To Gordon, Leaving Khartoum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDCFC GCGCCC FHFCHC IJICJC KLKCLC

The silence of traitorous feetA
The silence of close pent rageB
The roar and the sudden heart beatA
And the shot through the true heart goingC
The truest heart of the ageB
And the Nile serenely flowingC
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Carnage and curses and criesD
He utters never a wordE
Still as a child he liesD
The wind of the desert is blowingC
Across the dead man of the LordF
And the Nile is softly flowingC
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But the song is stilled in heavenG
To welcome one more kingC
For the truth he hath witnessed and strivenG
And let the world go crowingC
And Mammon's church bell go ringC
And the Nile blood red go flowingC
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Man who hated the swordF
Yet wielded the sword and axeH
Farewell O arm of the LordF
The Lord's own harvest mowingC
With a wind in the smoking flaxH
Where our foul rivers are flowingC
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In war thou didst cherish peaceI
Thou slewest for love of lifeJ
Hail hail thy stormy releaseI
Go home and await thy sowingC
The patient flower of thy strifeJ
Thy bread on the Nile cast flowingC
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Not thy earth to our earth aloneK
Thy spirit is left with usL
Thy body is victory's throneK
And our hearts around it are glowingC
Would that we others died thusL
Where the Thames and the Clyde are flowingC

George Macdonald



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