To One Threatened With Blindness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEDECC A FGGHFGGHGIIDGD| I | A |
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| Lawrence what though the world be growing dark | B |
| And twilight cool thy potent day inclose | C |
| The sun beneath the round earth sunk still glows | C |
| All the night through sleepless and young and stark | B |
| Oh be thy spirit faithful as the lark | B |
| More daring in the midnight of thy woes | C |
| Dart through them higher than earth's shadow goes | C |
| Into the Light of which thou art a spark | B |
| Be willing to be blind that in thy night | D |
| The Lord may bring his Father to thy door | E |
| And enter in and feast thy soul with light | D |
| Then shall thou dream of darksome ways no more | E |
| Forget the gloom that round thy windows lies | C |
| And shine God's house all radiant in our eyes | C |
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| II | A |
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| Say thou his will be done who is the good | F |
| His will be borne who knoweth how to bear | G |
| Who also in the night had need of prayer | G |
| Both when awoke divinely longing mood | H |
| And when the power of darkness him withstood | F |
| For what is coming take no jot of care | G |
| Behind before around thee as the air | G |
| He o'er thee like thy mother's heart will brood | H |
| And when thou hast wearied thy wings of prayer | G |
| Then fold them and drop gently to thy nest | I |
| Which is thy faith and make thy people blest | I |
| With what thou bring'st from that ethereal height | D |
| Which whoso looks on thee will straightway share | G |
| He needs no eyes who is a shining light | D |
George Macdonald
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