The Diary Of An Old Soul. - June Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBDDC EFGEFGF FHIIHFI JKLKKLL KHKKKMM HKNHNKH OKOHKHH PFPQPFQ KHHKKRR RSTUTVV HHHWWWW XWWXYYY ZA2A2ZKKK KKKKKKK KB2KKHB2H C2KKC2KC2K VWVWD2D2D2 KE2F2F2E2E2K KKKKKKK B2B2HHWWH D2KE2D2KE2D2 TG2UH2WWH2 KTKUUWW KKKE2KHE2 I2B2J2I2B2I2J2 KHKHKK2L2 KKKKE2E2E2 HM2N2HHE2E2 KJ2KD2D2J2J2 O2P2E2E2E2HH| A | |
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| FROM thine as then the healing virtue goes | B |
| Into our hearts that is the Father's plan | C |
| From heart to heart it sinks it steals it flows | B |
| From these that know thee still infecting those | B |
| Here is my heart from thine Lord fill it up | D |
| That I may offer it as the holy cup | D |
| Of thy communion to my every man | C |
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| When thou dost send out whirlwinds on thy seas | E |
| Alternatest thy lightning with its roar | F |
| Thy night with morning and thy clouds with stars | G |
| Or mightier force unseen in midst of these | E |
| Orderest the life in every airy pore | F |
| Guidest men's efforts rul'st mishaps and jars | G |
| 'Tis only for their hearts and nothing more | F |
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| This this alone thy father careth for | F |
| That men should live hearted throughout with thee | H |
| Because the simple only life thou art | I |
| Of the very truth of living the pure heart | I |
| For this deep waters whelm the fruitful lea | H |
| Wars ravage famine wastes plague withers nor | F |
| Shall cease till men have chosen the better part | I |
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| But like a virtuous medicine self diffused | J |
| Through all men's hearts thy love shall sink and float | K |
| Till every feeling false and thought unwise | L |
| Selfish and seeking shall sternly disused | K |
| Wither and die and shrivel up to nought | K |
| And Christ whom they did hang 'twixt earth and skies | L |
| Up in the inner world of men arise | L |
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| Make me a fellow worker with thee Christ | K |
| Nought else befits a God born energy | H |
| Of all that's lovely only lives the highest | K |
| Lifing the rest that it shall never die | K |
| Up I would be to help thee for thou liest | K |
| Not linen swathed in Joseph's garden tomb | M |
| But walkest crowned creation's heart and bloom | M |
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| My God when I would lift my heart to thee | H |
| Imagination instantly doth set | K |
| A cloudy something thin and vast and vague | N |
| To stand for him who is the fact of me | H |
| Then up the Will and doth her weakness plague | N |
| To pay the heart her duty and her debt | K |
| Showing the face that hearkeneth to the plea | H |
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| And hence it comes that thou at times dost seem | O |
| To fade into an image of my mind | K |
| I dreamer cover hide thee up with dream | O |
| Thee primal individual entity | H |
| No likeness will I seek to frame or find | K |
| But cry to that which thou dost choose to be | H |
| To that which is my sight therefore I cannot see | H |
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| No likeness Lo the Christ Oh large Enough | P |
| I see yet fathom not the face he wore | F |
| He is and out of him there is no stuff | P |
| To make a man Let fail me every spark | Q |
| Of blissful vision on my pathway rough | P |
| I have seen much and trust the perfect more | F |
| While to his feet my faith crosses the wayless dark | Q |
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| Faith is the human shadow of thy might | K |
| Thou art the one self perfect life and we | H |
| Who trust thy life therein join on to thee | H |
| Taking our part in self creating light | K |
| To trust is to step forward out of the night | K |
| To be to share in the outgoing Will | R |
| That lives and is because outgoing still | R |
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| I am lost before thee Father yet I will | R |
| Claim of thee my birthright ineffable | S |
| Thou lay'st it on me son to claim thee sire | T |
| To that which thou hast made me I aspire | U |
| To thee the sun upflames thy kindled fire | T |
| No man presumes in that to which he was born | V |
| Less than the gift to claim would be the giver to scorn | V |
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| Henceforth all things thy dealings are with me | H |
| For out of thee is nothing or can be | H |
| And all things are to draw us home to thee | H |
| What matter that the knowers scoffing say | W |
| This is old folly plain to the new day | W |
| If thou be such as thou and they as they | W |
| Unto thy Let there be they still must answer Nay | W |
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| They will not therefore cannot do not know him | X |
| Nothing they could know could be God In sooth | W |
| Unto the true alone exists the truth | W |
| They say well saying Nature doth not show him | X |
| Truly she shows not what she cannot show | Y |
| And they deny the thing they cannot know | Y |
| Who sees a glory towards it will go | Y |
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| Faster no step moves God because the fool | Z |
| Shouts to the universe God there is none | A2 |
| The blindest man will not preach out the sun | A2 |
| Though on his darkness he should found a school | Z |
| It may be when he finds he is not dead | K |
| Though world and body sight and sound are fled | K |
| Some eyes may open in his foolish head | K |
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| When I am very weary with hard thought | K |
| And yet the question burns and is not quenched | K |
| My heart grows cool when to remembrance wrought | K |
| That thou who know'st the light born answer sought | K |
| Know'st too the dark where the doubt lies entrenched | K |
| Know'st with what seemings I am sore perplexed | K |
| And that with thee I wait nor needs my soul be vexed | K |
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| Who sets himself not sternly to be good | K |
| Is but a fool who judgment of true things | B2 |
| Has none however oft the claim renewed | K |
| And he who thinks in his great plenitude | K |
| To right himself and set his spirit free | H |
| Without the might of higher communings | B2 |
| Is foolish also save he willed himself to be | H |
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| How many helps thou giv'st to those would learn | C2 |
| To some sore pain to others a sinking heart | K |
| To some a weariness worse than any smart | K |
| To some a haunting fearing blind concern | C2 |
| Madness to some to some the shaking dart | K |
| Of hideous death still following as they turn | C2 |
| To some a hunger that will not depart | K |
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| To some thou giv'st a deep unrest a scorn | V |
| Of all they are or see upon the earth | W |
| A gaze at dusky night and clearing morn | V |
| As on a land of emptiness and dearth | W |
| To some a bitter sorrow to some the sting | D2 |
| Of love misprized of sick abandoning | D2 |
| To some a frozen heart oh worse than anything | D2 |
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| To some a mocking demon that doth set | K |
| The poor foiled will to scoff at the ideal | E2 |
| But loathsome makes to them their life of jar | F2 |
| The messengers of Satan think to mar | F2 |
| But make driving the soul from false to feal | E2 |
| To thee the reconciler the one real | E2 |
| In whom alone the would be and the is are met | K |
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| Me thou hast given an infinite unrest | K |
| A hunger not at first after known good | K |
| But something vague I knew not and yet would | K |
| The veiled Isis thy will not understood | K |
| A conscience tossing ever in my breast | K |
| And something deeper that will not be expressed | K |
| Save as the Spirit thinking in the Spirit's brood | K |
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| But now the Spirit and I are one in this | B2 |
| My hunger now is after righteousness | B2 |
| My spirit hopes in God to set me free | H |
| From the low self loathed of the higher me | H |
| Great elder brother of my second birth | W |
| Dear o'er all names but one in heaven or earth | W |
| Teach me all day to love eternally | H |
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| Lo Lord thou know'st I would not anything | D2 |
| That in the heart of God holds not its root | K |
| Nor falsely deem there is any life at all | E2 |
| That doth in him nor sleep nor shine nor sing | D2 |
| I know the plants that bear the noisome fruit | K |
| Of burning and of ashes and of gall | E2 |
| From God's heart torn rootless to man's they cling | D2 |
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| Life giving love rots to devouring fire | T |
| Justice corrupts to despicable revenge | G2 |
| Motherhood chokes in the dam's jealous mire | U |
| Hunger for growth turns fluctuating change | H2 |
| Love's anger grand grows spiteful human wrath | W |
| Hunting men out of conscience' holy path | W |
| And human kindness takes the tattler's range | H2 |
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| Nothing can draw the heart of man but good | K |
| Low good it is that draws him from the higher | T |
| So evil poison uncreate from food | K |
| Never a foul thing with temptation dire | U |
| Tempts hellward force created to aspire | U |
| But walks in wronged strength of imprisoned Truth | W |
| Whose mantle also oft the Shame indu'th | W |
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| Love in the prime not yet I understand | K |
| Scarce know the love that loveth at first hand | K |
| Help me my selfishness to scatter and scout | K |
| Blow on me till my love loves burningly | E2 |
| Then the great love will burn the mean self out | K |
| And I in glorious simplicity | H |
| Living by love shall love unspeakably | E2 |
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| Oh make my anger pure let no worst wrong | I2 |
| Rouse in me the old niggard selfishness | B2 |
| Give me thine indignation which is love | J2 |
| Turned on the evil that would part love's throng | I2 |
| Thy anger scathes because it needs must bless | B2 |
| Gathering into union calm and strong | I2 |
| All things on earth and under and above | J2 |
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| Make my forgiveness downright such as I | K |
| Should perish if I did not have from thee | H |
| I let the wrong go withered up and dry | K |
| Cursed with divine forgetfulness in me | H |
| 'Tis but self pity pleasant mean and sly | K |
| Low whispering bids the paltry memory live | K2 |
| What am I brother for but to forgive | L2 |
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| Thou art my father's child come to my heart | K |
| Thus must I say or Thou must say Depart | K |
| Thus I would say I would be as thou art | K |
| Thus I must say or still I work athwart | K |
| The absolute necessity and law | E2 |
| That dwells in me and will me asunder draw | E2 |
| If in obedience I leave any flaw | E2 |
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| Lord I forgive and step in unto thee | H |
| If I have enemies Christ deal with them | M2 |
| He hath forgiven me and Jerusalem | N2 |
| Lord set me from self inspiration free | H |
| And let me live and think from thee not me | H |
| Rather from deepest me then think and feel | E2 |
| At centre of thought's swift revolving wheel | E2 |
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| I sit o'ercanopied with Beauty's tent | K |
| Through which flies many a golden winged dove | J2 |
| Well watched of Fancy's tender eyes up bent | K |
| A hundred Powers wait on me ministering | D2 |
| A thousand treasures Art and Knowledge bring | D2 |
| Will Conscience Reason tower the rest above | J2 |
| But in the midst alone I gladness am and love | J2 |
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| 'Tis but a vision Lord I do not mean | O2 |
| That thus I am or have one moment been | P2 |
| 'Tis but a picture hung upon my wall | E2 |
| To measure dull contentment therewithal | E2 |
| And know behind the human how I fall | E2 |
| A vision true of what one day shall be | H |
| When thou hast had thy very will with me | H |
George Macdonald
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