Elegy Xxiii. Reflections Suggested By His Situation Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Born near the scene for Kenelm's fate renown'd	A
I take my plaintive reed and range the grove	B
And raise my lay and bid the rocks resound	A
The savage force of empire and of love	C
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Fast by the centre of yon various wild	D
Where spreading oaks embower a Gothic fane	E
Kendria's arts a brother's youth beguiled	D
There nature urged her tenderest pleas in vain	E
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Soft o'er his birth and o'er his infant hours	F
The ambitious maid could every care employ	G
Then with assiduous fondness cropt the flowers	F
To deck the cradle of the princely boy	G
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But soon the bosom's pleasing calm is flown	H
Love fires her breast the sultry passions rise	I
A favour'd lover seeks the Mercian throne	H
And views her Kenelm with a rival's eyes	I
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How kind were Fortune ah how just were Fate	J
Would Fate or Fortune Mercia's heir remove	K
How sweet to revel on the couch of state	J
To crown at once her lover and her love	C
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See garnish'd for the chase the fraudful maid	L
To these lone hills direct his devious way	M
The youth all prone the sister guide obey'd	L
Ill fated youth himself the destined prey	M
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But now nor shaggy hill nor pathless plain	E
Forms the lone refuge of the sylvan game	N
Since Lyttleton has crown'd the sweet domain	E
With softer pleasures and with fairer fame	N
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Where the rough bowman urged his headlong steed	O
Immortal bards a polish'd race retire	P
And where hoarse scream'd the strepent horn succeed	O
The melting graces of no vulgar lyre	P
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See Thomson loitering near some limpid well	Q
For Britain's friend the verdant wreath prepare	R
Or studious of revolving seasons tell	Q
How peerless Lucia made all seasons fair	R
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See from civic garlands fly	S
And in those groves indulge his tuneful vein	E
Or from yon summit with a guardian's eye	S
Observe how Freedom's hand attires the plain	E
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Here Pope ah never must that towering mind	T
To his loved haunts or dearer friend return	U
What art what friendships oh what fame resign'd	T
In yonder glade I trace his mournful urn	U
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Where is the breast can rage or hate retain	E
And these glad streams and smiling lawns behold	V
Where is the breast can hear the woodland strain	E
And think fair Freedom well exchanged for gold	V
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Through these soft shades delighted let me stray	M
While o'er my head forgotten suns descend	W
Through these dear valleys bend my casual way	M
Till setting life a total shade extend	W
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Here far from courts and void of pompous cares	X
I'll muse how much I owe mine humbler fate	J
Or shrink to find how much Ambition dares	X
To shine in anguish and to grieve in state	J
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Canst thou O Sun that spotless throne disclose	Y
Where her bold arm has left no sanguine stain	E
Where show me where the lineal sceptre glows	Y
Pure as the simple crook that rules the plain	E
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Tremendous pomp where hate distrust and fear	Z
In kindred bosoms solve the social tie	S
There not the parent's smile is half sincere	Z
Nor void of art the consort's melting eye	S
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There with the friendly wish the kindly flame	N
No face is brighten'd and no bosoms beat	A2
Youth manhood age avow one sordid aim	N
And even the beardless lip essays deceit	A2
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There coward Rumours walk their murderous round	A
The glance that more than rural blame instils	Y
Whispers that tinged with friendship doubly wound	A
Pity that injures and concern that kills	Y
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There anger whets but love can ne'er engage	B2
Caressing brothers part but to revile	C2
There all men smile and Prudence warns the wise	Y
To dread the fatal stroke of all that smile	C2
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There all are rivals sister son and sire	D2
With horrid purpose hug destructive arms	Y
There soft eyed maids in murderous plots conspire	D2
And scorn the gentler mischief of their charms	Y
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Let servile minds one endless watch endure	E2
Day night nor hour their anxious guard resign	F2
But lay me Fate on flowery banks secure	E2
Though my whole soul be like my limbs supine	F2
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Yes may my tongue disdain a vassal's care	R
My lyre resound no prostituted lay	M
More warm to merit more elate to wear	R
The cap of Freedom than the crown of bay	M
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Soothed by the murmurs of my pebbled flood	G2
I wish it not o'er golden sands to flow	H2
Cheer'd by the verdure of my spiral wood	I2
I scorn the quarry where no shrub can grow	H2
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No midnight pangs the shepherd's peace pursue	Y
His tongue his hand attempts no secret wound	A
He sings his Delia and if she be true	Y
His love at once and his ambition's crown'd	A

William Shenstone

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