Visionary On The Advantages Of An 'astral Body' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCB DDEFFFF GGHHHHH IIJKKKJ KKLMMML KKKNNN FFKMMMK MOPQQQP KRKKKR AASTTTU| It is told in Buddhi theosophic Schools | A |
| There are rules | A |
| By observing which when mundane matter irks | B |
| Or the world has gone amiss you | C |
| Can incontinently issue | C |
| From the circumscribing tissue | C |
| Of your Works | B |
| - | |
| That the body and the gentleman inside | D |
| Can divide | D |
| And the latter if acquainted with the plan | E |
| Can alleviate the tension | F |
| By remaining 'in suspension' | F |
| As a kind of fourth dimension | F |
| Bogie man | F |
| - | |
| And to such as mourn an Indian Solar Crime | G |
| At its prime | G |
| 'Twere a stratagem so luminously fit | H |
| That tho' doctrinaires deny it | H |
| And Academicians guy it | H |
| I for one would like to try it | H |
| For a bit | H |
| - | |
| Just to leave one's earthly tenement asleep | I |
| In a heap | I |
| And detachedly to watch it as it lies | J |
| With an epidermis pickled | K |
| Where the prickly heat has prickled | K |
| And a sense of being tickled | K |
| By the flies | J |
| - | |
| And to sit and loaf and idle till the day | K |
| Dies away | K |
| In a duplicate ethereally cool | L |
| Or around the place to potter | M |
| Tho' the flesh could hardly totter | M |
| As contented as an otter | M |
| In a pool | L |
| - | |
| 'Let the pestilent mosquito do his worst | K |
| Till he burst | K |
| Let him bore and burrow morning noon and night | K |
| If he finds the diet sweet oh | N |
| Who am I to place a veto | N |
| On the pestilent mosquito | N |
| Let him bite ' | - |
| - | |
| O my cumbersome misfit of bone and skin | F |
| Could I win | F |
| To the wisdom that would render me exempt | K |
| From the grosser bonds that tether | M |
| You and Astral Me together | M |
| I should simply treat the weather | M |
| With contempt | K |
| - | |
| I should contemplate its horrors with entire | M |
| Lack of ire | O |
| And pursuant to my comfortable aim | P |
| With a snap at every shackle | Q |
| I should quit my tabernacle | Q |
| And serenely sit and cackle | Q |
| At the game | P |
| - | |
| But alas the 'mystic glory swims away ' | - |
| And the clay | K |
| Is as vulgarly persistent as of yore | R |
| And the cuticle is pickled | K |
| Where the prickly heat has prickled | K |
| And the nose and ears are tickled | K |
| As before | R |
| - | |
| And until the Buddhi theosophic Schools | A |
| Print the rules | A |
| That will bring our tale of sorrows to a close | S |
| Body mine though others chide thee | T |
| And consistently deride thee | T |
| I shall have to stay inside thee | T |
| I suppose | U |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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