The Heavenly Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ AAKKLLMMMMDDNNOOMMMM PPQQRRSSTTMMUUVVWWMM EEXXMMVVEEDDYYZZMMXX A2A2B2B2ZZC2C2QQSSCC QQMMD2D2QQE2E2AAAAF2 F2MMAAMMMMQQThere was once a foaming sea | A |
Facing near eternity | A |
On it a woman and child | B |
With hair blowing in the wild | B |
Stood on waves that heaved to sigh | C |
Smiled upon the flaming sky | C |
Their eyes burned with sunlit joy | D |
Fiery gold without alloy | D |
Something in their upward stare | E |
Arose to sail on the air | E |
Their souls united as one | F |
Upon the waves of the sun | F |
Over hill and over dell | G |
They shone and on the bluebell | G |
Smiling happy beams appeared | H |
Wherein passers by were cheered | H |
Swaying in sunny flowers | I |
Singing sweetly in bowers | I |
Merry birds entered the throng | J |
With distended throats in song | J |
Little children laughed with glee | A |
Gazing at the far off sea | A |
And in it the azure blue | K |
Sung of things they never knew | K |
The glints and gleams ever tossed | L |
Till over the sea they crossed | L |
With eyes of sapphire they danced | M |
On glittering waves that pranced | M |
Longing for another land | M |
Delighting the Father grand | M |
One of them a little boy | D |
Spoke from an abundant joy | D |
Inspired by a hidden tune | N |
He spoke like the mirrored moon | N |
That sits on a crystal lake | O |
That from stillness did awake | O |
Reflecting another light | M |
The boy a fair shadow bright | M |
Follow the woman and child | M |
Up into the undefiled | M |
Follow to the Father s face | P |
See yourself in his embrace | P |
A noble child of the king | Q |
His beloved and his longing | Q |
Look into his endless eyes | R |
See where your true image lies | R |
For there in tears deep water | S |
You are his son and daughter | S |
He honours you with his look | T |
His love flowing like a brook | T |
Your cheeks like river banks fed | M |
Fall on his and make their bed | M |
Sinking into tender streams | U |
Aloft upon happy beams | U |
For even as the child spoke | V |
His words to them did evoke | V |
The reality of this | W |
A sense of the Father s kiss | W |
Every emotion and thought | M |
Tender and beautifully wrought | M |
One of them the eldest there | E |
Even aged with snowy hair | E |
Spied his flesh in waters clear | X |
Till his wrinkles did appear | X |
Then he ceased to dance about | M |
In suspense and held in doubt | M |
But straightway the Father spoke | V |
Death annulled his spirit woke | V |
And in stillness of the air | E |
Words without wind echoed there | E |
Held aloft by waves of joy | D |
Falling on a little boy | D |
Though your flesh old man declares | Y |
Gaze till your sweet spirit stares | Y |
And in innocence you are | Z |
The bright shining of a star | Z |
For even as he listened | M |
His face in waters glistened | M |
Sweetly there the Father dear | X |
In his own face did appear | X |
His flesh with wrinkles seemed sure | A2 |
But now young again and pure | A2 |
For indeed his flesh was young | B2 |
In his eyes the Father sung | B2 |
He sung of a country far | Z |
He sung like the morning star | Z |
He spoke like the distant shore | C2 |
That tells of things evermore | C2 |
On the horizon peeping | Q |
Imploring long and weeping | Q |
The children shout together | S |
Make calm the stormy weather | S |
Their minds become a blue sky | C |
Where no cloud ever goes by | C |
The Father s love and longing | Q |
Makes them midst waves belonging | Q |
To the country of pure gold | M |
In clear sea their steps unfold | M |
Glimpses of heavenly things | D2 |
Sweet visions of he that sings | D2 |
And smiles in soft waves breaking | Q |
So they find themselves waking | Q |
Ever coming more alive | E2 |
As if they did there arrive | E2 |
So that while on their journey | A |
They are there just as surely | A |
In the heavenly country | A |
Dreaming of a distant sea | A |
The sparkles of a sweet dream | F2 |
Seem inside each wave's soft gleam | F2 |
And in the realm of their heart | M |
With paradise never part | M |
The starry host numberless | A |
Twinkling in their eyes caress | A |
The same sweetness with their bright | M |
Adding drops of dewy light | M |
Oh bliss they left it behind | M |
So long ago and still find | M |
Joy joy joy ever growing | Q |
From infinity flowing | Q |
Richard Paulson
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