In Excelsis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEEDFGGHBB IJJKLLKKKAA KKDDKMMNNKOOPP| Spring | A |
| And all our valleys turning into green | B |
| Remembering | A |
| As I remember So my heart turns glad | C |
| For so much youth and joy this to have had | C |
| When in my veins the tide of living fire | D |
| Was at its flow | E |
| This to know | E |
| When now the miracle of young desire | D |
| Burns on the hills and Spring's sweet choristers again | F |
| Chant from each tree and every bush aflame | G |
| Love's wondrous name | G |
| This under youth's glad reign | H |
| With all the valleys turning into green | B |
| This to have heard and seen | B |
| - | |
| And Song | I |
| Once to have known what every wakened bird | J |
| Has heard | J |
| Once to have entered into that great harmony | K |
| Of love's creation and to feel | L |
| The pulsing waves of wonder steal | L |
| Through all my being once to be | K |
| In that same sea | K |
| Of wakened joy that stirs in every tree | K |
| And every bird and then to sing | A |
| To sing aloud the endless Song of Spring | A |
| - | |
| Waiting I turn to Thee | K |
| Expectant humble and on bended knee | K |
| Youth's radiant fire | D |
| Only to burn at Thy unknown desire | D |
| For this alone has Song been granted me | K |
| Upon Thy altar burn me at Thy will | M |
| All wonders fill | M |
| My cup and it is Thine | N |
| Life's precious wine | N |
| For this alone for Thee | K |
| Yet never can be paid | O |
| The debt long laid | O |
| Upon my heart because my lips did press | P |
| In youth's glad Spring the Cup of Loveliness | P |
Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
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