The Law Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK LLMM NNOO PPQQ AARS TTUU| The sun may be clouded yet ever the sun | A |
| Will sweep on its course till the cycle is run | A |
| And when onto chaos the systems are hurled | B |
| Again shall the Builder reshape a new world | B |
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| Your path may be clouded uncertain your goal | C |
| Move on for the orbit is fixed for your soul | C |
| And though it may lead into darkness of night | D |
| The torch of the Builder shall give you new light | D |
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| You were and you will be know this while you are | E |
| Your spirit has travelled both long and afar | E |
| It came from the Source to the Source it returns | F |
| The spark that was lighted eternally burns | F |
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| It slept in the jewel it leaped in the wave | G |
| It roamed in the forest it rose in the grave | G |
| It took on strange garbs for long eons of years | H |
| And now in the soul of yourself it appears | H |
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| From body to body your spirit speeds on | I |
| It seeks a new form when the old one is gone | J |
| And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought | K |
| On the loom of the mind with the fibre of thought | K |
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| As dew is drawn upward in rain to descend | L |
| Your thoughts drift away and in destiny blend | L |
| You cannot escape them or petty or great | M |
| Or evil or noble they fashion your fate | M |
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| Somewhere on some planet sometime and somehow | N |
| Your life will reflect all the thoughts of your now | N |
| The law is unerring no blood can atone | O |
| The structure you rear you must live it alone | O |
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| From cycle to cycle through time and through space | P |
| Your lives with your longings will ever keep pace | P |
| And all that you ask for and all you desire | Q |
| Must come at your bidding as flames out of fire | Q |
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| Once list to that voice and all tumult is done | A |
| Your life is the life of the Infinite One | A |
| In the hurrying race you are conscious of pause | R |
| With love for the purpose and love for the cause | S |
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| You are your own devil you are your own God | T |
| You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod | T |
| And no one can save you from error or sin | U |
| Until you shall hark to the spirit within | U |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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