Evolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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THOU stand'st complete in every partA
An individual of thy kindB
But whence thou cam'st and what thou artA
Didst ever ask thee of thy mindB
Thou claim'st a portion of God's earthC
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Thou say'st to all men This is ID
Thou hast a date to mark thy birthC
And other date when thou shalt dieD
Thy years are in the planets' yearsE
A space in all that mighty spanF
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A little space of smiles and tearsG
Is writ in shining letters ManF
Thou hear'st the mighty ocean rollH
Thou seest death on every handI
There loom strange phantoms in thy soulH
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And boundless heavens arch the landI
Thy feet are on the sand and clayJ
Which once had other growths than theseK
And in the great world's yesterdayJ
Heard murmurs of the tropic seasK
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Life out of death death out of lifeL
In endless cycles rolling onM
And fire gleams flashing from the strifeL
Of what will come and what has goneN
A perfect whole a perfect planF
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Ay doubtless in the perfect mindB
An onward march since time beganF
With yet no laggart left behindB
All blended in a wondrous chainO
Each link the fittest for its placeP
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The stronger made to bear the strainO
The weaker formed to give it graceP
But what art thou and what am ID
What place is ours in all this schemeQ
What is it to be born and dieD
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Are we but phases in a dreamQ
That earth or some prime mother dreamsR
Folded away in crimson skiesS
Or are we dazzled with the beamsR
Of light too strong for new born eyesS
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Certes we are not very muchT
We cannot cause ourselves to beU
Not even the limbs by which we touchT
Are really owned by thee and meU
But they were fashioned years agoV
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Ay centuries since earth's natal mornW
The wondering ages saw them growV
Till our time came and we were bornW
And we are present future pastX
Shall live again have lived beforeY
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Like billows on the beaches castX
Of tides that flow for evermoreY
And yet thou sayest This is ID
I am marked off from all my kindB
I look not to the by and byD
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I care not for what lies behindB
That may be so but to mine eyesS
A being of wondrous make thou artA
The point at which infinitiesS
Converge touch and for ever partA
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Thou canst not unmake what has beenZ
Nor hold back that which is to comeA2
We dwell upon the waste betweenB2
In the small now which is our homeC2
Though this be so thou answerest stillD2
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I feel and know myself to beU
Thy creed would make the perfect willD2
In God's sight like a stone or treeU
Ah no for stone and tree are oneE2
And perfect will bears different fruitF2
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The will is grander than the sunE2
The body brother to the bruteF2
But in the ages thou shalt beU
A link from unknown to unknownG2
A bridge across a darkling seaU
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A light on the world's pathway thrownG2
Ay such is man a moan in sleepH2
A passing dream he thinks and isS
And then falls back into the deepH2
Where other deeps call unto thisS
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But in that thinking in that pauseS
That dream which did so little yieldI2
There met a universe of lawsS
And branched out into wider fieldI2
We live not for ourselves ah noV
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We do not live man lives in usS
The race dwells in us even soV
The race will live though we pass thusS
The forces that have fashioned theeU
Have rolled through space since time beganF
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Have ranged the heavens the earth the seaU
And in God's time have made thee manF
And so to further goal they moveJ2
When thou hast passed from mortal sightK2
To fashion beings that will proveJ2
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More wondrous still more full of lightK2
We are the foam crest on the waveL2
Lit for a moment by the sunE2
A moment thus we toss and raveL2
Then fall back ere our day is doneE2
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Thou then art twain the force that buildsS
The broad foundations of the raceS
And separate light from God that gildsS
The soul with individual graceS
God looks at both the one displaysS
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The laws that work His purpose stillD2
The other thine own spirit swaysS
And here God asks the perfect willD2
I would not have thee think the lessS
Of this small part which is man's soulH
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Nor miss the exceeding blessednessS
Of knowing thyself a separate wholeH
What proof thou sayest if this be trueM2
That thou and I survive the shockN2
Which summons all we are and doM2
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To credit of the primal stockN2
If I and thou a moment areO2
Conscious of self of touch of sightK2
Then vanish like a falling starO2
And sink in everlasting nightK2
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What proof that in the overthrowV
The thing that says knows This is I '-
Will not pass with the rest and goV
Dissolved into the vast supplyD
Though formed of elemental dustP2
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And moulded through such countless yearsS
We perish not with these but mustP2
Survive the rolling of the spheresS
We must I say for what most highD
In man Is't not the subtle partA
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The power which tells me This is ID
I am not everything thou artA
Would God have laboured then and wroughtQ2
With fire and water life and deathR2
And through the weary cycles broughtQ2
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A creature with the vital breathR2
And breathed such power within his soulH
And crowned him with such wondrous graceS
And said Go forth from pole to poleH
And meet thy brother face to faceS
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If this strange power were meant to sinkS2
Back into chaos or be lostT2
Or cast off as a broken linkS2
Or die like wave along the coastU2
Not that God's way On ever onM
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To nobler purer higher thingsS
Form out the ages that are goneN
Each newer grander era springsS
So nought is lost but all must passS
And life through varied stages moveJ2
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From the pale fungus in the grassS
To deepest depths of light and loveV2
And we must pass we shall not dieD
Changed and transformed but still the sameW2
To grander heights of mysteryU
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To fairer realms than whence we cameW2
God will not let His work be lostT2
Too wondrous is the mind of manF
Too many ages it has costX2
The huge fulfilment of His planF
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But on we pass for ever onM
Through death to other deaths and lifeL
To brighter lights when these are goneN
To broader thought more glorious strifeL
To vistas opening out of theseS
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To wonders shining from afarO2
Above the surging of the seasS
Above the course of moon and starO2
To higher powers of will and deedY2
All bounds and limits left behindB
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To truths undreamt in any creedY2
To deeper love more God like mindB
For this the sky and sea and earthC
God moulded with His ice and fireZ2
For this the ages gave us birthC
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And filled our hearts with mad desireZ2
Great God we move into the vastX
All questions vain the shadows comeA2
We hear no answer from the pastX
The years before us all are dumbA2
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We trust Thy purpose and Thy willD2
We see afar the shining goalH
Forgive us if there linger stillD2
Some human fear within our soulH
Forgive us if when crumbling inZ
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The world that we have loved and knownG2
With forms so fair to us we sinZ
By eyes averted from Thy throneG2
Forgive us if with thoughts too wildA3
And eyes too dim to pierce the gloomB3
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We shudder like a frightened childA3
That enters at a darkened roomB3
Forgive us if when dies awayJ
All human sound upon our earsS
We hear not in the swift decayJ
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Thy loving voice to calm our fearsS
But lo the dawn of fuller daysS
Horizon glories fringe the skyD
Our feet would climb the shining waysS
To meet man's widest destinyU
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Come then all sorrow's recompenseS
The kindling sky is flaked with goldC3
Above the shattered screen of senseS
A voice like thunE2

Frederick George Scott



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