The Chosen City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIJIKALA MNONPQRQ QASMTTUT TVWVXYTY ZA2B2A2TC2TC2 WD2YD2QATA| On starlit height distant 'gainst horizon bright | A |
| The Way of the Cross is outlined | B |
| By rocky steeps barren 'mid dangers unseen | C |
| A narrow straight pathway doth wind | B |
| The sighing winds whisper of sacrifice toil | D |
| And foot prints where pilgrims have trod | E |
| Are crimson and tear washed where fissures are rent | F |
| Wierd spirits of pain flit abroad | G |
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| A woman in sadness e'er watching this Cross | H |
| Revealed in the morn of her life | I |
| To travel o'er mountains alone through the storm | J |
| Means suffering and wearisome strife | I |
| 'Mid pitfalls of doubtings and barriers high | K |
| A valley called Vale of Delight | A |
| Appears to her vision its beauties aglow | L |
| With charms all alluring to sight | A |
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| Its meadows are tinted by golden hued lights | M |
| Unruffled its waters they chime | N |
| With harmonic singing while world wedded dance | O |
| To musical rhythm and time | N |
| Red wine floweth freely with jingle of gold | P |
| Jests mingle with laughter so gay | Q |
| In Vale of Delight merry banquets and balls | R |
| Turn quickly the night into day | Q |
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| The woman enraptured by dazzling display | Q |
| Yet holiness loveth and right | A |
| Back to the mountains she turneth her gaze | S |
| There gleaming through mists beyond heights | M |
| Is glittering sheen of sparkling gemmed spires | T |
| A city of pearls beyond steeps | T |
| But Calvary's Cross is path to its gate | U |
| In sorrow she bitterly weeps | T |
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| In Vale of Delight seems earthly repose | T |
| And freedom from sorrow and pain | V |
| But pleadings of Jesus appeal to her heart | W |
| In City of Lovelight doth reign | V |
| His spirit so gentle o'er floweth with good | X |
| With kindliest tokens of love | Y |
| The promise He giveth beyond vale of tears | T |
| Eternal abiding above | Y |
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| To City of Holies she pleads with her Lord | Z |
| Help me in Thy mercy come in | A2 |
| Keep me from slipping o'er precipice deep | B2 |
| Laid for all in Valley of Sin | A2 |
| Then journey to Starworld she finds full of thorns | T |
| Sore pressed on the way by life's care | C2 |
| Till crieth she Saviour though saving Thy Cross | T |
| Its burdens most grievous to bear | C2 |
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| Life's duties demanding a sacrificed heart | W |
| By trials hedged on either side | D2 |
| Yet beauty of holies celestial with love | Y |
| I long for thee what e'er betide | D2 |
| Her Saviour upholding foes dropping by way | Q |
| She trustingly presses her flight | A |
| When sin all surrendered and laid upon Cross | T |
| In peace with Christ enters Lovelight | A |
Mary Alice Walton
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