The Jewish May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEE FGFGEEEE EHEHIIJKIKKK FFFKDKD ELELLMEFFEEE MNMNEMEM LFLFIFIF HOHOEPEP ELELLFLF HHIIEEFF ILILEEEEIIIE HEHELFLFEQEQEOEOINIR| May has come from out the showers | A |
| Sun and splendor in her train | B |
| All the grasses and the flowers | A |
| Waken up to life again | C |
| Once again the leaves do show | D |
| And the meadow blossoms blow | D |
| Once again through hills and dales | E |
| Rise the songs of nightingales | E |
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| Wheresoe'er on field or hillside | F |
| With her paint brush Spring is seen | G |
| In the valley by the rillside | F |
| All the earth is decked with green | G |
| Once again the sun beguiles | E |
| Moves the drowsy world to smiles | E |
| See the sun with mother kiss | E |
| Wakes her child to joy and bliss | E |
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| Now each human feeling presses | E |
| Flow'r like upward to the sun | H |
| Softly through the heart's recesses | E |
| Steal sweet fancies one by one | H |
| Golden dreams their wings outshaking | I |
| Now are making | I |
| Realms celestial | J |
| All of azure | K |
| New life waking | I |
| Bringing treasure | K |
| Out of measure | K |
| For the soul's delight and pleasure | K |
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| Who then tell me old and sad | F |
| Nears us with a heavy tread | F |
| On the sward in verdure clad | F |
| Lonely is the strange newcomer | K |
| Wearily he walks and slow | D |
| His sweet springtime and his summer | K |
| Faded long and long ago | D |
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| Say who is it yonder walks | E |
| Past the hedgerows decked anew | L |
| While a fearful spectre stalks | E |
| By his side the woodland through | L |
| 'Tis our ancient friend the Jew | L |
| No sweet fancies hover round him | M |
| Naught but terror and distress | E |
| Wounds unhealed | F |
| Where lie revealed | F |
| Ghosts of former recollections | E |
| Corpses corpses old affections | E |
| Buried youth and happiness | E |
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| Brier and blossom bow to meet him | M |
| In derision round his path | N |
| Gloomily the hemlocks greet him | M |
| And the crow screams out in wrath | N |
| Strange the birds and strange the flowers | E |
| Strange the sunshine seems and dim | M |
| Folk on earth and heav'nly powers | E |
| Lo the May is strange to him | M |
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| Little flowers it were meeter | L |
| If ye made not quite so bold | F |
| Sweet ye are but oh far sweeter | L |
| Knew he in the days of old | F |
| Oranges by thousands glowing | I |
| Filled his groves on either hand | F |
| All the plants were God's own sowing | I |
| In his happy far off land | F |
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| Ask the cedars on the mountain | H |
| Ask them for they know him well | O |
| Myrtles green by Sharon's fountain | H |
| In whose shade he loved to dwell | O |
| Ask the Mount of Olives beauteous | E |
| Ev'ry tree by ev'ry stream | P |
| One and all will answer duteous | E |
| For the fair and ancient dream | P |
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| O'er the desert and the pleasance | E |
| Gales of Eden softly blew | L |
| And the Lord His loving Presence | E |
| Evermore declared anew | L |
| Angel children at their leisure | L |
| Played in thousands round His tent | F |
| Countless thoughts of joy and pleasure | L |
| God to His beloved sent | F |
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| There in bygone days and olden | H |
| From a wond'rous harp and golden | H |
| Charmed he music spirit haunting | I |
| Holy chaste and soul enchanting | I |
| Never with the ancient sweetness | E |
| Never in its old completeness | E |
| Shall it sound his dream is ended | F |
| On a willow bough suspended | F |
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| Gone that dream so fair and fleeting | I |
| Yet behold thou dreamst anew | L |
| Hark a new May gives thee greeting | I |
| From afar Dost hear it Jew | L |
| Weep no more altho' with sorrows | E |
| Bow'd e'en to the grave I see | E |
| Happier years and brighter morrows | E |
| Dawning Israel for thee | E |
| Hear'st thou not the promise ring | I |
| Where like doves on silver wing | I |
| Thronging cherubs sweetly sing | I |
| Newmade songs of what shall be | E |
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| Hark your olives shall be shaken | H |
| And your citrons and your limes | E |
| Filled with fragrance God shall waken | H |
| Lead you as in olden times | E |
| In the pastures by the river | L |
| Ye once more your flocks shall tend | F |
| Ye shall live and live forever | L |
| Happy lives that know no end | F |
| No more wandering no more sadness | E |
| Peace shall be your lot and still | Q |
| Hero hearts shall throb with gladness | E |
| 'Neath Moriah's silent hill | Q |
| Nevermore of dread afflictions | E |
| Or oppression need ye tell | O |
| Filled with joy and benedictions | E |
| In the old home shall ye dwell | O |
| To the fatherland returning | I |
| Following the homeward path | N |
| Ye shall find the embers burning | I |
| Still upon the ruined hearth | R |
Morris Rosenfeld
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