The Voice Of The Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KDKD DLDL DMDM NDND OPQP RGRG| In Youth when through our veins runs fast | A |
| The bright red stream of life | B |
| The Soul s Voice is a trumpet blast | A |
| That calls us to the strife | B |
| The Spirit spurns its prison bars | C |
| And feels with force endued | D |
| To scale the ramparts of the stars | C |
| And storm Infinitude | D |
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| Youth passes like a dungeon grows | E |
| The Spirit s house of clay | F |
| The voice that once in music rose | E |
| In murmurs dies away | F |
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| But in the day when sickness sore | G |
| Smites on the body s walls | H |
| The Soul s Voice through the breach once more | G |
| Like to a trumpet calls | H |
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| Well shall it be with him who heeds | I |
| The mystic summons then | J |
| His after life with loving deeds | I |
| Shall blossom amongst men | J |
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| He shall have gifts the gift that feels | K |
| The germ within the clod | D |
| And hears the whirring of the wheels | K |
| That turn the mills of God | D |
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| The gift that sees with glance profound | D |
| The secret soul of things | L |
| And in the silence hears the sound | D |
| Of vast and viewless wings | L |
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| The veil of Isis sevenfold | D |
| To him as gauze shall be | M |
| Wherethrough clear eyed he shall behold | D |
| The Ancient Mystery | M |
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| He shall do battle for the True | N |
| Defend till death the Right | D |
| With Shoes of Swiftness Wrong pursue | N |
| With Sword of Sharpness smite | D |
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| And dying he shall haply hear | O |
| Like golden trumpets blown | P |
| For joy far voices sweet and clear | Q |
| Soul voices like his own | P |
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| So welcomed may he join the Throng | R |
| Upon the Shining Shore | G |
| As one who after wandering long | R |
| Returneth home once more | G |
Victor James Daley
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