Hy-brasil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGAAHHII JJKKLMDDNO EEBBPPQRAA| Daughter said the ancient father pausing by the evening sea | A |
| Turn thy face towards the sunset turn thy face and kneel with me | A |
| Prayer and praise and holy fasting lips of love and life of light | B |
| These and these have made thee perfect shining saint with seraph's sight | B |
| Look towards that flaming crescent look beyond that glowing space | C |
| Tell me sister of the angels what is beaming in thy face | C |
| And the daughter who had fasted who had spent her days in prayer | D |
| Till the glory of the Saviour touched her head and rested there | D |
| Turned her eyes towards the sea line saw beyond the fiery crest | E |
| Floating over waves of jasper far Hy Brasil in the West | E |
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| All the calmness and the colour all the splendour and repose | F |
| Flowing where the sunset flowered like a silver hearted rose | F |
| There indeed was singing Eden where the great gold river runs | G |
| Past the porch and gates of crystal ringed by strong and shining ones | G |
| There indeed was God's own garden sailing down the sapphire sea | A |
| Lawny dells and slopes of summer dazzling stream and radiant tree | A |
| Out against the hushed horizon out beneath the reverent day | H |
| Flamed the Wonder on the waters flamed and flashed and passed away | H |
| And the maiden who had seen it felt a hand within her own | I |
| And an angel that we know not led her to the lands unknown | I |
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| Never since hath eye beheld it never since hath mortal dazed | J |
| By its strange unearthly splendour on the floating Eden gazed | J |
| Only once since Eve went weeping through a throng of glittering wings | K |
| Hath the holy seen Hy Brasil where the great gold river sings | K |
| Only once by quiet waters under still resplendent skies | L |
| Did the sister of the seraphs kneel in sight of Paradise | M |
| She the pure the perfect woman sanctified by patient prayer | D |
| Had the eyes of saints of Heaven all their glory in her hair | D |
| Therefore God the Father whispered to a radiant spirit near | N |
| Show Our daughter fair Hy Brasil show her this and lead her here | O |
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| But beyond the halls of sunset but within the wondrous West | E |
| On the rose red seas of evening sails the Garden of the Blest | E |
| Still the gates of glassy beauty still the walls of glowing light | B |
| Shine on waves that no man knows of out of sound and out of sight | B |
| Yet the slopes and lawns of lustre yet the dells of sparkling streams | P |
| Dip to tranquil shores of jasper where the watching angel beams | P |
| But behold our eyes are human and our way is paved with pain | Q |
| We can never find Hy Brasil never see its hills again | R |
| Never look on bays of crystal never bend the reverent knee | A |
| In the sight of Eden floating floating on the sapphire sea | A |
Henry Kendall
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