In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit Mdcccxxxiii: Introduction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEFD GHHG IJJI KLLK MLLM NOON PQRP LSSL TRRU VWWVStrong Son of God immortal Love | A |
Whom we that have not seen thy face | B |
By faith and faith alone embrace | B |
Believing where we cannot prove | C |
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Thine are these orbs of light and shade | D |
Thou madest Life in man and brute | E |
Thou madest Death and lo thy foot | F |
Is on the skull which thou hast made | D |
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Thou wilt not leave us in the dust | G |
Thou madest man he knows not why | H |
He thinks he was not made to die | H |
And thou hast made him thou art just | G |
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Thou seemest human and divine | I |
The highest holiest manhood thou | J |
Our wills are ours we know not how | J |
Our wills are ours to make them thine | I |
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Our little systems have their day | K |
They have their day and cease to be | L |
They are but broken lights of thee | L |
And thou O Lord art more than they | K |
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We have but faith we cannot know | M |
For knowledge is of things we see | L |
And yet we trust it comes from thee | L |
A beam in darkness let it grow | M |
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Let knowledge grow from more to more | N |
But more of reverence in us dwell | O |
That mind and soul according well | O |
May make one music as before | N |
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But vaster We are fools and slight | P |
We mock thee when we do not fear | Q |
But help thy foolish ones to bear | R |
Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light | P |
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Forgive what seem'd my sin in me | L |
What seem'd my worth since I began | S |
For merit lives from man to man | S |
And not from man O Lord to thee | L |
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Forgive my grief for one removed | T |
Thy creature whom I found so fair | R |
I trust he lives in thee and there | R |
I find him worthier to be loved | U |
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Forgive these wild and wandering cries | V |
Confusions of a wasted youth | W |
Forgive them where they fail in truth | W |
And in thy wisdom make me wise | V |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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