Russia
Sydney Elliott Napier 1870 (Sydney) – 1940 (Chatswood)
IMPLACABLE as are thy arctic floes;
Grim and gigantic as thy mountain height;
Girt with thy pines for spindles and the light
Of pale auroras for thy stars; to those
Who know thee not thou seem’st as one who goes
Unvex’d by Wrong, nor swerves to help the Right,
A grey Lachesis of the Northern night,
Stark as thy steppes and colder than thy snows.
But we—we know thee now, Ally and Friend!
True as thy Baltic Spars and tried by fire,
Thy seeming coldness hides a courage high,
A stern resolve to do, endure and die,
So that the holy cause of thy desire—
Thy cause and ours—shall triumph in the end.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBAABBA CDEEDC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
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