On Chief Mountain - A Great Rock On The American North-west Frontier. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDEDD| Among white peaks a rock hewn altar wise | A |
| Marks the long frontier of our mighty lands | B |
| Apart its dark tremendous sculpture stands | B |
| Too steep for snow and square against the skies | A |
| In other shape its buttressed masses rise | A |
| When seen from north or south but eastward set | C |
| God carved it where two sovereignties are met | C |
| An altar to His peace before men's eyes | A |
| Of old there Indian mystics fasting prayed | D |
| And from its base to distant shores the streams | E |
| Take sands of gold to be at last inlaid | D |
| Where ocean's floor in shadowed splendour gleams | E |
| So in our nations' sundered lives be blent | D |
| Love's golden memories from one proud descent | D |
John Campbell
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