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 BE2BE2eer | A |
'Now I'll show to thee the mission | B |
Which whatever betides whate'er | A |
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Thou by heaven's high permission shalt accomplish Give ear | A |
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'Thou shalt write and speak and wholly | C |
By the gift of speech and song | D |
Thou shalt make the proud one lowly | C |
And the weak in spirit strong | D |
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And the servitor of folly for the ways of wisdom long | D |
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'Thou shalt teach he who devises | E |
Harm for others harm will meet | F |
And that he who most despises | E |
Counsel's to himself a cheat | F |
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That the wisest of the wise is most devoid of self conceit | F |
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'Thou shalt speak a word in season | B |
To the poor in bondage nor | A |
Forget to say 'tis treason | B |
Gainst the highest to ignore | A |
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The claims of love and reason and to trample on the poor | A |
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'Thou shalt teach the tyrant master | A |
How to view his servant's lot | G |
Not to want the wheels go faster | A |
Then there's strength to do it not | G |
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Not to make it a disaster to be cradled in a cot | G |
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'Thou shalt teach the willing toiler | A |
Doomed for fee to shape and plan | H |
He has that which no despoiler | A |
May divest him of nor can | H |
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The power to make his scorner feel the dignity of man | H |
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'Thou shalt tell the sordid miser | A |
Not heaps of guinea gold | I |
Will ever make him wiser | A |
For wisdom ne'er was sold | I |
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And lacking which his joys are too meagre to be told | I |
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'Ask what will be his measure | A |
When dust to dust's restored | J |
What shall serve his gold what pleasure | A |
Shall gems the soul afford | J |
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And if his worshipped treasure shall be worth one tender word | K |
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'The brighest jewels sparkling | L |
In the courts above | M |
Are the deeds encircling | L |
The heart enshrined in love | M |
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And lacking which we darkling down ever downward move | N |
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'All this in words unvarnished | O |
Say to the world and say | P |
That lives by deeds unvarnished | O |
Must be deplored and may | P |
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As much as lives crime tarnished which other traits display | P |
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'Strike strike at superstition | B |
Bid its slaves with open eyes | Q |
See in lack of a volition | B |
For themselves to think there lies | Q |
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A more damnable perdition than the bigots can devise | Q |
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'Bid each for himself but ponder | A |
And e'en though he err persist | R |
And the fetters he will sunder | A |
That now threaten to resist | R |
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Nay e'er long he'll come to wonder how so long he lay in mist | R |
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'Risen on the wings of rapture | A |
At his freedom he will soar | A |
Far 'yond the reach of Scripture | A |
Misconstruers evermore | A |
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To redazzle to recapture by their guile engendered lore | A |
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'Leaving churches and their minions | S |
Leaving books and bells and beads | T |
Leaving Craftdom's dark dominions | T |
To the bigots and their creeds | T |
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He will stamp his bold opinions on the coin of golden deeds | T |
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'Thus thy thought shall like a sabre | A |
Cut some knot if not untie | U |
And some duty to a neighbour | A |
Do and yet a nobler ay | P |
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A higher holier labour must thy efforts yet employ | V |
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'See yon desolated woman | B |
Weeping o'er an infant lost | W |
Tearing out her hair consuming | L |
Life in anguish till a ghost | X |
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She seems and not a woman weeping o'er her baby lost | W |
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'Go take her hand extended | Y |
In words of music say | P |
How the spirit that descended | Y |
Once on Pentecost yet may | P |
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The bosom heal thus rended say the child's not far away | P |
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'Say In fact the little jewel | Z |
Not a clod sepulchred lies | T |
Ah the cruel creed the cruel | Z |
Hearts can teach such creed unwise | T |
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That her jewel yet a jewel will sparkle in her eyes | T |
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'Aloud let it be sounded | Y |
Whoever were yet are | A |
Not lost in space unbounded | A2 |
Not in another star | A |
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That yet around about us are the friends we deem afar | A |
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'This may sound like a gigantic | B2 |
Fiction to the world 'tis true | A |
And thou be held an antic | B2 |
And bigots not a few | A |
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Will with a fury frantic thy lonely steps pursue | A |
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'Slander black and black detraction | B |
All the poison'd darts of hate | C2 |
All the malice of a faction | B |
Whose wounded pride would sate | C2 |
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Itself on thy distraction to brook shall be thy fate | C2 |
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'But thou shalt stand undaunted | A2 |
The arrows at thee hurl'd | D2 |
Till on Falsehood's grave implanted | A2 |
The flag of Truth's unfurl'd | D2 |
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And a mighty p an's chanted by her angels to the world | D2 |
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'That shall be a day of glory | A |
Glory to our God on high | U |
Glory to the angels o'er ye | A |
Glory and exceeding joy | V |
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Glory to the Nations glory to the seer they'd now destroy | V |
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'Thus I've oped thy inner vision | B |
In the language of thy kind | E2 |
Have shown to thee the mission | B |
For which thou art designed | E2 |
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Then go and with God's blessing do the work to thee assigned ' | - |
Joseph Skipsey
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