The Train Of Religion. From Proverbial Philosophy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGHIJIKCLMNIAC OPIDQRSTUEVW XEYZIA2B2C2D2GAPE2F2 IASG2IH2 A| Stay awhile thou blessed band be entreated daughters of heaven | A |
| While the chance met scholar of Wisdom learneth your sacred names | B |
| He is resting a little from his toil yet a little on the borders of earth | C |
| And fain would he have you his friends to bid him glad welcome hereafter | D |
| Who among the glorious art thou that walkest a Goddess and a Queen | E |
| Thy crown of living stars and a golden cross thy sceptre | D |
| Who among flowers of loveliness is she thy seeming herald | F |
| Yet she boasteth not thee nor herself and her garments are plain in their neatness | G |
| Wherefore is there one among the train whose eyes are red with weeping | H |
| Yet is her open forehead beaming with the sun of ecstasy | I |
| And who is that blood stained warrior with glory sitting on his crest | J |
| And who that solemn sage calm in majestic dignity | I |
| Also in the lengthening troop see I some clad in robes of triumph | K |
| Whose fair and sunny faces I have known and loved on earth | C |
| Welcome ye glorified Loves Graces and Sciences and Muses | L |
| That like sisters of charity tended in this world's hospital | M |
| Welcome for verily I knew ye could not but be children of the light | N |
| Though earth hath soiled your robes and robbed you of half your glory | I |
| Welcome chiefly welcome for I find I have friends in heaven | A |
| And some I might scarce have looked for as thou light hearted Mirth | C |
| Thou also star robed Urania and thou with the curious glass | O |
| That rejoicedst in tracking wisdom where the eye was too dull to note it | P |
| And art thou too among the blessed mild much injured Poetry | I |
| Who quickenest with light and beauty the leaden face of matter | D |
| Who not unheard though silent fillest earth's gardens with music | Q |
| And not unseen though a spirit dost look down upon us from the stars | R |
| That hast heen to me for oil and for wine to cheer and uphold my soul | S |
| When wearied battling with the surge the stunning surge of life | T |
| Of thee for well have I loved thee of thee may I ask in hope | U |
| Who among the glorious is she that walketh a Goddess and a Queen | E |
| And who that fair haired herald and who that weeping saint | V |
| And who that mighty warrior and who that solemn sage | W |
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| Son happy art thou that Wisdom hath led thee hither ward | X |
| For otherwise never hadst thou known the joy giving name of our Queen | E |
| Behold her the life of men the anchor of then shipwrecked hopes | Y |
| Behold her the shepherdess of souls who bringeth back the wanderers to God | Z |
| And for that modest herald she is named on earth Humility | I |
| And hast thou not known my son the tearful face of Repentance | A2 |
| Faith is yon time scarred hero walking in the shade of his laurels | B2 |
| And Reason the serious sage who followeth the footsteps of Faith | C2 |
| And we all we are but handmaids ministers of minor bliss | D2 |
| Who rejoice to be counted servants in the train of a Queen so glorious | G |
| But for her name son of man it is strange to the language of heaven | A |
| For those who have never fallen need not and may not learn it | P |
| Ligeance we swear to our God and ligeance well have we kept | E2 |
| It is only the band of the redeemed who can tell thee the fulness of that name | F2 |
| Yet will I comfort thee my son for the love wherewith thou hast loved me | I |
| And thou shalt touch for thyself the golden sceptre of Religion | A |
| So that blessed train passed by me but the vision was sealed upon my soul | S |
| And its memory is shrined in fragrance for the promise of the Spirit was true | G2 |
| I learn from the silent poem of all creation round me | I |
| How beautiful their feet who follow in that train | H2 |
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| Transcribed from the th edition Proverbial Philosophy by Martin Farquhar Tupper by Mick Puttock August Spelling punctuation and grammer left mostly unchanged from the th edition | A |
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