Beyond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJDKLMNJO PQRSTUVWXYZEEYTNA2TT B2ITYEC2D2E2ENE2KTF2 G2JTH2I2J2TEETEEETH2 J2VK2L2A2M2EVN2EA2 O2P2TQ2 ELVTR2N2TS2TEH2EET2E WEJTK

White haired and hoary bearded who art thouA
That speedest on albeit bent with ageB
Even as a youth that followeth after dreamsC
Whence are thy feet and whither trends thy wayD
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Stayed not his hurried steps but as he passedE
His low hoarse answer fell upon the windF
Go thou and question yonder mountain peaksG
Go thou and ask the hoary heaving mainH
Nay if thou wilt the great globed silent starsI
That sail innumerable the shoreless seaJ
And let the eldest answer if he mayD
Lo the unnumbered myriad myriad worldsK
Rolling around innumerable sunsL
Through all the boundless bottomless abyssM
Are but as grains of sand upwhirled and flungN
By roaring winds and scattered on the seaJ
I have beheld them and my hand hath sownO
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Far twinkling faint through dim immeasured depthsP
Behold Alcyone a grander sunQ
Round him thy solar orb with all his broodR
Glimmering revolves Lo from yon mightier sphereS
Light flying faster than the thoughts of menT
Swift as the lightnings cleave the glowering stormU
Shot on and on through dim ethereal spaceV
Ere yet it touched thy little orb of EarthW
Five hundred cycles of thy world and moreX
Round him thy Sun obedient to his powerY
Thrice tenfold swifter than the swiftest wingZ
His aeon orbit million yeared and vastE
Wheels through the void Him flaming I beheldE
When first he flashed from out his central fireY
A mightier orb beyond thine utmost kenT
Round upon round innumerable hath swungN
Thy sun upon his circuit grander stillA2
His vaster orbit far AlcyoneT
Wheels and obeys the mightier orb unseenT
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Seest thou yon star paved pathway like an archB2
Athwart thy welkin wondrous zone of starsI
Dim in the distance circling one huge sunT
To whom thy sun is but a spark of fireY
To whom thine Earth is but a grain of dustE
Glimmering around him myriad suns revolveC2
And worlds innumerable as sea beach sandsD2
Ere on yon Via Lactea rolled one starE2
Lo I was there and trode the mighty roundE
Yea ere the central orb was fired and hungN
A lamp to light the chaos Star on starE2
System on system myriad worlds on worldsK
Beyond the utmost reach of mortal kenT
Beyond the utmost flight of mortal dreamF2
Yet have mine eyes beheld the birth of allG2
But whence I am I know not We are threeJ
Known yet unknown unfathomable to manT
Time Space and Matter pregnant with all lifeH2
Immortals older than the oldest orbI2
We were and are forever out of usJ2
Are all things suns and satellites midge and manT
Worlds wax and wane suns flame and glow and dieE
Through shoreless space their scattered ashes floatE
Unite cohere and wax to worlds againT
Changing yet changless new but ever oldE
No atom lost and not one atom gainedE
Though fire to vapor melt the adamantE
Or feldspar fall in drops of summer rainT
And in the atoms sleep the germs of lifeH2
Myriad and multiform and marvelousJ2
Throughout all vast immeasurable spaceV
In every grain of dust in every dropK2
Of water waiting but the thermal touchL2
Yea in the womb of nature slumber stillA2
Wonders undreamed and forms beyond compareM2
Minds that will cleave the chaos and unwindE
The web of fate and from the atom traceV
The worlds the suns the universal lawN2
And from the law the Master yea and readE
On yon grand starry scroll the Master's willA2
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Yea but what Master Lift the veil O TimeO2
Where lie the bounds of Space and whither dwellsP2
The Power unseen the infinite UnknownT
Faint from afar the solemn answer fellQ2
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AEon on aeon cycles myriad yearedE
Swifter than light out flashing from the sunsL
My flying feet have sought the bounds of spaceV
And found not nor the infinite UnknownT
I see the Master only in his workR2
I see the Ruler only in his lawN2
Time hath not touched the great All father's throneT
Whose voice unheard the Universe obeysS2
Who breathes upon the deep and worlds are bornT
Worlds wax and wane suns crumble into dustE
But matter pregnant with immortal lifeH2
Since erst the white haired centuries wheeled the vastE
Hath lost nor gained Who made it and who madeE
The Maker Out of nothing nothing LoT2
The worm that crawls from out the sun touched sandE
What knows he of the huge round rolling EarthW
Yet more than thou of all the vast BeyondE
Or ever wilt Content thee let it beJ
Know only this there is a Power unknownT
Master of life and Maker of the worldsK

Hanford Lennox Gordon



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