Psalms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCEEFGHFBBIJJIK KLMMLNNBOOB APQPQRSKSS TBTBUVUVV WXWXAOAOO YZYZA2B2A2B2C2 PPPPA2A2VVV A E A2YD2E2D2E2A2A2CCCC F2 G2G2YA2A2YBBYA2A2Y E F2BF2BA2A2FCFC F2BBYA2A2YA2A2YH2I2YI | A |
I seem to be | B |
Sundered from Thee | B |
Thou Harmony of all creation | C |
Am I disowned | D |
For talents loaned | D |
And useless hid in vain probation | C |
Now powerless | E |
In weariness | E |
Now in despair a beggar humble | F |
For help for cheer | G |
A voice an ear | H |
To hear and guide while on I stumble | F |
God let me be | B |
Of use to Thee | B |
If vain my purpose and my powers | I |
Then sinks from sight | J |
My star and night | J |
Henceforth my steps enfolding lowers | I |
Then break and bind | K |
My ravaged mind | K |
The terrors dread of doubt and anguish | L |
I know the pack | M |
I drove them back | M |
Only to day does courage languish | L |
Oh come now peace | N |
Come faith's increase | N |
That life's strong chain shall ever bind me | B |
That not in vain | O |
I strive and strain | O |
Myself to seek until I find me | B |
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II | A |
Honor the springtide life ever adorning | P |
That all things has made | Q |
Things smallest have some resurrectional morning | P |
The forms alone fade | Q |
Life begets life | R |
Potencies higher surprise | S |
Kind begets kind | K |
Heedless of time as it flies | S |
Worlds pass away and arise | S |
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Nothing so small but there's something still smaller | T |
No one can see | B |
Nothing so great but there's something still greater | T |
Beyond it can be | B |
Worms in the earth | U |
Mountains to make they essay | V |
Dust without worth | U |
Sands with which sea billows play | V |
Founders of kingdoms were they | V |
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Infinite all where the smallest and greatest | W |
Oneness unfold | X |
No one has seen what was first and the latest | W |
None shall behold | X |
Laws underlie | A |
Order the all they maintain | O |
Need and supply | A |
Bring one another our bane | O |
Boots to the general gain | O |
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Eternity's offspring and germ are we all now | Y |
Thoughts have their true | Z |
Roots in our race's first morning they fall now | Y |
Query and clue | Z |
Freighted with seed | A2 |
Into eternity's soil | B2 |
Joy be your meed | A2 |
That your brief life's fleeting toil | B2 |
Fruit for eternity bears | C2 |
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Join in the joy of all life every being | P |
Brief bloom of its spring | P |
Honor th' eternal our human lot freeing | P |
From fetters that cling | P |
Adding your mite | A2 |
With the eternal unite | A2 |
Though you decay | V |
Breathe as a moment you may | V |
Air of eternity's day | V |
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III | A |
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CHORUS | E |
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Who art | A2 |
Thou | Y |
whom a thousand names trace | D2 |
Through all times that are gone and each tongue | E2 |
Thou wert infinite yearning's embrace | D2 |
Thou wert hope when the yoke heavy hung | E2 |
Thou wert darkening death terror's guest | A2 |
Thou wert sun that with life gladness blessed | A2 |
Still Thine image we changefully fashion | C |
And each form we would call revelation | C |
Each man holds his for true with deep passion | C |
Till it crumbles in poignant negation | C |
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SOLO | F2 |
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Who Thou art none can tell | G2 |
But I know Thou dost dwell | G2 |
As the limitless search in my soul it is Thou | Y |
After justice and light | A2 |
After victory's right | A2 |
For the new that's revealed it is Thou it is Thou | Y |
Every law that we see | B |
Or believe there may be | B |
Though we never can knowledge attain it is Thou | Y |
As my armor and aid | A2 |
Round my life they are laid | A2 |
And with joy I avow it is Thou it is Thou | Y |
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CHORUS | E |
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Since we never Thine essence can know | F2 |
We have thought mediators of Thee | B |
But the ages their impotence show | F2 |
We stand still while no way we can see | B |
If in sickness for succor we thirst | A2 |
Is there balm in the dreams that have burst | A2 |
Stars of hope and of longing eternal | F |
That we saw o'er life's sorrows arisen | C |
Shall they sink in death's terrors nocturnal | F |
Only turn into worms in our prison | C |
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SOLO | F2 |
He that liveth in me | B |
Needeth no one to be | B |
Mediator I own Him indeed it is Thou | Y |
Is eternal hope prized | A2 |
As from Him is baptized | A2 |
By His spirit my own is it Thou is it Thou | Y |
Shall not I who am dust | A2 |
His eternity trust | A2 |
I take humbly my law for I know it is Thou | Y |
Was I worth Thy word Live | H2 |
Let Thy life power give | I2 |
When Thou wilt as Thou wilt it is Thou it is Thou | Y |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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