For Righteousness' Sake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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| THE age is dull and mean Men creep | B |
| Not walk with blood too pale and tame | C |
| To pay the debt they owe to shame | C |
| Buy cheap sell dear eat drink and sleep | B |
| Down pillowed deaf to moaning want | D |
| Pay tithes for soul insurance keep | B |
| Six days to Mammon one to Cant | E |
| In such a time give thanks to God | F |
| That somewhat of the holy rage | G |
| With which the prophets in their age | G |
| On all its decent seemings trod | F |
| Has set your feet upon the lie | H |
| That man and ox and soul and clod | F |
| Are market stock to sell and buy | H |
| The hot words from your lips my own | I |
| To caution trained might not repeat | F |
| But if some tares among the wheat | F |
| Of generous thought and deed were sown | I |
| No common wrong provoked your zeal | J |
| The silken gauntlet that is thrown | I |
| In such a quarrel rings like steel | J |
| The brave old strife the fathers saw | K |
| For freedom calls for men again | L |
| Like those who battled not in vain | M |
| For England's Charter Alfred's law | K |
| And right of speech and trial just | F |
| Wage in your name their ancient war | N |
| With venal courts and perjured trust | F |
| God's ways seem dark but soon or late | F |
| They touch the shining hills of day | F |
| The evil cannot brook delay | F |
| The good can well afford to wait | F |
| Give ermined knaves their hour of crime | O |
| Ye have the future grand and great | F |
| The safe appeal of Truth to Time | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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