The Mission Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABA A CDCD D EFEF F BABA A AGAG G AHAH H AIAI I AJAJ K LMLM N OPOP P BQBQ Q ARAR R AAAA A STTT T AUAP V BWLX W YPYP P ZTZT T YAA2A A B2AB2A A BC2BC2 C2 A2D2A2D2 D2 AUAV V BE2BE2

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'Now I'll show to thee the missionB
Which whatever betides whate'erA
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Thou by heaven's high permission shalt accomplish Give earA
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'Thou shalt write and speak and whollyC
By the gift of speech and songD
Thou shalt make the proud one lowlyC
And the weak in spirit strongD
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And the servitor of folly for the ways of wisdom longD
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'Thou shalt teach he who devisesE
Harm for others harm will meetF
And that he who most despisesE
Counsel's to himself a cheatF
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That the wisest of the wise is most devoid of self conceitF
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'Thou shalt speak a word in seasonB
To the poor in bondage norA
Forget to say 'tis treasonB
Gainst the highest to ignoreA
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The claims of love and reason and to trample on the poorA
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'Thou shalt teach the tyrant masterA
How to view his servant's lotG
Not to want the wheels go fasterA
Then there's strength to do it notG
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Not to make it a disaster to be cradled in a cotG
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'Thou shalt teach the willing toilerA
Doomed for fee to shape and planH
He has that which no despoilerA
May divest him of nor canH
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The power to make his scorner feel the dignity of manH
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'Thou shalt tell the sordid miserA
Not heaps of guinea goldI
Will ever make him wiserA
For wisdom ne'er was soldI
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And lacking which his joys are too meagre to be toldI
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'Ask what will be his measureA
When dust to dust's restoredJ
What shall serve his gold what pleasureA
Shall gems the soul affordJ
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And if his worshipped treasure shall be worth one tender wordK
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'The brighest jewels sparklingL
In the courts aboveM
Are the deeds encirclingL
The heart enshrined in loveM
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And lacking which we darkling down ever downward moveN
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'All this in words unvarnishedO
Say to the world and sayP
That lives by deeds unvarnishedO
Must be deplored and mayP
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As much as lives crime tarnished which other traits displayP
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'Strike strike at superstitionB
Bid its slaves with open eyesQ
See in lack of a volitionB
For themselves to think there liesQ
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A more damnable perdition than the bigots can deviseQ
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'Bid each for himself but ponderA
And e'en though he err persistR
And the fetters he will sunderA
That now threaten to resistR
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Nay e'er long he'll come to wonder how so long he lay in mistR
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'Risen on the wings of raptureA
At his freedom he will soarA
Far 'yond the reach of ScriptureA
Misconstruers evermoreA
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To redazzle to recapture by their guile engendered loreA
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'Leaving churches and their minionsS
Leaving books and bells and beadsT
Leaving Craftdom's dark dominionsT
To the bigots and their creedsT
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He will stamp his bold opinions on the coin of golden deedsT
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'Thus thy thought shall like a sabreA
Cut some knot if not untieU
And some duty to a neighbourA
Do and yet a nobler ayP
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A higher holier labour must thy efforts yet employV
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'See yon desolated womanB
Weeping o'er an infant lostW
Tearing out her hair consumingL
Life in anguish till a ghostX
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She seems and not a woman weeping o'er her baby lostW
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'Go take her hand extendedY
In words of music sayP
How the spirit that descendedY
Once on Pentecost yet mayP
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The bosom heal thus rended say the child's not far awayP
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'Say In fact the little jewelZ
Not a clod sepulchred liesT
Ah the cruel creed the cruelZ
Hearts can teach such creed unwiseT
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That her jewel yet a jewel will sparkle in her eyesT
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'Aloud let it be soundedY
Whoever were yet areA
Not lost in space unboundedA2
Not in another starA
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That yet around about us are the friends we deem afarA
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'This may sound like a giganticB2
Fiction to the world 'tis trueA
And thou be held an anticB2
And bigots not a fewA
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Will with a fury frantic thy lonely steps pursueA
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'Slander black and black detractionB
All the poison'd darts of hateC2
All the malice of a factionB
Whose wounded pride would sateC2
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Itself on thy distraction to brook shall be thy fateC2
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'But thou shalt stand undauntedA2
The arrows at thee hurl'dD2
Till on Falsehood's grave implantedA2
The flag of Truth's unfurl'dD2
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And a mighty p an's chanted by her angels to the worldD2
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'That shall be a day of gloryA
Glory to our God on highU
Glory to the angels o'er yeA
Glory and exceeding joyV
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Glory to the Nations glory to the seer they'd now destroyV
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'Thus I've oped thy inner visionB
In the language of thy kindE2
Have shown to thee the missionB
For which thou art designedE2
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Then go and with God's blessing do the work to thee assigned '-

Joseph Skipsey



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