Progress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC CDCD EFEF GHGH ICJC CKCK LMLM NHOH PHLH QNQO LCLC| The Master stood upon the mount and taught | A |
| He saw a fire in his disciples eyes | B |
| The old law they said is wholly come to naught | A |
| Behold the new world rise | B |
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| Was it the Lord then said with scorn ye saw | C |
| The old law observed by Scribes and Pharisees | C |
| I say unto you see ye keep that law | C |
| More faithfully than these | C |
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| Too hasty heads for ordering worlds alas | C |
| Think not that I to annul the law have will d | D |
| No jot no tittle from the law shall pass | C |
| Till all hath been fulfill d | D |
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| So Christ said eighteen hundred years ago | E |
| And what then shall be said to those to day | F |
| Who cry aloud to lay the old world low | E |
| To clear the new world s way | F |
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| Religious fervours ardour misapplied | G |
| Hence hence they cry ye do but keep man blind | H |
| But keep him self immersed preoccupied | G |
| And lame the active mind | H |
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| Ah from the old world let some one answer give | I |
| Scorn ye this world their tears their inward cares | C |
| I say unto you see that your souls live | J |
| A deeper life than theirs | C |
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| Say ye The spirit of man has found new roads | C |
| And we must leave the old faiths and walk therein | K |
| Leave then the Cross as ye have left carved gods | C |
| But guard the fire within | K |
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| Bright else and fast the stream of life may roll | L |
| And no man may the other s hurt behold | M |
| Yet each will have one anguish his own soul | L |
| Which perishes of cold | M |
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| Here let that voice make end then let a strain | N |
| From a far lonelier distance like the wind | H |
| Be heard floating through heaven and fill again | O |
| These men s profoundest mind | H |
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| Children of men the unseen Power whose eye | P |
| For ever doth accompany mankind | H |
| Hath looked on no religion scornfully | L |
| That men did ever find | H |
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| Which has not taught weak wills how much they can | Q |
| Which has not fall n on the dry heart like rain | N |
| Which has not cried to sunk self weary man | Q |
| Thou must be born again | O |
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| Children of men not that your age excel | L |
| In pride of life the ages of your sires | C |
| But that you think clear feel deep bear fruit well | L |
| The Friend of man desires | C |
Matthew Arnold
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