Golden--of The Selkirks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CCA DDA EEA FFA GGA HHA BBA| A trail upwinds from Golden | A |
| It leads to a land God only knows | B |
| To the land of eternal frozen snows | B |
| That trail unknown and olden | A |
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| And they tell a tale that is strange and wild | C |
| Of a lovely and lonely mountain child | C |
| That went up the trail from Golden | A |
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| A child in the sweet of her womanhood | D |
| Beautiful tender grave and good | D |
| As the saints in time long olden | A |
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| And the days count not nor the weeks avail | E |
| For the child that went up the mountain trail | E |
| Came never again to Golden | A |
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| And the watchers wept in the midnight gloom | F |
| Where the canyons yawn and the Selkirks loom | F |
| For the love that they knew of olden | A |
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| And April dawned with its suns aflame | G |
| And the eagles wheeled and the vultures came | G |
| And poised o'er the town of Golden | A |
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| God of the white eternal peaks | H |
| Guard the dead while the vulture seeks | H |
| God of the days so olden | A |
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| For only God in His greatness knows | B |
| Where the mountain holly above her grows | B |
| On the trail that leads from Golden | A |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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