In The Jewish Synagogue At Newport Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MKNK KOPC QRST UVKV WXKY ZVA2V KKB2K| Here where the noises of the busy town | A |
| The ocean's plunge and roar can enter not | B |
| We stand and gaze around with tearful awe | C |
| And muse upon the consecrated spot | B |
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| No signs of life are here the very prayers | D |
| Inscribed around are in a language dead | E |
| The light of the perpetual lamp is spent | F |
| That an undying radiance was to shed | E |
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| What prayers were in this temple offered up | G |
| Wrung from sad hearts that knew no joy on earth | H |
| By these lone exiles of a thousand years | I |
| From the fair sunrise land that gave them birth | H |
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| How as we gaze in this new world of light | J |
| Upon this relic of the days of old | K |
| The present vanishes and tropic bloom | L |
| And Eastern towns and temples we behold | K |
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| Again we see the patriarch with his flocks | M |
| The purple seas the hot blue sky o'erhead | K |
| The slaves of Egypt omens mysteries | N |
| Dark fleeing hosts by flaming angels led | K |
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| A wondrous light upon a sky kissed mount | K |
| A man who reads Jehovah's written law | O |
| 'Midst blinding glory and effulgence rare | P |
| Unto a people prone with reverent awe | C |
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| The pride of luxury's barbaric pomp | Q |
| In the rich court of royal Solomon | R |
| Alas we wake one scene alone remains | S |
| The exiles by the streams of Babylon | T |
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| Our softened voices send us back again | U |
| But mournful echoes through the empty hall | V |
| Our footsteps have a strange unnatural sound | K |
| And with unwonted gentleness they fall | V |
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| The weary ones the sad the suffering | W |
| All found their comfort in the holy place | X |
| And children's gladness and men's gratitude | K |
| 'Took voice and mingled in the chant of praise | Y |
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| The funeral and the marriage now alas | Z |
| We know not which is sadder to recall | V |
| For youth and happiness have followed age | A2 |
| And green grass lieth gently over all | V |
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| Nathless the sacred shrine is holy yet | K |
| With its lone floors where reverent feet once trod | K |
| Take off your shoes as by the burning bush | B2 |
| Before the mystery of death and God | K |
Emma Lazarus
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