Ultima Thule: Old St. David's At Radnor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCE FGFF HIHHJ KLKKL MNOMN PQPPQ| What an image of peace and rest | A |
| Is this little church among its graves | B |
| All is so quiet the troubled breast | A |
| The wounded spirit the heart oppressed | A |
| Here may find the repose it craves | B |
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| See how the ivy climbs and expands | C |
| Over this humble hermitage | D |
| And seems to caress with its little hands | C |
| The rough gray stones as a child that stands | C |
| Caressing the wrinkled cheeks of age | E |
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| You cross the threshold and dim and small | F |
| Is the space that serves for the Shepherd's Fold | G |
| The narrow aisle the bare white wall | F |
| The pews and the pulpit quaint and tall | F |
| Whisper and say 'Alas we are old ' | - |
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| Herbert's chapel at Bemerton | H |
| Hardly more spacious is than this | I |
| But poet and pastor blent in one | H |
| Clothed with a splendor as of the sun | H |
| That lowly and holy edifice | J |
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| It is not the wall of stone without | K |
| That makes the building small or great | L |
| But the soul's light shining round about | K |
| And the faith that overcometh doubt | K |
| And the love that stronger is than hate | L |
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| Were I a pilgrim in search of peace | M |
| Were I a pastor of Holy Church | N |
| More than a Bishop's diocese | O |
| Should I prize this place of rest and release | M |
| From further longing and further search | N |
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| Here would I stay and let the world | P |
| With its distant thunder roar and roll | Q |
| Storms do not rend the sail that is furled | P |
| Nor like a dead leaf tossed and whirled | P |
| In an eddy of wind is the anchored soul | Q |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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