Harps Hung Up In Babylon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABABCBDA CAEEAFFGHHHAICA AJKKALLLAMNNCCAOOPA| The harps hung up in Babylon | A |
| Their loosened strings rang on sang on | A |
| And cast their murmurs forth upon | A |
| The roll and roar of Babylon | A |
| Forget me Lord if I forget | B |
| Jerusalem for Babylon | A |
| If I forget the vision set | B |
| High as the head of Lebanon | C |
| Is lifted over Syria yet | B |
| If I forget and bow me down | D |
| To brutish gods of Babylon | A |
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| Two rivers to each other run | C |
| In the very midst of Babylon | A |
| And swifter than their current fleets | E |
| The restless river of the streets | E |
| Of Babylon of Babylon | A |
| And Babylon's towers smite the sky | F |
| But higher reeks to God most high | F |
| The smoke of her iniquity | G |
| But oh betwixt the green and blue | H |
| To walk the hills that once we knew | H |
| When you were pure and I was true | H |
| So rang the harps in Babylon | A |
| Or ere along the roads of stone | I |
| Had led us captive one by one | C |
| The subtle gods of Babylon | A |
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| The harps hung up in Babylon | A |
| Hung silent till the prophet dawn | J |
| When Judah's feet the highway burned | K |
| Back to the holy hills returned | K |
| And shook their dust on Babylon | A |
| In Zion's halls the wild harps rang | L |
| To Zion's walls their smitten clang | L |
| And lo of Babylon they sang | L |
| They only sang of Babylon | A |
| Jehovah round whose throne of awe | M |
| The vassal stars their orbits draw | N |
| Within the circle of Thy law | N |
| Canst thou make nothing what is done | C |
| Or cause Thy servant to be one | C |
| That has not been in Babylon | A |
| That has not known the power and pain | O |
| Of life poured out like driven rain | O |
| I will go down and find again | P |
| My soul that's lost in Babylon | A |
Arthur Colton
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