The Soul's Destiny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGHH GGGG IIJJ AAGG EEKK LLGG JGGMNN OOPP QQRJ| In the liquid vault of ether hung the starry gems of light | A |
| Blazing with unwonted splendor on the ebon brow of night | A |
| Far across the arching concave like a train of silver lay | B |
| Nebulous and white and dreamy heaven's star wrought Milky Way | B |
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| I was gazing gazing upward all my senses captive fraught | C |
| From the earnest contemplation of celestial glories caught | D |
| When the thought arose within me as the ages onward roll | E |
| What may be th' eternal portion of the vast th' immortal soul | E |
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| When the crimson tide of Nature ceases from its ruddy flow | F |
| And these decaying bodies mouldering are so cold and low | F |
| And the loathsome grave worm feeding on the still and pulseless | G |
| heart | H |
| Where may be the immortal spirit what may be its deathless part | H |
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| Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze | G |
| While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze | G |
| Then came floating on the distance softly to my listening ears | G |
| Low thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres | G |
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| From the sparkling orb of Venus sweetest star that gems the blue | I |
| Soon a form of seraph beauty burst upon my raptured view | I |
| Wavy robes were floating round her and her richly clustering hair | J |
| Lay like golden wreathed moonbeams round her forehead young and fair | J |
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| Then a company of seraphs gathered round this form so bright | A |
| And unfurled their snowy pinions in those realms of crystal light | A |
| Sweeping swiftly onward onward with their music breathing wings | G |
| Till they passed the distant orbit where the mighty Neptune swings | G |
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| Then from stormy wild Orion to the dragon's fiery roll | E |
| And the sturdy Ursa Major tramping round the Boreal pole | E |
| On to stately Argo Navis rearing diamond spars on high | K |
| Starry bands of seraph wanderers clove the azure of the sky | K |
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| Lofty awe and adoration all my throbbing bosom filled | L |
| Every pulse and nerve in nature with ecstatic wonder thrilled | L |
| O were these bright shining millions disembodied human souls | G |
| That casting off earth's fettering bonds had gained immortal goals | G |
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| On each face there beamed a brightness mortal words can ne'er | J |
| rehearse | G |
| Seemed it the concentred glory of the boundless universe | G |
| O 'twas light 'twas love 'twas wisdom science knowledge all | M |
| combined | N |
| 'Twas the ultimate perfection of the God like human mind | N |
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| One by one the constellations sank below the horizon's rim | O |
| And with grief I found my starry vision growing earthly dim | O |
| While all the thrilling harmonies that filled the air around | P |
| Died off in far sweet echoings within the dark profound | P |
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| Bowing then with lowly seeming on the damp and dewy sod | Q |
| All my soul in adoration floated up to Nature's God | Q |
| While the struggling thoughts within me found voice in earnest | R |
| prayer | J |
| 'Almighty Father let my soul one day those glories share ' | - |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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