Foresight And Patience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Sprung of the father blood the mother brainA
Are they who point our pathway and sustainA
They rarely meet one soars one walks retiredB
When they do meet it is our earth inspiredC
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To see Life's formless offspring and subdueD
Desire of times unripe we have these twoD
Whose union is right reason join they handsE
The world shall know itself and where it standsE
What cowering angel and what upright beastF
Make man behold nor count the low the leastF
Nor less the stars have round it than its flowersG
When these two meet a point of time is oursG
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As in a land of waterfalls that flowH
Smooth for the leap on their great voice belowH
Some eddies near the brink borne swift alongI
Will capture hearing with the liquid songI
So while the headlong world's imperious forceJ
Resounded under heard I these discourseJ
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First words where down my woodland walk she ledK
To her blind sister Patience Foresight saidK
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Your faith in me appals to shake my ownL
When still I find you in this mire aloneL
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The few steps taken at a funeral paceM
By men had slain me but for those you traceM
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Look I once back a broken pinion IN
Black as the rebel angels rained from skyN
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Needs must you drink of me while here you liveO
And make me rich in feeling I can giveP
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A brave To be is dawn upon my browQ
Yet must I read my sister for the HowQ
My daisy better knows her God of beamsR
Than doth an eagle that to mount him seemsR
She hath the secret never fieriest reachS
Of wing shall master till men hear her teachS
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Liker the clod flaked by the driving ploughQ
My semblance when I have you not as nowQ
The quiet creatures who escape mishapT
Bear likeness to pure growths of the green sapT
A picture of the settled peace desiredC
By cowards shunning strife or strivers tiredC
I listen at their breasts is there no jarU
Of wrestlings and of stranglings dead they areU
And such a picture as the piercing mindV
Ranks beneath vegetation Not resignedV
Are my true pupils while the world is bruteW
What edict of the stronger keeps me muteW
Stronger impels the motion of my heartX
I am not Resignation's counterpartX
If that I teach 'tis little the dry wordC
Content but how to savour hope deferredC
We come of earth and rich of earth may beY
Soon carrion if very earth are weY
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The coursing veins the constant breath the useZ
Of sleep declare that strife allows short truceZ
Unless we clasp decay accept defeatA2
And pass despised 'a cold for lack of heat '-
Like other corpses but without death's pleaY
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My sister calls for battle is it sheY
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Rather a world of pressing men in armsB2
Than stagnant where the sensual piper charmsB2
Each drowsy malady and coiling viceC2
With dreams of ease whereof the soul pays priceC2
No home is here for peace while evil breedsD2
While error governs none and must the seedsD2
You sow you that for long have reaped disdainA
Lie barren at the doorway of the brainA
Let stout contention drive deep furrows bloodE2
Moisten and make new channels of its floodE2
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My sober little maid when we meet firstF2
Drinks of me ever with an eager thirstF2
So can I not of her till circumstanceG2
Drugs cravings Here we see how men advanceG2
A doubtful foot but circle if much stirredC
Like dead weeds on whipped waters Shout the wordC
Prompting their hungers and they grandly marchH2
As to band music under Victory's archH2
Thus was it and thus is it save that thenI2
The beauty of frank animals had menI2
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Observe them and down rearward for a termJ2
Gaze to the primal twistings of the wormJ2
Thence look this way across the fields that showH
Men's early form of speech for Yes and NoH
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My sister a bruised infant's utterance hadK2
And issuing stronger to mankind 'twas madK2
I knew my home where I had choice to feelL2
The toad beneath a harrow or a heelL2
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Speak of this AgeM2
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When you it shall discernN2
Bright as you are to me the Age will turnN2
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For neither of us has it any careO2
Its learning is through Science to despairO2
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Despair lies down and grovels grapples notP2
With evil casts the burden of its lotP2
This Age climbs earthQ2
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To challenge heavenR2
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Not lessS2
The lower deeps It laughs at HappinessT2
That know I though the echoes of it wailU2
For one step upward on the crags you scaleU2
Brave is the Age wherein the word will rustV2
Which means our soul asleep or body's lustV2
Until from warmth of many breasts that beatA2
A temperate common music sunlike heatA2
The happiness not predatory shedsW2
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But your fierce Yes and No of butting headsW2
Now rages to outdo a horny PastX2
Shades of a wild Destroyer on the vastX2
Are thrown by every novel light upraisedX2
The world's whole round smokes ominously amazedX2
And trembling as its pregnant Aetna swellsY2
Combustibles on hot combustiblesY2
Run piling for one spark to roll in fireZ2
The mountain torrent of infernal ireA3
And leave the track of devils where men builtX2
Perceptive of a doom the sinner's guiltX2
Confesses in a cry for help shrill loudX2
If drops the chillness of a passing cloudX2
To conscience reason human love in vainA
None save they but the souls which them containA
No extramural God the God withinB3
Alone gives aid to city charged with sinB3
A world that for the spur of fool and knaveC3
Sweats in its laboratory what shall saveC3
But men who ply their wits in such a schoolD3
Must pray the mercy of the knave and foolD3
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Much have I studied hard NecessityX2
To know her Wisdom's mother and that weX2
May deem the harshness of her later criesY2
In labour a sure goad to prick the wiseY2
If men among the warnings which convulseY2
Can gravely dread without the craven's pulseY2
Long ere the rising of this age of oursY2
The knave and fool were stamped as monstrous PowersY2
Of human lusts and lassitudes they springE3
And are as lasting as the parent thingE3
Yet numbering locust hosts bent they to drillF3
They might o'ermatch and have mankind at willF3
Behold such army gathering ours the spurZ2
No scattered foe to face but LuciferZ2
Not fool or knave is now the enemyX2
O'ershadowing men 'tis Folly KnaveryZ2
A sea nor stays that sea the bastioned beachS
Now must the brother soul alive in eachS
His traitorous individual devildomX2
Hold subject lest the grand destruction comeX2
Dimly men see it menacing apaceY2
To overthrow perchance uproot the raceY2
Within without they are a field of taresY2
Fruitfuller for them when the contest squaresY2
And wherefore warrior service they must yieldX2
Shines visible as life on either fieldX2
That is my comfort following shock on shockG3
Which sets faith quaking on their firmest rockG3
Since with his weapons all the arms of NightX2
Frail men have challenged Lucifer to fightX2
Have matched in hostile ranks enrolled erectX2
The human and Satanic intellectX2
Determined for their uses to controlH3
What forces on the earth and under rollH3
Their granite rock runs igneous now they standX2
Pledged to the heavens for safety of their landX2
They cannot learn save grossly gross that areZ2
Through fear they learn whose aid is good in warZ2
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My sister as I read them in my glassY2
Their field of tares they take for pasture grassY2
How waken them that have not any bentX2
Save browsing the concrete indifferentX2
Friend Lucifer supplies them solid stuffI3
They fear not for the race when full the troughJ3
They have much fear of giving up the ghostX2
And these are of mankind the unnumbered hostX2
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If I could see with you and did not faintX2
In beating wing the future I would paintX2
Those massed indifferents will learn to quakeK3
Now meanwhile is another mass awakeK3
Once denser than the grunters of the styX2
If I could see with you Could I but flyX2
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The length of days that you with them have housedX2
An outcast else approves their cause espousedX2
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O true they have a cause and woe for usY2
While still they have a cause too piteousY2
Yet happy for us when their cause definedX2
TheyL3

George Meredith



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