Palestine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHBI AAHH JJHH KKLL HHMM NNOO DDPP JJNQ ROHH SDTT HHBB UVMM WEQX YYJJ| Blest land of Judea thrice hallowed of song | A |
| Where the holiest of memories pilgrim like throng | A |
| In the shade of thy palms by the shores of thy sea | B |
| On the hills of thy beauty my heart is with thee | B |
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| With the eye of a spirit I look on that shore | C |
| Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before | C |
| With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod | D |
| Made bright by the steps of the angels of God | D |
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| Blue sea of the hills in my spirit I hear | E |
| Thy waters Genasseret chime on my ear | E |
| Where the Lowly and Just with the people sat down | F |
| And thy spray on the dust of His sandals was thrown | G |
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| Beyond are Bethulia's mountains of green | H |
| And the desolate hills of the wild Godarene | H |
| And I pause on the goat crags of Tabor to see | B |
| The gleam of thy waters oh dark Gallilee | I |
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| Hark a sound in the vallies where swollen and strong | A |
| Thy river oh Kishon is sweeping along | A |
| Where the Canaanite strove with Jehovah in vain | H |
| And thy torrent grew dark with the blood of the slain | H |
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| There down from his mountains stern Zebulon came | J |
| And Naphtali's stag with his eye balls of flame | J |
| And the chariots of Jabin rolled harmlessly on | H |
| For the arm of the Lord was Abinoam's son | H |
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| There sleep the still rocks and the caverns which rang | K |
| To the song which the beautiful Prophetess sang | K |
| When the Princes of Issachar stood by her side | L |
| And the shout of a host in its triumph replied | L |
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| Lo Bethlehem's hill site before me is seen | H |
| With the mountains around and the vallies between | H |
| There rested the shepherds of Judah and there | M |
| The song of the angels rose sweet on the air | M |
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| And Bethany's palm trees in beauty still throw | N |
| Their shadows at noon on the ruins below | N |
| But where are the sisters who hastened to greet | O |
| The lowly Redeemer and sit at His feet | O |
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| I tread where the TWELVE in their wayfaring trod | D |
| I stand where they stood with the CHOSEN of GOD | D |
| Where his blessing was heard and his lessons were taught | P |
| Where the blind were restored and the healing was wrought | P |
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| Oh here with his flock the sad Wanderer came | J |
| These hills he toiled over in grief are the same | J |
| The founts where he drank by the wayside still flow | N |
| And the same airs are blowing which breathed on his brow | Q |
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| And throned on her hills sits Jerusalem yet | R |
| But with dust on her forehead and chains on her feet | O |
| For the crown of her pride to the mocker hath gone | H |
| And the holy Shechinah is dark where it shone | H |
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| But wherefore this dream of the earthly abode | S |
| Of Humanity clothed in the brightness of God | D |
| Were my spirit but turned from the outward and dim | T |
| It could gaze even now on the presence of Him | T |
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| Not in clouds and in terrors but gentle as when | H |
| In love and in meekness he moved among men | H |
| And the voice which breathed peace to the waves of the sea | B |
| In the hush of my spirit would whisper to me | B |
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| And what if my feet may not tread where He stood | U |
| Nor my ears hear the dashing of Gallilee's flood | V |
| Nor my eyes see the cross which He bowed him to bear | M |
| Nor my knees press Gethsemane's garden of prayer | M |
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| Yet Loved of the Father Thy spirit is near | W |
| To the meek and the lowly and penitent here | E |
| And the voice of thy love is the same even now | Q |
| As at Bethany's tomb or on Olivet's brow mdash | X |
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| Oh the outward hath gone but in glory and power | Y |
| The SPIRIT surviveth the things of an hour | Y |
| Unchanged undecaying its Pentecost flame | J |
| On the heart's secret altar is burning the same | J |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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