At The Summit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCA DDCCEEED FFGGHHHF| Sister we bid you welcome we who stand | A |
| On the high table land | A |
| We who have climbed life's slippery Alpine slope | B |
| And rest still leaning on the staff of hope | B |
| Looking along the silent Mer de Glace | C |
| Leading our footsteps where the dark crevasse | C |
| Yawns in the frozen sea we all must pass | C |
| Sister we clasp your hand | A |
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| Rest with us in the hour that Heaven has lent | D |
| Before the swift descent | D |
| Look the warm sunbeams kiss the glittering ice | C |
| See next the snow drift blooms the edelweiss | C |
| The mated eagles fan the frosty air | E |
| Life beauty love around us everywhere | E |
| And in their time the darkening hours that bear | E |
| Sweet memories peace content | D |
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| Thrice welcome shining names our missals show | F |
| Amid their rubrics' glow | F |
| But search the blazoned record's starry line | G |
| What halo's radiance fills the page like thine | G |
| Thou who by some celestial clue couldst find | H |
| The way to all the hearts of all mankind | H |
| On thee already canonized enshrined | H |
| What more can Heaven bestow | F |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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