Henry Kendall

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To Damascus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCCD EFEEEF GHGGGGH IBIIIB HGHHG HJHHHJ GGGGG GGGGGG

Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beatA
On the brittle bright stubbleB
And the camels fell back from the swords of the heatA
Came Saul with a fire in the soles of his feetA
And a forehead of troubleB
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And terrified faces to left and to rightC
Before and behind himD
Fled away with the speed of a maddening frightC
To the cloughs of the bat and the chasms of nightC
Each hoping the zealot would fail in his flightC
To find him and bind himD
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For behold you the strong man of Tarsus came downE
With breathings of slaughterF
From the priests of the city the chiefs of the townE
The lords with the sword and the sires with the gownE
To harry the Christians and trample and drownE
And waste them like waterF
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He was ever a fighter this son of the JewsG
A fighter in earnestH
And the Lord took delight in the strength of his thewsG
For He knew he was one of the few He could chooseG
To fight out His battles and carry His newsG
Of a marvellous truth through the dark and the dewsG
And the desert lands furnacedH
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He knew he was one of the few He could takeI
For His mission supernalB
Whose feet would not falter whose limbs would not acheI
Through the waterless lands of the thorn and the snakeI
And the ways of the wild bearing up for the sakeI
Of a Beauty eternalB
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And therefore the road to Damascus was burnedH
With a swift sudden brightnessG
While Saul with his face in the bitter dust learnedH
Of the sin which he did ere he tumbled and turnedH
Aghast at God's whitenessG
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Of the sin which he did ere he covered his headH
From the strange revelationJ
But thereafter you know of the life that he ledH
How he preached to the peoples and suffered and spedH
With the wonderful words which his Master had saidH
From nation to nationJ
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Now would we be like him who suffer and seeG
If the Chooser should choose usG
For I tell you brave brothers whoever you beG
It is right till all learn to look further and seeG
That our Master should use usG
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It is right till all learn to discover and classG
That our Master should task usG
For now we may judge of the Truth through a glassG
And the road over which they must evermore passG
Who would think for the many and fight for the massG
Is the road to DamascusG

Henry Kendall



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