Egyptian Theosophy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ HH KL MM NN OO FF PQ| A | |
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| Far in the introspective East | B |
| A meditative Memphian Priest | B |
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| Would solve such is the Sage's curse | C |
| The riddle of the Universe | C |
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| Thought turning round itself revolved | D |
| How was this puzzling World evolved | D |
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| How came the starry sky to be | E |
| The sun the earth the Nile the sea | E |
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| And Man most tragi comic Man | F |
| Whence came he here and where began | F |
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| Communing with the baffling sky | G |
| Who twinkled but made no reply | G |
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| He brooded till his heated brain | H |
| Grew fairly addled with the strain | H |
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| For in that dim benighted age | I |
| Philosopher and hoary sage | I |
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| Had not yet had the saving grace | J |
| To teach the Schools that Time and Space | J |
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| And all the marvels they contain | H |
| Are but the phantoms of the brain | H |
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| But that profound Egyptian Seer | K |
| Maybe who knows came pretty near | L |
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| When after days of strenuous fast | M |
| He hit the startling truth at last | M |
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| And on select mysterious nights | N |
| Veiled in occult symbolic rites | N |
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| He taught that once upon a time | O |
| To disbelieve it were a crime | O |
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| The World's great egg refute who can | F |
| That meditates on Life and Man | F |
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| While deafening cacklings spread the news | P |
| Was laid by an Almighty Goose | Q |
Mathilde Blind
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