The Frozen Grail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF GCHCIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YGGZA2GB2C2D2E2GF2XG 2 H2I2WJ2VB2K2HL2QM2B| To Peary and his men before the last expedition | A |
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| Why sing the legends of the Holy Grail | B |
| The dead crusaders of the Sepulchre | C |
| While these men live Are the great bards all dumb | D |
| Here is a vision to shake the blood of Song | E |
| And make Fame's watchman tremble at his post | F |
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| What shall prevail against the spirit of man | G |
| When cold the lean and snarling wolf of hunger | C |
| The threatening spear of ice mailed Solitude | H |
| Silence and space and ghostly footed Fear | C |
| Prevail not Dante in his frozen hell | I |
| Shivering endured no bleakness like the void | J |
| These men have warmed with their own flaming will | K |
| And peopled with their dreams The wind from fierce | L |
| Arcturus in their faces at their backs | M |
| The whip of the world's doubt and in their souls | N |
| Courage to die if death shall be the price | O |
| Of that cold cup that will assuage their thirst | P |
| They climb and fall and stagger toward the goal | Q |
| They lay themselves the road whereby they travel | R |
| And sue God for a franchise Does He watch | S |
| Behind the lattice of the boreal lights | T |
| In that grail chapel of their stern vowed quest | U |
| Ninety of God's long paces toward the North | V |
| Will they behold the splendor of His face | W |
| To conquer the world must man renounce the world | X |
| These have renounced it Had ye only faith | Y |
| Ye might move mountains said the Nazarene | G |
| Why these have faith to move the zones of man | G |
| Out to the point where All and Nothing meet | Z |
| They catch the bit of Death between their teeth | A2 |
| In one wild dash to trample the unknown | G |
| And leap the gates of knowledge They have dared | B2 |
| Even to defy the sentinel that guards | C2 |
| The doors of the forbidden dared to hurl | D2 |
| Their breathing bodies after the Ideal | E2 |
| That like the heavenly kingdom must be taken | G |
| Only by violence The star that leads | F2 |
| The leader of this quest has held the world | X |
| True to its orbit for a million years | G2 |
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| And shall he fail They never fail who light | H2 |
| Their lamp of faith at the unwavering flame | I2 |
| Burnt for the altar service of the Race | W |
| Since the beginning He shall find the strange | J2 |
| The white immaculate Virgin of the North | V |
| Whose steady gaze no mortal ever dared | B2 |
| Whose icy hand no human ever grasped | K2 |
| In the dread silence and the solitude | H |
| She waits and listens through the centuries | L2 |
| For one indomitable destined soul | Q |
| Born to endure the glory of her eyes | M2 |
| And lift his warm lips to the frozen Grail | B |
Elsa Barker
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