The Faith We Need Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM| Too tall our structures and too swift our pace | A |
| Not so we mount not so we gain the race | A |
| Too loud the voice of commerce in the land | B |
| Not so truth speaks not so we understand | B |
| Too vast our conquests and too large our gains | C |
| Not so comes peace not so the soul attains | C |
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| But the need of the world is a faith that will live anywhere | D |
| In the still dark depths of the woods or out in the sun's full glare | D |
| A faith that can hear God's voice alike in the quiet glen | E |
| Or in the roar of the street and over the noises of men | E |
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| And the need of the world is a creed that is founded on joy | F |
| A creed with the turrets of hope and trust no winds can destroy | F |
| A creed where the soul finds rest whatever this life bestows | G |
| And dwells undoubting and unafraid because it knows it knows | G |
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| And the need of the world is love that burns in the heart like flame | H |
| A love for the Giver of Life in sorrow or joy the same | H |
| A love that blazes a trail to Go through the dark and the cold | I |
| Or keeps the pathway that leads to Him clean through glory and gold | I |
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| For the faith that can only thrive or grow in the solitude | J |
| And droops and dies in the marts of men where sights and sounds are rude | J |
| That is not a faith at all but a dream of a mystic's heart | K |
| Our faith should point as the compass points whatever be the chart | K |
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| Our faith must find its centre of peace in a babel of noise | L |
| In the changing ways of the world of men it must keep its poise | L |
| And over the sorrowing sounds of earth it must hear God's call | M |
| And the faith that cannot do all this that is not faith at all | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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