The New Commandment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CC DD DD EF GG HH II JJ KK| 'Let go the Cross' GERTRUDE RUNSHON | A |
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| I heard a strange voice in the distance calling | B |
| As from a star an echo might be falling | B |
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| It spoke four syllables concise and brief | C |
| Charged with a God sent message of relief | C |
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| Let go the cross Oh you who cling to sorrow | D |
| Hark to the new command and comfort borrow | D |
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| Even as the Master left His cross below | D |
| And rose to Paradise let go let go | D |
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| Forget your wrongs your troubles and your losses | E |
| For with the tools of thought we build our crosses | F |
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| Forget your griefs all grudges and all fear | G |
| And enter Paradise its gates are near | G |
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| Heaven is a realm by loving souls created | H |
| And hell was fashioned by the hearts that hated | H |
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| Love hope and trust believe all joys are yours | I |
| Life pays the soul whose confidence endures | I |
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| The blows of adverse fate by larger pleasures | J |
| As after storms the soil yields fuller measures | J |
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| Let go the cross roll self the stone away | K |
| And dwell with Love in Paradise to day | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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