A New-year Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEFEF GHGHIICCJKJK LHLHCCIIMNMN OPOPQQRRSFSF TUTUVVWWXYXZ HA2HA2B2B2CCAC2AC2| Sunlight of the heavenly day | A |
| Mighty to revive and cheer | B |
| Bless our yet untrodden way | A |
| Lead us through the entered year | B |
| Where the shades of death we see | C |
| Let Thy living brightness be | C |
| Let it speed our lingering feet | D |
| Let it shine on all we meet | D |
| While before our chastened gaze | E |
| Earthly pleasures fade and fail | F |
| Thou the light of all our days | E |
| Thou our steadfast glory hail | F |
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| Forward though the path be hid | G |
| Though we pass the lurking foe | H |
| Though the sound of war forbid | G |
| Girt with gladness let its go | H |
| Bold in Thy protecting care | I |
| Strong to prove Thee faithful there | I |
| Through the desert or the sea | C |
| On to reign in life with Thee | C |
| Ah with more than fearless heart | J |
| Homeward be our faces set | K |
| Show us in our present part | J |
| Wealth we have not measured yet | K |
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| Open Thou beneath our tread | L |
| Springs the distance could not show | H |
| From the holy Fountain head | L |
| Let them rise where'er we go | H |
| Rather give us eyes to see | C |
| Love awake to love in Thee | C |
| Hearts that trusting in Thy care | I |
| Find its traces everywhere | I |
| Teach us as we pass along | M |
| In the shining of Thy face | N |
| Many a sweet thanksgiving song | M |
| Even in a dreary place | N |
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| While with firm unyielding will | O |
| For the victor's crown we strive | P |
| Gracious Savior keep us still | O |
| To Thy gentlest signs alive | P |
| Where the stormy wind is heard | Q |
| Quick to every tender word | Q |
| And for all our journey's length | R |
| Armed with meekness more than strength | R |
| In the shadow of Thy hand | S |
| We can brave the uprooting gale | F |
| And a little child may stand | S |
| Where the soldier's heart would fail | F |
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| Oft a desolating blast | T |
| Bears the seed of comfort too | U |
| And the patient soul at last | T |
| Finds a garden where it blew | U |
| So where nothing cheers our sight | V |
| Germs of love may spring to light | V |
| Bright 'mid earth's oppressive shades | W |
| Fresh beside the leaf that fades | W |
| Let the precious seed abound | X |
| Make the tempest strong to bless | Y |
| Strong to claim our thorny ground | X |
| For the fruits of holiness | Z |
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| Lord of All we cannot know | H |
| What our paths may yet unfold | A2 |
| But the part that love would show | H |
| Wise to save us Thou hast told | A2 |
| By our heart's unmeasured price | B2 |
| By Thy life long sacrifice | B2 |
| By Thy death to set us free | C |
| Lead us on to joy in Thee | C |
| On to greet the perfect day | A |
| Blessed End of time and strife | C2 |
| On throngh all the shinlng way | A |
| Brightness of our human life | C2 |
Anna Laetitia Waring
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