The Spirits For Good Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE AFAF GHGH AIAJ HKHK LAMA NKNO APAP| We come with peace and reason | A |
| We come with love and light | B |
| To banish black self treason | A |
| And everlasting night | B |
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| We know no god nor devil | C |
| We neither drive nor lead | D |
| We come to banish evil | C |
| In thought as well as deed | E |
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| And this our grandest mission | A |
| And this our purest worth | F |
| To banish superstition | A |
| The blackest curse on earth | F |
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| We come to pass no sentence | G |
| For ours is not the power | H |
| The coward s vain repentance | G |
| But wastes the waiting hour | H |
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| Tis not for us to lengthen | A |
| The years of wasted lives | I |
| We come to help and strengthen | A |
| The goodness that survives | J |
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| We promise nought hereafter | H |
| We cannot conquer pain | K |
| But work and rest and laughter | H |
| Will soothe the tortured brain | K |
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| That which is lost we cannot | L |
| Restore to any one | A |
| But Truth and Right must triumph | M |
| And Justice must be done | A |
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| We come in many guises | N |
| But every one is plain | K |
| To each pure thought that rises | N |
| Again and yet again | O |
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| We are ourselves and human | A |
| And ours our destiny | P |
| The souls of Man and Woman | A |
| Divorced by Vanity | P |
Henry Lawson
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