Divine Compassion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGDD HIJIGGK LMLMNNGG OGOGPPQQ| Long since a dream of heaven I had | A |
| And still the vision haunts me oft | B |
| I see the saints in white robes clad | A |
| The martyrs with their palms aloft | B |
| But hearing still in middle song | C |
| The ceaseless dissonance of wrong | C |
| And shrinking with hid faces from the strain | D |
| Of sad beseeching eyes full of remorse and pain | D |
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| The glad song falters to a wail | E |
| The harping sinks to low lament | F |
| Before the still unlifted veil | E |
| I see the crowned foreheads bent | F |
| Making more sweet the heavenly air | G |
| With breathings of unselfish prayer | G |
| And a Voice saith 'O Pity which is pain | D |
| O Love that weeps fill up my sufferings which remain | D |
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| 'Shall souls redeemed by me refuse | H |
| To share my sorrow in their turn | I |
| Or sin forgiven my gift abuse | J |
| Of peace with selfish unconcern | I |
| Has saintly ease no pitying care | G |
| Has faith no work and love no prayer | G |
| While sin remains and souls in darkness dwell | K |
| Can heaven itself be heaven and look unmoved on hell ' | - |
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| Then through the Gates of Pain I dream | L |
| A wind of heaven blows coolly in | M |
| Fainter the awful discords seem | L |
| The smoke of torment grows more thin | M |
| Tears quench the burning soil and thence | N |
| Spring sweet pale flowers of penitence | N |
| And through the dreary realm of man's despair | G |
| Star crowned an angel walks and to God's hope is there | G |
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| Is it a dream Is heaven so high | O |
| That pity cannot breathe its air | G |
| Its happy eyes forever dry | O |
| Its holy lips without a prayer | G |
| My God my God if thither led | P |
| By Thy free grace unmerited | P |
| No crown nor palm be mine but let me keep | Q |
| A heart that still can feel and eyes that still can weep | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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