The Long Purposes Of God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDC EFEFGDGDG HIHIJDJDJ KLMNODODO PQPQFDFDR STSTUDUDV| To Man in haste flushed with impatient dreams | A |
| Of some great thing to do so slowly done | B |
| The long delay of Time all idle seems | A |
| Idle the lordly leisure of the sun | B |
| So splendid his design so brief his span | C |
| For all the faith with which his heart is burning | D |
| He marvels as he builds each shining plan | C |
| That heaven's wheel should be so long in turning | D |
| And God more slow in righteousness than Man | C |
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| Evil on evil mock him all about | E |
| And all the forces of embattled wrong | F |
| There are so many devils to cast out | E |
| Save God be with him how shall Man be strong | F |
| With his own heart at war to weakness prone | G |
| And all the honeyed ways of joyous sinning | D |
| How in this welter shall he hold his own | G |
| And single handed e'er have hopes of winning | D |
| How shall he fight God's battle all alone | G |
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| He hath no lightnings in his puny hand | H |
| Nor starry servitors to work his will | I |
| Only his soul and his strong purpose planned | H |
| His dream of goodness and his hate of ill | I |
| He but a handful of the eddying dust | J |
| At the wind's fancy shaped from nowhere blowing | D |
| A moment man then with another gust | J |
| A formless vapour into nowhere going | D |
| Even as he dreams back into darkness thrust | J |
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| O so at least it seems if life were his | K |
| A little longer grant him thrice his years | L |
| And God should see a better world than this | M |
| Pure for the foul and laughter for the tears | N |
| So fierce a flame to burn the dross away | O |
| Dreams in his spark of life so swiftly fleeing | D |
| If Man can do so much in one short day | O |
| O strange it seems that an Eternal Being | D |
| Should in his purposes so long delay | O |
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| Easy to answer lo the unfathomed time | P |
| Gone ere each small perfection came to flower | Q |
| Ere soul shone dimly in the wastes of slime | P |
| Wouldst thou turn Hell to Heaven in an hour | Q |
| Easy to say God's purposes are long | F |
| His ways and wonders far beyond our knowing | D |
| He hath mysterious ministers even in wrong | F |
| Sure is His harvest though so long His sowing | D |
| So say old poets with persuasive tongue | R |
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| And yet and yet it seems some swifter doom | S |
| From so august a hand might surely fall | T |
| And all earth's rubbish in one flash consume | S |
| And make an end of evil once for all | T |
| But vain the questions and the answers vain | U |
| Who knows but Man's impatience is God's doing | D |
| Who knows if evil be so swiftly slain | U |
| Be sure none shall escape with God pursuing | D |
| Question no more but to your work again | V |
Richard Le Gallienne
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