The Radiant Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDDEDDE A FGGFFGG HDIJDK A LMMLLMMLNOPNO| I | A |
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| Arise O master artist of the age | B |
| And paint the picture which at once shall be | C |
| Immortal art and bless'd prophecy | C |
| The bruised vision of the world assuage | B |
| To earth's dark book add one illumined page | B |
| So scintillant with truth that all who see | C |
| Shall break from superstition and stand free | C |
| Now let this wondrous work thy hand engage | B |
| The mortal sorrow of the Nazarene | D |
| Too long has been faith's symbol and its sign | D |
| Too long a dying Saviour has sufficed | E |
| Give us the glowing emblem which shall mean | D |
| Mankind awakened to the Self Divine | D |
| The living emblem of the Radiant Christ | E |
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| II | A |
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| Too long the crucifix on Calvary's height | F |
| Has cast its shadow on the human heart | G |
| Let now Religion's great co worker Art | G |
| Limn on the background of departing night | F |
| The shining Face all palpitant with light | F |
| And God's true message to the world impart | G |
| Go tell each toiler in the home and mart | G |
| 'Lo Christ is with ye if ye seek aright ' | - |
| The world forgets the vital word Christ taught | H |
| The only word the world has need to know | D |
| The answer to creation's problem Love | I |
| The world remembers what the Christ forgot | J |
| His cross of anguish and His death of woe | D |
| Release the martyr and the Cross remove | K |
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| III | A |
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| For now the former things have passed away | L |
| And man forgetting that which lies behind | M |
| And ever pressing forward seeks to find | M |
| The prize of his high calling Send a ray | L |
| From art's bright sun to fortify the day | L |
| And blaze the trail to every mortal mind | M |
| The new religion lies in being kind | M |
| Faith stands and works where once it knelt to pray | L |
| Faith counts its gain where once it reckoned loss | N |
| Ascending paths its patient feet have trod | O |
| Man looks within and finds salvation there | P |
| Release the suffering Saviour from the Cross | N |
| And give the waiting world its Radiant God | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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