The Book Of Paradise - The Seven Sleepers Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Six among the courtiers favour'd	A
Fly before the Caesar's fury	B
Who would as a god be worshipp'd	A
Though in truth no god appearing	C
For a fly prevents him ever	D
From enjoying food at table	E
Though with fans his servants scare it	A
They the fly can never banish	F
It torments him stings and troubles	G
And the festal board perplexes	H
Then returning like the herald	A
Of the olden crafty Fly God	A
'What ' the striplings say together	D
'Shall a fly a god embarrass	I
	-
Shall a god drink eat at table	E
Like us mortals No the Only	B
Who the sun and moon created	A
And the glowing stars arch'd o'er us	I
He is God we'll fly ' The gentle	E
Lightly shod and dainty striplings	I
Did a shepherd meet and hide them	J
With himself within a cavern	K
	-
And the sheep dog will not leave them	J
Scared away his foot all mangled	A
To his master still he presses	I
And he joins the hidden party	B
Joins the favorites of slumber	D
	-
And the prince whom they had fled from	L
Fondly furious thinks of vengeance	I
And discarding sword and fire	D
Has them walled up in the cavern	K
Walled up fast with bricks and mortar	D
	-
But the others slumber ever	D
And the Angel their protector	D
Gives before God's throne this notice	I
'To the right and left alternate	A
Have I ever cared to turn them	J
That their fair and youthful members	I
Be not by the mould damp injured	A
Clefts within the rocks I open'd	A
That the sun may rising setting	C
Keep their cheeks in youthful freshness '	-
So they lie there bless'd by Heaven	M
And with forepaws sound and scatheless	I
Sleeps the dog in gentle slumber	D
	-
Years come round and years fly onward	A
And the youths at length awaken	M
And the wall which now had moldered	A
From its very age has fallen	M
And Jamblika says whose beauty	A
Far exceedeth all the others	I
When the fearful shepherd lingers	I
'I will run and food procure you	N
Life and piece of gold I'll wager '	-
Ephebus had many a year now	O
Own'd the teaching of the Prophet	A
Jesus Peace be with the Good One	M
	-
And he ran and at the gateway	P
Were the warders and the others	I
Yet he to the nearest baker's	I
Seeking bread went swiftly onwards	I
'Rogue ' thus cried the baker 'hast thou	O
Youth a treasure then discover'd	A
Give me for the gold betrays thee	A
Give me half to keep thy secret '	-
	-
And they quarrel To the monarch	Q
Comes the matter and the monarch	Q
Fain would halve it like the baker	D
	-
Now the miracle is proven	M
Slowly by a hundred tokens	I
He can e'en his right establish	F
To the palace he erected	A
For a pillar when pierced open	M
	-
Leads to wealth he said 'twould lead to	N
Soon are gather'd there whole races	I
Their relationship to show him	R
And as great grandfather nobly	A
Stands Jamblika's youthful figure	D
	-
As of ancestors he hears them	J
Speaking of his son and grandsons	I
His great grandsons stand around him	R
Like a race of valiant mortals	I
Him to honour him the youngest	A
And one token on another	D
Rises up the proof completing	C
The identity is proven	M
Of himself and of his comrades	I
	-
Now returns he to the cavern	K
With him go both king and people	E
Neither to the king nor people	E
E'er returns that chosen mortal	E
For the Seven who for ages	I
Eight was with the dog their number	D
Had from all the world been sunder'd	A
Gabriel's mysterious power	D
To the will of God obedient	A
Hath to Paradise conducted	A
And the cave was closed for ever	D

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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