The Universal Prayer. Deo Opt. Max Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLM NONO PJPJ QRQR OSOS OTOT UGUG VWXW| Father of all in every age | A |
| In every clime adored | B |
| By saint by savage and by sage | A |
| Jehovah Jove or Lord | B |
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| Thou great First Cause least understood | C |
| Who all my sense confined | D |
| To know but this that Thou art good | C |
| And that myself am blind | D |
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| Yet gave me in this dark estate | E |
| To see the good from ill | F |
| And binding nature fast in fate | E |
| Left free the human will | F |
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| What conscience dictates to be done | G |
| Or warns me not to do | H |
| This teach me more than hell to shun | G |
| That more than heaven pursue | H |
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| What blessings thy free bounty gives | I |
| Let me not cast away | J |
| For God is paid when man receives | K |
| T' enjoy is to obey | J |
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| Yet not to earth's contracted span | L |
| Thy goodness let me bound | M |
| Or think Thee Lord alone of man | L |
| When thousand worlds are round | M |
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| Let not this weak unknowing hand | N |
| Presume Thy bolts to throw | O |
| And deal damnation round the land | N |
| On each I judge Thy foe | O |
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| If I am right Thy grace impart | P |
| Still in the right to stay | J |
| If I am wrong oh teach my heart | P |
| To find that better way | J |
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| Save me alike from foolish pride | Q |
| Or impious discontent | R |
| At ought Thy wisdom has denied | Q |
| Or ought Thy goodness lent | R |
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| Teach me to feel another's woe | O |
| To hide the fault I see | S |
| That mercy I to others show | O |
| That mercy show to me | S |
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| Mean though I am not wholly so | O |
| Since quicken'd by Thy breath | T |
| Oh lead me wheresoe'er I go | O |
| Through this day's life or death | T |
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| This day be bread and peace my lot | U |
| All else beneath the sun | G |
| Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not | U |
| And let Thy will be done | G |
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| To Thee whose temple is all space | V |
| Whose altar earth sea skies | W |
| One chorus let all being raise | X |
| All Nature's incense rise | W |
Alexander Pope
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