
Nor wilt thou | B3 |
O Science fail to deck the cold morai | T |
Of him who wider o'er earth's hemisphere | T |
Thy views extended On from deep to deep | B |
Thou shalt retrace the windings of his track | Q3 |
From the high North to where the field ice binds | C3 |
The still Antarctic Thence from isle to isle | R3 |
Thou shalt pursue his progress and explore | T |
New Holland's eastern shores where now the sons | C3 |
Of distant Britain from her lap cast out | S3 |
Water the ground with tears of penitence | C3 |
Perhaps hereafter in their destined time | X2 |
Themselves to rise pre eminent Now speed | T3 |
By Asia's eastern bounds still to the North | U3 |
Where the vast continents of either world | A |
Approach Beyond 'tis silent boundless ice | C3 |
Impenetrable barrier where all thought | V3 |
Is lost where never yet the eagle flew | R |
Nor roamed so far the white bear through the waste | E3 |
But thou dread POWER whose voice from chaos called | W3 |
The earth who bad'st the Lord of light go forth | U3 |
Ev'n as a giant and the sounding seas | C3 |
Roll at thy fiat may the dark deep clouds | C3 |
That thy pavilion shroud from mortal sight | L2 |
So pass away as now the mystery | T |
Obscure through rolling ages is disclosed | X3 |
How man from one great Father sprung his race | C3 |
Spread to that severed continent Ev'n so | C3 |
FATHER in thy good time shall all things stand | V |
Revealed to knowledge | Y3 |
As the mind revolves | C3 |
The change of mighty empires and the fate | Z3 |
Of HIM whom Thou hast made back through the dusk | A4 |
Of ages Contemplation turns her view | R |
We mark as from its infancy the world | A |
Peopled again from that mysterious shrine | Z |
That rested on the top of Ararat | B4 |
Highest of Asian mountains spreading on | C4 |
The Cushites from their mountain caves descend | K2 |
Then before GOD the sons of Ammon stood | D4 |
In their gigantic might and first the seas | C3 |
Vanquished But still from clime to clime the groan | E4 |
Of sacrifice and Superstition's cry | T |
Was heard but when the Dayspring rose of heaven | F4 |
Greece's hoar forests echoed The great Pan | M |
Is dead From Egypt and the rugged shores | C3 |
Of Syrian Tyre the gods of darkness fly | T |
Bel is cast down and Nebo horrid king | G4 |
Bows in imperial Babylon But ah | H4 |
Too soon the Star of Bethlehem whose ray | T |
The host of heaven hailed jubilant and sang | I4 |
Glory to God on high and on earth peace | C3 |
With long eclipse is veiled | J4 |
Red Papacy | T |
Usurped the meek dominion of the Lord | K4 |
Of love and charity vast as a fiend | L4 |
She rose Heaven's light was darkened with her frown | M4 |
And the earth murmured back her hymns of blood | P3 |
As the meek martyr at the burning stake | N4 |
Stood his last look uplifted to his GOD | O4 |
But she is now cast down her empire reft | O4 |
They who in darkness walked and in the shade | O4 |
Of death have seen a new and holy light | O4 |
As in th' umbrageous forest through whose boughs | C3 |
Mossy and damp for many a league the morn | P4 |
With languid beam scarce pierces here and there | T |
Touching some solitary trunk the rest | O4 |
Dark waving in the noxious atmosphere | T |
Through the thick matted leaves the serpent winds | C3 |
His way to find a spot of cas | C3 |
William Lisle Bowles
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