Veils Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEFGGGGGGEFGGHI JKILHMNOOKPPKQQRRSST T GGG| Veils everywhere float veils veils long and black | A |
| Framing white faces oft times young and fair | B |
| But like a rose touched by untimely frost | C |
| Showing the blighting marks of sorrow's track | A |
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| Veils veils veils everywhere They tell the cost | D |
| Of man made war They show the awful toll | E |
| Paid by the hearts of women for the crimes | F |
| The age old crimes by selfishness ill named | G |
| 'Justice' and 'Honour' and 'The call of Fate' | G |
| High words men use to hide their low estate | G |
| About the joy and beauty of this world | G |
| A long black veil is furled | G |
| Even the face of Heaven itself seems lost | G |
| Behind a veil It takes a fervent soul | E |
| In these tense times | F |
| To visualise a God so long defamed | G |
| By insolent lips that send out prayers and prate | G |
| Of God's collaboration in dark deeds | H |
| So foul they put to shame the fiends of hell | I |
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| Yet One | J |
| does | K |
| dwell | I |
| In Secret Centres of the Universe | L |
| The Mighty Maker and He hears and heeds | H |
| The still small voice of soulful selfless faith | M |
| And He is lifting now the veil of death | N |
| So long down dropped between those worlds and earth | O |
| Yea He is giving faith a great new birth | O |
| By letting echoes from the hidden places | K |
| Where dwell our dead fall on love's listening ear | P |
| Hearken and you shall hear | P |
| The messages which come from those star spaces | K |
| That is the reason why | Q |
| God let so many die | Q |
| That the vast hordes of suffering hearts might wake | R |
| Mighty vibrations and the silence break | R |
| Between the neighbouring worlds and lift the veil | S |
| 'Twixt life on earth and life Beyond All hail | S |
| To great Jehovah Who has given life | T |
| Eternal everlasting after strife | T |
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| Veils long black veils you shall be bridal white | G |
| Eyes blind with tears you shall receive your sight | G |
| And see your dead alive in Worlds of Light | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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