The Alpine Horn. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDB EFEG HHHG IJIG KKKB LLLM NNNO PPPB| When rainbow hues of closing day | A |
| O'er evening's portals faintly play | A |
| The Alpine horn calls far away | A |
| Praised be the Lord | B |
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| And every hill and rock around | C |
| As though they loved the grateful sound | C |
| Send back 'mid solitudes profound | C |
| Praised be the Lord | B |
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| O God has man so thankless grown | D |
| He brings no anthems to thy throne | D |
| When voiceless things have found a tone | D |
| To praise the Lord | B |
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| Ah no for see the shepherds come | E |
| Though hardly heard the welcome home | F |
| From toil of day they quickly come | E |
| To worship God | G |
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| The look that taught their hearts to bow | H |
| And childhood's laugh and sunny brow | H |
| All all by them forgotten now | H |
| In praise to God | G |
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| Kneeling the starry vault beneath | I |
| With spirits free as air they breathe | J |
| Oh pure should be their votive wreath | I |
| Of praise to God | G |
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| How glorious such a scene must be | K |
| When prayer and praise ascend to Thee | K |
| In one glad voice of melody | K |
| Eternal Lord | B |
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| All space thy temple and the air | L |
| A viewless messenger to bear | L |
| Creation's holy vesper prayer | L |
| On wings to Heaven | M |
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| Oh that for me some Alpine horn | N |
| Both closing eve and wak'ning morn | N |
| Would sound and bid my bosom scorn | N |
| The world's vain joys | O |
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| Its treasured idols all resign | P |
| That when Life's cheating hues decline | P |
| The one undying thought be mine | P |
| To praise the Lord | B |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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