The Scribe's Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJK LMLMNN OPOPQR D| When from my fumbling hand the tired pen falls | A |
| And in the twilight weary droops my head | B |
| While to my quiet heart a still voice calls | A |
| Calls me to join my kindred of the Dead | B |
| Grant that I may O Lord ere rest be mine | C |
| Write to Thy praise one radiant ringing line | C |
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| For all of worth that in this clay abides | D |
| The leaping rapture and the ardent flame | E |
| The hope the high resolve the faith that guides | D |
| All all is Thine and liveth in Thy name | E |
| Lord have I dallied with the sacred fire | F |
| Lord have I trailed Thy glory in the mire | G |
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| E'en as a toper from the dram shop reeling | H |
| Sees in his garret's blackness dazzling fair | I |
| All that he might have been and heart sick kneeling | H |
| Sobs in the passion of a vast despair | I |
| So my ideal self haunts me alway | J |
| When the accounting comes how shall I pay | K |
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| For in the dark I grope nor understand | L |
| And in my heart fight selfishness and sin | M |
| Yet Lord I do not seek Thy helping hand | L |
| Rather let me my own salvation win | M |
| Let me through strife and penitential pain | N |
| Onward and upward to the heights attain | N |
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| Yea let me live my life its meaning seek | O |
| Bear myself fitly in the ringing fight | P |
| Strive to be strong that I may aid the weak | O |
| Dare to be true O God the Light the Light | P |
| Cometh the Dark so soon I've mocked Thy Word | Q |
| Yet do I know Thy Love have mercy Lord | R |
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| FINIS | D |
Robert Service
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