In War-time: A Prayer Of The Understanding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGH IJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXSCYJ EZZA2SSB2CZZC2D2ZYE2 F2XZZZG2ZDEH2DZI2ZJ2 K2NZRZCL2M2ZN2O2P2EZ ZQ2ZR2P2ZN2ZN2S2C

Lo this is night Hast thou oh sun refusedA
Thy countenance or is thy golden armB
Shortened or from thy shining place in heavenC
Art thou put down and lost Neither hast thouD
Refused thy constant face nor is thine armB
Shortened nor from thy principalityE
Art thou deposed oh sun Ours ours the sinF
The sorrow From thy steadfast noon we turnedG
Into the eastern shade and this is nightH
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Yet so revolves the axle of the worldI
And by that brief aversion wheels us roundJ
To morn and rolls us on the larger pathsK
Of annual duty Thou observant moonL
That dancest round the seasonable earthM
As David round the ark but half thy ringN
In process yet complete the circular wholeO
Promotes thee and expedes thy right advanceP
And all thy great desire of summer signsQ
And thou oh sun our centre who thyselfR
Art satellite and conscious of the farS
Archelion in obedience of free willT
And native duty as the good man walksU
Among the children's faces with thine houseV
About thee least and greatest first and lastW
Makest of the blue eternal holidayX
Thy glad perambulation and thou farS
Archelion feudatory still of oneC
Not sovran nor in fee of paramount powerY
Moons round your worlds worlds round your suns suns roundJ
Such satraps as in orderly degreeE
Confess a lordlier regent and pervadeZ
A vaster cycle ye so moved commovedZ
Revolving and convolving turn the heavensA2
Upon the pivot of that summery starS
Centre of all we know and thou oh starS
Centre of all we know chief crown of crownsB2
Who art the one in all the all in oneC
And seest the ordered whole nought uninvolvedZ
But all involved to one direct resultZ
Of multiform volution in one pompC2
One power one tune one time upon one pathD2
Move with thee moving Thou amid thy hostZ
Marchest ah whitherY
Oh God before WhomE2
We marshal thus Thy legioned works to takeF2
The secret of Thy counsel and arrayX
Congress and progress and with multitudeZ
As conquerors and to conquer in consentZ
Of universal law approach Thy boundZ
Thine immemorial bound and at Thy faceG2
Heaven and earth flee away oh Thou Lord GodZ
Whether oh absolute existence ThouD
The Maker makest and this fair we seeE
Be but the mote and dust of that unseenH2
Unsought unsearchable or whether ThouD
Whose goings forth are from of old aroundZ
Thy going in mere effluence without careI2
Breathest creation out into the coldZ
Beyond Thee and within Thine ambient breathJ2
So walkest everlasting as we walkK2
The unportioned snows or whether meditatingN
Eternity self centred self fulfilledZ
Self continent Thou thinkest and we liveR
A little while forgettest and we fadeZ
Rememberest and we are and this bright visionC
Wherein we move nay all our total sumL2
And story be to Thee as to a manM2
When in the drop and rising of a lidZ
Lo the swift rack and fashion of a dreamN2
No more oh Thou inscrutable whose waysO2
Are not as ours whose form we know not voiceP2
Hear not true work behold not mysteryE
Conceive not who as thunder shakes the worldZ
And rings a silver bell hast sometime movedZ
The tongue of man but in Thy proper speechQ2
Wearest a human language on a wordZ
As limpets on a rock who as EternalR2
Omnipotential Infinite AllwiseP2
In measure of Thine operation hastZ
No prime or term in subject as in schemeN2
No final end in eidol as in actZ
Nought but the perfect God oh Thou SupremeN2
Inaudible Invisible UnknownS2
Thy will be doneC

Sydney Thompson Dobell



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