Tabernacles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDE FFF GGG HHH III JJJ| The little tents the wildflowers raise | A |
| Are tabernacles where Love prays | A |
| And Beauty preaches all the days | A |
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| I walk the woodland through and through | B |
| And everywhere I see their blue | B |
| And gold where I may worship too | B |
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| All hearts unto their inmost shrine | C |
| Of fragrance they invite and mine | C |
| Enters and sees the All Divine | C |
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| I hark and with some inward ear | D |
| Soft words of praise and prayer I hear | D |
| And bow my head and have no fear | E |
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| For God is present as I see | F |
| In them and gazes out at me | F |
| Kneeling to His divinity | F |
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| Oh holiness that Nature knows | G |
| That dwells within each thing that grows | G |
| Vestured with dreams as is the rose | G |
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| With perfume whereof all things preach | H |
| The birds the brooks the leaves that reach | H |
| Our hearts and souls with loving speech | H |
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| That makes a tabernacle of | I |
| The flowers whose priests are Truth and Love | I |
| Who help our souls to rise above | I |
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| The Earth and that which we name sin | J |
| Unto the knowledge that is kin | J |
| To Heaven to which at last we win | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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