The Resting-place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGH IJIKAA IBIBLL MNMNII MMMMOO BCBCPP EQEQRR ASASII BTBTJK MCMIUU| Because I live ye shall live also | A |
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| Calmly the Paschal moonlight now is sleeping | B |
| On mossy hillock and on headstone grey | C |
| Where still our Mother holds in faithful keeping | B |
| Such as while living in her dear arms lay | C |
| Ah loving and beloved we know ye rest | D |
| E'en in the grave upon her hallow'd breast | D |
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| Where is the cumbrous robe the flesh the matter | E |
| Which held the spirit in such painful thrall | F |
| A little dust that scarce a breath would scatter | E |
| Darkness and void and silence this seems all | F |
| Yet somewhere safe the waiting body lies | G |
| While the freed spirit is in Paradise | H |
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| Ah in that day when earth is all refin d | I |
| From death and sin the darkness and the stain | J |
| When Eden's perfect beauty is enshrin d | I |
| In unmarred purity and light again | K |
| Transfigured and exceeding white as snow | A |
| But still that body it will rise we know | A |
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| The self same lips that hymn'd the Easter story | I |
| With heart of Easter gladness here may sing | B |
| The song of angels in the angels' glory | I |
| Around the throne of our Almighty King | B |
| The same feet which this ancient pavement trod | L |
| May walk for aye the temple courts of God | L |
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| O blessed day which saw the Saviour risen | M |
| Which told to trembling man that wondrous news | N |
| The grave is not thy body's endless prison | M |
| Thy soul no more in vain for pardon sues | N |
| From Adam's curse by Christ's death thou art free | I |
| The Lord accepts this sacrifice for thee | I |
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| Peace be with you by Him those words were spoken | M |
| After the glorious victory was won | M |
| After the angel gave that blessed token | M |
| To her whose favour'd lips had called him Son | M |
| Ah where were peace if every trembling breath | O |
| Strengthen'd the fetters of an endless death | O |
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| Where were the peace if that dark cloud of mourning | B |
| From Calvary's hill had never pass'd away | C |
| If our deep night had never known the dawning | B |
| Of that mysterious Resurrection day | C |
| O Christ our Lord Thou didst indeed release | P |
| Thy sinful children and didst give them peace | P |
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| And now we know that Thou art throned for ever | E |
| True God and yet true man in heaven above | Q |
| That now no power our life from Thine can sever | E |
| That naught shall rob us of Thy gift of love | Q |
| That Thou within the veil dost intercede | R |
| For all who suffer and for all in need | R |
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| That Thou art with us here too in our sorrow | A |
| With us to help in every time of strife | S |
| Dost give to each dark day its joyous morrow | A |
| Dost make us strong with Thine own love and life | S |
| And we may love and we may come to Thee | I |
| In heaven and share Thy great felicity | I |
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| Ay when the grass upon our grave is sighing | B |
| In the cool wind and Easter moonlight fair | T |
| The mortal dust beneath the violets lying | B |
| Shall rest in hope and rest in safety there | T |
| Till Thou shalt come with Thy celestial train | J |
| And our bright spirit take its own again | K |
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| After Thy likeness in its sweet perfection | M |
| Shall we awake in that eternal day | C |
| All save the sin shall have its resurrection | M |
| Clothed in Thy glorious immortality | I |
| And we shall stand Thy radiant throne beside | U |
| Blessed for evermore and satisfied | U |
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