Poet George Macdonald

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To My Sister, On Her Twenty-first Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB CDCE FAFG HIHI A JKJK LMNM BOBO A EPEP QRQR

IA
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Old fables are not all a lieA
That tell of wondrous birthB
Of Titan children father SkyA
And mighty mother EarthB
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Yea now are walking on the groundC
Sons of the mingled broodD
Yea now upon the earth are foundC
Such daughters of the GoodE
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Earth born my sister thou art stillF
A daughter of the skyA
Oh climb for ever up the hillF
Of thy divinityG
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To thee thy mother Earth is sweetH
Her face to thee is fairI
But thou a goddess incompleteH
Must climb the starry stairI
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IIA
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Wouldst thou the holy hill ascendJ
Wouldst see the Father's faceK
To all his other children bendJ
And take the lowest placeK
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Be like a cottage on a moorL
A covert from the windM
With burning fire and open doorN
And welcome free and kindM
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Thus humbly doing on the earthB
The things the earthly scornO
Thou shalt declare the lofty birthB
Of all the lowly bornO
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IIIA
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Be then thy sacred womanhoodE
A sign upon thee setP
A second baptism understoodE
For what thou must be yetP
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For cause and end of all thy strifeQ
And unrest as thou artR
Still stings thee to a higher lifeQ
The Father at thy heartR

George Macdonald



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