The Leader To Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFG HIJK LMKN OJP QRKSTU VWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F2CG2 KH2| What shall the leader be in that great day | A |
| When we who sleep and dream that we are slaves | B |
| Shall wake and know that Liberty is ours | C |
| Mark well that word not yours not mine but ours | C |
| For through the mingling of the separate streams | D |
| Of individual protest and desire | E |
| In one united sea of purpose lies | F |
| The course to Freedom | G |
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| When Progression takes | H |
| Her undisputed right of way and sinks | I |
| The old traditions and conventions where | J |
| They may not rise what shall the leader be | K |
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| No mighty warrior skilled in crafts of war | L |
| Sowing earth's fertile furrows with dead men | M |
| And staining crimson God's cerulean sea | K |
| To prove his prowess to a shuddering world | N |
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| Nor yet a monarch with a silly crown | O |
| Perched on an empty head an in bred heir | J |
| To senseless titles and anemic blood | P |
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| No ruler purchased by the perjured votes | Q |
| Of striving demagogues whose god is gold | R |
| Not one of these shall lead to Liberty | K |
| The weakness of the world cries out for strength | S |
| The sorrow of the world cries out for hope | T |
| Its suffering cries for kindness | U |
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| He who leads | V |
| Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn | W |
| That rises unafraid and full of joy | X |
| Above the blackness of the darkest night | Y |
| He must be kind to every living thing | Z |
| Kind as the Krishna Buddha and the Christ | A2 |
| And full of love for all created life | B2 |
| Oh not in war shall his great prowess lie | C2 |
| Nor shall he find his pleasure in the chase | D2 |
| Too great for slaughter friend of man and beast | E2 |
| Touching the borders of the Unseen Realms | F2 |
| And bringing down to earth their mystic fires | C |
| To light our troubled pathways wise and kind | G2 |
| And human to the core so shall he be | K |
| The coming leader of the coming time | H2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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