Reincarnation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM LNLN OPOP QRQS LLLL LLLL TITI LMLM LULU VWVW XYXY LPLP ZAZA TLTL| I know not how I know not where | A |
| But from my own heart's mystic lore | B |
| I feel that I have breathed this air | A |
| And walked this earth before | B |
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| And that in this its latest form | C |
| My old time spirit once more strives | D |
| As it has fought through many a storm | C |
| In past forgotten lives | E |
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| Not inexperienced did my soul | F |
| This incarnation's threshold tread | G |
| Not recordless has proved the scroll | F |
| It brought back from the dead | G |
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| To certain special lines of thought | H |
| My mind intuitively tends | I |
| And old affinities have brought | H |
| Not new but ancient friends | I |
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| What thrilled me in a previous state | J |
| Rekindles here its ancient flame | K |
| What I by instinct love and hate | J |
| I knew before I came | K |
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| And lands of which in youth I dreamed | L |
| And read heart moved and longed to see | M |
| When really visited have seemed | L |
| Not strange but known to me | M |
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| When Mozart still a child untaught | L |
| Ran joyous to the silent keys | N |
| And with inspired fingers wrought | L |
| Majestic harmonies | N |
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| There fell upon his psychic ear | O |
| Faint echoes of a music known | P |
| Before his natal advent here | O |
| In former lives outgrown | P |
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| In many a dumb brute's wistful eyes | Q |
| A dawning human soul aspires | R |
| For thus from lower forms we rise | Q |
| Ourselves our spirits' sires | S |
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| Full many a thought that thrills my breast | L |
| Is fruit resulting from a seed | L |
| Sown elsewhere on my soul impressed | L |
| By many an arduous deed | L |
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| Full many a fetter which hath lamed | L |
| My struggling spirit's upward flight | L |
| Was once by that same spirit framed | L |
| When further from the Light | L |
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| With justice therefore comes the pain | T |
| That o'er the tortured world extends | I |
| And hopeful is the lessening stain | T |
| As each life cycle ends | I |
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| No changeless endless states await | L |
| The good and evil souls set free | M |
| Each grave is a successive gate | L |
| In immortality | M |
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| Too long this mighty truth hath slept | L |
| Among the darkened souls of men | U |
| Ye cannot see God's face except | L |
| Ye shall be born again | U |
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| The God like Christs and Buddhas yearn | V |
| However high their spirits' stage | W |
| For man's salvation to return | V |
| As Saviour or as Sage | W |
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| On our benighted groping minds | X |
| Their noble precepts star like shine | Y |
| Each soul that wisely seeks them finds | X |
| The truths that are divine | Y |
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| Misunderstood and vilified | L |
| Their aims and motives scarcely known | P |
| How many of these Saints have died | L |
| Rejected by their own | P |
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| Yet though their followers miss the way | Z |
| In spite of precept and of prayer | A |
| And lead unnumbered souls astray | Z |
| Committed to their care | A |
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| Upon the lofty spirit plane | T |
| Where all lies open to their sight | L |
| The Masters know that not in vain | T |
| They left the Hills of Light | L |
John L. Stoddard
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