The Fading Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MNNM OPPO MQQM MRRM MSFM ABBA| The vision fades dome pinnacle and tower | A |
| All the white beauty of the lake side dream | B |
| The artist's ideal the poet's theme | B |
| Vanish away Yet for no fleeting hour | A |
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| Was this proud fabric raised The crumbling wall | C |
| Entombs not memory's treasure and we hold | D |
| This truth dear as the miser his loved gold | D |
| Dome pinnacle and tower cannot fall | C |
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| No marvel this that memory holds fast | E |
| Such beauty passing beauty seen before | F |
| The grace and charm of every clime and shore | F |
| Strength of today the glories of the past | E |
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| All met in one great whole for not alone | G |
| Man's hand the wonder wrought but soaring high | H |
| His spirit like the bird that cleaves the sky | H |
| Knew naught of obstacle from zone to zone | G |
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| Deathless his work Age shall repeat to age | I |
| The story of the city by the Lake | J |
| And as the waves that on the near sands break | J |
| Reach far off shores so on the pictured page | I |
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| Throughout remotest time serene in pride | K |
| Wearing her crown of glory shall be seen | L |
| Stately and fair Chicago Western queen | L |
| With all the Nations gathered at her side | K |
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| Gladly they met each teaching and each taught | M |
| Light skinned or dark skinned from the West or East | N |
| Peoples unlike as at a loving feast | N |
| Distant no more united in a thought | M |
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| Columbia this thy lesson learn it well | O |
| The comity of Nations this the plan | P |
| Of God from time's first dawn that man with man | P |
| Bound in one brotherhood in peace should dwell | O |
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| Great Voyager whose caravels outsped | M |
| Man's swiftest fancy in those earlier days | Q |
| If looking far beyond the curving bays | Q |
| Of this new world thy glowing spirit read | M |
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| That here there stretched a mighty continent | M |
| Where a sure haven for mankind should be | R |
| Small didst thou count thy peril on the sea | R |
| Well knowing what thy sufferings had meant | M |
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| For it was thine to turn toward the West | M |
| The worn old world and westward as the star | S |
| Of Power moves nor tyranny nor war | F |
| Its fires sustains it shines for the oppressed | M |
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| The vision fades dome pinnacle and tower | A |
| Yet fades not like the substance of a dream | B |
| Nation to Nation State to State shall seem | B |
| Drawn to each other closer through its power | A |
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Helen Leah Reed
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