The Worship Of Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK FLFL MNMN OFOF PLPL QRQR| The harp at Nature's advent strung | A |
| Has never ceased to play | B |
| The song the stars of morning sung | A |
| Has never died away | B |
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| And prayer is made and praise is given | C |
| By all things near and far | D |
| The ocean looketh up to heaven | C |
| And mirrors every star | D |
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| Its waves are kneeling on the strand | E |
| As kneels the human knee | F |
| Their white locks bowing to the sand | E |
| The priesthood of the sea | F |
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| They pour their glittering treasures forth | G |
| Their gifts of pearl they bring | H |
| And all the listening hills of earth | I |
| Take up the song they sing | H |
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| The green earth sends its incense up | J |
| From many a mountain shrine | K |
| From folded leaf and dewy cup | J |
| She pours her sacred wine | K |
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| The mists above the morning rills | F |
| Rise white as wings of prayer | L |
| The altar curtains of the hills | F |
| Are sunset's purple air | L |
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| The winds with hymns of praise are loud | M |
| Or low with sobs of pain | N |
| The thunder organ of the cloud | M |
| The dropping tears of rain | N |
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| With drooping head and branches crossed | O |
| The twilight forest grieves | F |
| Or speaks with tongues of Pentecost | O |
| From all its sunlit leaves | F |
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| The blue sky is the temple's arch | P |
| Its transept earth and air | L |
| The music of its starry march | P |
| The chorus of a prayer | L |
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| So Nature keeps the reverent frame | Q |
| With which her years began | R |
| And all her signs and voices shame | Q |
| The prayerless heart of man | R |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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