Labor Is Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEAE GHIHJKLMAM NOCOPQ QAQ AAQAGRLRAR| LABORARE est orare | A |
| We black visaged sons of toil | B |
| From the coal mine and the anvil | C |
| And the delving of the soil | B |
| From the loom the wharf the warehouse | D |
| And the ever whirling mill | E |
| Out of grim and hungry silence | F |
| Raise a weak voice small and shrill | E |
| Laborare est orare | A |
| Man dost hear us God He will | E |
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| We who just can keep from starving | G |
| Sickly wives not always mild | H |
| Trying not to curse Heaven's bounty | I |
| When it sends another child | H |
| We who worn out doze on Sundays | J |
| O'er the Book we strive to read | K |
| Cannot understand the parson | L |
| Or the catechism and creed | M |
| Laborare est orare | A |
| Then good sooth we pray indeed | M |
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| We poor women feeble natured | N |
| Large of heart in wisdom small | O |
| Who the world's incessant battle | C |
| Cannot understand at all | O |
| All the mysteries of the churches | P |
| All the troubles of the state | Q |
| Whom child smiles teach 'God is loving ' | - |
| And child coffins 'God is great' | Q |
| Laborare est orare | A |
| We too at His footstool wait | Q |
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| Laborare est orare | A |
| Hear it ye of spirit poor | A |
| Who sit crouching at the threshold | Q |
| While your brethren force the door | A |
| Ye whose ignorance stands wringing | G |
| Rough hands scamed with toil nor dares | R |
| Lift so much as eyes to Heaven | L |
| Lo all life this truth declares | R |
| Laborare est orare | A |
| And the whole earth rings with prayers | R |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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