Altiora Peto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDECECFF GCHCII JKJKLL MNMNOP QJRJSS TNTNUU VWVXCC| O for a vision of the perfect light | A |
| To shame the splendour of the morning star | B |
| O for a breath from out the Infinite | C |
| Where the great heart of Being throbs afar | B |
| O for that sound too fine for mortal ears | D |
| The music of the silence of the spheres | D |
| The Masters fathomed not that song sublime | E |
| Tho oft on straining ear and brain o erwrought | C |
| And heart grown faint at heights too sheer to climb | E |
| The roll of some immortal wave of thought | C |
| Swept by and left adown its troubled verge | F |
| The lingering echoes of its mighty surge | F |
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| To each there came the passion and the fire | G |
| The breadth of vision and the sudden light | C |
| And for a moment on an earthly lyre | H |
| Quivered a tremor of the Infinite | C |
| Yet to each poet of that deep browed throng | I |
| Twas but the shadow of Immortal Song | I |
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| Twas but the presage of th Omniscient Soul | J |
| That moves and throbs thro all this wondrous plan | K |
| Unseen unheard unknown that is the Whole | J |
| Yet stirs in atoms and the heart of Man | K |
| That thro all phase of change and form and name | L |
| Remains and works eternally the same | L |
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| That seems to whisper us All life is one | M |
| Reborn in death it blossoms from decay | N |
| The same when first the fury of the sun | M |
| Belched forth his satellites of fiery spray | N |
| The same when he and all his planet train | O |
| Shall plough the Ether cold to glow again | P |
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| Whither O whither Still th eternal cry | Q |
| That from the ages rolled and yet shall roll | J |
| Who shall declare to man his destiny | R |
| A unit in the Cosmos of the Soul | J |
| A spirit germ storm tossed in doubt and strife | S |
| That feebly dreams of larger light and life | S |
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| Systems and stars their courses onward sweep | T |
| And creeds and nations flower and fade away | N |
| Still Nature worketh out her purpose deep | T |
| New life new thought for that of yesterday | N |
| Unto the utmost confines of her range | U |
| One law abideth of unchanging change | U |
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| Around us dwells the secret no man reads | V |
| About us swells the music none can hear | W |
| Behind us lie the ruins of the creeds | V |
| Before us loom the mystery and the fear | X |
| To Love and Hope our souls are clinging fast | C |
| What giveth these perchance gives Truth at last | C |
George Essex Evans
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