Wishes For My Son, Born On Saint Cecilia's Day, 1912 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDD EFEFGH IJIJKK LMLNOO FPFPQQ RSRSTT UVPVWXX UU| Now my son is life for you | A |
| And I wish you joy of it | B |
| Joy of power in all you do | A |
| Deeper passion better wit | B |
| Than I had who had enough | C |
| Quicker life and length thereof | D |
| More of every gift but love | D |
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| Love I have beyond all men | E |
| Love that now you share with me | F |
| What have I to wish you then | E |
| But that you be good and free | F |
| And that God to you may give | G |
| Grace in stronger days to live | H |
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| For I wish you more than I | I |
| Ever knew of glorious deed | J |
| Though no rapture passed me by | I |
| That an eager heart could heed | J |
| Though I followed heights and sought | K |
| Things the sequel never brought | K |
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| Wild and perilous holy things | L |
| Flaming with a martyr's blood | M |
| And the joy that laughs and sings | L |
| Where a foe must be withstood | N |
| Joy of headlong happy chance | O |
| Leading on the battle dance | O |
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| But I found no enemy | F |
| No man in a world of wrong | P |
| That Christ's word of charity | F |
| Did not render clean and strong | P |
| Who was I to judge my kind | Q |
| Blindest groper of the blind | Q |
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| God to you may give the sight | R |
| And the clear undoubting strength | S |
| Wars to knit for single right | R |
| Freedom's war to knit at length | S |
| And to win through wrath and strife | T |
| To the sequel of my life | T |
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| But for you so small and young | U |
| Born on Saint Cecilia's Day | V |
| I in more harmonious song | P |
| Now for nearer joys should pray | V |
| Simpler joys the natural growth | W |
| Of your childhood and your youth | X |
| Courage innocence and truth | X |
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| These for you so small and young | U |
| In your hand and heart and tongue | U |
Thomas Macdonagh
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