Clerical Oppressors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGHGIJIJKLKM NONOPAPAQOROOHOHSOSO OTOTUVFV| JUST God and these are they | A |
| Who minister at thine altar God of Right | B |
| Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay | A |
| On Israel's Ark of light | B |
| What preach and kidnap men | C |
| Give thanks and rob thy own afflicted poor | D |
| Talk of thy glorious liberty and then | C |
| Bolt hard the captive's door | E |
| What servants of thy own | F |
| Merciful Son who came to seek and save | G |
| The homeless and the outcast fettering down | H |
| The tasked and plundered slave | G |
| Pilate and Herod friends | I |
| Chief priests and rulers as of old combine | J |
| Just God and holy is that church which lends | I |
| Strength to the spoiler thine | J |
| Paid hypocrites who turn | K |
| Judgment aside and rob the Holy Book | L |
| Of those high words of truth which search and burn | K |
| In warning and rebuke | M |
| Feed fat ye locusts feed | N |
| And in your tasselled pulpits thank the Lord | O |
| That from the toiling bondman's utter need | N |
| Ye pile your own full board | O |
| How long O Lord how long | P |
| Shall such a priesthood barter truth away | A |
| And in Thy name for robbery and wrong | P |
| At Thy own altars pray | A |
| Is not Thy hand stretched forth | Q |
| Visibly in the heavens to awe and smite | O |
| Shall not the living God of all the earth | R |
| And heaven above do right | O |
| Woe then to all who grind | O |
| Their brethren of a common Father down | H |
| To all who plunder from the immortal mind | O |
| Its bright and glorious crown | H |
| Woe to the priesthood woe | S |
| To those whose hire is with the price of blood | O |
| Perverting darkening changing as they go | S |
| The searching truths of God | O |
| Their glory and their might | O |
| Shall perish and their very names shall be | T |
| Vile before all the people in the light | O |
| Of a world's liberty | T |
| Oh speed the moment on | U |
| When Wrong shall cease and Liberty and Love | V |
| And Truth and Right throughout the earth be known | F |
| As in their home above | V |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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