Psalms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCEEFGHFBBIJJIK KLMMLNNBOOB APQPQRSKSS TBTBUVUVV WXWXAOAOO YZYZA2B2A2B2C2 PPPPA2A2VVV A E A2YD2E2D2E2A2A2CCCC F2 G2G2YA2A2YBBYA2A2Y E F2BF2BA2A2FCFC F2BBYA2A2YA2A2YH2I2Y

IA
I seem to beB
Sundered from TheeB
Thou Harmony of all creationC
Am I disownedD
For talents loanedD
And useless hid in vain probationC
Now powerlessE
In wearinessE
Now in despair a beggar humbleF
For help for cheerG
A voice an earH
To hear and guide while on I stumbleF
God let me beB
Of use to TheeB
If vain my purpose and my powersI
Then sinks from sightJ
My star and nightJ
Henceforth my steps enfolding lowersI
Then break and bindK
My ravaged mindK
The terrors dread of doubt and anguishL
I know the packM
I drove them backM
Only to day does courage languishL
Oh come now peaceN
Come faith's increaseN
That life's strong chain shall ever bind meB
That not in vainO
I strive and strainO
Myself to seek until I find meB
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IIA
Honor the springtide life ever adorningP
That all things has madeQ
Things smallest have some resurrectional morningP
The forms alone fadeQ
Life begets lifeR
Potencies higher surpriseS
Kind begets kindK
Heedless of time as it fliesS
Worlds pass away and ariseS
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Nothing so small but there's something still smallerT
No one can seeB
Nothing so great but there's something still greaterT
Beyond it can beB
Worms in the earthU
Mountains to make they essayV
Dust without worthU
Sands with which sea billows playV
Founders of kingdoms were theyV
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Infinite all where the smallest and greatestW
Oneness unfoldX
No one has seen what was first and the latestW
None shall beholdX
Laws underlieA
Order the all they maintainO
Need and supplyA
Bring one another our baneO
Boots to the general gainO
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Eternity's offspring and germ are we all nowY
Thoughts have their trueZ
Roots in our race's first morning they fall nowY
Query and clueZ
Freighted with seedA2
Into eternity's soilB2
Joy be your meedA2
That your brief life's fleeting toilB2
Fruit for eternity bearsC2
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Join in the joy of all life every beingP
Brief bloom of its springP
Honor th' eternal our human lot freeingP
From fetters that clingP
Adding your miteA2
With the eternal uniteA2
Though you decayV
Breathe as a moment you mayV
Air of eternity's dayV
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IIIA
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CHORUSE
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Who artA2
ThouY
whom a thousand names traceD2
Through all times that are gone and each tongueE2
Thou wert infinite yearning's embraceD2
Thou wert hope when the yoke heavy hungE2
Thou wert darkening death terror's guestA2
Thou wert sun that with life gladness blessedA2
Still Thine image we changefully fashionC
And each form we would call revelationC
Each man holds his for true with deep passionC
Till it crumbles in poignant negationC
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SOLOF2
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Who Thou art none can tellG2
But I know Thou dost dwellG2
As the limitless search in my soul it is ThouY
After justice and lightA2
After victory's rightA2
For the new that's revealed it is Thou it is ThouY
Every law that we seeB
Or believe there may beB
Though we never can knowledge attain it is ThouY
As my armor and aidA2
Round my life they are laidA2
And with joy I avow it is Thou it is ThouY
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CHORUSE
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Since we never Thine essence can knowF2
We have thought mediators of TheeB
But the ages their impotence showF2
We stand still while no way we can seeB
If in sickness for succor we thirstA2
Is there balm in the dreams that have burstA2
Stars of hope and of longing eternalF
That we saw o'er life's sorrows arisenC
Shall they sink in death's terrors nocturnalF
Only turn into worms in our prisonC
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SOLOF2
He that liveth in meB
Needeth no one to beB
Mediator I own Him indeed it is ThouY
Is eternal hope prizedA2
As from Him is baptizedA2
By His spirit my own is it Thou is it ThouY
Shall not I who am dustA2
His eternity trustA2
I take humbly my law for I know it is ThouY
Was I worth Thy word LiveH2
Let Thy life power giveI2
When Thou wilt as Thou wilt it is Thou it is ThouY

Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson



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