In Memoriam A. H. H.: Preface Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFDGHHG IJJI KLLK MLLM NOON PQRP LSSL TRRU VWWV| Strong 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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