The Rock In El Ghor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GEGE HIHJ EEEE EKEK ELEL MNMN OPOP JQJQ EEEE JEJE| Dead Petra in her hill tomb sleeps | A |
| Her stones of emptiness remain | B |
| Around her sculptured mystery sweeps | A |
| The lonely waste of Edom's plain | B |
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| From the doomed dwellers in the cleft | C |
| The bow of vengeance turns not back | D |
| Of all her myriads none are left | C |
| Along the Wady Mousa's track | D |
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| Clear in the hot Arabian day | E |
| Her arches spring her statues climb | F |
| Unchanged the graven wonders pay | E |
| No tribute to the spoiler Time | F |
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| Unchanged the awful lithograph | G |
| Of power and glory undertrod | E |
| Of nations scattered like the chaff | G |
| Blown from the threshing floor of God | E |
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| Yet shall the thoughtful stranger turn | H |
| From Petra's gates with deeper awe | I |
| To mark afar the burial urn | H |
| Of Aaron on the cliffs of Hor | J |
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| And where upon its ancient guard | E |
| Thy Rock El Ghor is standing yet | E |
| Looks from its turrets desertward | E |
| And keeps the watch that God has set | E |
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| The same as when in thunders loud | E |
| It heard the voice of God to man | K |
| As when it saw in fire and cloud | E |
| The angels walk in Israel's van | K |
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| Or when from Ezion Geber's way | E |
| It saw the long procession file | L |
| And heard the Hebrew timbrels play | E |
| The music of the lordly Nile | L |
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| Or saw the tabernacle pause | M |
| Cloud bound by Kadesh Barnea's wells | N |
| While Moses graved the sacred laws | M |
| And Aaron swung his golden bells | N |
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| Rock of the desert prophet sung | O |
| How grew its shadowing pile at length | P |
| A symbol in the Hebrew tongue | O |
| Of God's eternal love and strength | P |
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| On lip of bard and scroll of seer | J |
| From age to age went down the name | Q |
| Until the Shiloh's promised year | J |
| And Christ the Rock of Ages came | Q |
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| The path of life we walk to day | E |
| Is strange as that the Hebrews trod | E |
| We need the shadowing rock as they | E |
| We need like them the guides of God | E |
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| God send His angels Cloud and Fire | J |
| To lead us o'er the desert sand | E |
| God give our hearts their long desire | J |
| His shadow in a weary land | E |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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