Father, I Know That All My Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDEDFD GBBBHB IJKJLJ MNBNKN OPCPBP QDRDSD TUVUDU BDWDGD| A | |
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| My times are in Thy hand Psalm XXXI | B |
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| Father I know that all my life | C |
| Is portioned out for me | D |
| And the changes that are sure to come | E |
| I do not fear to see | D |
| But I ask Thee for a present mind | F |
| Intent on pleasing Thee | D |
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| I ask Thee for a thoughtful love | G |
| Through constant watching wise | B |
| To meet the glad with joyful smiles | B |
| And to wipe the weeping eyes | B |
| And a heart at leisure from itself | H |
| To soothe and sympathise | B |
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| I would not have the restless will | I |
| That hurries to and fro | J |
| Seeking for some great thing to do | K |
| Or secret thing to know | J |
| I would be treated as a child | L |
| And guided where I go | J |
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| Wherever in the world I am | M |
| In whatsoe'er estate | N |
| I have a fellowship with hearts | B |
| To keep and cultivate | N |
| And a work of lowly love to do | K |
| For the Lord on whom I wait | N |
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| So I ask Thee for the daily strength | O |
| To none that ask denied | P |
| And a mind to blend with outward life | C |
| While keeping at Thy side | P |
| Content to fill a little space | B |
| If Thou be glorified | P |
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| And if some things I do not ask | Q |
| In my cup of blessing be | D |
| I would have my spirit filled the more | R |
| With grateful love to Thee | D |
| More careful not to serve Thee much | S |
| But to please Thee perfectly | D |
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| There are briers besetting every path | T |
| That call for patient care | U |
| There is a cross in every lot | V |
| And an earnest need for prayer | U |
| But a lowly heart that leans on Thee | D |
| Is happy anywhere | U |
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| In a service which Thy will appoints | B |
| There are no bonds for me | D |
| For my inmost heart is taught the truth | W |
| That makes Thy children free | D |
| And a life of self renouncing love | G |
| Is a life of liberty | D |
Anna Laetitia Waring
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