Epilogue - Dramatis Personæ Poem Rhyme Scheme

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FIRST SPEAKER as David	A
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I	-
On the first of the Feast of Feasts	B
The Dedication Day	C
When the Levites joined the Priests	B
At the Altar in robed array	C
Gave signal to sound and say	C
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II	-
When the thousands rear and van	D
Swarming with one accord	E
Became as a single man	D
Look gesture thought and word	F
In praising and thanking the Lord	E
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III	-
When the singers lift up their voice	G
And the trumpets made endeavour	H
Sounding In God rejoice	G
Saying In Him rejoice	G
Whose mercy endureth for ever	H
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IV	I
Then the Temple filled with a cloud	J
Even the House of the Lord	E
Porch bent and pillar bowed	J
For the presence of the Lord	E
In the glory of His cloud	J
Had filled the House of the Lord	E
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SECOND SPEAKER as Renan	D
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Gone now All gone across the dark so far	K
Sharpening fast shuddering ever shutting still	L
Dwindling into the distance dies that star	K
Which came stood opened once We gazed our fill	L
With upturned faces on as real a Face	M
That stooping from grave music and mild fire	H
Took in our homage made a visible place	M
Through many a depth of glory gyre on gyre	H
For the dim human tribute Was this true	H
Could man indeed avail mere praise of his	N
To help by rapture God's own rapture too	H
Thrill with a heart's red tinge that pure pale bliss	O
Why did it end Who failed to beat the breast	P
And shriek and throw the arms protesting wide	Q
When a first shadow showed the star addressed	P
Itself to motion and on either side	Q
The rims contracted as the rays retired	R
The music like a fountain's sickening pulse	S
Subsided on itself awhile transpired	F
Some vestige of a Face no pangs convulse	S
No prayers retard then even this was gone	D
Lost in the night at last We lone and left	T
Silent through centuries ever and anon	D
Venture to probe again the vault bereft	T
Of all now save the lesser lights a mist	U
Of multitudinous points yet suns men say	S
And this leaps ruby this lurks amethyst	U
But where may hide what came and loved our clay	S
How shall the sage detect in yon expanse	S
The star which chose to stoop and stay for us	S
Unroll the records Hailed ye such advance	S
Indeed and did your hope evanish thus	S
Watchers of twilight is the worst averred	U
We shall not look up know ourselves are seen	D
Speak and be sure that we again are heard	U
Acting or suffering have the disk's serene	D
Reflect our life absorb an earthly flame	V
Nor doubt that were mankind inert and numb	W
Its core had never crimsoned all the same	V
Nor missing ours its music fallen dumb	W
Oh dread succession to a dizzy post	U
Sad sway of sceptre whose mere touch appals	S
Ghastly dethronement cursed by those the most	U
On whose repugnant brow the crown next falls	S
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THIRD SPEAKER	H
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I	-
Witless alike of will and way divine	D
How heaven's high with earth's low should intertwine	D
Friends I have seen through your eyes now use mine	D
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II	-
Take the least man of all mankind as I	-
Look at his head and heart find how and why	-
He differs from his fellows utterly	X
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III	-
Then like me watch when nature by degrees	S
Grows alive round him as in Arctic seas	S
They said of old the instinctive water flees	S
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IV	I
Toward some elected point of central rock	Y
As though for its sake only roamed the flock	Y
Of waves about the waste awhile they mock	Y
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V	I
With radiance caught for the occasion hues	S
Of blackest hell now now such reds and blues	S
As only heaven could fitly interfuse	S
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VI	I
The mimic monarch of the whirlpool king	Z
O' the current for a minute then they wring	Z
Up by the roots and oversweep the thing	Z
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VII	I
And hasten off to play again elsewhere	H
The same part choose another peak as bare	H
They find and flatter feast and finish there	H
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VIII	I
When you see what I tell you nature dance	S
About each man of us retire advance	S
As though the pageant's end were to enhance	S
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IX	S
His worth and once the life his product gained	U
Roll away elsewhere keep the strife sustained	U
And show thus real a thing the North but feigned	U
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X	S
When you acknowledge that one world could do	U
All the diverse work old yet ever new	U
Divide us each from other me from you	U
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XI	S
Why where's the need of Temple when the walls	S
O' the world are that What use of swells and falls	S
From Levites' choir Priests' cries and trumpet calls	S
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XII	S
That one Face far from vanish rather grows	S
Or decomposes but to recompose	S
Become my universe that feels and knows	S

Robert Browning

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