The Downfall Of Mammon; Or, The Poet's Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ IKIK CLCM ENEN OPPP QPQP EPEP RPRP SPSP PTPU PHPH VPRP PPPPP PWPW PPPP| THE baleful era of King Gold has vanished | A |
| And men disgusted with the part they played | B |
| From out the temple of their hearts are banished | A |
| The idols that debased the souls they swayed | B |
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| Man yet hath passions and the cause of passions | C |
| And so will have in his best future state | D |
| But he hath reason too by which he fashions | C |
| Them into servants for a purpose great | D |
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| Instead of self hood and of actions cruel | E |
| Inspired by Love heroic deeds abound | F |
| And Charity's esteemed a richer jewel | E |
| Than ever yet in Orient mine was found | F |
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| Instead of falsehood Truth his speech inspireth | G |
| Inspires his thought and permeates the man | H |
| Till lo the utter'd word a worth acquireth | G |
| Which merely written missives never can | H |
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| Instead of Superstition grim and hideous | I |
| Religion triumphs and whate'er obtain | J |
| No longer Envy can with hints invidious | I |
| Cause man to visit brother man with pain | J |
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| Thus in ways manifold sublime and glorious | I |
| The God sprun tenants of the earth at last | K |
| Arise o'er every mortal ill victorious | I |
| That made their life a hell life in the past | K |
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| No longer prompted by fell aspirations | C |
| Doth man send havoc into realms afar | L |
| But gains from acts of peace more prized ovations | C |
| Than ever gratified the sons of war | M |
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| No longer to his inner part disloyal | E |
| He learneth from the still small voice he scorn'd | N |
| How to become a king in act more royal | E |
| Than ever yet a throne of gold adorn'd | N |
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| No longer bound to themes abhorred or hated | O |
| On highest subjects is the mind employed | P |
| And as by war no Land is desolated | P |
| From lack of love no heart is left a void | P |
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| By cords of sympathy before the altar | Q |
| Not chains of gold are youth and virgin led | P |
| And when the trite 'I will' their accents falter | Q |
| From hearts 'tis faltered in affection wed | P |
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| No want of union and no fatal duel | E |
| Fought by two hearts in silence grim if not | P |
| In cruel actions or in words as cruel | E |
| The lot of wedlock makes a bitter lot | P |
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| A circle round the hearth stone young and olden | R |
| The family gather and their feelings blend | P |
| And interblend till in a concord golden | R |
| As one they labour for a noble end | P |
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| In time those circles form but inner circles | S |
| To circles greater till the Nations act | P |
| As one vast soul whose sphere with glory sparkles | S |
| And heaven the dream on earth is heaven the fact | P |
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| Onward and upward move the Nations onward | P |
| And ever upward thus the earth born move | T |
| Till like the gilded fane that pointeth sunward | P |
| Their soul flames touch the flames of those above | U |
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| Then in a way hard to be comprehended | P |
| As hills are cleft were hills ere time began | H |
| So are the barriers asunder rended | P |
| Which kept apart the Angel and the Man | H |
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| Illumed by a light celestial even | V |
| To them the light beyond the Veil's unfurled | P |
| And messages of import sweet are given | R |
| Unto the outer from the inner world | P |
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| Not dead are found those whom by death seemed | P |
| captured | P |
| Not tho' their dust be scattered by the wind | P |
| Not dead but living and with hearts enraptured | P |
| Still toiling for the dear ones left behind | P |
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| United soul to loving soul united | P |
| Blent heaven and earth in one harmonic whole | W |
| Glory to God shout one and all united | P |
| And halleluiah rings from pole to pole | W |
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| The baleful era of King Gold is vanished | P |
| The idols that debased the soul they chain'd | P |
| From out the temple of the heart are banished | P |
| And the Millenium's at last obtained | P |
Joseph Skipsey
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