The Gospel Women 15: Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLN OPQP JRJR RLRL RRRR GRGR A RSRS IRIR MTMT UJUJ RLRL RVRV RIRI RWRW| I | A |
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| She sitteth at the Master's feet | B |
| In motionless employ | C |
| Her ears her heart her soul complete | B |
| Drinks in the tide of joy | C |
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| Ah who but she the glory knows | D |
| Of life pure high intense | E |
| In whose eternal silence blows | D |
| The wind beyond the sense | E |
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| In her still ear God's perfect grace | F |
| Incarnate is in voice | G |
| Her thoughts the people of the place | F |
| Receive it and rejoice | G |
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| Her eyes with heavenly reason bright | H |
| Are on the ground cast low | I |
| His words of spirit life and light | H |
| They set them shining so | I |
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| But see a face is at the door | J |
| Whose eyes are not at rest | K |
| A voice breaks on divinest lore | J |
| With petulant request | K |
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| Master it said dost thou not care | L |
| She lets me serve alone | M |
| Tell her to come and take her share | L |
| But Mary's eyes shine on | N |
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| She lifts them with a questioning glance | O |
| Calmly to him who heard | P |
| The merest sign she'll rise at once | Q |
| Nor wait the uttered word | P |
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| His Martha Martha with it bore | J |
| A sense of coming nay | R |
| He told her that her trouble sore | J |
| Was needless any day | R |
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| And he would not have Mary chid | R |
| For want of needless care | L |
| The needful thing was what she did | R |
| At his feet sitting there | L |
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| Sure joy awoke in her dear heart | R |
| Doing the thing it would | R |
| When he the holy took her part | R |
| And called her choice the good | R |
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| Oh needful thing Oh Mary's choice | G |
| Go not from us away | R |
| Oh Jesus with the living voice | G |
| Talk to us every day | R |
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| II | A |
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| Not now the living words are poured | R |
| Into one listening ear | S |
| For many guests are at the board | R |
| And many speak and hear | S |
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| With sacred foot refrained and slow | I |
| With daring trembling tread | R |
| She comes in worship bending low | I |
| Behind the godlike head | R |
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| The costly chrism in snowy stone | M |
| A gracious odour sends | T |
| Her little hoard by sparing grown | M |
| In one full act she spends | T |
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| She breaks the box the honoured thing | U |
| See how its riches pour | J |
| Her priestly hands anoint him king | U |
| Whom peasant Mary bore | J |
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| Not so does John the tale repeat | R |
| He saw for he was there | L |
| Mary anoint the Master's feet | R |
| And wipe them with her hair | L |
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| Perhaps she did his head anoint | R |
| And then his feet as well | V |
| And John this one forgotten point | R |
| Loved best of all to tell | V |
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| 'Twas Judas called the splendour waste | R |
| 'Twas Jesus said Not so | I |
| Said that her love his burial graced | R |
| Ye have the poor I go | I |
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| Her hands unwares outsped his fate | R |
| The truth king's felon doom | W |
| The other women were too late | R |
| For he had left the tomb | W |
George Macdonald
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