Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBEFE GGHH IIJJ KKL MMNN OOPP QQR SST UUVV LLWW| YES tyrants you hate us and fear while you hate | A |
| The self ruling chain breaking throne shaking State | A |
| The night birds dread morning your instinct is true | B |
| The day star of Freedom brings midnight for you | B |
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| Why plead with the deaf for the cause of mankind | C |
| The owl hoots at noon that the eagle is blind | C |
| We ask not your reasons 't were wasting our time | D |
| Our life is a menace our welfare a crime | D |
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| We have battles to fight we have foes to subdue | B |
| Time waits not for us and we wait not for you | B |
| The mower mows on though the adder may writhe | E |
| And the copper head coil round the blade of his | F |
| scythe | E |
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| 'No sides in this quarrel ' your statesmen may urge | G |
| Of school house and wages with slave pen scourge | G |
| No sides in the quarrel proclaim it as well | H |
| To the angels that fight with the legions of hell | H |
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| They kneel in God's temple the North and the South | I |
| With blood on each weapon and prayers in each mouth | I |
| Whose cry shall be answered Ye Heavens attend | J |
| The lords of the lash as their voices ascend | J |
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| 'O Lord we are shaped in the image of Thee | K |
| Smite down the base millions that claim to be free | K |
| And lend thy strong arm to the soft handed race | L |
| Who eat not their bread in the sweat of their face ' | - |
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| So pleads the proud planter What echoes are these | M |
| The bay of his bloodhound is borne on the breeze | M |
| And lost in the shriek of his victim's despair | N |
| His voice dies unheard Hear the Puritan's prayer | N |
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| 'O Lord that didst smother mankind in thy flood | O |
| The sun is as sackcloth the moon is as blood | O |
| The stars fall to earth as untimely are cast | P |
| The figs from the fig tree that shakes in the blast | P |
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| 'All nations all tribes in whose nostrils is breath | Q |
| Stand gazing at Sin as she travails with Death | Q |
| Lord strangle the monster that struggles to birth | R |
| Or mock us no more with thy 'Kingdom on Earth ' | - |
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| 'If Ammon and Moab must reign in the land | S |
| Thou gavest thine Israel fresh from thy hand | S |
| Call Baal and Ashtaroth out of their graves | T |
| To be the new gods for the empire of slaves ' | - |
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| Whose God will ye serve O ye rulers of men | U |
| Will ye build you new shrines in the slave breeder's den | U |
| Or bow with the children of light as they call | V |
| On the Judge of the Earth and the Father of All | V |
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| Choose wisely choose quickly for time moves apace | L |
| Each day is an age in the life of our race | L |
| Lord lead them in love ere they hasten in fear | W |
| From the fast rising flood that shall girdle the sphere | W |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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