Adoniram. A Legend Of The Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCD EFGFGE BHIHIB JKLKMJ DNONPD QHRHRQ SHBHBB| The dew was gone | A |
| The morn was bright the skies were fair | B |
| The flowers smiled neath the sunbeams ray | C |
| Tall cedars grew in beauty there | B |
| As Adoniram took his way | C |
| To Lebanon | D |
| - | |
| Praise his heart filled | E |
| More than four hundred years had fled | F |
| Since from stern Egypt marched the bands | G |
| Whose sons with Solomon at their head | F |
| And Tyrian brethern's skilful hands | G |
| Prepare to build | E |
| - | |
| He watched them there | B |
| Round every block and every stone | H |
| Masonic implements were laid | I |
| But around one were many thrown | H |
| And yet it seemed already made | I |
| Tried true and square | B |
| - | |
| He wandering spake | J |
| Are not all from one mountain brought | K |
| As jewels for a diadem | L |
| Why have they at this one stone wrought | K |
| Will not all see Jerusalem | M |
| One house to make | J |
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| The Widow's son | D |
| Smiled kindly in his brother's face | N |
| And said All are made ready here | O |
| But not all fill the same high place | N |
| The Corner stone this will be near | P |
| When toil is done | D |
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| The listener bent | Q |
| His eyes on the unfinished stone | H |
| And found himself a wiser man | R |
| Through that rough child of mountains lone | H |
| A ray of the Grand Master's plan | R |
| To him was sent | Q |
| - | |
| From Masonry | S |
| That just man learnt that woes are thrown | H |
| Around God's children pain and care | B |
| But draw them near the corner stone | H |
| With the Great Architect to share | B |
| Heaven's blazonry | B |
Harriet Annie Wilkins
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