After Thomas Kempis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE A FGFG HIHI A AJKJ LMLM A NONO PQRQ A ASAS TUTU A VSWS ADAD XJYJ A ZJZJ A2JA2J A2JA2J A JJA B2B2A JJC2JJC2 JJSJJSI | A |
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Who follows Jesus shall not walk | B |
In darksome road with danger rife | C |
But in his heart the Truth will talk | B |
And on his way will shine the Life | C |
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So on the story we must pore | D |
Of him who lives for us and died | E |
That we may see him walk before | D |
And know the Father in the guide | E |
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II | A |
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In words of truth Christ all excels | F |
Leaves all his holy ones behind | G |
And he in whom his spirit dwells | F |
Their hidden manna sure shall find | G |
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Gather wouldst thou the perfect grains | H |
And Jesus fully understand | I |
Thou must obey him with huge pains | H |
And to God's will be as Christ's hand | I |
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III | A |
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What profits it to reason high | A |
And in hard questions court dispute | J |
When thou dost lack humility | K |
Displeasing God at very root | J |
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Profoundest words man ever spake | L |
Not once of blame washed any clear | M |
A simple life alone could make | L |
Nathanael to his master dear | M |
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IV | A |
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The eye with seeing is not filled | N |
The ear with hearing not at rest | O |
Desire with having is not stilled | N |
With human praise no heart is blest | O |
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Vanity then of vanities | P |
All things for which men grasp and grope | Q |
The precious things in heavenly eyes | R |
Are love and truth and trust and hope | Q |
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V | A |
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Better the clown who God doth love | A |
Than he that high can go | S |
And name each little star above | A |
But sees not God below | S |
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What if all things on earth I knew | T |
Yea love were all my creed | U |
It serveth nothing with the True | T |
He goes by heart and deed | U |
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VI | A |
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If thou dost think thy knowledge good | V |
Thy intellect not slow | S |
Bethink thee of the multitude | W |
Of things thou dost not know | S |
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Why look on any from on high | A |
Because thou knowest more | D |
Thou need'st but look abroad to spy | A |
Ten thousand thee before | D |
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Wouldst thou in knowledge true advance | X |
And gather learning's fruit | J |
In love confess thy ignorance | Y |
And thy Self love confute | J |
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VII | A |
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This is the highest learning | Z |
The hardest and the best | J |
From self to keep still turning | Z |
And honour all the rest | J |
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If one should break the letter | A2 |
Yea spirit of command | J |
Think not that thou art better | A2 |
Thou may'st not always stand | J |
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We all are weak but weaker | A2 |
Hold no one than thou art | J |
Then as thou growest meeker | A2 |
Higher will go thy heart | J |
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VIII | A |
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Sense and judgment oft indeed | J |
Spy but little and mislead | J |
Ground us on a shelf | A |
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Happy he whom Truth doth teach | B2 |
Not by forms of passing speech | B2 |
But her very self | A |
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Why of hidden things dispute | J |
Mind unwise howe'er astute | J |
Making that thy task | C2 |
Where the Judge will at the last | J |
When disputing all is past | J |
Not a question ask | C2 |
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Folly great it is to brood | J |
Over neither bad nor good | J |
Eyes and ears unheedful | S |
Ears and eyes ah open wide | J |
For what may be heard or spied | J |
Of the one thing needful | S |
George Macdonald
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