Sunset On The Bearcamp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFEGHIH JKLKMNONPQRQ LSTSUVWVXYZY A2B2C2D2JE2F2E2G2H2I 2H2 J2K2L2K2TM2N2M2O2P2D P2 Q2R2S2R2T2LU2LK2K2N2 K2 E2H2V2H2S2N2LN2TUK2U

A gold fringe on the purpling hemA
Of hills the river runsB
As down its long green valley fallsC
The last of summer's sunsB
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Along its tawny gravel bedD
Broad flowing swift and stillE
As if its meadow levels feltF
The hurry of the hillE
Noiseless between its banks of greenG
From curve to curve it slipsH
The drowsy maple shadows restI
Like fingers on its lipsH
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A waif from Carroll's wildest hillsJ
Unstoried and unknownK
The ursine legend of its nameL
Prowls on its banks aloneK
Yet flowers as fair its slopes adornM
As ever Yarrow knewN
Or under rainy Irish skiesO
By Spenser's Mulla grewN
And through the gaps of leaning treesP
Its mountain cradle showsQ
The gold against the amethystR
The green against the roseQ
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Touched by a light that hath no nameL
A glory never sungS
Aloft on sky and mountain wallT
Are God's great pictures hungS
How changed the summits vast and oldU
No longer granite browedV
They melt in rosy mist the rockW
Is softer than the cloudV
The valley holds its breath no leafX
Of all its elms is twirledY
The silence of eternityZ
Seems falling on the worldY
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The pause before the breaking sealsA2
Of mystery is thisB2
Yon miracle play of night and dayC2
Makes dumb its witnessesD2
What unseen altar crowns the hillsJ
That reach up stair on stairE2
What eyes look through what white wings fanF2
These purple veils of airE2
What Presence from the heavenly heightsG2
To those of earth stoops downH2
Not vainly Hellas dreamed of godsI2
On Ida's snowy crownH2
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Slow fades the vision of the skyJ2
The golden water palesK2
And over all the valley landL2
A gray winged vapor sailsK2
I go the common way of allT
The sunset fires will burnM2
The flowers will blow the river flowN2
When I no more returnM2
No whisper from the mountain pineO2
Nor lapsing stream shall tellP2
The stranger treading where I treadD
Of him who loved them wellP2
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But beauty seen is never lostQ2
God's colors all are fastR2
The glory of this sunset heavenS2
Into my soul has passedR2
A sense of gladness unconfinedT2
To mortal date or climeL
As the soul liveth it shall liveU2
Beyond the years of timeL
Beside the mystic asphodelsK2
Shall bloom the home born flowersK2
And new horizons flush and glowN2
With sunset hues of oursK2
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Farewell these smiling hills must wearE2
Too soon their wintry frownH2
And snow cold winds from off them shakeV2
The maple's red leaves downH2
But I shall see a summer sunS2
Still setting broad and lowN2
The mountain slopes shall blush and bloomL
The golden water flowN2
A lover's claim is mine on allT
I see to have and holdU
The rose light of perpetual hillsK2
And sunsets never coldU

John Greenleaf Whittier



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