Evolutionary Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDECE FGFGAG HIHIJI KLK CL HKHKMK| Lead us Evolution lead us | A |
| Up the future's endless stair | B |
| Chop us change us prod us weed us | A |
| For stagnation is despair | B |
| Groping guessing yet progressing | C |
| Lead us nobody knows where | B |
| - | |
| Wrong or justice joy or sorrow | D |
| In the present what are they | E |
| while there's always jam tomorrow | D |
| While we tread the onward way | E |
| Never knowing where we're going | C |
| We can never go astray | E |
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| To whatever variation | F |
| Our posterity may turn | G |
| Hairy squashy or crustacean | F |
| Bulbous eyed or square of stern | G |
| Tusked or toothless mild or ruthless | A |
| Towards that unknown god we yearn | G |
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| Ask not if it's god or devil | H |
| Brethren lest your words imply | I |
| Static norms of good and evil | H |
| As in Plato throned on high | I |
| Such scholastic inelastic | J |
| Abstract yardsticks we deny | I |
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| Far too long have sages vainly | K |
| Glossed great Nature's simple text | L |
| He who runs can read it plainly | K |
| 'Goodness what comes next ' | - |
| By evolving Life is solving | C |
| All the questions we perplexed | L |
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| On then Value means survival | H |
| Value If our progeny | K |
| Spreads and spawns and licks each rival | H |
| That will prove its deity | K |
| Far from pleasant by our present | M |
| Standards though it may well be | K |
Clive Staples Lewis
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