Qui Laborat, Orat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LFLF JMJM| O only Source of all our light and life | A |
| Whom as our truth our strength we see and feel | B |
| But whom the hours of mortal moral strife | A |
| Alone aright reveal | B |
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| Mine inmost soul before Thee inly brought | C |
| Thy presence owns ineffable divine | D |
| Chastised each rebel self encentered thought | C |
| My will adoreth Thine | D |
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| With eye down dropt if then this earthly mind | E |
| Speechless remain or speechless e'en depart | F |
| Nor seek to see for what of earthly kind | E |
| Can see Thee as Thou art | F |
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| If well assured 'tis but profanely bold | G |
| In thought's abstractest forms to seem to see | H |
| It dare not dare the dread communion hold | G |
| In ways unworthy Thee | H |
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| O not unowned thou shalt unnamed forgive | I |
| In worldly walks the prayerless heart prepare | J |
| And if in work its life it seem to live | K |
| Shalt make that work be prayer | J |
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| Nor times shall lack when while the work it plies | L |
| Unsummoned powers the blinding film shall part | F |
| And scarce by happy tears made dim the eyes | L |
| In recognition start | F |
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| But as thou wiliest give or e'en forbear | J |
| The beatific supersensual sight | M |
| So with Thy blessing blest that humbler prayer | J |
| Approach Thee morn and night | M |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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