Preface To Maurine And Other Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JKLMNOPQRSD ATGUVWXYJJI step across the mystic border land | A |
And look upon the wonder world of Art | B |
How beautiful how beautiful its hills | C |
And all its valleys how surpassing fair | D |
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The winding paths that lead up to the heights | E |
Are polished by the footsteps of the great | F |
The mountain peaks stand very near to God | G |
The chosen few whose feet have trod thereon | H |
Have talked with Him and with the angels walked | I |
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Here are no sounds of discord no profane | J |
Or senseless gossip of unworthy things | K |
Only the songs of chisels and of pens | L |
Of busy brushes and ecstatic strains | M |
Of souls surcharged with music most divine | N |
Here is no idle sorrow no poor grief | O |
For any day or object left behind | P |
For time is counted precious and herein | Q |
Is such complete abandonment of Self | R |
That tears turn into rainbows and enhance | S |
The beauty of the land where all is fair | D |
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Awed and afraid I cross the border land | A |
Oh who am I that I dare enter here | T |
Where the great artists of the world have trod | G |
The genius crowned aristocrats of Earth | U |
Only the singer of a little song | V |
Yet loving Art with such a mighty love | W |
I hold it greater to have won a place | X |
Just on the fair land's edge to make my grave | Y |
Than in the outer world of greed and gain | J |
To sit upon a royal throne and reign | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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