The New Year: Rosh-hashanah, 5643 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC BDBEDD FGFCGC DHDIHJ DKDLKL MDMBDB DBDDBD BBBNBO| Not while the snow shroud round dead earth is rolled | A |
| And naked branches point to frozen skies | B |
| When orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold | A |
| The grape glows like a jewel and the corn | C |
| A sea of beauty and abundance lies | B |
| Then the new year is born | C |
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| Look where the mother of the months uplifts | B |
| In the green clearness of the unsunned West | D |
| Her ivory horn of plenty dropping gifts | B |
| Cool harvest feeding dews fine winnowed light | E |
| Tired labor with fruition joy and rest | D |
| Profusely to requite | D |
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| Blow Israel the sacred cornet Call | F |
| Back to thy courts whatever faint heart throb | G |
| With thine ancestral blood thy need craves all | F |
| The red dark year is dead the year just born | C |
| Leads on from anguish wrought by priest and mob | G |
| To what undreamed of morn | C |
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| For never yet since on the holy height | D |
| The Temple's marble walls of white and green | H |
| Carved like the sea waves fell and the world's light | D |
| Went out in darkness never was the year | I |
| Greater with portent and with promise seen | H |
| Than this eve now and here | J |
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| Even as the Prophet promised so your tent | D |
| Hath been enlarged unto earth's farthest rim | K |
| To snow capped Sierras from vast steppes ye went | D |
| Through fire and blood and tempest tossing wave | L |
| For freedom to proclaim and worship Him | K |
| Mighty to slay and save | L |
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| High above flood and fire ye held the scroll | M |
| Out of the depths ye published still the Word | D |
| No bodily pang had power to swerve your soul | M |
| Ye in a cynic age of crumbling faiths | B |
| Lived to bear witness to the living Lord | D |
| Or died a thousand deaths | B |
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| In two divided streams the exiles part | D |
| One rolling homeward to its ancient source | B |
| One rushing sunward with fresh will new heart | D |
| By each the truth is spread the law unfurled | D |
| Each separate soul contains the nation's force | B |
| And both embrace the world | D |
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| Kindle the silver candle's seven rays | B |
| Offer the first fruits of the clustered bowers | B |
| The garnered spoil of bees With prayer and praise | B |
| Rejoice that once more tried once more we prove | N |
| How strength of supreme suffering still is ours | B |
| For Truth and Law and Love | O |
Emma Lazarus
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