Ode To The Philistines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDEFEFDD GAAAHH IAIAJJ AAAAKK ALALMM NONOAA PAPADD AKAKQQ ADADDD| In an age of Mammon and Greed | A |
| In an age of Humbug and Cant | B |
| Where Speech is greater than Deed | A |
| In the reign of the sycophant | A |
| Let us turn from the shameless lips that babble of things Divine | C |
| And shout to the God we know not the Song of the Philistine | D |
| All hail as you gather and pass | E |
| From the mansion and counting house | F |
| Men with a front of brass | E |
| Men with the soul of a mouse | F |
| Men with the mark of the beast scored as deep on your brows unclean | D |
| As erst on the brows that quailed neath the scourge of the Nazarene | D |
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| Six days shalt thou swindle and lie | G |
| On the seventh tho it soundeth odd | A |
| In the odour of sanctity | A |
| Thou shalt offer the Lord thy God | A |
| A threepenny bit a doze a start and an unctuous smile | H |
| And a hurried prayer to prosper another six days of guile | H |
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| You have judged by the rich man s rule | I |
| You have treated your thinkers as dust | A |
| You have honoured the braggart and fool | I |
| Whilst Genius has starved on a crust | A |
| For all that you ask to fit what you call a man for a place | J |
| Is a shallow heart a noisy tongue thick hide and a brazen face | J |
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| You have sold your daughters for gold | A |
| You have sold your honour for naught | A |
| And your creed is easily told | A |
| All things can be offered and bought | A |
| And you thank the good Lord God in your pews on your bended knees | K |
| That you live in a cultured age and do cultured things like these | K |
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| In an age too enlightened and good | A |
| To call any wrong by its name | L |
| Millions are crying for food | A |
| Millions are living in shame | L |
| Millions of human hearts as God knows if he sees and feels | M |
| Lie bound by the System s chains neath the crunch of the System s wheels | M |
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| You are slaves to custom and vogue | N |
| You are timid to speak or to move | O |
| You have worshipped the monied rogue | N |
| You are walled in your narrow groove | O |
| And the men with the noblest hearts who have aimed at the Highest Good | A |
| You have trampled them under your feet unheard and misunderstood | A |
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| For the spirit of old remains | P |
| That nailed the Christ to the tree | A |
| That brought Galileo to chains | P |
| And Bruno to tragedy | A |
| For the Philistine altereth not unchanged since the world began | D |
| He has hindered the march of progress and murdered the thinking man | D |
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| Take heed in your sordid pride | A |
| Take heed in your purse born ease | K |
| For far o er the world and wide | A |
| Grows something greater than these | K |
| And the throb of the vexed world s heart no system shall cramp in thrall | Q |
| Till the joy and sorrow of each be the joy and sorrow of all | Q |
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| Lo whoever shall stand and fight | A |
| With the tongue or the brain or the pen | D |
| For a larger measure of Right | A |
| For the mass of his fellow men | D |
| He is nearer the unknown God than the chiefs of a priestly line | D |
| His life is a deeper prayer than the cant of the Philistine | D |
George Essex Evans
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