San Gabriel, On The Pacific Coast. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEGEG HAIACACA AAAAJAKA LCLMCMCM LNLNJAJA| Grey cowled monk whose faith so earnest | A |
| Guides these Indians' childlike hearts | B |
| As their hands to toil thou turnest | A |
| Teaching them the Builder's arts | B |
| Speak thy thought as now they gather | C |
| Round the white walls on the plain | D |
| Rearing them for God the Father | C |
| And the glory of New Spain | D |
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| Thou St Gabriel knowest only | E |
| Why thy holy bells I raise | F |
| To no turret proud and lonely | E |
| There to sound the hours of praise | F |
| Why I keep them close beside me | E |
| Framed within the church's walls | G |
| Here where heathen lands shall hide me | E |
| Until death to judgment calls | G |
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| Then St Gabriel in high heaven | H |
| Told the saints this mortal's lot | A |
| As the Angelus at even | I |
| Rose to day that dieth not | A |
| And from out the nightly wonder | C |
| Of the darkened world would float | A |
| Mingling with the near sea's thunder | C |
| Yonder belfry's golden note | A |
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| Two there were whose loves were blighted | A |
| By the Spanish pride abhorred | A |
| And their vows and wealth they plighted | A |
| To the Missions of the Lord | A |
| For his church these bells she gave him | J |
| When within their glowing mould | A |
| She had cast what were her treasures | K |
| All her ornaments of gold | A |
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| So do these that to his seeming | L |
| Were but good as touched by her | C |
| Ring to seek for love redeeming | L |
| All who sorrow all who err | M |
| Yes though human love be ever | C |
| Heard upon the throbbing air | M |
| This shall make his life's endeavour | C |
| Stronger through a woman's prayer | M |
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| God is not a Lord requiring | L |
| Sacrifice of memories dear | N |
| And their love in life untiring | L |
| To His life hath brought then near | N |
| Thus his wish to have beside him | J |
| That which seems her voice is good | A |
| Lovingly the Lord hath tried him | J |
| And his heart hath understood | A |
John Campbell
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