The Love Of God. - From The ProvenÇal Of Bernari Rascas. (translations.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGBBHHIIAB J| All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away | A |
| Except the love of God which shall live and last for aye | B |
| The forms of men shall be as they had never been | C |
| The blasted groves shall lose their fresh and tender green | D |
| The birds of the thicket shall end their pleasant song | E |
| And the nigthingale shall cease to chant the evening long | E |
| The kine of the pasture shall feel the dart that kills | F |
| And all the fair white flocks shall perish from the hills | F |
| The goat and antlered stag the wolf and the fox | G |
| The wild boar of the wood and the chamois of the rocks | G |
| And the strong and fearless bear in the trodden dust shall lie | B |
| And the dolphin of the sea and the mighty whale shall die | B |
| And realms shall be dissolved and empires be no more | H |
| And they shall bow to death who ruled from shore to shore | H |
| And the great globe itself so the holy writings tell | I |
| With the rolling firmament where the starry armies dwell | I |
| Shall melt with fervent heat they shall all pass away | A |
| Except the love of God which shall live and last for aye | B |
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| sic | J |
William Cullen Bryant
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