The Passion Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEAFGHIEJHKLEMBCEE A BNBBOBPQPEBRBPQASTEE P A UVUEUBEUWUEBBUAABBXU UYXEBEBBBZUBUBA2UEB2 ZEEEBYBEBB

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Where falls the shadow of the Kofel crossB
Athwart the Alpine snows the rose of faithC
Is blooming still in consecrated heartsD
And holy men another cross have hewnE
Whereon the symboled Christ again shall dieA
To cleanse the world of sin Within the valeF
Where flows the Ammer like a trail of tearsG
Upon the Holy Mother's face I seeH
The men and women faithful to their vowsI
Breathing the passion of GethsemaneE
I see the Saviour in JerusalemJ
I see the godless traders scourged I seeH
Their wares strewn on the temple floor their dovesK
Set free to wander on the roving windsL
I see Iscariot kiss the NazareneE
I see the hate of Herod and I hearM
The multitude half sob half wail The CrossB
Then up the Way of Tears to GolgothaC
Crowned with the thorn and then last bitter sceneE
The mortal death of God's immortal SonE
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IIA
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The eagle wheels around the Kofel cragsB
The chamois leaps the tumbling glacier streamN
The sunbeams dance upon the glistening snowsB
Like pixies and the wooded mountain slopesB
Thrill with the notes of songbirds hymns of joyO
Break from the forests and the smiling plainsB
And where the Ammer winds its silvery wayP
The wild swan ever follows like a prayerQ
Who of God's creatures then has lost his wayP
'Tis not the chamois eagle or the swanE
'Tis not the mountain torrent or the birdsB
That twitter all day long within the woodR
'Tis not the Ammer flowing to the seaB
Who of God's creatures then has lost his wayP
Let us go in the Coliseum whereQ
The fresh hewn cross is lifted to the skyA
Let us gaze on the reverential throngS
That marks Christ's passion in a silent aweT
And think a moment on the world of ManE
Man made in God's own image yet the oneE
Of all God's creatures who has lost his wayP
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IIIA
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When on the brooding darkness of the voidU
Wherein the world swung like a tiny starV
Death hovered with his sable wings outspreadU
And Hell yawned far below God gave to manE
His promise of redemption through the bloodU
That dripped from pierced hands high on CalvaryB
The mortal death of God's immortal SonE
The centuries have crumbled into dustU
Cities have risen on the shores of TimeW
Then passed away like footprints in the sandU
Empires have vanished kings have laid them downE
In silence but the word of Him remainsB
Who cried in agony upon the treeB
Forgive them for they know not what they doU
Once more the fresh hewn cross lifts to the skyA
In consecrated OberammergauA
Once more I see the Christ in humble guiseB
Teaching the multitudes and hear his voiceB
In supplication and in parableX
Proclaim his mission to a sinful worldU
Ah could the world but gaze upon that ChristU
With heart attuned unto the symboled loveY
That makes his face a radiant miracleX
The world hath need of thy great lesson nowE
The money changers throng the Temple gatesB
The kiss of Judas burns from lips to browE
The hate of Herod rankles in the heartsB
Of scorners and the poisoned crown of thornsB
Which Greed has woven for humanityB
Bites like the chaplet that the Saviour woreZ
The day that He was crowned and crucifiedU
Methinks I see around the shining crossB
Phantoms that shudder when the name of ChristU
Is whispered by the multitude I seeB
Grim Avarice with shriveled fingers clutchA2
A golden bauble shrinking by his sideU
Oppression stands and hugs a clanking chainE
While deeper in the gloom with eyes aglowB2
And matted hair still dripping red with goreZ
Sits War her trembling hand enclasped withinE
The spectral hand of Death O Christus thouE
To whom it has been given once againE
To symbolize the passion of the crossB
Approach thy task with heart inspired by loveY
And when the Saviour's words fall from thy lipsB
Be thine the Saviour's exaltation whenE
He told the dying thief upon the crossB
That he should be with Him in ParadiseB

Charles Hamilton Musgrove



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