A Vision Of Philosophy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCCHCCIJKLCCMN OPQCCRSGTCCUVWCXYZA2 B2CC2D2OE2F2ZG2CH2CC I2TJ2CK2CCL2'Twas on the Red Sea coast at morn we met | A |
The venerable man a healthy bloom | B |
Mingled its softness with the vigorous thought | C |
That towered upon his brow and when he spoke | D |
'Twas language sweetened into song such holy sounds | E |
As oft they say the wise and virtuous hear | F |
Prelusive to the harmony of heaven | G |
When death is nigh and still as he unclosed | C |
His sacred lips an odor all as bland | C |
As ocean breezes gather from the flowers | H |
That blossom in Elysium breathed around | C |
With silent awe we listened while he told | C |
Of the dark veil which many an age had hung | I |
O'er Nature's form till long explored by man | J |
The mystic shroud grew thin and luminous | K |
And glimpses of that heavenly form shone through | L |
Of magic wonders that were known and taught | C |
By him or Cham or Zoroaster named | C |
Who mused amid the mighty cataclysm | M |
O'er his rude tablets of primeval lore | N |
And gathering round him in the sacred ark | O |
The mighty secrets of that former globe | P |
Let not the living star of science sink | Q |
Beneath the waters which ingulfed a world | C |
Of visions by Calliope revealed | C |
To him who traced upon his typic lyre | R |
The diapason of man's mingled frame | S |
And the grand Doric heptachord of heaven | G |
With all of pure of wondrous and arcane | T |
Which the grave sons of Mochus many a night | C |
Told to the young and bright haired visitant | C |
Of Carmel's sacred mount Then in a flow | U |
Of calmer converse he beguiled us on | V |
Through many a Maze of Garden and of Porch | W |
Through many a system where the scattered light | C |
Of heavenly truth lay like a broken beam | X |
From the pure sun which though refracted all | Y |
Into a thousand hues is sunshine still | Z |
And bright through every change he spoke of Him | A2 |
The lone eternal One who dwells above | B2 |
And of the soul's untraceable descent | C |
From that high fount of spirit through the grades | C2 |
Of intellectual being till it mix | D2 |
With atoms vague corruptible and dark | O |
Nor yet even then though sunk in earthly dross | E2 |
Corrupted all nor its ethereal touch | F2 |
Quite lost but tasting of the fountain still | Z |
As some bright river which has rolled along | G2 |
Through meads of flowery light and mines of gold | C |
When poured at length into the dusky deep | H2 |
Disdains to take at once its briny taint | C |
Or balmy freshness of the scenes it left | C |
But keeps unchanged awhile the lustrous tinge | I2 |
And here the old man ceased a winged train | T |
Of nymphs and genii bore him from our eyes | J2 |
The fair illusion fled and as I waked | C |
'Twas clear that my rapt soul had roamed the while | K2 |
To that bright realm of dreams that spirit world | C |
Which mortals know by its long track of light | C |
O'er midnight's sky and call the Galaxy | L2 |
Thomas Moore
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