The Stolen God--lazarus To Dives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIIICJKJ EEGELHMH NOEOCEHE LPQPRFEF ISESTEKE LUEVGEEE LWVWXFEF LYIZVGSG| We do not clamour for vengeance | A |
| We do not whine for fear | B |
| We have cried in the outer darkness | C |
| Where was no man to hear | D |
| We cried to man and he heard not | E |
| Yet we thought God heard us pray | F |
| But our God who loved and was sorry | G |
| Our God is taken away | F |
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| Ours were the stream and the pasture | H |
| Forest and fen were ours | I |
| Ours were the wild wood creatures | I |
| The wild sweet berries and flowers | I |
| You have taken our heirlooms from us | C |
| And hardly you let us save | J |
| Enough of our woods for a cradle | K |
| Enough of our earth for a grave | J |
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| You took the wood and the cornland | E |
| Where still we tilled and felled | E |
| You took the mine and quarry | G |
| And all you took you held | E |
| The limbs of our weanling children | L |
| You crushed in your mills of power | H |
| And you made our bearing women toil | M |
| To the very bearing hour | H |
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| You have taken our clean quick longings | N |
| Our joy in lover and wife | O |
| Our hope of the sunset quiet | E |
| At the evening end of life | O |
| You have taken the land that bore us | C |
| Its soil and stone and sod | E |
| You have taken our faith in each other | H |
| And now you have taken our God | E |
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| When our God came down from Heaven | L |
| He came among men a Man | P |
| Eating and drinking and working | Q |
| As common people can | P |
| And the common people received Him | R |
| While the rich men turned away | F |
| But what have we to do with a God | E |
| To whom the rich men pray | F |
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| He hangs a dead God on your altars | I |
| Who lived a Man among men | S |
| You have taken away our Lord | E |
| And we cannot find Him again | S |
| You have not left us a handful | T |
| Of even the earth He trod | E |
| You have made Him a rich man's idol | K |
| Who came as a poor man's God | E |
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| He promised the poor His heaven | L |
| He loved and lived with the poor | U |
| He said that the rich man's shadow | E |
| Should never darken His door | V |
| But bishops and priests lie softly | G |
| Drink full and are fully fed | E |
| In the Name of the Lord who had not | E |
| Where to lay His head | E |
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| This is the God you have stolen | L |
| As you steal all else in His name | W |
| You have taken the ease and the honour | V |
| Left us the toil and the shame | W |
| You have chosen the seat of Dives | X |
| We lie where Lazarus lay | F |
| But by God we will not yield you our God | E |
| You shall not take Him away | F |
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| All else we had you have taken | L |
| All else but not this not this | Y |
| The God of Heaven is ours is ours | I |
| And the poor are His are His | Z |
| Is He ours Is He yours Give answer | V |
| For both He cannot be | G |
| And if He is ours O you rich men | S |
| Then whose in God's name are ye | G |
Edith Nesbit
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