Seeds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DDDDD EFGHFHII JJ CKDDDLLMNL OPKKII QR| What shall we be like when | A |
| We cast this earthly body and attain | B |
| To immortality | C |
| What shall we be like then | A |
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| Ah who shall say | D |
| What vast expansions shall be ours that day | D |
| What transformations of this house of clay | D |
| To fit the heavenly mansions and the light of day | D |
| Ah who shall say | D |
| - | |
| But this we know | E |
| We drop a seed into the ground | F |
| A tiny shapeless thing shrivelled and dry | G |
| And in the fulness of its time is seen | H |
| A form of peerless beauty robed and crowned | F |
| Beyond the pride of any earthly queen | H |
| Instinct with loveliness and sweet and rare | I |
| The perfect emblem of its Maker's care | I |
| - | |
| This from a shrivelled seed | J |
| Then may man hope indeed | J |
| - | |
| For man is but the seed of what he shall be | C |
| When in the fulness of his perfecting | K |
| He drops the husk and cleaves his upward way | D |
| Through earth's retardings and the clinging clay | D |
| Into the sunshine of God's perfect day | D |
| No fetters then No bonds of time or space | L |
| But powers as ample as the boundless grace | L |
| That suffered man and death and yet in tenderness | M |
| Set wide the door and passed Himself before | N |
| As He had promised to prepare a place | L |
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| Yea we may hope | O |
| For we are seeds | P |
| Dropped into earth for heavenly blossoming | K |
| Perchance when comes the time of harvesting | K |
| His loving care | I |
| May find some use for even a humble tare | I |
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| We know not what we shall be only this | Q |
| That we shall be made like Him as He is | R |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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