Faith In God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEEE FGFG HEIE JEJE KFKF LMLN OPOP| HAVE faith in God For whosoever lists | A |
| To calm conviction in these days of strife | B |
| Will learn that in this steadfast stand exists | A |
| The scholarship severe of human life | B |
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| This face to face with doubt I know how strong | C |
| His thews must be who fights and falls and bears | D |
| By sleepless nights and vigils lone and long | C |
| And many a woeful wraith of wrestling prayers | D |
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| Yet trust in Him Not in an old man throned | E |
| With thunders on an everlasting cloud | E |
| But in that awful Entity enzoned | E |
| By no wild wraths nor bitter homage loud | E |
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| When from the summit of some sudden steep | F |
| Of speculation you have strength to turn | G |
| To things too boundless for the broken sweep | F |
| Of finer comprehension wait and learn | G |
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| That God hath been His own interpreter | H |
| From first to last So you will understand | E |
| The tribe who best succeed when men most err | I |
| To suck through fogs the fatness of the land | E |
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| One thing is surer than the autumn tints | J |
| We saw last week in yonder river bend | E |
| That all our poor expression helps and hints | J |
| However vaguely to the solemn end | E |
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| That God is truth and if our dim ideal | K |
| Fall short of fact so short that we must weep | F |
| Why shape specific sorrows though the real | K |
| Be not the song which erewhile made us sleep | F |
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| Remember truth draws upward This to us | L |
| Of steady happiness should be a cause | M |
| Beyond the differential calculus | L |
| Or Kant s dull dogmas and mechanic laws | N |
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| A man is manliest when he wisely knows | O |
| How vain it is to halt and pule and pine | P |
| Whilst under every mystery haply flows | O |
| The finest issue of a love divine | P |
Henry Kendall
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