Arrow And Bow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDADEE FGHHGEE IIJJKKLL GGMMN OO PQPRRQFFBBST STUUGV VE WXYDWW| It is easy to stand in the pulpit or in the closet to kneel | A |
| And say 'God do this God do that | B |
| Make the world better relieve the sorrows of man for the sake of | C |
| Thy Son | D |
| Oh forgive all sin ' Then having planned out God's work to feel | A |
| Our duty is done | D |
| It is easy to be religious this way | E |
| Easy to pray | E |
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| It is harder to stand on the highway or walk in the crowded mart | F |
| And say 'I am He I am He | G |
| 'Mine the world burden mine the sorrows of men mine the Christ work | H |
| 'To forgive my brother's sin ' and then to live the Christ part and never to shirk | H |
| It is hard for you and me | G |
| To be religious this way | E |
| Day after day | E |
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| But God is no longer in heaven we drove Him out with our prayers | I |
| Drove Him out with our sermons and creeds and our endless plaints and despairs | I |
| He came down over the borders and Christ too came along | J |
| They are looking the whole world over to see just what is wrong | J |
| God has grown weary of hearing His praises sung on earth | K |
| And Jesus is weary of hearing the story about His birth | K |
| And the way to win Their favour that is surer than any other | L |
| Is to join in a song of Brotherhood and praises of one another | L |
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| No God is no longer in heaven He has come down on earth to see | G |
| That nothing is wrong with the world He made THE WRONG IS IN YOU AND ME | G |
| He meant the earth for a garden spot where mill and factory stand | M |
| Childhood he meant for growing time but look at the toiling band | M |
| Woman was meant for mother and mate now look at the slaves of lust | N |
| And the good folks shake their heads and say 'We must pray to God and trust ' | - |
| God has a billion books of our prayers unopened upon his shelves | O |
| For the things we are begging Him to do He wants us to do ourselves | O |
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| Jehovah Jesus and each soul in space | P |
| Are one and undividable Until | Q |
| We see God shining in each neighbour's face | P |
| And find Him in ourselves and hail Him there | R |
| What use is prayer | R |
| Let us be still | Q |
| How can we love the whole and not each part | F |
| How worship God and harbour in the heart | F |
| Hate of God's members for all men are that | B |
| Too long our souls have sat | B |
| Like poor blind beggars at the door of God | S |
| He never made a beggar we are kings | T |
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| Let us rise up for it is time we trod | S |
| The mountain tops time that we did the things | T |
| We have so long asked God to do | U |
| He waits for you | U |
| To look deep in your brother's eyes and see | G |
| The God within | V |
| To hear you say 'Lo thou art He Lo thou art He ' | - |
| This is the only way to end all sin | V |
| The difficult one way | E |
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| A prayer without a deed is an arrow without a bow string | W |
| A deed without a prayer is a bow string without an arrow | X |
| The heart of a man should be like a quiver full of arrows | Y |
| And the hand of a man should be like a strong bow strung for action | D |
| The heart of a man should keep his arrows ever ascending | W |
| And the hand and the mind of a man should keep at a work unending | W |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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