Universal Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLM NONO PJPJ QRQR OSOS OTOT UGUG VWXWFather of all In every age | A |
In ev'ry clime ador'd | 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 confin'd | 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 Heav'n 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 teach 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 O 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 aught thy wisdom has denied | Q |
Or aught that goodness lent | R |
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Teach me to feel another's woe | O |
To right the fault I see | S |
That mercy I to others show | O |
That mercy show to me | S |
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Mean tho' I am not wholly so | O |
Since quicken'd by thy breath | T |
O lead me whereso'er I go | O |
Thro' 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 |
Though 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 of Space | V |
Whose altar earth sea skies | W |
One chorus let all Beings raise | X |
All Nature's incense rise | W |
Alexander Pope
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