Nuns Of The Perpetual Adoration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LDLD MDMD NONOCalm sad secure behind high convent walls | A |
These watch the sacred lamp these watch and pray | B |
And it is one with them when evening falls | A |
And one with them the cold return of day | B |
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These heed not time their nights and days they make | C |
Into a long returning rosary | D |
Whereon their lives are threaded for Christ's sake | C |
Meekness and vigilance and chastity | D |
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A vowed patrol in silent companies | E |
Life long they keep before the living Christ | F |
In the dim church their prayers and penances | E |
Are fragrant incense to the Sacrificed | F |
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Outside the world is wild and passionate | G |
Man's weary laughter and his sick despair | H |
Entreat at their impenetrable gate | I |
They heed no voices in their dream of prayer | H |
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They saw the glory of the world displayed | J |
They saw the bitter of it and the sweet | K |
They knew the roses of the world should fade | J |
And be trod under by the hurrying feet | K |
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Therefore they rather put away desire | L |
And crossed their hands and came to sanctuary | D |
And veiled their heads and put on coarse attire | L |
Because their comeliness was vanity | D |
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And there they rest they have serene insight | M |
Of the illuminating dawn to be | D |
Mary's sweet Star dispels for them the night | M |
The proper darkness of humanity | D |
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Calm sad secure with faces worn and mild | N |
Surely their choice of vigil is the best | O |
Yea for our roses fade the world is wild | N |
But there beside the altar there is rest | O |
Ernest Dowson
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