Meditation At Perugia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCD BEEFGHG IJJKLKL MNNOPOQ RSSTUTU QVVWWWW WWWXYXY| The sunset colours mingle in the sky | A |
| And over all the Umbrian valleys flow | B |
| Trevi is touched with wonder and the glow | B |
| Finds high Perugia crimson with renown | C |
| Spello is bright | D |
| And ah St Francis thy deep treasured town | C |
| Enshrined Assisi fully fronts the light | D |
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| This valley knew thee many a year ago | B |
| Thy shrine was built by simpleness of heart | E |
| And from the wound called life thou drew'st the smart | E |
| Unquiet kings came to thee and the sad poor | F |
| Thou gavest them peace | G |
| Far as the Sultan and the Iberian shore | H |
| Thy faith and abnegation gave release | G |
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| Deeper our faith but not so sweet as thine | I |
| Wider our view but not so sanely sure | J |
| For we are troubled by the witching lure | J |
| Of Science with her lightning on the mist | K |
| Science that clears | L |
| Yet never quite discloses what she wist | K |
| And leaves us half with doubts and half with fears | L |
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| We act her dreams that shadow forth the truth | M |
| That somehow here the very nerves of God | N |
| Thrill the old fires the rocks the primal sod | N |
| We throw our speech upon the open air | O |
| And it is caught | P |
| Far down the world to sing and murmur there | O |
| Our common words are with deep wonder fraught | Q |
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| Shall not the subtle spirit of man contrive | R |
| To charm the tremulous ether of the soul | S |
| Wherein it breathes until from pole to pole | S |
| Those who are kin shall speak as face to face | T |
| From star to star | U |
| Even from earth to the most secret place | T |
| Where God and the supreme archangels are | U |
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| Shall we not prove what thou hast faintly taught | Q |
| That all the powers of earth and air are one | V |
| That one deep law persists from mole to sun | V |
| Shall we not search the heart of God and find | W |
| That law empearled | W |
| Until all things that are in matter and mind | W |
| Throb with the secret that began the world | W |
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| Yea we have journeyed since thou trod'st the road | W |
| Yet still we keep the foreappointed quest | W |
| While the last sunset smoulders in the West | W |
| Still the great faith with the undying hope | X |
| Upsprings and flows | Y |
| While dim Assisi fades on the wide slope | X |
| And the deep Umbrian valleys fill with rose | Y |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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