The Final Mystery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGH AIAIJJ KLKLMM LNLNOO| This myth of Egyptian origin formed part of the instruction given to those initiated in the Orphic mysteries and written versions of it were buried with the dead | A |
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| Hear now O Soul the last command of all | B |
| When thou hast left thine every mortal mark | C |
| And by the road that lies beyond recall | B |
| Won through the desert of the Burning Dark | C |
| Thou shalt behold within a garden bright | D |
| A well beside a cypress ivory white | D |
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| Still is that well and in its waters cool | E |
| White white and windless sleeps that cypress tree | F |
| Who drinks but once from out her shadowy pool | E |
| Shall thirst no more to all eternity | F |
| Forgetting all by all forgotten clean | G |
| His soul shall be with that which hath not been | H |
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| But thou though thou be trembling with thy dread | A |
| And parched with thy desire more fierce than flame | I |
| Think on the stream wherefrom thy life was fed | A |
| And that diviner fountain whence it came | I |
| Turn thee and cry behold it is not far | J |
| Unto the hills where living waters are | J |
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| Lord though I lived on earth the child of earth | K |
| Yet was I fathered by the starry sky | L |
| Thou knowest I came not of the shadows' birth | K |
| Let me not die the death that shadows die | L |
| Give me to drink of the sweet spring that leaps | M |
| From Memory's fount wherein no cypress sleeps | M |
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| Then shalt thou drink O Soul and therewith slake | L |
| The immortal longing of thy mortal thirst | N |
| So of thy Father's life shalt thou partake | L |
| And be for ever that thou wert at first | N |
| Lost in remembered loves yet thou more thou | O |
| With them shalt reign in never ending Now | O |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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