The New Sinai Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGBHB H HIH JKH LMKMHMHMHIH NEHEOHPHQRS BTBQUVUWHHH XHHHHYNYYHZH A2B2HB2C2D2HD2KENE YE2F2E2G2KH2KF2EI2E HND2NNNF2NHN NHJ2HE J2HPH HNK2NL2KHKHNENLo here is God and there is God | A |
Believe it not O Man | B |
In such vain sort to this and that | C |
The ancient heathen ran | B |
Though old Religion shake her head | D |
And say in bitter grief | E |
The day behold at first foretold | F |
Of atheist unbelief | E |
Take better part with manly heart | G |
Thine adult spirit can | B |
Receive it not believe it not | H |
Believe it not O Man | B |
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As men at dead of night awaked | H |
With cries 'The king is here ' | - |
Rush forth and greet whome'er they meet | H |
Whoe'er shall first appear | I |
And still repeat to all the street | H |
''Tis he the king is here ' | - |
The long procession moveth on | J |
Each nobler form they see | K |
With changeful suit they still salute | H |
And cry 'Tis he 'tis he ' | - |
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So even so when men were young | L |
And earth and heaven were new | M |
And His immediate presence He | K |
From human hearts withdrew | M |
The soul perplexed and daily vexed | H |
With sensuous False and True | M |
Amazed bereaved no less believed | H |
And fain would see Him too | M |
'He is ' the prophet tongues proclaimed | H |
In joy and hasty fear | I |
'He is ' aloud replied the crowd | H |
Is here and here and here ' | - |
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'He is They are ' in distance seen | N |
On yon Olympus high | E |
In those Avernian woods abide | H |
And walk this azure sky | E |
'They are They are ' to every show | O |
Its eyes the baby turned | H |
And blazes sacrificial tall | P |
On thousand altars burned | H |
'They are They are ' On Sinai's top | Q |
Far seen the lightnings shone | R |
The thunder broke a trumpet spoke | S |
And God said 'I am One ' | - |
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God spake it out 'I God am One ' | - |
The unheeding ages ran | B |
And baby thoughts again again | T |
Have dogged the growing man | B |
And as of old from Sinai's top | Q |
God said that God is One | U |
By Science strict so speaks He now | V |
To tell us There is None | U |
Earth goes by chemic forces Heaven's | W |
A Mecanique Celeste | H |
And heart and mind of human kind | H |
A watch work as the rest | H |
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Is this a Voice as was the Voice | X |
Whose speaking told abroad | H |
When thunder pealed and mountain reeled | H |
The ancient truth of God | H |
Ah not the Voice 'tis but the cloud | H |
The outer darkness dense | Y |
Where image none nor e'er was seen | N |
Similitude of sense | Y |
'Tis but the cloudy darkness dense | Y |
That wrapt the Mount around | H |
While in amaze the people stays | Z |
To hear the Coming Sound | H |
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Is there no prophet soul the while | A2 |
To dare sublimely meek | B2 |
Within the shroud of blackest cloud | H |
The Deity to seek | B2 |
'Midst atheistic systems dark | C2 |
And darker hearts' despair | D2 |
That soul has heard perchance His word | H |
And on the dusky air | D2 |
His skirts as passed He by to see | K |
Hath strained on their behalf | E |
Who on the plain with dance amain | N |
Adore the Golden Calf | E |
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'Tis but the cloudy darkness dense | Y |
Though blank the tale it tells | E2 |
No God no Truth yet He in sooth | F2 |
Is there within it dwells | E2 |
Within the sceptic darkness deep | G2 |
He dwells that none may see | K |
Till idol forms and idol thoughts | H2 |
Have passed and ceased to be | K |
No God no Truth ah though in sooth | F2 |
So stand the doctrine's half | E |
On Egypt's track return not back | I2 |
Nor own the Golden Calf | E |
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Take better part with manlier heart | H |
Thine adult spirit can | N |
No God no Truth receive it ne'er | D2 |
Believe it ne'er O Man | N |
But turn not then to seek again | N |
What first the ill began | N |
No God it saith ah wait in faith | F2 |
God's self completing plan | N |
Receive it not but leave it not | H |
And wait it out O Man | N |
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'The Man that went the cloud within | N |
Is gone and vanished quite | H |
He cometh not ' the people cries | J2 |
'Nor bringeth God to sight | H |
Lo these thy gods that safety give | E |
Adore and keep the feast ' | - |
Deluding and deluded cries | J2 |
The Prophet's brother Priest | H |
And Israel all bows down to fall | P |
Before the gilded beast | H |
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Devout indeed that priestly creed | H |
O Man reject as sin | N |
The clouded hill attend thou still | K2 |
And him that went within | N |
He yet shall bring some worthy thing | L2 |
For waiting souls to see | K |
Some sacred word that he hath heard | H |
Their light and life shall be | K |
Some lofty part than which the heart | H |
Adopt no nobler can | N |
Thou shalt receive thou shalt believe | E |
And thou shalt do O Man | N |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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