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The Vision Of Echard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The Benedictine Echard	A
Sat by the wayside well	B
Where Marsberg sees the bridal	C
Of the Sarre and the Moselle	B
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Fair with its sloping vineyards	D
And tawny chestnut bloom	E
The happy vale Ausonius sunk	F
For holy Treves made room	E
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On the shrine Helena builded	A
To keep the Christ coat well	B
On minster tower and kloster cross	G
The westering sunshine fell	B
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There where the rock hewn circles	H
O'erlooked the Roman's game	I
The veil of sleep fell on him	J
And his thought a dream became	I
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He felt the heart of silence	K
Throb with a soundless word	A
And by the inward ear alone	L
A spirit's voice he heard	A
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And the spoken word seemed written	M
On air and wave and sod	A
And the bending walls of sapphire	N
Blazed with the thought of God	A
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'What lack I O my children	M
All things are in my band	A
The vast earth and the awful stars	O
I hold as grains of sand	A
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'Need I your alms The silver	N
And gold are mine alone	L
The gifts ye bring before me	P
Were evermore my own	L
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'Heed I the noise of viols	O
Your pomp of masque and show	Q
Have I not dawns and sunsets	O
Have I not winds that blow	Q
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'Do I smell your gums of incense	O
Is my ear with chantings fed	A
Taste I your wine of worship	R
Or eat your holy bread	A
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'Of rank and name and honors	O
Am I vain as ye are vain	S
What can Eternal Fulness	O
From your lip service gain	S
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'Ye make me not your debtor	N
Who serve yourselves alone	L
Ye boast to me of homage	T
Whose gain is all your own	L
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'For you I gave the prophets	O
For you the Psalmist's lay	U
For you the law's stone tables	O
And holy book and day	U
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'Ye change to weary burdens	O
The helps that should uplift	A
Ye lose in form the spirit	A
The Giver in the gift	A
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'Who called ye to self torment	A
To fast and penance vain	S
Dream ye Eternal Goodness	O
Has joy in mortal pain	S
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'For the death in life of Nitria	N
For your Chartreuse ever dumb	V
What better is the neighbor	N
Or happier the home	W
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'Who counts his brother's welfare	N
As sacred as his own	L
And loves forgives and pities	O
He serveth me alone	L
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'I note each gracious purpose	O
Each kindly word and deed	A
Are ye not all my children	M
Shall not the Father heed	A
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'No prayer for light and guidance	O
Is lost upon mine ear	N
The child's cry in the darkness	O
Shall not the Father hear	N
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'I loathe your wrangling councils	O
I tread upon your creeds	O
Who made ye mine avengers	O
Or told ye of my needs	O
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'I bless men and ye curse them	X
I love them and ye hate	A
Ye bite and tear each other	N
I suffer long and wait	A
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'Ye bow to ghastly symbols	O
To cross and scourge and thorn	Y
Ye seek his Syrian manger	N
Who in the heart is born	Y
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'For the dead Christ not the living	Z
Ye watch His empty grave	A2
Whose life alone within you	B2
Has power to bless and save	A2
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'O blind ones outward groping	Z
The idle quest forego	Q
Who listens to His inward voice	O
Alone of Him shall know	Q
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'His love all love exceeding	Z
The heart must needs recall	C2
Its self surrendering freedom	V
Its loss that gaineth all	C2
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'Climb not the holy mountains	O
Their eagles know not me	P
Seek not the Blessed Islands	O
I dwell not in the sea	P
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'Gone is the mount of Meru	N
The triple gods are gone	D2
And deaf to all the lama's prayers	O
The Buddha slumbers on	E2
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'No more from rocky Horeb	F2
The smitten waters gush	G2
Fallen is Bethel's ladder	N
Quenched is the burning bush	H2
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'The jewels of the Urim	P
And Thurnmim all are dim	P
The fire has left the altar	N
The sign the teraphim	P
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'No more in ark or hill grove	I2
The Holiest abides	O
Not in the scroll's dead letter	N
The eternal secret hides	O
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'The eye shall fail that searches	O
For me the hollow sky	J2
The far is even as the near	N
The low is as the high	J2
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'What if the earth is hiding	Z
Her old faiths long outworn	E2
What is it to the changeless truth	K2
That yours shall fail in turn	E2
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'What if the o'erturned altar	N
Lays bare the ancient lie	J2
What if the dreams and legends	O
Of the world's childhood die	J2
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'Have ye not still my witness	O
Within yourselves alway	L2
My hand that on the keys of life	M2
For bliss or bale I lay	U
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'Still in perpetual judgment	A
I hold assize within	E2
With sure reward of holiness	O
And dread rebuke of sin	E2
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'A light a guide a warning	Z
A presence ever near	N
Through the deep silence of the flesh	N2
I reach the inward ear	N
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'My Gerizim and Ebal	U
Are in each human soul	U
The still small voice of blessing	Z
And Sinai's thunder roll	U
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'The stern behest of duty	P
The doom book open thrown	E2
The heaven ye seek the hell ye fear	N
Are with yourselves alone '	-
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A gold and purple sunset	A
Flowed down the broad Moselle	U
On hills of vine and meadow lands	O
The peace of twilight fell	U
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A slow cool wind of evening	Z
Blew over leaf and bloom	P
And faint and far the Angelus	O
Rang from Saint Matthew's tomb	P
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Then up rose Master Echard	A
And marvelled 'Can it be	P
That here in dream and vision	E2
The Lord hath talked with me '	-
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He went his way behind him	P
The shrines of saintly dead	A
The holy coat and nail of cross	O
He left unvisited	A
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He sought the vale of Eltzbach	N2
His burdened soul to free	P
Where the foot hills of the Eifel	U
Are glassed in Laachersee	O
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And in his Order's kloster	N
He sat in night long parle	U
With Tauler of the Friends of God	A
And Nicolas of Basle	U
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And lo the twain made answer	N
'Yea brother even thus	O
The Voice above all voices	O
Hath spoken unto us	O
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'The world will have its idols	O
And flesh and sense their sign	E2
But the blinded eyes shall open	E2
And the gross ear be fine	E2
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'What if the vision tarry	P
God's time is always best	A
The true Light shall be witnessed	A
The Christ within confessed	A
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'In mercy or in judgment	A
He shall turn and overturn	E2
Till the heart shall be His temple	U
Where all of Him shall learn '	-