’When thine | harvest | yields thee | pleasure,
      thou the | golden | sheaf shalt | bind;
    To the | poor be | -longs the | treasure
      of the | scatter’d | ears be | -hind.’”
       Psalms and Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Hymn LV.

A still more common form is that which reduces all these tetrameters to single rhymes, preserving their alternate succession.  In such metre and stanza, is Montgomery’s “Wanderer of Switzerland, a Poem, in Six Parts,” and with an aggregate of eight hundred and forty-four lines.  Example:—­

    1.

    “’Wanderer, | whither | wouldst thou | roam? 
      To what | region | far a | -way,
    Bend thy | steps to | find a | home,
      In the | twilight | of thy | day?’

    2.

    ’In the | twilight | of my | day,
      I am | hastening | to the | west;
    There my | weary limbs | to lay,
      Where the | sun re | -tires to | rest.

    3.

    Far be | -yond the At | -lantic | floods,
      Stretched be | -neath the | evening | sky,
    Realms of | mountains, | dark with | woods,
      In Co | -lumbia’s | bosom | lie.

    4.

    There, in | glens and | caverns | rude,
      Silent | since the | world be | -gan,
    Dwells the | virgin | Soli | -tude,
      Unbe | -trayed by | faithless | man: 

    5.

    Where a | tyrant | never | trod,
      Where a | slave was | never | known,
    But where | nature | worships | God
      In the | wilder | -ness a | -lone.

    6.

    Thither, | thither | would I | roam;
      There my | children | may be | free;
    I for | them will | find a | home;
      They shall | find a | grave for | me.’”

First six stanzas of Part VI, pp. 71 and 72.

MEASURE II.—­TROCHAIC OF SEVEN FEET, OR HEPTAMETER.

Example.—­Psalm LXX,[510] Versified.

Hasten, | Lord, to | rescue | me, and | set me | safe from | trouble;
Shame thou | those who | seek my | soul, re | -ward their | mischief
| double. 
Turn the | taunting | scorners | back, who | cry, ‘A | -ha!’ so
| loudly;
Backward | in con | -fusion | hurl the | foe that | mocks me | proudly. 
Then in | thee let | those re | -joice, who | seek thee, | self-de
| -nying;
All who | thy sal | -vation | love, thy | name be | glory | -fying. 
So let | God be | magni | -fied.  But | I am | poor and | needy: 
Hasten, | Lord, who | art my | Helper; | let thine | aid be | speedy.