The Cry Of The Karens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGFG FHFHIJIJ KLKLMJMJ NMNMOPOP QCQCRSRT| Lines written after hearing a returned missionary relate some of the traditions and speak of the long cherished hopes of this interesting people | A |
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| A voice from the distant East | B |
| A voice from a far off shore | C |
| A voice from the perishing tribes of Earth | D |
| Has wandered the blue seas o'er | E |
| It comes with a lingering cry | F |
| With a wail of anguish and pain | G |
| O brothers our brothers why | F |
| Do we look for you still in vain | G |
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| We are weary we droop we die | F |
| We grope in the deepening gloom | H |
| We look above with despairing eye | F |
| We drop in the yawning tomb | H |
| Our children stretch their hands | I |
| Far over the waters blue | J |
| And vainly cry from our darkened lands | I |
| Alas how long for you | J |
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| Brothers do ye not keep | K |
| Our law of the olden time | L |
| For which through ages of woe we weep | K |
| In darkness and sin and crime | L |
| There are sails from the distant West | M |
| Dotting our waters blue | J |
| And the feet of strangers our shores have pressed | M |
| But they came not alas from you | J |
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| We know there's a God above | N |
| We know there's a land of rest | M |
| But there's naught that whispers of pard'ning love | N |
| To our spirits by guilt oppressed | M |
| We call to the earth below | O |
| To the calm unanswering heaven | P |
| But no voice replies to our cry of woe | O |
| That can tell us of sins forgiven | P |
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| And yet we look and wait | Q |
| With sorrowing hearts and sore | C |
| If haply we may behold though late | Q |
| Your sails from the western shore | C |
| O come with that precious word | R |
| We lost in the far off years | S |
| And tell us the voice of woe is heard | R |
| And God has beheld our tears | T |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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