Awake, Arise, Thy Light Is Come. (air.--stevenson.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FBFB GFGF BDBD FFFF FHFH IBIB JKJK LMLM| Awake arise thy light is come | A |
| The nations that before outshone thee | B |
| Now at thy feet lie dark and dumb | A |
| The glory of the Lord is on thee | B |
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| Arise the Gentiles to thy ray | C |
| From every nook of earth shall cluster | D |
| And kings and princes haste to pay | C |
| Their homage to thy rising lustre | D |
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| Lift up thine eyes around and see | B |
| O'er foreign fields o'er farthest waters | E |
| Thy exiled sons return to thee | B |
| To thee return thy home sick daughters | E |
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| And camels rich from Midians' tents | F |
| Shall lay their treasures down before thee | B |
| And Saba bring her gold and scents | F |
| To fill thy air and sparkle o'er thee | B |
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| See who are these that like a cloud | G |
| Are gathering from all earth's dominions | F |
| Like doves long absent when allowed | G |
| Homeward to shoot their trembling pinions | F |
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| Surely the isles shall wait for me | B |
| The ships of Tarshish round will hover | D |
| To bring thy sons across the sea | B |
| And waft their gold and silver over | D |
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| And Lebanon thy pomp shall grace | F |
| The fir the pine the palm victorious | F |
| Shall beautify our Holy Place | F |
| And make the ground I tread on glorious | F |
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| No more shall dischord haunt thy ways | F |
| Nor ruin waste thy cheerless nation | H |
| But thou shalt call thy portal Praise | F |
| And thou shalt name thy walls Salvation | H |
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| The sun no more shall make thee bright | I |
| Nor moon shall lend her lustre to thee | B |
| But God Himself shall be thy Light | I |
| And flash eternal glory thro' thee | B |
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| Thy sun shall never more go down | J |
| A ray from heaven itself descended | K |
| Shall light thy everlasting crown | J |
| Thy days of mourning all are ended | K |
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| My own elect and righteous Land | L |
| The Branch for ever green and vernal | M |
| Which I have planted with this hand | L |
| Live thou shalt in Life Eternal | M |
Thomas Moore
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