The Everlasting Gospel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The vision of Christ that thou dost seeA
Is my vision s greatest enemyA
Thine has a great hook nose like thineB
Mine has a snub nose like to mineB
Thine is the Friend of all MankindC
Mine speaks in parables to the blindC
Thine loves the same world that mine hatesD
Thy heaven doors are my hell gatesD
Socrates taught what MeletusD
Loath d as a nation s bitterest curseD
And Caiaphas was in his own mindC
A benefactor to mankindC
Both read the Bible day and nightE
But thou read st black where I read whiteE
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Was Jesus gentle or did HeA
Give any marks of gentilityA
When twelve years old He ran awayF
And left His parents in dismayF
When after three days sorrow foundG
Loud as Sinai s trumpet soundG
No earthly parents I confessD
My Heavenly Father s businessD
Ye understand not what I sayF
And angry force Me to obeyF
Obedience is a duty thenH
And favour gains with God and menH
John from the wilderness loud criedI
Satan gloried in his prideI
Come said Satan come awayF
I ll soon see if you ll obeyF
John for disobedience bledJ
But you can turn the stones to breadJ
God s high king and God s high priestK
Shall plant their glories in your breastL
If Caiaphas you will obeyF
If Herod you with bloody preyF
Feed with the sacrifice and beA
Obedient fall down worship meA
Thunders and lightnings broke aroundG
And Jesus voice in thunders soundG
Thus I seize the spiritual preyF
Ye smiters with disease make wayF
I come your King and God to seizeD
Is God a smiter with diseaseD
The God of this world rag d in vainM
He bound old Satan in His chainM
And bursting forth His furious ireN
Became a chariot of fireO
Throughout the land He took His courseD
And trac d diseases to their sourceD
He curs d the Scribe and PhariseeD
Trampling down hypocrisyD
Where er His chariot took its wayF
There Gates of Death let in the DayF
Broke down from every chain and barP
And Satan in His spiritual warQ
Dragg d at His chariot wheels loud howl dD
The God of this world louder roll dD
The chariot wheels and louder stillR
His voice was heard from Zion s HillR
And in His hand the scourge shone brightE
He scourg d the merchant CanaaniteE
From out the Temple of His MindC
And in his body tight does bindC
Satan and all his hellish crewS
And thus with wrath He did subdueS
The serpent bulk of Nature s drossD
Till He had nail d it to the CrossD
He took on sin in the Virgin s wombT
And put it off on the Cross and tombT
To be worshipp d by the Church of RomeU
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Was Jesus humble or did HeD
Give any proofs of humilityD
Boast of high things with humble toneV
And give with charity a stoneV
When but a child He ran awayF
And left His parents in dismayF
When they had wander d three days longW
These were the words upon His tongueX
No earthly parents I confessD
I am doing My Father s businessD
When the rich learn d PhariseeD
Came to consult Him secretlyD
Upon his heart with iron penH
He wrote Ye must be born againH
He was too proud to take a bribeY
He spoke with authority not like a ScribeY
He says with most consummate artZ
Follow Me I am meek and lowly of heartZ
As that is the only way to escapeA2
The miser s net and the glutton s trapB2
What can be done with such desperate foolsD
Who follow after the heathen schoolsD
I was standing by when Jesus diedI
What I call d humility they call d prideI
He who loves his enemies betrays his friendsD
This surely is not what Jesus intendsD
But the sneaking pride of heroic schoolsD
And the Scribes and Pharisees virtuous rulesD
For He acts with honest triumphant prideI
And this is the cause that Jesus diesD
He did not die with Christian easeD
Asking pardon of His enemiesD
If He had Caiaphas would forgiveC2
Sneaking submission can always liveD2
He had only to say that God was the DevilE2
And the Devil was God like a Christian civilE2
Mild Christian regrets to the Devil confessD
For affronting him thrice in the wildernessD
He had soon been bloody Caesar s elfF2
And at last he would have been Caesar himselfF2
Like Dr Priestly and Bacon and NewtonG2
Poor spiritual knowledge is not worth a buttonG2
For thus the Gospel Sir Isaac confutesD
God can only be known by His attributesD
And as for the indwelling of the Holy GhostH2
Or of Christ and His Father it s all a boastH2
And pride and vanity of the imaginationG2
That disdains to follow this world s fashionG2
To teach doubt and experimentI2
Certainly was not what Christ meantJ2
What was He doing all that timeK2
From twelve years old to manly primeK2
Was He then idle or the lessD
About His Father s businessD
Or was His wisdom held in scornL2
Before His wrath began to burnM2
In miracles throughout the landN2
That quite unnerv d the Seraph bandN2
If He had been Antichrist Creeping JesusD
He d have done anything to please usD
Gone sneaking into synagoguesD
And not us d the Elders and Priests like dogsD
But humble as a lamb or assD
Obey d Himself to CaiaphasD
God wants not man to humble himselfF2
That is the trick of the Ancient ElfF2
This is the race that Jesus ranO2
Humble to God haughty to manO2
Cursing the Rulers before the peopleE2
Even to the Temple s highest steepleE2
And when He humbled Himself to GodP2
Then descended the cruel rodP2
If Thou Humblest Thyself Thou humblest MeD
Thou also dwell st in EternityD
Thou art a Man God is no moreQ
Thy own Humanity learn to adoreQ
For that is My spirit of lifeQ2
Awake arise to spiritual strifeQ2
And Thy revenge abroad displayF
In terrors at the last Judgement DayF
God s mercy and long sufferingR2
Is but the sinner to judgement to bringR2
Thou on the Cross for them shalt prayF
And take revenge at the Last DayF
Jesus replied and thunders hurl dD
I never will pray for the worldS2
Once I did so when I pray d in the GardenG2
I wish d to take with Me a bodily pardonG2
Can that which was of woman bornL2
In the absence of the mornL2
When the Soul fell into sleepT2
And Archangels round it weepT2
Shooting out against the lightE
Fibres of a deadly nightE
Reasoning upon its own dark fictionG2
In doubt which is self contradictionG2
Humility is only doubtU2
And does the sun and moon blot outU2
Rooting over with thorns and stemsD
The buried soul and all its gemsD
This life s five windows of the soulV2
Distorts the Heavens from pole to poleV2
And leads you to believe a lieW2
When you see with not thro the eyeW2
That was born in a night to perish in a nightE
When the soul slept in the beams of lightE
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Did Jesus teach doubt or did HeD
Give any lessons of philosophyD
Charge Visionaries with deceivingR2
Or call men wise for not believingR2
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Was Jesus born of a Virgin pureX2
With narrow soul and looks demureX2
If He intended to take on sinY2
The Mother should an harlot beenY2
Just such a one as MagdalenG2
With seven devils in her penH
Or were Jew virgins still more curs dD
And more sucking devils nurs dD
Or what was it which He took onZ2
That He might bring salvationG2
A body subject to be temptedA3
From neither pain nor grief exemptedB3
Or such a body as might not feelC3
The passions that with sinners dealC3
Yes but they say He never fellD3
Ask Caiaphas for he can tellD3
He mock d the SabbathE3

William Blake



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