The Temple - What Makes It Of Worth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHICDCD EJEJ| You may delve down to rock for your foundation piers | A |
| You may go with your steel to the sky | B |
| You may purchase the best of the thought of the years | A |
| And the finest of workmanship buy | B |
| You may line with the rarest of marble each hall | C |
| And with gold you may tint it but then | D |
| It is only a building if it after all | C |
| Isn't filled with the spirit of men | D |
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| You may put up a structure of brick and of stone | E |
| Such as never was put up before | F |
| Place there the costliest woods that are grown | E |
| And carve every pillar and door | F |
| You may fill it with splendors of quarry and mine | G |
| With the glories of brush and of pen | D |
| But it's only a building though ever so fine | G |
| If it hasn't the spirit of men | D |
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| You may build such structure that lightning can't harm | H |
| Or one that an earthquake can't raze | I |
| You may build it of granite and boast that its charm | H |
| Shall last to the end of all days | I |
| But you might as well never have builded at all | C |
| Never cleared off the bog and the fen | D |
| If after it's finished its sheltering wall | C |
| Doesn't stand for the spirit of men | D |
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| For it isn't the marble nor is it the stone | E |
| Nor is it the columns of steel | J |
| By which is the worth of an edifice known | E |
| But it's something that's living and real | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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