Kinchinjunga Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEEBB FGGGFFFFF HIIIFFFHH HEEEBBBHH JBBBKKKJJ| Which is the next highest of mountains | A |
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| O white Priest of Eternity around | B |
| Whose lofty summit veiling clouds arise | C |
| Of the earth's immemorial sacrifice | D |
| To Brahma in whose breath all lives and dies | C |
| O Hierarch enrobed in timeless snows | E |
| First born of Asia whose maternal throes | E |
| Seem changed now to a million human woes | E |
| Holy thou art and still Be so nor sound | B |
| One sigh of all the mystery in thee found | B |
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| For in this world too much is overclear | F |
| Immortal Ministrant to many lands | G |
| From whose ice altars flow to fainting sands | G |
| Rivers that each libation poured expands | G |
| Too much is known O Ganges giving sire | F |
| Thy people fathom life and find it dire | F |
| Thy people fathom death and in it fire | F |
| To live again though in Illusion's sphere | F |
| Behold concealed as Grief is in a tear | F |
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| Wherefore continue still enshrined thy rites | H |
| Though dark Thibet that dread ascetic falls | I |
| In strange austerity whose trance appalls | I |
| Before thee and a suppliant on thee calls | I |
| Continue still thy silence high and sure | F |
| That something beyond fleeting may endure | F |
| Something that shall forevermore allure | F |
| Imagination on to mystic flights | H |
| Wherein alone no wing of Evil lights | H |
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| Yea wrap thy awful gulfs and acolytes | H |
| Of lifted granite round with reachless snows | E |
| Stand for Eternity while pilgrim rows | E |
| Of all the nations envy thy repose | E |
| Ensheath thy swart sublimities unscaled | B |
| Be that alone on earth which has not failed | B |
| Be that which never yet has yearned or ailed | B |
| But since primeval Power upreared thy heights | H |
| Has stood above all deaths and all delights | H |
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| And though thy loftier Brother shall be King | J |
| High priest art thou to Brahma unrevealed | B |
| While thy white sanctity forever sealed | B |
| In icy silence leaves desire congealed | B |
| In ghostly ministrations to the sun | K |
| And to the mendicant stars and the moon nun | K |
| Be holy still till East to West has run | K |
| And till no sacrificial suffering | J |
| On any shrine is left to tell life's sting | J |
Cale Young Rice
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