Love, Time, And Will Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFF GGHH IIJJKK LMNN OOOPQQA soul immortal Time God everywhere | A |
Without within how can a heart despair | A |
Or talk of failure obstacles and doubt | B |
What proofs of God The little seeds that sprout | B |
Life and the solar system and their laws | C |
Nature Ah yes but what was Nature's cause | D |
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All mighty words are short God life and death | E |
War peace and truth are uttered in a breath | E |
And briefly said are love and will and time | F |
Yet in them lies a majesty sublime | F |
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Love is the vast constructive power of space | G |
Time is the hour which calls it into place | G |
Will is the means of using time and love | H |
And bringing forth the heart's desires thereof | H |
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The way is love the time is now and will | I |
The patient method Let this knowledge fill | I |
Thy consciousness and fate and circumstance | J |
Environment and all the ills of chance | J |
Must yield before the concentrated might | K |
Of those three words as shadows yield to light | K |
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Go charge thyself with love be infinite | L |
And opulent with thy large use of it | M |
'Tis from free sowing that full harvest springs | N |
Love God and life and all created things | N |
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Learn time's great value to this mandate bow | O |
The hour of opportunity is Now | O |
And from thy will as from a well strung bow | O |
Let the swift arrows of thy wishes go | P |
Though sent into the distance and the dark | Q |
The dawn shall prove thy arrows hit the mark | Q |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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