Satan Absolved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFGGHHIJ KKLLGGMMKKNNOPPNNQRK KSSTTUUVVK W KXNK N KNNYN YN N NAA ZA2U K K B2 NNB C2D2 C2U E2E2KKNNE2E2 N KTF2A KKE2E2G2G2N NKU KNNNOO NNF2N KH2NN N I2 K KU KE2 E2E2J2J2KKK2K2E2 E2E2E2L2L2E2E2K OK KF2 NNNNUUE2E2K KM2N2 O2 P2P2NNU UN NNQ2 E2 R2In the antechamber of Heaven Satan walks alone Angels in groups conversing | A |
Satan To day is the Lord's day '' Once more on His good pleasure | B |
I the Heresiarch wait and pace these halls at leisure | B |
Among the Orthodox the unfallen Sons of God | C |
How sweet in truth Heaven is its floors of sandal wood | D |
Its old world furniture its linen long in press | E |
Its incense mummeries flowers its scent of holiness | F |
Each house has its own smell The smell of Heaven to me | G |
Intoxicates and haunts and hurts Who would not be | G |
God's liveried servant here the slave of His behest | H |
Rather than reign outside I like good things the best | H |
Fair things things innocent and gladly if He willed | I |
Would enter His Saints' kingdom even as a little child | J |
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Laughs I have come to make my peace to crave a full amaun | K |
Peace pardon reconcilement truce to our daggers drawn | K |
Which have so long distraught the fair wise Universe | L |
An end to my rebellion and the mortal curse | L |
Of always evil doing He will mayhap agree | G |
I was less wholly wrong about Humanity | G |
The day I dared to warn His wisdom of that flaw | M |
It was at least the truth the whole truth I foresaw | M |
When He must needs create that simian in His own | K |
Image and likeness '' Faugh the unseemly carrion | K |
I claim a new revision and with proofs in hand | N |
No Job now in my path to foil me and withstand | N |
Oh I will serve Him well | O |
Certain Angels approach But who are these that come | P |
With their grieved faces pale and eyes of martyrdom | P |
Not our good Sons of God They stop gesticulate | N |
Argue apart some weep weep here within Heaven's gate | N |
Sob almost in God's sight ay real salt human tears | Q |
Such as no Spirit wept these thrice three thousand years | R |
The last shed were my own that night of reprobation | K |
When I unsheathed my sword and headed the lost nation | K |
Since then not one of them has spoken above his breath | S |
Or whispered in these courts one word of life or death | S |
Displeasing to the Lord No Seraph of them all | T |
Save I this day each year has dared to cross Heaven's hall | T |
And give voice to ill news an unwelcome truth to Him | U |
Not Michael's self hath dared prince of the Seraphim | U |
Yet all now wail aloud What ails ye brethren Speak | V |
Are ye too in rebellion Angels Satan no But weak | V |
With our long earthly toil the unthankful care of Man | K |
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Satan Ye have in truth good cause | W |
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Angels And we would know God's plan | K |
His true thought for the world the wherefore and the why | X |
Of His long patience mocked His name in jeopardy | N |
We have no heart to serve without instructions new | K |
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Satan Ye have made a late discovery | N |
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Angels There is no rain no dew | K |
No watering of God's grace that can make green Man's heart | N |
Or draw him nearer Heaven to play a godlier part | N |
Our service has grown vain We have no rest nor sleep | Y |
The Earth's cry is too loud | N |
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Satan Ye have all cause to weep | Y |
Since you depend on Man I told it and foretold | N |
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Angels Truly thou didst | N |
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Satan Dear fools But have ye heart to hold | N |
Such plaint before the Lord to apprise Him of this thing | A |
In its full naked fact and call your reckoning | A |
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Angels We dare not face His frown He lives in ignorance | Z |
His pride is in His Earth If He but looks askance | A2 |
We tremble and grow dumb | U |
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Satan And ye will bear it then | K |
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Angels We dare not grieve His peace He loves this race of men | K |
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Satan The truth should hardly grieve | B2 |
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Angels He would count it us for pride | N |
He holds Mankind redeemed since His Son stooped and died | N |
We dare not venture | B |
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Satan See I have less than you to lose | C2 |
Give me your brief | D2 |
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Angels Ay speak Thee He will not refuse | C2 |
Mayhap thou shalt persuade Him | U |
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Satan And withal find grace | E2 |
The Lord is a just God He will rejudge this case | E2 |
Ay haply even mine O glorious occasion | K |
To champion Heaven's whole right without shift or evasion | K |
And plead the Angels' cause Take courage my sad heart | N |
Thine hour hath come to thee to play this worthiest part | N |
And prove thy right thine too to Heaven's moralities | E2 |
Not worse than these that wait only alas more wise | E2 |
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Angels Hush Silence The Lord God | N |
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Entereth the Lord God to whom the Angels minister He taketh His seat upon the throne | K |
The Lord God Thank ye My servants all | T |
Thank ye good Seraphim To all and several | F2 |
Sons of the House God's blessing | A |
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aside who ne'er gave God pain | K |
Impeccable white Spirits tell Me once again | K |
How goeth it with the World My ordered Universe | E2 |
My Powers and Dominations Michael thou rehearse | E2 |
The glory of the Heavens Tell Me star and star | G2 |
Do they still sing together in their spheres afar | G2 |
Have they their speech their language Are their voices heard | N |
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Michael All's well with the World Each morn as bird to answering bird | N |
The Stars shout in Thy glory praise unchanged yet new | K |
They magnify Thy name | U |
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The Lord God Truth's self were else untrue | K |
Time needs be optimist nor foul its own abode | N |
Else were Creation mocked | N |
aside and haply I not God | N |
In sooth all's well with the World And thou My Raphael | O |
How fare the Spirit hosts Say is thy world too well | O |
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Raphael All's well with the World We stand as aye obedient | N |
We have no thought but Thee no asking no intent | N |
More than to laud and worship O most merciful | F2 |
Being of those that wait | N |
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Satan | K |
aside The contemplative rule | H2 |
Out ministers the active These have right to boast | N |
Who stand aye in His presence beyond the Angel host | N |
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The Lord God And none of ye grow weary | N |
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Raphael Nay in truth | I2 |
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The Lord God Not one | K |
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Satan | K |
aside God is a jealous God He doubteth them | U |
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Raphael Nay none | K |
We are not as the Angels | E2 |
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The Lord God These have their devoirs | E2 |
The search the novelty Ye drowse here in your choirs | E2 |
Sleep walkers all while these glad messengers go forth | J2 |
Upon new joyous errands Earthwards South and North | J2 |
To visit men and cities What is strange as Man | K |
What fair as his green Globe in all Creation's plan | K |
What ordered as his march of life of mind of will | K2 |
What subtle as his conscience set at grips with ill | K2 |
Their service needs no sleep who guide Man's destinies | E2 |
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After a pause Speak Gabriel thou the last Is Man grown grand andwise | E2 |
Hath he his place on Earth prince of Time's fashionings | E2 |
Noblest and fairest found the roof and crown of things | E2 |
Is the World joyful all in his most perfect joy | L2 |
Hath the good triumphed tell o'er pain and Time's annoy | L2 |
Since Our Son died who taught the way of perfect peace | E2 |
Thou knowest it how I love these dear Humanities | E2 |
Is all quite well with Man | K |
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Gabriel All's well with the World ay well | O |
All's well enough with Man | K |
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Satan | K |
aside Alas poor Gabriel | F2 |
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The Lord God How meanest thou enough'' Man holdeth then Earth's seat | N |
Master of living things He mild is and discreet | N |
Supreme in My Son's peace The Earth is comforted | N |
With its long rest from toil nor goeth aught in dread | N |
Seeing all wars have ceased the mad wars of old time | U |
The lion and the lamb lie down in every clime | U |
There is no strife for gold for place for dignities | E2 |
All holding My Son's creed The last fool hath grown wise | E2 |
He hath renounced his gods the things of wood and stone | K |
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Gabriel The Christian name prevaileth Its dominion | K |
Groweth in all the land From Candia to Cathay | M2 |
The fear of Christ is spread and wide through Africa | N2 |
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The Lord God The fear And not the love | O2 |
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Gabriel Who knoweth Man's heart All bow | P2 |
And all proclaim His might The manner and the how | P2 |
It were less safe to argue since some frailties be | N |
We take the outward act to prove conformity | N |
All's well enough with Man most well with Christendom | U |
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The Lord God Again thou sayest enough '' How fareth it in Rome | U |
Hath My vicegerent rest | N |
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Gabriel He sitteth as of old | N |
Enthroned in Peter's chair with glories manifold | N |
He sang a mass this morning and I heard his prayer | Q2 |
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The Lord God For Peace | E2 |
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Gabriel And Po | R2 |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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