Trinitas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCC DDD EE FGG EEE HHH AA III JJ KK LLL MMM AA NNN CCC OOO AAA PPP QRR SS TTT AA| At morn I prayed 'I fain would see | A |
| How Three are One and One is Three | A |
| Read the dark riddle unto me ' | B |
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| I wandered forth the sun and air | C |
| I saw bestowed with equal care | C |
| On good and evil foul and fair | C |
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| No partial favor dropped the rain | D |
| Alike the righteous and profane | D |
| Rejoiced above their heading grain | D |
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| And my heart murmured 'Is it meet | E |
| That blindfold Nature thus should treat | E |
| With equal hand the tares and wheat ' | - |
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| A presence melted through my mood | F |
| A warmth a light a sense of good | G |
| Like sunshine through a winter wood | G |
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| I saw that presence mailed complete | E |
| In her white innocence pause to greet | E |
| A fallen sister of the street | E |
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| Upon her bosom snowy pure | H |
| The lost one clung as if secure | H |
| From inward guilt or outward lure | H |
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| 'Beware ' I said 'in this I see | A |
| No gain to her but loss to thee | A |
| Who touches pitch defiled must be ' | - |
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| I passed the haunts of shame and sin | I |
| And a voice whispered 'Who therein | I |
| Shall these lost souls to Heaven's peace win | I |
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| 'Who there shall hope and health dispense | J |
| And lift the ladder up from thence | J |
| Whose rounds are prayers of penitence ' | - |
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| I said 'No higher life they know | K |
| These earth worms love to have it so | K |
| Who stoops to raise them sinks as low ' | - |
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| That night with painful care I read | L |
| What Hippo's saint and Calvin said | L |
| The living seeking to the dead | L |
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| In vain I turned in weary quest | M |
| Old pages where God give them rest | M |
| The poor creed mongers dreamed and guessed | M |
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| And still I prayed 'Lord let me see | A |
| How Three are One and One is Three | A |
| Read the dark riddle unto me ' | - |
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| Then something whispered 'Dost thou pray | N |
| For what thou hast This very day | N |
| The Holy Three have crossed thy way | N |
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| 'Did not the gifts of sun and air | C |
| To good and ill alike declare | C |
| The all compassionate Father's care | C |
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| 'In the white soul that stooped to raise | O |
| The lost one from her evil ways | O |
| Thou saw'st the Christ whom angels praise | O |
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| 'A bodiless Divinity | A |
| The still small Voice that spake to thee | A |
| Was the Holy Spirit's mystery | A |
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| 'O blind of sight of faith how small | P |
| Father and Son and Holy Call | P |
| This day thou hast denied them all | P |
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| 'Revealed in love and sacrifice | Q |
| The Holiest passed before thine eyes | R |
| One and the same in threefold guise | R |
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| 'The equal Father in rain and sun | S |
| His Christ in the good to evil done | S |
| His Voice in thy soul and the Three are One ' | - |
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| I shut my grave Aquinas fast | T |
| The monkish gloss of ages past | T |
| The schoolman's creed aside I cast | T |
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| And my heart answered 'Lord I see | A |
| How Three are One and One is Three | A |
| Thy riddle hath been read to me ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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