Mount Tabor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGFFHHII IJJIGGKKLLMKAANNII OOPQGGGG| On Tabor's height a glory came | A |
| And shrined in clouds of lambent flame | A |
| The awestruck hushed disciples saw | B |
| Christ and the prophets of the law | B |
| Moses whose grand and awful face | C |
| Of Sinai's thunder bore the trace | C |
| And wise Elias in his eyes | D |
| The shade of Israel's prophecies | E |
| Stood in that wide mysterious light | F |
| Than Syrian noons more purely bright | F |
| One on each hand and high between | G |
| Shone forth the godlike Nazarene | G |
| They bowed their heads in holy fright | F |
| No mortal eyes could bear the sight | F |
| And when they looked again behold | H |
| The fiery clouds had backward rolled | H |
| And borne aloft in grandeur lonely | I |
| Nothing was left save Jesus only | I |
| - | |
| Resplendent type of things to be | I |
| We read its mystery to day | J |
| With clearer eyes than even they | J |
| The fisher saints of Galilee | I |
| We see the Christ stand out between | G |
| The ancient law and faith serene | G |
| Spirit and letter but above | K |
| Spirit and letter both was Love | K |
| Led by the hand of Jacob's God | L |
| Through wastes of eld a path was trod | L |
| By which the savage world could move | M |
| Upward through law and faith to love | K |
| And there in Tabor's harmless flame | A |
| The crowning revelation came | A |
| The old world knelt in homage due | N |
| The prophets near in reverence drew | N |
| Law ceased its mission to fulfil | I |
| And Love was lord on Tabor's hill | I |
| - | |
| So now while creeds perplex the mind | O |
| And wranglings load the weary wind | O |
| When all the air is filled with words | P |
| And texts that wring like clashing swords | Q |
| Still as for refuge we may turn | G |
| Where Tabor's shining glories burn | G |
| The soul of antique Israel gone | G |
| And nothing left but Christ alone | G |
John Milton Hay
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