Plea To Science Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFAHAH EIGIJKJJ LMLMKNKN OKOKPFPF| O Science reaching backward through the distance | A |
| Most earnest child of God | B |
| Exposing all the secrets of existence | A |
| With thy divining rod | B |
| I bid thee speed up to the heights supernal | C |
| Clear thinker ne'er sufficed | D |
| Go seek and bind the laws and truths eternal | C |
| But leave me Christ | D |
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| Upon the vanity of pious sages | E |
| Let in the light of day | F |
| Break down the superstitions of all ages | G |
| Thrust bigotry away | F |
| Stride on and bid all stubborn foes defiance | A |
| Let Truth and Reason reign | H |
| But I beseech thee O Immortal Science | A |
| Let Christ remain | H |
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| What canst thou give to help me bear my crosses | E |
| In place of Him my Lord | I |
| And what to recompense for all my losses | G |
| And bring me sweet reward | I |
| THOU couldst not with thy clear cold eyes of reason | J |
| Thou couldst not comfort me | K |
| Like One who passed through that tear blotted season | J |
| In sad Gethsemane | J |
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| Through all the weary wearing hour of sorrow | L |
| What word that thou hast said | M |
| Would make me strong to wait for some to morrow | L |
| When I should find my dead | M |
| When I am weak and desolate and lonely | K |
| And prone to follow wrong | N |
| Not thou O Science Christ my Saviour only | K |
| Can make me strong | N |
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| Thou art so cold so lofty and so distant | O |
| Though great my need might be | K |
| No prayer however constant and persistent | O |
| Could bring thee down to me | K |
| Christ stands so near to help me through each hour | P |
| To guide me day by day | F |
| O Science sweeping all before thy power | P |
| Leave Christ I pray | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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