Translations. - The Words Of Faith. (from Schiller.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFFF HIHIJJ KLKLMM ANCODD HFHFFF PGPGGG QGQGGG FFFFRR GOGOGG| Three words I will tell you of meaning full | A |
| The lips of the many shout them | B |
| Yet were they born of no sect or school | C |
| The heart only knows about them | B |
| That man is of everything worth bereft | D |
| Who in those three words has no faith left | D |
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| Man is born free and is free alway | E |
| Even were he born in fetters | F |
| Let not the mob's cry lead you astray | G |
| Or the misdeeds of frantic upsetters | F |
| Fear not the slave when he breaks his bands | F |
| Fear nothing from any free man's hands | F |
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| And Virtue it is no empty sound | H |
| That a man can obey her no folly | I |
| Even if he stumble all over the ground | H |
| He yet can follow the Holy | I |
| And what never wisdom of wise man knew | J |
| A child like spirit can simply do | J |
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| And a God there is a steadfast Will | K |
| However the human shrinketh | L |
| High over space and time He still | K |
| The live Thought doth what He thinketh | L |
| And though all things keep circling to change confined | M |
| He keeps in all changes a changeless mind | M |
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| These three words cherish of meaning full | A |
| From mouth to mouth send them faring | N |
| For although they spring from no sect or school | C |
| Your hearts them witness are bearing | O |
| And man is never of worth bereft | D |
| While yet he has faith in those three words left | D |
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| Three words there are of weighty sound | H |
| And from good men's lips they hail us | F |
| But a tinkling cymbal a drum's rebound | H |
| For help or for comfort they fail us | F |
| His Life's fruit away he forfeit flings | F |
| Who catches after those shadows of things | F |
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| Who still believes in a Golden Age | P |
| Where the Right and the Good reign in splendour | G |
| The Right and the Good war ever must wage | P |
| Their foe will never surrender | G |
| And chok'st thou him not in the upper air | G |
| His strength he will still on the earth repair | G |
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| Who yet believes that Fortune the jilt | Q |
| To the noble will bind herself ever | G |
| Her love looks follow the man of guilt | Q |
| The world to the good belongs never | G |
| He is in it a stranger he wanders away | G |
| Seeking a house that will not decay | G |
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| Who still believes that no human gaze | F |
| Truth ever her visage discloses | F |
| Her veil no mortal hand shall raise | F |
| Man only thinks and supposes | F |
| Thou mayst prison the spirit in sounding form | R |
| But the Fetterless walks away on the storm | R |
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| Then noble spirit from folly break free | G |
| This heav'nly faith holding and handing | O |
| What the ear never heard what no eye can see | G |
| Is the lovely the true notwithstanding | O |
| Outside the fool seeks for it evermore | G |
| The wise man finds it with closed door | G |
George Macdonald
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