Hymn For Christmas-day (hymnus Viii. Kalendas Ianuarias) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Hymn For Christmas-day (hymnus Viii. Kalendas Ianuarias) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Hymnus VIII Kalendas Ianuarias	A
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Quid est quod artum circulum	B
sol iam recurrens deserit	C
Christusne terris nascitur	D
qui lucis auget tramitem	B
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Heu quam fugacem gratiam	B
festina volvebat dies	A
quam pene subductam facem	B
sensim recisa extinxerat	C
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Caelum nitescat laetius	A
gratetur et gaudens humus	A
scandit gradatim denuo	E
iubar priores lineas	A
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Emerge dulcis pusio	F
quem mater edit castitas	A
parens et expers coniugis	A
mediator et duplex genus	A
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Ex ore quamlibet Patris	A
sis ortus et verbo editus	A
tamen paterno in pectore	D
sophia callebas prius	A
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Quae prompta caelum condidit	C
caelum diemque et cetera	D
virtute verbi effecta sunt	C
haec cuncta nam verbum Deus	A
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Sed ordinatis seculis	A
rerumque digesto statu	C
fundator ipse et artifex	A
permansit in Patris sinu	E
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donec rotata annalium	B
transvolverentur milia	G
atque ipse peccantem diu	C
dignatus orbera viseret	C
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Nam caeca vis mortalium	B
venerans inanes nenias	A
vel aera vel saxa algida	C
vel ligna credebat Deum	B
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Haec dum sequuntur perfidi	C
praedonis in ius venerant	C
et mancipatam fumido	C
vitam barathro inmerserant	C
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Stragem sed istam non tulit	C
Christus cadentum gentium	B
inpune ne forsan sui	A
Patris periret fabrica	H
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Mortale corpus induit	C
ut excitato corpore	D
mortis catenam frangeret	C
hominemque portaret Patri	D
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Hic ille natalis dies	A
quo te creator arduus	A
spiravit et limo indidit	C
sermone carnem glutinans	A
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Sentisne virgo nobilis	A
matura per fastidia	C
pudoris intactum decus	A
honore partus crescere	D
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O quanta rerum gaudia	C
alvus pudica continet	C
ex qua novellum seculum	B
procedit et lux aurea	D
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Vagitus ille exordium	B
vernantis orbis prodidit	C
nam tunc renatus sordidum	B
mundus veternum depulit	C
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Sparsisse tellurem reor	D
rus omne densis floribus	A
ipsasque arenas syrtium	B
fragrasse nardo et nectare	D
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Te cuncta nascentem puer	D
sensere dura et barbara	D
victusque saxorum rigor	D
obduxit herbam cotibus	A
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Iam mella de scopulis fluunt	C
iam stillat ilex arido	C
sudans amomum stipite	C
iam sunt myricis balsama	B
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O sancta praesepis tui	C
aeterne rex cunabula	G
populisque per seclum sacra	D
mutis et ipsis credita	C
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Adorat haec brutum pecus	A
indocta turba scilicet	C
adorat excors natio	F
vis cuius in pastu sita est	C
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Sed cum fideli spiritu	C
concurrat ad praesepia	I
pagana gens et quadrupes	A
sapiatque quod brutum fuit	C
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Negat patrum prosapia	I
perosa praesentem Deum	B
credas venenis ebriam	B
furiisve lymphatam rapi	I
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Quid prona per scelus ruis	A
agnosce si quidquam tibi	A
mentis resedit integrae	D
ducem tuorum principum	B
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Hunc quem latebra et obstetrix	A
et virgo feta et cunulae	G
et inbecilla infantia	F
regem dederunt gentibus	A
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peccator intueberis	A
celsum coruscis nubibus	A
deiectus ipse et inritus	A
plangens reatum fletibus	A
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Cum vasta signum bucina	E
terris cremandis miserit	C
et scissus axis cardinem	B
mundi ruentis solverit	C
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Insignis ipse et praeminens	A
meritis rependet congrua	D
his lucis usum perpetis	A
illis gehennam et tartarum	B
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Iudaea tunc fulmen crucis	A
experta qui sit senties	A
quem te furoris praesule	G
mors hausit et mox reddidit	C
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Hymn For Christmas Day	C
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Why doth the sun re orient take	H
A wider range his limits break	H
Lo Christ is born and o'er earth's night	C
Shineth from more to more the light	C
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Too swiftly did the radiant day	C
Her brief course run and pass away	C
She scarce her kindly torch had fired	C
Ere slowly fading it expired	C
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Now let the sky more brightly beam	B
The earth take up the joyous theme	B
The orb a broadening pathway gains	A
And with its erstwhile splendour reigns	A
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Sweet babe of chastity the flower	D
A virgin's blest mysterious dower	D
Rise in Thy twofold nature's might	C
Rise God and man to reunite	C
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Though by the Father's will above	J
Thou wert begot the Son of Love	J
Yet in His bosom Thou didst dwell	G
Of Wisdom the eternal Well	G
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Wisdom whereby the heavens were made	C
And light's foundations first were laid	C
Creative Word all flows from Thee	A
The Word is God eternally	A
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For though with process of the suns	A
The ordered whole harmonious runs	A
Still the Artificer Divine	E
Leaves not the Father's inmost shrine	E
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The rolling wheels of Time had passed	C
O'er their millennial journey vast	C
Before in judgment clad He came	B
Unto the world long steeped in shame	B
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The purblind souls of mortals crass	A
Had trusted gods of stone and brass	A
To things of nought their worship paid	C
And senseless blocks of wood obeyed	C
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And thus employed they fell below	G
The sway of man's perfidious foe	G
Plunged in the smoky sheer abyss	A
They sank bereft of their true bliss	A
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But that sore plight of ruined man	E
Christ's pity could not lightly scan	E
Nor let God's building nobly wrought	C
Ingloriously be brought to nought	C
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He wrapped Him in our fleshly guise	A
That from the tomb He might arise	A
And man released from death's grim snare	D
Home to His Father's bosom bear	D
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This is the day of Thy dear birth	K
The bridal of the heaven and earth	K
When the Creator breathed on Thee	A
The breath of pure humanity	A
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Ah glorious Maid dost thou not guess	A
What guerdon thy chaste soul shall bless	A
How by thy ripening pangs is bought	C
An honour greater than all thought	C
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O what a load of joy untold	C
Thy womb inviolate doth hold	C
Of thee a golden age is born	E
The brightness of the earth's new morn	E
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Hearken doth not the infant's wail	G
The universal springtide hail	G
For now the world re born lays by	L
Its gloomy frost bound apathy	A
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Methinks in all her rustic bowers	A
The earth is spread with clustering flowers	A
Odours of nard and nectar sweet	C
E'en o'er the sands of Syrtes fleet	C
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All places rough and deserts wild	C
Have felt from far Thy coming Child	C
Rocks to Thy gentle empire bow	M
And verdure clothes the mountain brow	M
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Sweet honey from the boulder leaps	A
The sere and leafless oak bough weeps	A
A strange rich attar tamarisks too	C
Of balsam pure distil the dew	C
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Bless d for ever cradle dear	D
The lowly stall the cavern drear	D
Men to this shrine Eternal King	H
With dumb brutes adoration bring	H
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The ox and ass in homage low	G
Obedient to their Maker bow	M
Bows too the unlearn'd heartless crowd	C
Whose minds the sensual feast doth cloud	C
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Though by the faithful Spirit impelled	C
Shepherds and brutes unreasoning held	C
Yea folk that did in darkness dwell	G
Discern their God in His poor cell	G
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Yet children of the sacred race	A
Blindly abhor the Incarnate grace	A
By philtres you might deem them lulled	C
Or by some bacchic phrenzy dulled	C
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Why headlong thus to ruin stride	C
If aught of soundness in you bide	C
Behold in Him the Lord divine	E
Of all your patriarchal line	E
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Mark you the dim lit cave the Maid	C
The humble nurse the cradle laid	C
The helpless infancy forlorn	E
Yet thus the Gentiles' King was born	E
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Ah sinner thou shalt one day see	A
This Child in dreadful majesty	A
See Him in glorious clouds descend	C
While thou thy guilty heart shalt rend	C
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Vain all thy tears when loud shall sound	C
The trump when flames shall scorch the ground	C
When from its hinge the cloven world	C
Is loosed in horrid tumult hurled	C
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Then throned on high the Judge of all	G
Shall mortals to their reckoning call	G
To these shall grant the prize of light	C
To those Gehenna's gloomy night	C
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Then Israel shalt thou learn at length	N
The Cross hath as the lightning strength	N
Doomed by thy wrath He now is Lord	C
Whom Death once grasped but soon restored	C