The Life Of The Blessed. - From The Spanish Of Luis Ponce De Leon. (translations.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEDEE FGFGG AHAHI JKJKK LMNMM OPOPP GFGFFRegion of life and light | A |
Land of the good whose earthly toils are o'er | B |
Nor frost nor heat may blight | A |
Thy vernal beauty fertile shore | C |
Yielding thy blessed fruits for evermore | C |
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There without crook or sling | D |
Walks the good shepherd blossoms white and red | E |
Round his meek temples cling | D |
And to sweet pastures led | E |
His own loved flock beneath his eye is fed | E |
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He guides and near him they | F |
Follow delighted for he makes them go | G |
Where dwells eternal May | F |
And heavenly roses blow | G |
Deathless and gathered but again to grow | G |
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He leads them to the height | A |
Named of the infinite and long sought Good | H |
And fountains of delight | A |
And where his feet have stood | H |
Springs up along the way their tender food | I |
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And when in the mid skies | J |
The climbing sun has reached his highest bound | K |
Reposing as he lies | J |
With all his flock around | K |
He witches the still air with numerous sound | K |
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From his sweet lute flow forth | L |
Immortal harmonies of power to still | M |
All passions born of earth | N |
And draw the ardent will | M |
Its destiny of goodness to fulfil | M |
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Might but a little part | O |
A wandering breath of that high melody | P |
Descend into my heart | O |
And change it till it be | P |
Transformed and swallowed up oh love in thee | P |
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Ah then my soul should know | G |
Beloved where thou liest at noon of day | F |
And from this place of woe | G |
Released should take its way | F |
To mingle with thy flock and never stray | F |
William Cullen Bryant
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