Lines From A Letter To A Young Clerical Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHIHIJKJK DLDLMGMG| A STRENGTH Thy service cannot tire | A |
| A faith which doubt can never dim | B |
| A heart of love a lip of fire | A |
| O Freedom's God be Thou to him | B |
| Speak through him words of power and fear | C |
| As through Thy prophet bards of old | D |
| And let a scornful people hear | E |
| Once more Thy Sinai thunders rolled | D |
| For lying lips Thy blessing seek | F |
| And hands of blood are raised to Thee | G |
| And on Thy children crushed and weak | F |
| The oppressor plants his kneeling knee | G |
| Let then O God Thy servant dare | H |
| Thy truth in all its power to tell | I |
| Unmask the priestly thieves and tear | H |
| The Bible from the grasp of hell | I |
| From hollow rite and narrow span | J |
| Of law and sect by Thee released | K |
| Oh teach him that the Christian man | J |
| Is holier than the Jewish priest | K |
| Chase back the shadows gray and old | D |
| Of the dead ages from his way | L |
| And let his hopeful eyes behold | D |
| The dawn of Thy millennial day | L |
| That day when lettered limb and mind | M |
| Shall know the truth which maketh free | G |
| And he alone who loves his kind | M |
| Shall childlike claim the love of Thee | G |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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