Livingstone The Builder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFG HIFI JKFLMN OIPI QORB AABCCB| With a will | A |
| With a will | A |
| With a will and surely | B |
| Without fail | C |
| Drive each nail | C |
| Build we so securely | B |
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| The Pioneer the Undaunted One | D |
| Worn with long journeyings through the Great Dark Land | E |
| Rests for a season from his mighty labours | F |
| And seeks fresh vigour in a change of toil | G |
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| Labour is sweet | H |
| When hands and hearts are willing | I |
| Who truly works | F |
| Is God's own law fulfilling | I |
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| With his own hands he helps to build a temple | J |
| Here in the wilds a temple to his God | K |
| Rough hewn and roughly thatched but still a house | F |
| Of prayer a holy place and consecrate | L |
| To Him whose noblest temples are not built | M |
| With hands but in the opened hearts of men | N |
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| The Master worked | O |
| With His own hands expressing | I |
| His sure belief | P |
| That therein lay God's blessing | I |
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| Thus as he toils with axe and nail and hammer | Q |
| His heart rejoices so the Master worked | O |
| And by His lowly toil for ever stamped | R |
| True labour with its highest dignity | B |
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| With a will | A |
| With a will | A |
| With a will and surely | B |
| Without fail | C |
| Drive each nail | C |
| Build we so securely | B |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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