Prayer Of Pan Cogito - Traveller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EC FB GH IJ K LMN OP LQRS T UV WX YZKA2 B2C2 C2TBRD2 BE2B EF2G2 H2E I2 A2C| Lord | A |
| Thank you for creating the world beautiful and of such variety | B |
| And also for allowing me in your inexhaustible goodness | C |
| To visit places which were not the scene of my daily torments | D |
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| for lying at night near a well in a square in Tarquinia while the swaying | E |
| bronze declared from the tower your wrath and forgiveness | C |
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| and a little donkey on the island of Corcyra sang to mi from | F |
| its incredible bellowing lungs the landscape s melancholy | B |
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| and in the very ugly city of Manchester I came across | G |
| very good and sensible people | H |
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| nature reiterated her wise tautologies the forest was | I |
| forest the sea was sea and rock was rock | J |
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| stars orbited and things were as they should be Jovis omnia plena | K |
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| forgive me thinking only of myself when the life of | L |
| others cruel and irreversible turned round me like the huge | M |
| astrological clock in the church at Beauvais | N |
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| for being too cowardly and stupid because I did not understand | O |
| so many things | P |
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| and also forgive me for not fighting for the happiness of | L |
| poor and vanquished nations and for seeing only moonrise and museums | Q |
| thank you for the works created to glorify you which | R |
| have shared with me part of there mystery so that in gross conceit | S |
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| I concluded that Duccio Van Eyck Bellini painted for me too | T |
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| and likewise the Acropolis which I had never fully understood | U |
| patiently revealed to me its mutilated flesh | V |
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| I pray that you do not forget to reward the white haired old | W |
| man who brought me fruit from his garden in the bay of the island of Ithaca | X |
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| and also the teacher Miss Hellen on the isle of Mull whose | Y |
| hospitality was Greek or Christian and who ordered light | Z |
| to be placed in the window facing Holy Iona so that human | K |
| lights might greet one another | A2 |
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| and furthermore all those who had shown me the way and said | B2 |
| kato kyrie kato | C2 |
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| and that you should have in your care the Mother from Spoleto | C2 |
| Spiridion from Paxos and the good student from Berlin who | T |
| got me out of a tight spot and later when I unexpectedly | B |
| ran into him in Arizona drove me to Grand Canyon which | R |
| is like a hundred thousand cathedrals standing on their heads | D2 |
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| grant O Lord that I may forget my foolish and very weary | B |
| persecutors when the sun sets into the vast uncharted | E2 |
| Ionian sea | B |
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| that I may comprehend other men other tongues other suffering | E |
| and that I be not stubborn because my limitations are | F2 |
| without limits | G2 |
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| and above all that I be humble that is one who sees | H2 |
| one who drinks at the spring | E |
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| thank you O Lord for creating a world very beautiful and varied | I2 |
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| and if this is Your temptation I am tempted for ever | A2 |
| and without forgiveness | C |
Zbigniew Herbert
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