The Flower-angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GEGE HIHI JKLK| Of old with goodwill from the skies | A |
| God's message to them given | B |
| The angels came a glad surprise | A |
| And went again to heaven | B |
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| But now the angels are grown rare | C |
| Needed no more as then | D |
| Far lowlier messengers can bear | C |
| God's goodwill unto men | D |
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| Each year the snowdrops' pallid dawn | E |
| Breaks from the earth below | F |
| Light spreads till from the dark updrawn | E |
| The noontide roses glow | F |
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| The snowdrops first the dawning gray | G |
| Then out the roses burn | E |
| They speak their word grow dim away | G |
| To holy dust return | E |
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| Of oracles were little dearth | H |
| Should heaven continue dumb | I |
| From lowliest corners of the earth | H |
| God's messages will come | I |
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| In thy face his we see O Lord | J |
| And are no longer blind | K |
| Need not so much his rarer word | L |
| In flowers even read his mind | K |
George Macdonald
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