Lux In Tenebris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFF DGDGHF IFIFFF IJIJFF DKDKFF JJJJJJ LMLMJJ JNJNHH JOJPLL DMDMJJ LQLQRR JFJFSS DIDIFF JFJFSS LJLJTT IFIFAA| When first the Gods whose Empire is eternal | A |
| In Time s deep chalice poured Life s sacred wine | B |
| Flashed all the crystal cup with fire supernal | A |
| Then said they Shall the mortal be divine | B |
| Shall man usurp the ways the Gods have trod | C |
| Who quaffs this cup himself should be a God | C |
| So tempered they the measure of their giving | D |
| And mingled germs of evil with the good | E |
| So mixed they death with the fierce fire of living | D |
| And anguish with the joy of motherhood | E |
| And with the balm of peace a weird unrest | F |
| And an unformed desire in every breast | F |
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| So set they discord in the sweetest singing | D |
| And a sharp thorn about the fairest rose | G |
| And doubt around the cross where faith was clinging | D |
| And fear to haunt the regions of repose | G |
| And dimmed men s eyes so that they should not see | H |
| Like Gods the vistas of futurity | F |
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| They coloured failure with hope s rainbow splendour | I |
| And tinged the hour of triumph with regret | F |
| Made strength subservient to the weak and tender | I |
| And wisdom folly caught in beauty s net | F |
| Till unto man life s wine was bitter sweet | F |
| Betwixt the perfect and the incomplete | F |
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| Then said the Gods the Gods who live for ever | I |
| Let us shower gifts upon the soul of man | J |
| That he may catch a glimpse of our endeavour | I |
| And yet not solve the Universal Plan | J |
| For though Life s deepest truths be near to find | F |
| Man shall behold and see not being blind | F |
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| Thus to the blessing of the Gods descending | D |
| The universal curse and shadow clung | K |
| The mystic evil with the glory blending | D |
| That mars the aeons since the world was young | K |
| For upon all whom the High Gods had blest | F |
| There fell the quenchless fever of unrest | F |
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| Then rose a ferment and an exaltation | J |
| And all men s souls were thrilled and stirred within | J |
| There came a prophet unto every nation | J |
| To teach new doctrines of the source of sin | J |
| And men arose as Gods and creeds began | J |
| To preach th Eternal Godhead one with man | J |
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| And ever thro all lands with waves sonorous | L |
| Rolled on from age to age the stream of song | M |
| Which made low valleys sweet with rhythmic chorus | L |
| And shook the rock bound hills with music strong | M |
| And flushed and fired men s souls like fumes of wine | J |
| Yet was but human not a song divine | J |
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| For lo thro all that seemeth inspiration | J |
| Enters the curse that blurs created things | N |
| Beyond the barriers of our limitation | J |
| Not ever yet a soul has spread its wings | N |
| Nor has been yet nor ever shall there be | H |
| A perfect song a perfect harmony | H |
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| O music of the wind and of the ocean | J |
| O Power that sways the glory of the spheres | O |
| O aching hearts that vibrate with emotion | J |
| O mystery of Life O human tears | P |
| What light shall lead us thro the wilderness | L |
| From out the Egypt of our bitterness | L |
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| O Poets round whose souls since the beginning | D |
| Strange echoes tremble and wild visions throng | M |
| Ye all have heard the sweetness of the singing | D |
| But no man knows the meaning of the song | M |
| That lifts our frail souls heavenwards with its strain | J |
| Then flings us bleeding to the earth again | J |
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| Brothers my soul has quickened with your gladness | L |
| I too have sorrowed over human woe | Q |
| I too have felt the terror and the madness | L |
| That all who seek for truth and light must know | Q |
| My faint heart falters in the bitter strife | R |
| The labyrinths of the mysteries of Life | R |
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| What hope what comfort in our desolation | J |
| What ray to pierce the blackness of our night | F |
| To weary hearts what balm of consolation | J |
| That earth is finite heaven is infinite | F |
| What tho the hand of Faith still points the way | S |
| The voice of Reason ever brings delay | S |
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| Nay tho Life s secret be beyond our dreaming | D |
| And all the creeds that sway the world untrue | I |
| A radiance creeps aslant the shadows gleaming | D |
| Whose golden arrows pierce the darkness thro | I |
| If all our errors hold one germ of right | F |
| The paths that lead to truth are infinite | F |
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| Throughout all nature and throughout creation | J |
| A Power Supreme its manual sign has writ | F |
| In pain and stress thro aeons of gradation | J |
| Shall the weak soul of man decipher it | F |
| For since the spirit is above the clay | S |
| Man shall not know th Eternal in a day | S |
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| Yet tho we know not their immortal places | L |
| And tho their footsteps are not heard of man | J |
| And tho with mystery they veil their faces | L |
| And bid us search the Universal Plan | J |
| And tho to all there cometh with Life s breath | T |
| Suffering and doubt and weariness and death | T |
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| I sing Eternal Hope and Strong Endeavour | I |
| Truth shining down a myriad aisles of thought | F |
| I sing the deathless souls of men for ever | I |
| By strange wild paths to one vast triumph brought | F |
| The God in Man the hunger of the soul | A |
| One with the Wisdom that inspires the Whole | A |
George Essex Evans
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