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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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CHORUS OF ANGELS Singing the Glory of God	A
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To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow	B
Adapt the spheres for chords for notes the stars	C
Let new born gales discriminate the bars	C
Nor let old Time to measure times be slow	D
Hence to new Music of the eternal Lyre	E
Add richer harmony and praise to praise	F
For him who now his wondrous might displays	F
And shows the Universe its awful Sire	G
O Thou who ere the World or Heaven was made	H
Didst in thyself that World that Heaven enjoy	I
How does thy bounty all its powers employ	I
What inexpressive good hast thou displayed	H
O Thou of sovereign love almighty source	J
Who knowest to make thy works thy love express	K
Let pure devotion's fire the soul possess	K
And give the heart and hand a kindred force	J
Then shalt thou hear how when the world began	L
Thy life producing voice gave myriads birth	M
Called forth from nothing all in Heaven and Earth	M
Blessed in thy light Eagles in the Sun	N
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ACT I	O
Scene I God The Father Chorus of Angels	P
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Raise from this dark abyss thy horrid visage	Q
O Lucifer aggrieved by light so potent	R
Shrink from the blaze of these refulgent planets	S
And pant beneath the rays of no fierce sun	N
Read in the sacred volumes of the sky	O
The mighty wonders of a hand divine	T
Behold thou frantic rebel	U
How easy is the task	V
To the great Sire of Worlds	W
To raise his his empyrean seat sublime	X
Lifting humility	Y
Thither whence pride hath fallen	N
From thence with bitter grief	Z
Inhabitant of fire and mole of darkness	A2
Let the perverse behold	B2
Despairing his escape and my compassion	N
His own perdition in another's good	C2
And Heaven now closed to him to others opened	D2
And sighing from the bottom of his heart	E2
Let him in homage to my power exclaim	F2
Ah this creative Sire	G
Wretch as I am I see	Y
Hath need of nothing but himself alone	G2
To re establish all	H2
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The Seraphim Sing	I2
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O scene worth heavenly musing	I2
With sun and moon their glorious light diffusing	I2
Where to angelic voices	J2
Sphere circling sphere rejoices	J2
How dost thou rise exciting	I2
Man to fond contemplation	N
Of his benign creation	N
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The Cherubim Sing	I2
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The volume of the stars	J2
The sovereign Author planned	K2
Inscribing it with his eternal hand	K2
And his benignant aim	F2
Their beams in lucid characters proclaim	F2
And man in these delighting	I2
Feels their bright beams inviting	I2
And seems though prisoned in these mortal bars	J2
Walking on earth to mingle with the stars	J2
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God The Father	G
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Angels desert your Heaven with you to Earth	M
That Power descends whom Heaven accompanies	J2
Let each spectator of these works sublime	X
Behold with meek devotion	N
Earth into flesh transformed and clay to man	L
Man to a sovereign lord	L2
And souls to seraphim	X
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The Seraphim Sing	I2
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Now let us cleave the sky with wings of gold	B2
The world be paradise	J2
Since to its fruitful breast	M2
Now the great Sovereign of our quire descends	J2
Now let us cleave the sky with wings of gold	B2
Strew yourselves flowers beneath the step divine	T
Ye rivals of the stars	J2
Summoned from every sphere	N2
Ye gems of heaven heaven's radiant wealth appear	N2
Now let us cleave the sky with wings of gold	B2
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God The Father	G
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Behold ye springing herbs and new born flowers	J2
The step that used to press the stars alone	G2
And the sun's spacious road	O2
This day begins along the sylvan scene	P2
To leave its grand impression	N
To low materials now I stretch my hand	K2
To form a work sublime	X
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The Angels Sing	I2
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Lament lament in anguish	Q2
Angel to God rebellious	J2
See on a sudden rise	J2
The creature doomed to fill thy radiant seat	R2
Foolish thy pride took fire	G
Contemplating thy birth	M
But he o'er pride shall triumph	S2
Acknowledging he sprung from humble dust	T2
From hence he shall acquire	G
As much as thou hast lost	U2
Since he supreme Inhabitant of Heaven	N
Receives the humble and dethrones the proud	V2
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God The Father	G
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Adam arise since I do thee impart	E2
A spirit warm from my benignant breath	W2
Arise arise first man	L
And joyous let the world	X2
Embrace its living miniature in thee	Y
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Adam O marvels new O hallowed O divine	T
Eternal object of the angel host	Y2
Why do I not possess tongues numerous	J2
As now the stars in heaven	N
Now then before	Z2
A thing of earth so mean	P2
See I the great Artificer divine	T
Mighty Ruler supernal	H2
If 'tis denied this tongue	A3
To match my obligation with my thanks	J2
Behold my heart's affection	N
And hear it speaking clearer than my tongue	A3
And to thee bending lower	G
Than this my humble knee	Y
Now now O Lord in ecstasy devout	B3
Let my mind mount and passing all the clouds	J2
Passing each sphere even up to heaven ascend	C3
And there behold the stars a seat for man	L
Thou Lord who all the fire of genuine love	D3
Convertest to thyself	D3
Transform me into thee that I a part	E2
Even of thyself may thus acquire the power	G
To offer praises not unworthy thee	Y
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The Angels Sing	I2
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To smile in paradise	J2
Great demigod of earth direct thy step	E3
There like the tuneful spheres	J2
Circle the murmuring rills	J2
Of limpid water bright	F3
There the melodious birds	J2
Rival angelic quires	J2
There lovely flowers profuse	J2
Appear as vivid stars	J2
The snow rose is there	G3
A silver moon the heliotrope a sun	N
What more can be desired	H3
By earth's new lord in fair corporeal vest	M2
Than in the midst of earth to find a heaven	N
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Adam O ye harmonious birds	J2
Bright scene of lovely flowers	J2
But what delightful slumber	G
Falls on my closing eyes	J2
I lay me down adieu	I3
Unclouded light of day sweet air adieu	I3
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God The Father	G
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Adam behold I come	X
Son dear to me thou son	N
Of an indulgent sire	G
Behold the hand that never works in vain	J3
Behold the hand that joined the elements	J2
That added heaven to heavens	J2
That filled the stars with light	F3
Gave lustre to the moon	K3
Prescribed the sun his course	J2
And now supports the world	X2
And forms a solid stage for thy firm step	E3
Now sleeping Adam from thy opened side	L3
The substance I will take	M3
That shall have woman's name and lovely form	X
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The Angels Sing	I2
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Immortal works of an immortal Maker	G
Ye high and blessed seats	J2
Of this delightful world	X2
Ye starry seats of heaven	N
Trophies divine productions pre ordained	N3
O power O energy	Y
Which out of shadowy horror formed the Sun	N
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Eve What heavenly melody pervades my heart	E2
Ere yet the sound my ear inviting me	Y
To gaze on wonders what do I behold	B2
What transformations new	I3
Is earth become the heaven	N
Do I behold his light	F3
Whose splendour dazzles the meridian sun	N
Am I the creature of that plastic hand	K2
Who formed of nought the angels and the heavens	J2
Thou sovereign Lord whom lowly I adore	Z2
A love so tender penetrates my heart	E2
That while my tongue ventures on utterance	J2
The words with difficulty	Y
Find passage from my lips	J2
For in a tide of tears	J2
That sighs have caused to flow they seem absorbed	O3
Thou pure celestial love	D3
Of the benignant power	G
Who pleased to manifest on earth his glory	Y
Now to this world descends	J2
To draw from abject clay	H2
The governor of all created things	J2
Lord of the hallowed and concealed affection	N
Thou in whom love glows with such fervent flame	X
Inspirit even my tongue	A3
With suitable reply that these dear vales	J2
And sylvan scenes may hear	P3
Thanks that to thee I should devote my Sire	G
But if my tongue be mute speak thou my heart	E2
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God The Father	G
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Adam awake and cease	J2
To meditate in rapturous trance profound	Q3
Things holy and abstruse	J2
And the deep secrets of the Trinal Lord	L2
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Adam Where am I where have I been what Sun	N
Of triple influence that dims the day	H2
Now from my eye withdraws where is he vanished	R3
O hallowed miracles	J2
Of this imperial seat	R2
Of these resplendent suns	J2
Which though divided form	X
A single ray of light immeasurable	H2
Embellishing all Heaven	N
And giving grace and lustre	G
To every winged Seraph	D3
Divine mysterious light	F3
Flowing from sovereign Good	C2
To him alone thou art known	G2
Who mounts to thee an eagle in his	J2