The Chantry Of The Cherubim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CDCDEE FGFGHI JKJKLL AMAMNN OPOPCC EQEROO| O CHANTRY of the Cherubim | A |
| Down looking on the stream | A |
| Beneath thy boughs the day grows dim | A |
| Through windows comes the gleam | A |
| A thousand raptures fill the air | B |
| Beyond delight beyond despair | B |
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| I will not name one flower that clings | C |
| In cluster at my feet | D |
| I will not hail one bird that sings | C |
| Its anthem loud or sweet | D |
| This is the floor of Heaven and these | E |
| The angels that God s ear do please | E |
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| I walk as one unclothed of flesh | F |
| I wash my spirit clean | G |
| I see old miracles afresh | F |
| And wonders yet unseen | G |
| I will not leave Thee till Thou give | H |
| Some word whereby my soul may live | I |
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| I listened but no voice I heard | J |
| I looked no likeness saw | K |
| Slowly the joy of flower and bird | J |
| Did like a tide withdraw | K |
| And in the heaven a silent star | L |
| Smiled on me infinitely far | L |
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| I buoyed me on the wings of dream | A |
| Above the world of sense | M |
| I set my thought to sound the scheme | A |
| And fathom the Immense | M |
| I tuned my spirit as a lute | N |
| To catch wind music wandering mute | N |
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| Yet came there never voice nor sign | O |
| But through my being stole | P |
| Sense of a Universe divine | O |
| And knowledge of a soul | P |
| Perfected in the joy of things | C |
| The star the flower the bird that sings | C |
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| Nor I am more nor less than these | E |
| All are one brotherhood | Q |
| I and all creatures plants and trees | E |
| The living limbs of God | R |
| And in an hour as this divine | O |
| I feel the vast pulse throb in mine | O |
Francis William Bourdillon
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