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Ballad Of Jesus Of Nazareth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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It matters not what place he drew	B
At first life's mortal breath	C
Some say it was in Bethlehem	D
And some in Nazareth	E
But shame and sorrow were his lot	F
And shameful was his death	C
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The angels sang and o'er the barn	G
Wherein the infant lay	H
They hung a star for they foresaw	I
The sad world's better day	H
But well God knew what thyme and rue	B
Were planted by his way	H
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The children of the Pharisees	I
In hymn and orison	G
Worshipped the prophets whom their sires	I
To cruel death had done	G
And said 'had we been there their death	C
We had not looked upon '	-
	-
While the star shone the angels saw	I
The tombs these children built	J
For those the world had driven out	K
And smitten to the hilt	J
God knew these wretched sons would bear	L
The self same bloody guilt	J
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Always had he who strives for men	G
But done some other thing	M
If he had not led a hermit life	N
Or had not had his fling	M
We would have followed him they say	I
And made him lord and King	M
	-
For John was clothed in camel's hair	L
And lived among the brutes	I
But Jesus fared where the feast was spread	O
To the sound of shawms and lutes	I
Where gathered knaves and publicans	I
And hapless prostitutes	I
	-
Like children in the market place	I
Who sullen sat and heard	P
With John they would not mourn nor yet	Q
Rejoice at Jesus' word	P
Had Jesus mourned or John rejoiced	R
He had been King and lord	S
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II	A
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From Bethlehem until the day	I
He came up to the feast	T
We hear no word we only know	G
In wisdom he increased	T
We know the marvelous boy did awe	U
The Pharisee and priest	T
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For wearied men wake to admire	V
A genius in the bud	W
Before the passion of the world	X
Flows through him like a flood	W
Ere he becomes a scourge to those	I
Who drink of mankind's blood	W
	-
Perhaps in him they saw an arm	Y
To keep the people still	Z
And fool the meek and slay the weak	A2
And give the King his will	Z
And put a wall for arm d men	G
'Round every pleasant hill	Z
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And this is why in after years	I
The Galilean wept	B2
The cup of youth was sweet with truth	C2
But a green worm in it crept	B2
And that was dullness clothed in power	D2
And hate which never slept	B2
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Through twenty years he drove the plane	G
And shaped with ax and saw	I
And dreamed upon the Hebrew writ	E2
Unto a day of awe	U
When he felt the world fit to his grasp	F2
As by a mighty law	I
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He looked upon the sunny sky	A
And 'round the flowering earth	G2
He heard the poor man's groan of woe	G
And the prince's song of mirth	G2
Then Jesus vowed the life of man	G
Should have another birth	G2
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And this is why the Son of Man	G
Wept when he knew the loss	I
The toil and sacrifice to cleanse	I
A little earthly dross	I
And that a god to save twelve men	G
Must die upon the cross	I
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III	A
	-
'Twas on a pleasant day in June	G
Beneath an azure sky	A
That 'round him stood the multitude	H2
And saw within his eye	A
The light that from nor sun nor star	I2
Ever was known to fly	A
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And some came out to scoff and laugh	J2
And some to lay a snare	L
The rhetorician gaped to see	I
The learn d carpenter	D2
The money changer judge and priest	T
And statesman all were there	L
	-
Some thought the Galilean mad	K2
Some asked is he sincere	L2
Some said he played the demagogue	M2
To gain the people's ear	N2
And raise a foe against the law	I
That lawful men should fear	L2
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But all the while did C sar's might	O2
Grow big with blood and lust	P2
And no one brooked his tyrant arm	Y
For the statesman said the crust	P2
That paupers gnaw is by the law	I
And that the law is just	P2
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From hunger's hovel from the streets	I
From horror's blackened niche	Q2
Earth's mourners came and hands were stretched	R2
To touch him from the ditch	Q2
Then rose a Scribe and said he turned	S2
The poor against the rich	Q2
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And those who hated C sar's rule	T2
Albeit sowed the lie	A
That Jesus stirred sedition up	U2
That he might profit by	A
A revolution which should clothe	V2
Himself in monarchy	I
	-
Through twice a thousand years the world	X
Has missed the words he taught	W2
To forms and creeds and empty show	G
Christ never gave a thought	W2
But wrongs that men do unto men	G
They were the wrongs he fought	W2
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He did not eat with washen hands	I
Nor keep the Sabbath day	I
He did not to the Synagogue	X2
Repair to sing and pray	I
Nor for to morrow take a thought	W2
To mar life's pleasant way	I
	-
He saw that all of human woe	G
Takes root in hate and greed	Y2
He saw until men love their kind	Z2
The human heart must bleed	Y2
And that nor hymn nor sacrifice	I
Meets any human need	Y2
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And this is why he scourged the rich	Q2
And lashed the Pharisee	I
And stripped from every pious face	I
The mask hypocrisy	I
And so laced Mary Magdalene	G
Caught in adultery	I
	-
And this is why with grievous fire	D2
He smote the lawyer's lore	A3
And every wile of cunning guile	B3
Which made the burden more	A3
Upon the backs of wretched men	G
Who heavy burdens bore	A3
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Therefore when that the hour was come	C3
For him to die they blent	Y2
Of many things a lying charge	D3
But at last the argument	Y2
They killed him with was that he stirred	Y2
The people's discontent	Y2
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From thence the world has gone its way	I
Of this truth deaf and blind	Y2
And every man who struck the law	I
Has felt the halter bind	Y2
Until his words were choked in death	C
Uttered for human kind	Y2
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Now did the dreams of Galilee	I
Awake as from a sleep	E3
Fly up from earth and Life unmasked	Y2
Life's promise did not keep	E3
And Jesus saw the face of Life	N
And all who see it weep	E3
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God's spirit fled the damn d earth	G2
And left the earth forlorn	G
No more did Jesus walk the fields	I
And pluck the ripened corn	G
Nor muse beside the silent sea	I
Upon a summer's morn	G
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Before the heart of Christ was pierced	Y2
With agony divine	G
He sat him down in a merry mood	Y2
With loving friends to dine	G
And once in Cana he did turn	G
The water into wine	G
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Now put from shore swept far to sea	I
His shallop caught the tide	Y2
Arched o'er him was eternity	I
'Twixt starless wastes and wide	Y2
God's spirit seemed withdrawn that once	I
Walked hourly at his side	Y2
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IV	N
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Gladly the common people heard	Y2
And called upon his name	F3
But yet he knew what they would do	Y2
Christ Jesus knew their frame	F3
And that he should be left alone	G
Upon a day of shame	F3
	-
Sharper than thorns upon the brow	G3
Or nails spiked through the hand	Y2
Is when the people fly for fear	L2
And cannot understand	Y2
And let their saviors die the death	C
As creatures contraband	Y2
	-
For wrongs that flourish by a lie	A
Are hard enough to bear	L
But wrongs that take their root in truth	C2
Shade every brow with care	L
And this is why Gethsemane	G
Was shadowed with despair	L
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In dark and drear Gethsemane	G
Hell's devils laughed and raved	Y2
When Jesus torn by fear and doubt	Y2
Reprieve from sorrow craved	Y2
For who would lose his life unless	I
Another's life he saved	Y2
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V	N
	-
In youth when all the world appeared	Y2
As fresh as any flower	D2
Satan besought the Son of Man	G
New clothed in godly power	D2
And took him to behold the world	Y2
Upon a lofty tower	D2
	-
To every man of god like might	Y2
Comes Satan once to give	N
The crown the crosier and the sword	Y2
And bid him laugh and live	N
While Hope hides in the wilderness	I
A hunted fugitive	N
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But neither gold nor kingly crown	G
Tempted the Son of Man	G
He hoped as many souls have hoped	Y2
Ever since time began	G
That love itself can overcome	C3
Hate's foul leviathan	G
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Some fix their faith to heaven's grace	I
And some to saintly bones	I
Some think that water doth contain	G
A virtue which atones	I
And some believe that men are saved	Y2
By penitential groans	I
	-
But of all faith that ever fired	Y2
A spirit with its glow	G
That is supreme which thinks that truth	C2
No power can overthrow	G
And he believes who takes and cleaves	I
To the thorny way of woe	G
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For life is sweet and sweet it is	I
With jeweled sandals shod	Y2
To trip where happy blossoms shoot	Y2
Up from t	N