The Voice Calling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF AAHIIJ KKLMNO PPQR Q ASTTS PPTUUT PPVWWX

IN the hush of April weatherA
With the bees in budding heatherA
And the white clouds floating floating and the sunshine falling broadB
While my children down the hillC
Run and leap and I sit stillC
Through the silence through the silence art Thou calling O my GodD
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Through my husband's voice that prayethE
Though he knows not what he sayethE
Is it Thou who in Thy Holy Word hast solemn words for meF
And when he clasps me fastG
And smiles fondly o'er the pastG
And talks hopeful of the future Lord do I hear only TheeF
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Not in terror nor in thunderA
Comes Thy voice although it sunderA
Flesh from spirit soul from body human bliss from human painH
All the work that was to doI
All the joys so sweet and newI
Which Thou shewed'st me in a vision Moses like and hid'st againJ
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From this Pisgah lying humbledK
The long desert where I stumbledK
And the fair plains I shall never reach seem equal clear and farL
On this mountain top of easeM
Thou wilt bury me in peaceN
While my tribes march onward unto Canaan and warO
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In my boy's loud laughter ringingP
In the sigh more soft than singingP
Of my baby girl that nestles up unto this mortal breastQ
After every voice most dearR
Comes a whisper 'Rest not here '-
And the rest Thou art preparing is it best Lord is it bestQ
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'Lord a little little longer '-
Sobs the earth love growing strongerA
He will miss me and go mourning through his solitary daysS
And heaven were scarcely heavenT
If these lambs which Thou hast givenT
Were to slip out of our keeping and be lost in the world's waysS
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Lord it is not fear of dyingP
Nor an impious denyingP
Of Thy will which forevermore on earth in heaven be doneT
But the love that desperate clingsU
Unto these my precious thingsU
In the beauty of the daylight and the glory of the sunT
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Ah Thou still art calling callingP
With a soft voice unappallingP
And it vibrates in far circles through the everlasting yearsV
When Thou knockest even soW
I will arise and goW
What m little ones more violets Nay be patient mother hearsX

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik



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