The Prophetic Bard's Oration: From A Faun's Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBBCCDDAAEEFFEE GFHHIIEEFFJJKKLLMMFF IIEENNAAFFEO EHPIEEQQRREEHHFFFFSS RRTTFFTTFF HHFFTT| 'Be warned I feel the world grow old | A |
| And off Olympus fades the gold | A |
| Of the simple passionate sun | B |
| And the Gods wither one by one | B |
| Proud eyed Apollo's bow is broken | B |
| And throned Zeus nods nor may be woken | B |
| But by the song of spirits seven | B |
| Quiring in the midnight heaven | B |
| Of a new world no more forlorn | C |
| Sith unto it a Babe is born | C |
| That in a propped thatched stable lies | D |
| While with darkling reverent eyes | D |
| Dusky Emperors coifed in gold | A |
| Kneel mid the rushy mire and hold | A |
| Caskets of rubies urns of myrrh | E |
| Whose fumes enwrap the thurifer | E |
| And coil toward the high dim rafters | F |
| Where with lutes and warbling laughters | F |
| Clustered cherubs of rainbow feather | E |
| Fanning the fragrant air together | E |
| Flit in jubilant holy glee | G |
| And make heavenly minstrelsy | F |
| To the Child their Sun whose flow | H |
| Bathes them His cloudlets from below | H |
| Long shall this chimed accord be heard | I |
| Yet all earth hushed to His first word | I |
| Then shall be seen Apollo's car | E |
| Blaze headlong like a banished star | E |
| And the Queen of heavenly Loves | F |
| Dragged downward by her dying doves | F |
| Vulcan spun on a wheel shall track | J |
| The circle of the zodiac | J |
| Silver Artemis be lost | K |
| To the polar blizzards tossed | K |
| Heaven shall curdle as with blood | L |
| The sun be swallowed in the flood | L |
| The universe be silent save | M |
| For the low drone of winds that lave | M |
| The shadowed great world's ashen sides | F |
| As through the rustling void she glides | F |
| Then shall there be a whisper heard | I |
| Of the Grave's Secret and its Word | I |
| Where in black silence none shall cry | E |
| Save those who dead affrighted spy | E |
| How from the murmurous graveyeards creep | N |
| The figures of eternal sleep | N |
| Last when 'tis light men shall behold | A |
| Beyond the crags a flower of gold | A |
| Blossoming in a golden haze | F |
| And while they guess Zeus' halls now blaze | F |
| Shall in the blossom's heart descry | E |
| The saints of a new hierarchy ' | O |
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| He ceased and in the morning sky | E |
| Zeus' anger threatened murmurously | H |
| I sped away The lightning's sword | P |
| Stabbed on the forest But the word | I |
| Abides with me I feel its power | E |
| Most darkly in the twilit hour | E |
| When Night's eternal shadow cast | Q |
| Over earth hushed and pale and vast | Q |
| Darkly foretells the soundless Night | R |
| In which this orb so green so bright | R |
| Now spins and which shall compass her | E |
| When on her rondure nought shall stir | E |
| But snow whorls which the wind shall roll | H |
| From the Equator to the Pole | H |
| For everlastingly there is | F |
| Something Beyond Behind I wis | F |
| All Gods are haunted and there clings | F |
| As hounds behind fled sheep the things | F |
| Beyond the Universe's ken | S |
| Gods haunt the Half Gods Half Gods men | S |
| And Man the brute Gods born of Night | R |
| Feel a blacker appetite | R |
| Gape to devour them Half Gods dread | T |
| But jealous Gods and mere men tread | T |
| Warily lest a Half God rise | F |
| And loose on them from empty skies | F |
| Amazement thunder stark affright | T |
| Famine and sudden War's thick night | T |
| In which loud Furies hunt the Pities | F |
| Through smoke above wrecked flaming cities | F |
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| For Pan the Unknown God rules all | H |
| He shall outlive the funeral | H |
| Change and decay of many Gods | F |
| Until he too lets fall his rods | F |
| Of viewless power upon that minute | T |
| When Universe cowers at Infinite | T |
Robert Nichols
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