In Memoriam'rev J J Lyons, Rosh-hashanah, 5638 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEED FGGFHIJKKJ LMMNOOPQQP RSSRQQTUVT| The golden harvest tide is here the corn | A |
| Bows its proud tops beneath the reaper's hand | B |
| Ripe orchards' plenteous yields enrich the land | B |
| Bring the first fruits and offer them this morn | A |
| With the stored sweetness of all summer hours | C |
| The amber honey sucked from myriad flowers | C |
| And sacrifice your best first fruits to day | D |
| With fainting hearts and hands forespent with toil | E |
| Offer the mellow harvest's splendid spoil | E |
| To Him who gives and Him who takes away | D |
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| Bring timbrels bring the harp of sweet accord | F |
| And in a pleasant psalm your voice attune | G |
| And blow the cornet greeting the new moon | G |
| Sing holy holy holy is the Lord | F |
| Who killeth and who quickeneth again | H |
| Who woundeth and who healeth mortal pain | I |
| Whose hand afflicts us and who sends us peace | J |
| Hail thou slim arc of promise in the West | K |
| Thou pledge of certain plenty peace and rest | K |
| With the spent year may the year's sorrows cease | J |
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| For there is mourning now in Israel | L |
| The crown the garland of the branching tree | M |
| Is plucked and withered Ripe of years was he | M |
| The priest the good old man who wrought so well | N |
| Upon his chosen globe For he was one | O |
| Who at his seed plot toiled through rain and sun | O |
| Morn found him not as one who slumbereth | P |
| Noon saw him faithful and the restful night | Q |
| Stole o'er him at his labors to requite | Q |
| The just man's service with the just man's death | P |
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| What shall be said when such as he do pass | R |
| Go to the hill side neath the cypress trees | S |
| Fall midst that peopled silence on your knees | S |
| And weep that man must wither as the grass | R |
| But mourn him not whose blameless life complete | Q |
| Rounded its perfect orb whose sleep is sweet | Q |
| Whom we must follow but may not recall | T |
| Salute with solemn trumpets the New Year | U |
| And offer honeyed fruits as were he here | V |
| Though ye be sick with wormwood and with gall | T |
Emma Lazarus
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