The Candle Of The Lord Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDE CCCC FGFG CHCH IDID DEDE CCCC JKLK MCMC NONP| The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord | A |
| The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of | B |
| God | C |
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| Our spirit ay our own the tree whose fruits | D |
| Have never fail'd the sign upon the door | E |
| 'Twixt us and God's intelligent dumb brutes | D |
| That parts us evermore | E |
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| Our spirit last best gift still unbereft | C |
| Of treasures stored in Eden's happy land | C |
| One fragment of the human as it left | C |
| The Divine Maker's hand | C |
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| That seal of our high birth He did allow | F |
| Toea unharm'd the sin and woe and strife | G |
| That remnant of our godhead wanting now | F |
| Only the breath of life | G |
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| Only the breath of life whereby the Lord | C |
| Made us to be His equals fit to fill | H |
| His throne our free wills brought into accord | C |
| With His own sovereign will | H |
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| Our spirit not the feeble soul which came | I |
| With our dishonour'd state and its new needs | D |
| And not the feebler heart of sin and shame | I |
| That daily breaks and bleeds | D |
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| Our spirit our unshatter'd lamp still ours | D |
| Fill'd with the heavenly essence as of yore | E |
| To bear a light to light the midnight hours | D |
| And light the wreck to shore | E |
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| Ay 'tis the same the same It hath not shared | C |
| The mutilation and the curse and blight | C |
| When the destruction fell the lamp was spared | C |
| Only deprived of Light | C |
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| O God and hath it ever ceased to grope | J |
| For light and yearn and cry for light to come | K |
| In blackest gloom ere revelation spoke | L |
| While yet the Christ was dumb | K |
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| Thou knowest it search'd for every wandering ray | M |
| And never wearied of the weary quest | C |
| And fed and fenced and treasured day by day | M |
| A glimmer in its breast | C |
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| O holy Dove O Grace O Love come down | N |
| Our spirit with Thy perfect light inspire | O |
| Circle each candle with its flaming crown | N |
| Its cloven tongue of fire | P |
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