At Hochfinstermuenz Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HEHE IJIJ KLKL MNMN EOEP EQEQ RSRS TUTU| Once more between its walls of pines | A |
| I see the long ravine expand | B |
| To where the ice world's crystal lines | A |
| Define the realm of Switzerland | C |
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| Once more a thousand feet below | D |
| I watch the river's silver sheen | E |
| As foaming in its fettered flow | D |
| It rushes from the Engadine | E |
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| Forever young forever old | F |
| This gorge where stream with forest blends | G |
| These glittering peaks these glaciers cold | F |
| Are all to me familiar friends | G |
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| I know alas their towering forms | H |
| Of unresponsive rocks and snow | E |
| Are heartless as their wintry storms | H |
| And heed not if I come or go | E |
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| Yet none the less I love to trace | I |
| Their stainless crests along the sky | J |
| And as I greet each well known face | I |
| Each seems in turn to make reply | J |
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| So potent is the subtle spell | K |
| That clothes such masses with a mind | L |
| So strong the instincts which impel | K |
| Their lover answering love to find | L |
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| What if in truth there really be | M |
| A soul within them to adore | N |
| Some half revealed Divinity | M |
| Whose presence haunts us evermore | N |
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| Some Power to read our hearts and know | E |
| How this wild beauty moves our tears | O |
| Some God that as our spirits grow | E |
| Shall be discerned in after years | P |
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| Instinctively did earlier man | E |
| See fauns and dryads in the trees | Q |
| And find in universal Pan | E |
| The soul of Nature's mysteries | Q |
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| All is divine the bird that sings | R |
| The flowers that bloom the waves that roll | S |
| One Spirit quickens men and things | R |
| And stirs alike the sun and soul | S |
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| Great Nature's God however styled | T |
| I love thee and upon thy breast | U |
| Would gladly lie a grateful child | T |
| And dying trust thee for the rest | U |
John L. Stoddard
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