Ad Finem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AAAA EFEF AGAG CHCI JJJJ EJEJ| Britain Our Britain uprisen in the splendour | A |
| Of your white wrath at treacheries so vile | B |
| Roused from your sleep become once more defender | A |
| Of those high things which make life worth life's while | B |
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| Now God be thanked for even such a wakening | C |
| From the soft dreams of peace in selfish ease | D |
| If it but bring about the great heart quickening | C |
| Of which are born the larger liberties | D |
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| Ay better such a rousing up from slumber | A |
| Better this fight for His High Empery | A |
| Better e'en though our fair sons without number | A |
| Pave with their lives the road to victory | A |
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| But Britain Britain What if it be written | E |
| On the great scrolls of Him who holds the ways | F |
| That to the dust the foe shall not be smitten | E |
| Till unto Him we pledge redeem d days | F |
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| Till unto Him we turn in deep soul sorrow | A |
| For all the past that was so stained and dim | G |
| For all the present ills and for a morrow | A |
| Founded and built and consecrated to Him | G |
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| Take it to heart This ordeal has its meaning | C |
| By no fell chance has such a horror come | H |
| Take it to heart nor count indeed on winning | C |
| Until the lesson has come surely home | I |
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| Take it to heart nor hope to find assuagement | J |
| Of this vast woe until with souls subdued | J |
| Stripped of all less things in most high engagement | J |
| We seek in Him the One and Only Good | J |
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| Not of our own might shall this tribulation | E |
| Pass and once more to earth be peace restored | J |
| Not till we turn in solemn consecration | E |
| Wholly to Him our One and Sovereign Lord | J |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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