The Wheels Of The System Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCD EEE FFF GGG CCC HIH JJJ KKK LLL MMM NNN OOO PPQ| Where is God whilst all around us sounds the jarring of the wheels | A |
| When the cry of human anguish starwards thro His glory steals | A |
| There is neither hope nor pity underneath the moving wheels | A |
| Woe to him who slips or falters whilst the wheels are moving on | B |
| Woe to him who stays to breathe him when the goal is nearly won | C |
| There they lie and lie for ever over whom the wheels have gone | D |
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| O my brothers draw we nearer to the dream the poet sings | E |
| War red war and rapine ruleth underneath the shows of things | E |
| Underneath the mask of Mercy there are whips of many stings | E |
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| Here in silence reft of slumber with sad heart I dream and doubt | F |
| Star by star the night is waning star by star the night goes out | F |
| But the bitter strife of all things ceases not within without | F |
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| Beat by beat the cold light groweth beat by beat the morn comes in | G |
| With his crimson robes about him like a royal Paladin | G |
| But the bitter strife of all things ceases not without within | G |
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| O er the peaceful face of Nature smiles serene the gracious sun | C |
| And men smile and hide their tactics when the battle has begun | C |
| Tear the clumsy masks asunder and behold what things are done | C |
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| For the wheels go on for ever crushing thro the human hives | H |
| And the goal the victor reaches rests upon a million lives | I |
| And the motive shall not profit it is only Power survives | H |
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| Where weak women starve and sicken dying in the paths they trod | J |
| Where strong men are bent and broken underneath the System s rod | J |
| Will you smile and prate and tell me This is still the will of God | J |
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| But I hear like distant thunder welling deep from out the sky | K |
| Tortured with the grief of ages an exceeding bitter cry | K |
| There is none can stay them ever were he mightier than I | K |
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| Deeper laws than Love are hidden in the power that runs through this | L |
| All the fiery wheels of Heaven through the seas of ether hiss | L |
| Star and sun and planet rolling onward through the black abyss | L |
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| Wail no more O fellow workers for the aid He fails to lend | M |
| Stricken with a deathless sorrow for the ills He cannot mend | M |
| God the Worker fights in silence for the good He cannot send | M |
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| Not the Lord of Love creator of all grief and pain and crime | N |
| But a god like soul ennobled battling for a goal sublime | N |
| Thro the bloodshed of the aeons forward to the happier time | N |
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| Thine the world to mould and make it free for all from rim to rim | O |
| Thine to fight and toil and triumph over every problem grim | O |
| To create and cure and conquer working onwards on with Him | O |
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| Face to face with iron systems face to face with endless odds | P |
| Where the wheels of Heaven forever race beneath His chariot rods | P |
| Soul of Man whate er thy sorrow is thy burden more than God s | Q |
George Essex Evans
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