On The Voyage To Jerusalem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGFHIJIDKLKBEDE BFDFMKBKNAOADPDQDRSR DTEBFKFKBFDFEFDFUVFV ODWD A PFXFFYFYYZYZCC| I | A |
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| My two score years and ten are over | B |
| Never again shall youth be mine | C |
| The years are ready winged for flying | D |
| What crav'st thou still of feast and wine | C |
| Wilt thou still court man's acclamation | E |
| Forgetting what the Lord hath said | F |
| And forfeiting thy weal eternal | G |
| By thine own guilty heart misled | F |
| Shalt thou have never done with folly | H |
| Still fresh and new must it arise | I |
| Oh heed it not heed not the senses | J |
| But follow God be meek and wise | I |
| Yea profit by thy days remaining | D |
| They hurry swiftly to the goal | K |
| Be zealous in the Lord's high service | L |
| And banish falsehood from thy soul | K |
| Use all thy strength use all thy fervor | B |
| Defy thine own desires awaken | E |
| Be not afraid when seas are foaming | D |
| And earth to her foundations shaken | E |
| Benumbed the hand then of the sailor | B |
| The captain's skill and power are lamed | F |
| Gayly they sailed with colors flying | D |
| And now turn home again ashamed | F |
| The ocean is our only refuge | M |
| The sandbank is our only goal | K |
| The masts are swaying as with terror | B |
| And quivering does the vessel roll | K |
| The mad wind frolics with the billows | N |
| Now smooths them low now lashes high | A |
| Now they are storming up like lions | O |
| And now like serpents sleek they lie | A |
| And wave on wave is ever pressing | D |
| They hiss they whisper soft of tone | P |
| Alack was that the vessel splitting | D |
| Are sail and mast and rudder gone | Q |
| Here screams of fright there silent weeping | D |
| The bravest feels his courage fail | R |
| What stead our prudence or our wisdom | S |
| The soul itself can naught avail | R |
| And each one to his God is crying | D |
| Soar up my soul to Him aspire | T |
| Who wrought a miracle for Jordan | E |
| Extol Him oh angelic choir | B |
| Remember Him who stays the tempest | F |
| The stormy billows doth control | K |
| Who quickeneth the lifeless body | F |
| And fills the empty frame with soul | K |
| Behold once more appears a wonder | B |
| The angry waves erst raging wild | F |
| Like quiet flocks of sheep reposing | D |
| So soft so still so gently mild | F |
| The sun descends and high in heaven | E |
| The golden circled moon doth stand | F |
| Within the sea the stars are straying | D |
| Like wanderers in an unknown land | F |
| The lights celestial in the waters | U |
| Are flaming clearly as above | V |
| As though the very heavens descended | F |
| To seal a covenant of love | V |
| Perchance both sea and sky twin oceans | O |
| From the same source of grace are sprung | D |
| 'Twixt these my heart a third sea surges | W |
| With songs resounding clearly sung | D |
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| II | A |
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| A watery waste the sinful world has grown | P |
| With no dry spot whereon the eye can rest | F |
| No man no beast no bird to gaze upon | X |
| Can all be dead with silent sleep possessed | F |
| Oh how I long the hills and vales to see | F |
| To find myself on barren steppes were bliss | Y |
| I peer about but nothing greeteth me | F |
| Naught save the ship the clouds the waves' abyss | Y |
| The crocodile which rushes from the deeps | Y |
| The flood foams gray the whirling waters reel | Z |
| Now like its prey whereon at last it sweeps | Y |
| The ocean swallows up the vessel's keel | Z |
| The billows rage exult oh soul of mine | C |
| Soon shalt thou enter the Lord's sacred shrine | C |
Emma Lazarus
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