Mons Angelorum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEBFGHIJKL LMN GMOEPQRSTURRVRRM BRMWXY ZA2B2C2 ED2 MHE2KRRF2RMG2H2 EMM F2BMI2E2URRRWM MBRA2 RRRJ2ZRRK2RRA2 L2I2RMM2RN2WO2B E2P2Q2KRM R RRR2RMS2T2WU2E2E2NRR H2RH V2IBU2ME2M W2EBE2E MRRA2GXE2H RMRRX2Y2D2NO2KN2C2RN RMZ2GRRA3RME2EA3B3A3 A3 RC3A3BMD3L2 A3E2A3E3A3A3T2F3A3 A3G3RRH3| MOSES JOSHUA THE THREE ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE | A |
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| Evening a slope of Pisgah | B |
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| Moses Our span of life is lessening with the years | C |
| Our little sun rolls swiftlier to its end | D |
| Among the eternal stars It is a feather | E |
| Blown from a careless lip into the dark | B |
| A fallen feather the lily of a day | F |
| Brimming with blood and tears instead of dew | G |
| And dying with its sleep Having known life | H |
| Having known day I pass into the night | I |
| Having long spoken with God I hold my peace | J |
| Having long held the sword I lay it down | K |
| And the new watch believes me Is all well | L |
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| Joshua O father of my soul I cannot tell | L |
| The burden of the Lord is heavy on me | M |
| And I am broken beneath it | N |
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| Moses Since I knew | G |
| All my desires and cares have gone from me | M |
| Rather I think on old forgotten things | O |
| A song within the temple court to her | E |
| Isis the Lady of Love How white she sat | P |
| Above the crowded gate I was a boy | Q |
| I ran and laid a lotus on her knees | R |
| Dreaming she smiled in answer Ah those dreams | S |
| Far on the shining level of the sands | T |
| Thebes and old Tanis builded of a cloud | U |
| The reeds beside the river those sweet trees | R |
| Full of warm buds that ripen and unclose | R |
| At eve the barges passing on the Nile | V |
| Like golden water fowl with ivory wings | R |
| The gardens and the great pomegranate flowers | R |
| And she my gentle mother in Mizraim | M |
| Calling me 'Mesu Mesu ' | - |
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| Joshua I cannot think | B |
| My sorrow stays me and my grief prevents | R |
| Yet there are heathen foes and wars to come | M |
| I take thy sword I cannot take thy soul | W |
| Master of Law unshaken friend of God | X |
| But I can fight for Israel | Y |
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| Moses Fight and stand | Z |
| Firmly for God Jehovah is salvation | A2 |
| And now beloved son in all but blood | B2 |
| Go get you down again | C2 |
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| Joshua A little longer | E |
| Leave me a little longer with you lord | D2 |
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| Moses No longer for the gates of life are lonely | M |
| Out of the dark man cometh to his life | H |
| Into the dark he goeth | E2 |
| Down look down | K |
| Down to the clustered tents each with its lives | R |
| Of foolish children vexed with many fears | R |
| Agonies hopes beliefs inherited | F2 |
| Dark hates fond dreams divine humilities | R |
| Shall they go leaderless from stream to stream | M |
| Following the far flung visions of despair | G2 |
| These that have been my sheep | H2 |
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| Joshua I cannot father | E |
| I am a man of war and not of wisdom | M |
| They will not know my voice nor follow me | M |
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| Moses Man is it thy faint voice shall be uplifted | F2 |
| To soothe the fearful and uphold the strong | B |
| To lead the unshaken tribes to victory | M |
| Against the men of Amalek and Ai | I2 |
| Lords of the plain and coast Is it thy strength | E2 |
| Nay but Jehovah's in thee As the cloud | U |
| Filling the empty valley of the hills | R |
| As the white flood along the water courses | R |
| That once were barren so His strength will pass | R |
| Into the pits and runnels of thy soul | W |
| Fight for the Lord is with thee Stand thou firm | M |
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| Joshua Lo I would rather stay and die with thee | M |
| Than pass with shining banners and with song | B |
| Of silver shawms and trumpets in thy place | R |
| Over the river Jordan | A2 |
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| Moses Nay I pass | R |
| Over a deeper river with no songs | R |
| No mighty trumpetings no pride of banners | R |
| Toil have I borne but triumph is not mine | J2 |
| Once once mine eyes shall see the Promised Land | Z |
| Her forts and towers cities and pleasant fields | R |
| Her palms and cedars vines and olive trees | R |
| And then be darkened Here's my heritage | K2 |
| Here by these mighty chasms these Godward peaks | R |
| My last resort my lone abiding place | R |
| See the night comes How is it with thee son | A2 |
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| Joshua A cloud has drawn between us and the plain | L2 |
| A darkness moves between us and the sky | I2 |
| Full of vague voices mighty whisperings | R |
| Wings and the sound of them | M |
| O never man | M2 |
| Has breathed such chilling air as this which blows | R |
| Out of the dark O never man has heard | N2 |
| Such sounds as these which beat upon my soul | W |
| Known yet unknown familiar yet most dread | O2 |
| Lord must I go | B |
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| Moses This is the wind of death | E2 |
| And this the cold that lies without the world | P2 |
| And these the sounds that thrill the untrodden void | Q2 |
| Beyond the lonelier stars Go down go down | K |
| To darknened Israel mourning in his tents | R |
| I can no longer see thee Stand thou firm | M |
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| Joshua goes the cloud surrounds Moses | R |
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| O ye celestial presences great shapes | R |
| With terrible fair faces towering wings | R |
| Wings with the wine deep glow of amethyst | R2 |
| Sheath over sheath like folded waterbuds | R |
| Lit with an inward flame wings pale as foam | M |
| Faint plumes showered with silver wings serene | S2 |
| Uplifted in a radiant arc of dawn | T2 |
| Unchain the prisoned pinions of this soul | W |
| Say to the blind bird Fly Bid life recede | U2 |
| A bubble before the advancing wave of death | E2 |
| From my youth upward I have spoken of death | E2 |
| Nor knew the word so sweet There's music in it | N |
| Music to break the heart O heavenly guards | R |
| Looking so long in your immortal eyes | R |
| I am grown old Death calls me as a sleep | H2 |
| A rest desired a rich forgetfulness | R |
| After too much of life | H |
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| Angel of Darkness Life is no more | V2 |
| A little flame soon swallowed in the night | I |
| A harp that hath no voice a bow unstrung | B |
| Pride of the grass and power of the reed | U2 |
| Life is as swift in breaking Peace be on thee | M |
| Mine are the wings of peace Men call me death | E2 |
| But so God hath not named me | M |
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| Angel of Light Life is past | W2 |
| Thy ground is taken thy tent is pitched forever | E |
| Drink of these wells and be forsworn of sorrow | B |
| Forsaken of weeping Men have called me death | E2 |
| Yet am I less and greater | E |
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| Angel of Dreams Peace be on thee | M |
| Peace and good rest Mine are the wings of silence | R |
| Folded in silver sleep before my face | R |
| This in my hand is golden fruit of Eden | A2 |
| Whose scent is sleep its flame white flower grew | G |
| Along the glades where Adam walked with God | X |
| Death have men called me yet I am not death | E2 |
| Take thy last look on life | H |
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| Moses O Land of Promise | R |
| From the great plains of Moab to the sea | M |
| Thy blossoming orchards streams and palaces | R |
| Like golden beads threaded on silver strings | R |
| Thy towering walls and pinnacles of pride | X2 |
| A fruitful field it is ripe for the harvest | Y2 |
| The harvest of the sword | D2 |
| I shall not reap it | N |
| The winepress of His wrath I shall not tread | O2 |
| Plighted am I to silence I go down | K |
| Dead to the dead and am no more remembered | N2 |
| Upon the lips of men | C2 |
| Those sceptred kings | R |
| The solemn dead of old Mizraim who sit | N |
| Forever in the sun beside their tombs | R |
| With blank eyes smiling on eternity | M |
| Crowned with the reed and lotus do they live | Z2 |
| More than their grass and lilies Those I knew | G |
| Princes and scribes lords of the desert priests | R |
| Learned above the wit of common minds | R |
| Captains and merchants rulers over gold | A3 |
| Feathers and spices emeralds ivories | R |
| Brought to the feet of Pharaoh what of them | M |
| What of the King Lord of the North and South | E2 |
| Son of the Sun like to the Sun forever | E |
| A sun A darkened light a star o'erwhelmed | A3 |
| When his fierce horsemen sank beneath that surge | B3 |
| Whose crest was blood and terror when there died | A3 |
| On one hushed night all the firstborn of Egypt | A3 |
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| O night divine I set thine excellence | R |
| Above the twice crowned noon Here is no star | C3 |
| No slenderest crescent poised above the world | A3 |
| No lingering love of day But the soft dark | B |
| Folds inward as a flower enfolding me | M |
| My length of little days wisdom and grief | D3 |
| Light as a drop of rain | L2 |
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| Angel of Dreams Tender is night | A3 |
| But tenderer far the limits of this death | E2 |
| This dream encompassed city Here no sound | A3 |
| Shall wake thee from thy sleep no storm disturb | E3 |
| Though here all storms are born Tempest and cloud | A3 |
| Thunder and hail the mightiest airs of God | A3 |
| The hosts of night the hot triumphant dawn | T2 |
| Seasons and times and days unknown shall march | F3 |
| O'er thy surrendered head | A3 |
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| Moses O loneliest rest | A3 |
| On my lost grave only the winds shall mourn | G3 |
| The white rain do me service the sad stars | R |
| Age after age with endless circling eyes | R |
| View this last desolation In | H3 |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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