The Hereditary Prince of Weimar, on His Proceeding to Paris (Sung in a Circle of Friends.)
With one last bumper let us hailThe wanderer beloved,Who takes his leave of this still valeWherein in youth he roved.
From loving arms, from native home,He tears himself away,To yonder city proud to roam,That makes whole lands its prey.
Dissension flies, all tempests end,And chained is strife abhorred;We in the crater may descendFrom whence the lava poured.
A gracious fate conduct thee throughLife's wild and mazy track!A bosom nature gave thee true,--A bosom true bring back!
Thou'lt visit lands that war's wild trainHad crushed with careless heed;Now smiling peace salutes the plain,And strews the golden seed.
The hoary Father Rhine thou'lt greet,Who thy forefather blestWill think of, whilst his waters fleetIn ocean's bed to rest.
Do homage to the hero's manes,And offer to the Rhine,The German frontier who maintains,His own-created wine,--
So that thy country's soul thy guideMay be, when thou hast crossedOn the frail bark to yonder side,Where German faith is lost!
Words in this poem
- bumper n.
- A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. [A corruption of bumbard, bombard, a large drinking vessel.]
- vale n.
- A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr. Avalanche, Vail to lower, Valley.]
- yonder adv.
- At a distance, but within view. [OE. yonder, ýonder; cf. OD. ginder, Goth. jaindr there. Yond, adv.]
- strife n.
- The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [OF. estrif. See Strive.]
- crater n.
- The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [L. crater, cratera, a mixing vessel, the mouth of a volcano, Gr. ir to cook, Crail, in Holy Grail.]
- hoary a.
- White or whitish."The hoary willows."
- forefather n.
- One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
- hast
- , 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Fave, contr. of havest.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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Form and metre
The Hereditary Prince of Weimar, on His Proceeding to Paris (Sung in a Circle of Friends.) is 32 lines in 8 stanzas of 4 lines each. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, complete in 7 of its 8 stanzas. The metre is common measure, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 93%).
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Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 A-A- hailA · beloved · valeA · roved
- 2 ABAB homeA · awayB · roamA · preyB
- 3 ABAB endA · abhorredB · descendA · pouredB
- 4 ABAB throughA · trackB · trueA · backB
- 5 ABAB trainA · heedB · plainA · seedB
- 6 ABAB greetA · blestB · fleetA · restB
- 7 ABAB manesA · rhineB · maintainsA · wineB
- 8 ABAB guideA · crossedB · sideA · lostB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against common measure. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| With one last bumper let us hail | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| The wanderer beloved, | 6 | ·/˘˘˘/ |
| Who takes his leave of this still vale | 8 | ········ |
| Wherein in youth he roved. | 6 | ······ |
| From loving arms, from native home, | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| He tears himself away, | 6 | ··˘/˘/ |
| To yonder city proud to roam, | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| That makes whole lands its prey. | 6 | ······ |
| Dissension flies, all tempests end, | 8 | ˘/˘··/˘· |
| And chained is strife abhorred; | 6 | ····˘/ |
| We in the crater may descend | 8 | ···/˘·˘/ |
| From whence the lava poured. | 6 | ···/˘· |
| A gracious fate conduct thee through | 8 | ·/˘·˘/·· |
| Life's wild and mazy track! | 6 | ···/˘· |
| A bosom nature gave thee true,-- | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| A bosom true bring back! | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Thou'lt visit lands that war's wild train | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Had crushed with careless heed; | 6 | ···/˘· |
| Now smiling peace salutes the plain, | 8 | ·/˘·˘/·· |
| And strews the golden seed. | 6 | ···/˘· |
| The hoary Father Rhine thou'lt greet, | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| Who thy forefather blest | 6 | ··/·˘· |
| Will think of, whilst his waters fleet | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| In ocean's bed to rest. | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Do homage to the hero's manes, | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| And offer to the Rhine, | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| The German frontier who maintains, | 8 | ·/˘˘/·˘/ |
| His own-created wine,-- | 6 | ··˘/˘· |
| So that thy country's soul thy guide | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| May be, when thou hast crossed | 6 | ······ |
| On the frail bark to yonder side, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| Where German faith is lost! | 6 | ·/˘··· |
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