The Vital Spark: An Inner Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KEKE LFLF CKCK EDED EMEM NENE OPQP KKKK KRKR EKEK GKGK NSNS E ET| ad flung her adamantine chain | A |
| When thro' the abyss of my spirit 'Glory ' | B |
| A deep voice cried and 'Glory ' then this strain | A |
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| 'A spark eternal from the co eternal | C |
| And inner source of light ere time began | D |
| The soul built from the dust its home external | C |
| And so became what we now know as man | D |
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| 'The outer temple built an inner finer | E |
| From this and like to this was next ordained | F |
| In which might be attained a life diviner | E |
| Than could within the outer be attained | F |
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| 'Thus in the image in man's form reflected | G |
| From out the universal Soul the soul | H |
| Its individuality projected | G |
| And so became a whole within the whole | H |
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| 'From root and knot from knot and leaf to blossom | I |
| Upsprang by slow degrees the oak to view | J |
| So by degrees as slow from out God's bosom | I |
| The vital spark to man immortal grew | J |
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| 'The swaddles that enswathe the babe those swaddles | K |
| Are rent asunder as we stronger grow | E |
| And for the prate that pleased us in our cradles | K |
| We're taught a higher deeper lore to know | E |
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| 'So by degrees man thus obtains his being | L |
| So by degrees his mental prime's obtained | F |
| When grown from Man the Blind to Man the Seeing | L |
| The chains are rent in twain by which he's chained | F |
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| 'Then from the chaos of the days primeval | C |
| Into the future far his ken extends | K |
| Then to his ken what error seemed and evil | C |
| Appear but instruments to noble ends | K |
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| 'The shadow's self thus seen becomes a splendour | E |
| The mystic maze pervaded by a plan | D |
| And laws sublime are seen to rule and render | E |
| Harmonic what but discord seemed to man | D |
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| 'In matter's seen the means to vanquish matter | E |
| In many a dismal ban a blessing bright | M |
| In states chaotic what their gloom might scatter | E |
| And their domains enshrine in living light | M |
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| 'The darkest woe the brightest joy enclaspeth | N |
| In what seems false is seen the true a power | E |
| Which grasped by man as rich a mace he graspeth | N |
| As ever graced the mythic gods of yore | E |
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| 'A thinker clear nor less a doer even | O |
| A more than soul Titanic he who still | P |
| Can make the very death forged bolts of heaven | Q |
| To dance attendance on his potent will | P |
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| 'The very lightning that the vision dazzles | K |
| The very tempest that the forest rends | K |
| Are vassals bound unto his will and vassals | K |
| That help to realize the highest ends | K |
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| 'Even as he wills empires arise inventions | K |
| Are seen uniting foreign land to land | R |
| And where but winds and waves held dire contentions | K |
| By sweetest intercourse the deeps are spann'd | R |
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| 'A victor o'er the elements a victor | E |
| E'en over self he moves till lo appears | K |
| Upon the earth he treads the very picture | E |
| Of what can be in the seraphic spheres | K |
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| 'From higher than the seraph state descended | G |
| Up to the goal from whence he came he climbs | K |
| And when the days of mortal life are ended | G |
| Still upward scales he thro' long future times | K |
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| 'Just as the bee with honey laden flieth | N |
| To hive the guerdon earned by toil and pang | S |
| So by experience enriched he hieth | N |
| With power to gift the Power from whom he sprang | S |
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| 'Yea ever moves he glory ward and ever | E |
| Does glory to the Love Eterne accord ' | - |
| Thus rang that voice within my soul and never | E |
| Shall I forget how sweet the voice thus heard | T |
Joseph Skipsey
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