The Feast Of Lights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE GHGIJKJK LMLNOPOP QRQRJSJS THTHUGUG TVTWDEFE| Kindle the taper like the steadfast star | A |
| Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth | B |
| And add each night a lustre till afar | A |
| An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth | C |
| Clash Israel the cymbals touch the lyre | D |
| Blow the brass trumpet and the harsh tongued horn | E |
| Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire | F |
| The Maccabean spirit leap new born | E |
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| Remember how from wintry dawn till night | G |
| Such songs were sung in Zion when again | H |
| On the high altar flamed the sacred light | G |
| And purified from every Syrian stain | I |
| The foam white walls with golden shields were hung | J |
| With crowns and silken spoils and at the shrine | K |
| Stood midst their conqueror tribe five chieftains sprung | J |
| From one heroic stock one seed divine | K |
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| Five branches grown from Mattathias' stem | L |
| The Blessed John the Keen Eyed Jonathan | M |
| Simon the fair the Burst of Spring the Gem | L |
| Eleazar Help of God o'er all his clan | N |
| Judas the Lion Prince the Avenging Rod | O |
| Towered in warrior beauty uncrowned king | P |
| Armed with the breastplate and the sword of God | O |
| Whose praise is He received the perishing | P |
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| They who had camped within the mountain pass | Q |
| Couched on the rock and tented neath the sky | R |
| Who saw from Mizpah's heights the tangled grass | Q |
| Choke the wide Temple courts the altar lie | R |
| Disfigured and polluted who had flung | J |
| Their faces on the stones and mourned aloud | S |
| And rent their garments wailing with one tongue | J |
| Crushed as a wind swept bed of reeds is bowed | S |
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| Even they by one voice fired one heart of flame | T |
| Though broken reeds had risen and were men | H |
| They rushed upon the spoiler and o'ercame | T |
| Each arm for freedom had the strength of ten | H |
| Now is their mourning into dancing turned | U |
| Their sackcloth doffed for garments of delight | G |
| Week long the festive torches shall be burned | U |
| Music and revelry wed day with night | G |
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| Still ours the dance the feast the glorious Psalm | T |
| The mystic lights of emblem and the Word | V |
| Where is our Judas Where our five branched palm | T |
| Where are the lion warriors of the Lord | W |
| Clash Israel the cymbals touch the lyre | D |
| Sound the brass trumpet and the harsh tongued horn | E |
| Chant hymns of victory till the heart take fire | F |
| The Maccabean spirit leap new born | E |
Emma Lazarus
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