The Purification Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD AAEE FFDD GGHI EEFF| Softly the sunbeams gleamed athwart the Temple proud and high | A |
| Built up by Israel s wisest to the Lord of earth and sky | A |
| Lighting its gorgeous fretted roof and every sacred fold | B |
| Of mystic veil from gaze profane that hid the ark of old | B |
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| Ne er could man s gaze have rested on a scene more rich and bright | C |
| Agate and porphyry precious gems cedar and ivory white | C |
| Marbles of perfect sheen and hue sculptures and tintings rare | D |
| With sandal wood and frankincense perfuming all the air | D |
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| But see how steals up yonder aisle with rows of columns high | A |
| A female form with timid step and downcast modest eye | A |
| A girl she seems by the fresh bloom that decks her lovely face | E |
| With locks of gold and vestal brow and form of childish grace | E |
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| Yet no those soft slight arms enfold a helpless new born child | F |
| Late entered on this world of woe still pure and undefiled | F |
| While two white doves she humbly lays before the altar there | D |
| Tell that despite her girlish years she knows a matron s care | D |
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| No fairer sight could heart have asked than that which met the view | G |
| E en had He been the child of sin and she a sinner too | G |
| But how must heavenly hosts have looked in breathless rapture on | H |
| Knowing Him as the Temple s Lord the Word th Eternal Son | I |
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| While she was that Maid Mother rare fairest of Adam s race | E |
| Whom Heaven s Archangel bending low had hailed as full of grace | E |
| The Mother of that infant God close clasped unto her breast | F |
| the Mary humble meek and pure above all women blessed | F |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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