For Four Guilds: Iii. The Stone-masons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH AJAJKLKL MNMNEOEO| We have graven the mountain of God with hands | A |
| As our hands were graven of God they say | B |
| Where the seraphs burn in the sun like brands | A |
| And the devils carry the rains away | B |
| Making a thrift of the throats of hell | C |
| Our gargoyles gather the roaring rain | D |
| Whose yawn is more than a frozen yell | C |
| And their very vomiting not in vain | D |
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| Wilder than all that a tongue can utter | E |
| Wiser than all that is told in words | F |
| The wings of stone of the soaring gutter | E |
| Fly out and follow the flight of the birds | F |
| The rush and rout of the angel wars | G |
| Stand out above the astounded street | H |
| Where we flung our gutters against the stars | I |
| For a sign that the first and the last shall meet | H |
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| We have graven the forest of heaven with hands | A |
| Being great with a mirth too gross for pride | J |
| In the stone that battered him Stephen stands | A |
| And Peter himself is petrified | J |
| Such hands as have grubbed in the glebe for bread | K |
| Have bidden the blank rock blossom and thrive | L |
| Such hands as have stricken a live man dead | K |
| Have struck and stricken the dead alive | L |
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| Fold your hands before heaven in praying | M |
| Lift up your hands into heaven and cry | N |
| But look where our dizziest spires are saying | M |
| What the hands of a man did up in the sky | N |
| Drenched before you have heard the thunder | E |
| White before you have felt the snow | O |
| For the giants lift up their hands to wonder | E |
| How high the hands of a man could go | O |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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