We Must Believe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDEEFFBGBBB BHIJJKKLLBBBBB BMMNNOOPPBBBBB| 'Lord I believe help Thou mine unbelief ' | A |
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| We must believe | B |
| Being from birth endowed with love and trust | C |
| Born unto loving and how simply just | C |
| That love that faith even in the blossom face | D |
| The babe drops dreamward in its resting place | D |
| Intuitively conscious of the sure | E |
| Awakening to rapture ever pure | E |
| And sweet and saintly as the mother's own | F |
| Or the awed father's as his arms are thrown | F |
| O'er wife and child to round about them weave | B |
| And wind and bind them as one harvest sheaf | G |
| Of love to cleave to and forever cleave | B |
| Lord I believe | B |
| Help Thou mine unbelief | B |
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| We must believe | B |
| Impelled since infancy to seek some clear | H |
| Fulfillment still withheld all seekers here | I |
| For never have we seen perfection nor | J |
| The glory we are ever seeking for | J |
| But we have seen all mortal souls as one | K |
| Have seen its promise in the morning sun | K |
| Its blest assurance in the stars of night | L |
| The ever dawning of the dark to light | L |
| The tears down falling from all eyes that grieve | B |
| The eyes uplifting from all deeps of grief | B |
| Yearning for what at last we shall receive | B |
| Lord I believe | B |
| Help Thou mine unbelief | B |
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| We must believe | B |
| For still all unappeased our hunger goes | M |
| From life's first waking to its last repose | M |
| The briefest life of any babe or man | N |
| Outwearing even the allotted span | N |
| Is each a life unfinished incomplete | O |
| For these then of th' outworn or unworn feet | O |
| Denied one toddling step O there must be | P |
| Some fair green flowery pathway endlessly | P |
| Winding through lands Elysian Lord receive | B |
| And lead each as Thine Own Child even the Chief | B |
| Of us who didst Immortal life achieve | B |
| Lord I believe | B |
| Help Thou mine unbelief | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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