The Magi To The Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFH C IJKL MNMN OPOQ RSRS T AUAU VWVW VXVX OPOP YZA2Z| I Thanksgiving | A |
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| Star on thy Heaven returning way | B |
| Our message of thanksgiving bear | C |
| To Him who answered with thy ray | B |
| The priestless Gentiles' trembling prayer | C |
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| When songs of revel shook the roof | D |
| God Thou didst cheer the joyless course | E |
| Where we like Vashti walked aloof | D |
| Braving the world's unjust divorce | E |
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| How rate we now all griefs and scorn | F |
| That filled our youth with bitterness | G |
| We had not known the Christ is born | F |
| But that we sought for One to bless | H |
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| II Prayer | C |
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| Fence Thou Thy Child O Merciful | I |
| When hate shall cavil at His worth | J |
| When underlings like Haman rule | K |
| Hold Thou the golden sceptre forth | L |
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| When envy round Thy Precious One | M |
| Its tongues of scorching flame hath curled | N |
| Unwasted let His virtue run | M |
| From the sore furnace of the world | N |
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| To fill a new Colossus mould | O |
| When tireless unbelief hath sent | P |
| Thy truest Image to the cold | O |
| Pure mountain tops of banishment | Q |
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| Give then O God Thy light to break | R |
| Through all earth's valleys cramped and dim | S |
| That after times may see and take | R |
| Their heroes' measurement from Him | S |
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| III Farewell | T |
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| A new horizon's dim blue ring | A |
| Around our watch fire shall be cast | U |
| New stars replace the vanishing | A |
| To morrow's homeward travel past | U |
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| Word bringer now thine embassy | V |
| Is closed thou stayest not to fill | W |
| A lowlier office Thou shalt be | V |
| Soon 'mid the angels shining still | W |
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| One priceless pearl of upper sea | V |
| One matchless gem of heaven's rich mine | X |
| Within the place once held by thee | V |
| God send no after light to shine | X |
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| Yet foremost of the host of gold | O |
| Long followed thou wast never sent | P |
| A glimpse of what the Heavens enfold | O |
| To darken earth with discontent | P |
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| Star of the Promised Streaming on | Y |
| Through Time's long night though thou must set | Z |
| Thy light shall spread when thou art gone | A2 |
| O'er sunless lands we see not yet | Z |
Mary Hannay Foott
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