All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord. - A Processional Of Creation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB C DDD E DDD F GGG H IJJ J KKK L MMM N MMM O PPP Q QQQ P DDD Q RRR Q PPP Q QQQ Q SSS G DDD J JJJ G JJJ T UG QQQ J JJJ J JJJ R KKK Q JJJ J VVV J JJJ Q QWNWW G XXX Q GGG S RRR Q YYY Q QQQ Q ZZZ J A2A2A2 J JJJ B2 JJJ Q JB2MB2C2 M PPP D QQQ Q RRR Q JJJ Q QQQ Q WWW C PCCC P QCCC Q PPP D2 DDD N QQQ E2 MMM P JJJ Q JJJ J DDD Q QQQ Q DDDDDD N F2G2F2 E2 GGG Q JJJ Q JJJ N JJJ E2 MMM D H2H2H2All | A |
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I All Creation sing my song of praise | B |
To God Who made me and vouchsafes my days | B |
And sends me forth by multitudinous ways | B |
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Seraph | C |
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I like my Brethren burn eternally | D |
With love of Him Who is Love and loveth me | D |
The Holy Holy Holy Unity | D |
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Cherub | E |
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I with my Brethren gaze eternally | D |
On Him Who is Wisdom and Who knoweth me | D |
The Holy Holy Holy Trinity | D |
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All Angels | F |
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We rule we serve we work we store His treasure | G |
Whose vessels are we brimmed with strength and pleasure | G |
Our joys fulfil yea overfill our measure | G |
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Heavens | H |
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We float before the Presence Infinite | I |
We cluster round the Throne in our delight | J |
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight | J |
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Firmament | J |
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I blue and beautiful and framed of air | K |
At sunrise and at sunset grow most fair | K |
His glory by my glories I declare | K |
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Powers | L |
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We Powers are powers because He makes us strong | M |
Wherefore we roll all rolling orbs along | M |
We move all moving things and sing our song | M |
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Sun | N |
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I blaze to Him in mine engarlanding | M |
Of rays I flame His whole burnt offering | M |
While as a bridegroom I rejoice and sing | M |
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Moon | O |
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I follow and am fair and do His Will | P |
Through all my changes I am faithful still | P |
Full orbed or strait His mandate to fulfil | P |
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Stars | Q |
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We Star hosts numerous innumerous | Q |
Throng space with energy untumultuous | Q |
And work His Will Whose eye beholdeth us | Q |
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Galaxies and Nebul | P |
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No thing is far or near and therefore we | D |
Float neither far nor near but where we be | D |
Weave dances round the Throne perpetually | D |
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Comets and Meteors | Q |
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Our lights dart here and there whirl to and fro | R |
We flash and vanish we die down and glow | R |
All doing His Will Who bids us do it so | R |
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Showers | Q |
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We give ourselves and be we great or small | P |
Thus are we made like Him Who giveth all | P |
Like Him Whose gracious pleasure bids us fall | P |
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Dews | Q |
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We give ourselves in silent secret ways | Q |
Spending and spent in silence full of grace | Q |
And thus are made like God and show His praise | Q |
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Winds | Q |
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We sift the air and winnow all the earth | S |
And God Who poised our weights and weighs our worth | S |
Accepts the worship of our solemn mirth | S |
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Fire | G |
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My power and strength are His Who fashioned me | D |
Ordained me image of His Jealousy | D |
Forged me His weapon fierce exceedingly | D |
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Heat | J |
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I glow unto His glory and do good | J |
I glow and bring to life both bud and brood | J |
I glow and ripen harvest crops for food | J |
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Winter and Summer | G |
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Our wealth and joys and beauties celebrate | J |
His wealth of beauty Who sustains our state | J |
Before Whose changelessness we alternate | J |
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Spring and Autumn | T |
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I hope | U |
And I remember | G |
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We give place | Q |
Either to other with contented grace | Q |
Acceptable and lovely all our days | Q |
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Frost | J |
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I make the unstable stable binding fast | J |
The world of waters prone to ripple past | J |
Thus praise I God Whose mercies I forecast | J |
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Cold | J |
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I rouse and goad the slothful apt to nod | J |
I stir and urge the laggards with my rod | J |
My praise is not of men yet I praise God | J |
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Snow | R |
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My whiteness shadoweth Him Who is most fair | K |
All spotless yea my whiteness which I wear | K |
Exalts His Purity beyond compare | K |
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Vapors | Q |
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We darken sun and moon and blot the day | J |
The good Will of our Maker to obey | J |
Till to the glory of God we pass away | J |
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Night | J |
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Moon and all stars I don for diadem | V |
To make me fair I cast myself and them | V |
Before His feet Who knows us gem from gem | V |
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Day | J |
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I shout before Him in my plenitude | J |
Of light and warmth of hope and wealth and food | J |
Ascribing all good to the Only Good | J |
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Light and Darkness | Q |
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I am God's dwelling place | Q |
And also I | W |
Make His pavilion | N |
Lo we bide and fly | W |
Exulting in the Will of God Most High | W |
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Lightning and Thunder | G |
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We indivisible flash forth His Fame | X |
We thunder forth the glory of His Name | X |
In harmony of resonance and flame | X |
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Clouds | Q |
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Sweet is our store exhaled from sea or river | G |
We wear a rainbow praising God the Giver | G |
Because His mercy is for ever and ever | G |
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Earth | S |
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I rest in Him rejoicing resting so | R |
And so rejoicing in that I am low | R |
Yet known of Him and following on to know | R |
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Mountains | Q |
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Our heights which laud Him sink abased before | Y |
Him higher than the highest evermore | Y |
God higher than the highest we adore | Y |
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Hills | Q |
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We green tops praise Him and we fruitful heads | Q |
Whereon the sunshine and the dew He sheds | Q |
We green tops praise Him rising from out beds | Q |
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Green Things | Q |
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We all green things we blossoms bright or dim | Z |
Trees bushes brushwood corn and grasses slim | Z |
We lift our many favored lauds to Him | Z |
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Rose Lily Violet | J |
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I praise Him on my thorn which I adorn | A2 |
And I amid my world of thistle and thorn | A2 |
And I within my veil where I am born | A2 |
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Apple Citron Pomegranate | J |
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We Apple blossom Citron Pomegranate | J |
We clothed of God without our toil and fret | J |
We offer fatness where His Throne is set | J |
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Vine Cedar Palm | B2 |
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I proffer Him my sweetness who am sweet | J |
I bow my strength in fragrance at His feet | J |
I wave myself before His Judgment Seat | J |
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Medicinal Herbs | Q |
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I bring refreshment | J |
I bring ease and calm | B2 |
I lavish strength and healing | M |
I am balm | B2 |
We work His pitiful Will and chant our psalm | C2 |
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A Spring | M |
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Clear my pure fountain clear and pure my rill | P |
My fountain and mine outflow deep and still | P |
I set His semblance forth and do His Will | P |
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Sea | D |
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To day I praise God with a sparkling face | Q |
My thousand thousand waves all uttering praise | Q |
To morrow I commit me to His Grace | Q |
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Floods | Q |
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We spring and swell meandering to and fro | R |
From height to depth from depth to depth we flow | R |
We fertilize the world and praise Him so | R |
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Whales and Sea Mammals | Q |
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We Whales and Monsters gambol in His sight | J |
Rejoicing every day and every night | J |
Safe in the tender keeping of His Might | J |
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Fishes | Q |
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Our fashions and our colors and our speeds | Q |
Set forth His praise Who framed us and Who feeds | Q |
Who knows our number and regards our needs | Q |
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Birds | Q |
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Winged Angels of this visible world we fly | W |
To sing God's praises in the lofty sky | W |
We scale the height to praise our Lord most High | W |
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Eagle and Dove | C |
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I the sun gazing Eagle | P |
I the Dove | C |
With plumes of softness and a note of love | C |
We praise by divers gifts One God above | C |
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Beasts and Cattle | P |
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We forest Beasts | Q |
We Beasts of hill or cave | C |
We border loving Creatures of the wave | C |
We praise our King with voices deep and grave | C |
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Small Animals | Q |
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God forms us weak and small but pours out all | P |
We need and notes us while we stand or fall | P |
Wherefore we praise Him weak and safe and small | P |
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Lamb | D2 |
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I praise my loving Lord Who maketh me | D |
His type by harmless sweet simplicity | D |
Yet He the Lamb of lambs incomparably | D |
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Lion | N |
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I praise the Lion of the Royal Race | Q |
Strongest in fight and swiftest in the chase | Q |
With all my might I leap and lavish praise | Q |
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All Men | E2 |
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All creatures sing around us and we sing | M |
We bring our own selves as our offering | M |
Our very selves we render to our King | M |
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Israel | P |
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Flock of our Shepherd's pasture and His fold | J |
Purchased and well beloved from days of old | J |
We tell His praise which still remains untold | J |
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Priests | Q |
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We free will Shepherds tend His sheep and feed | J |
We follow Him while caring for their need | J |
We follow praising Him and them we lead | J |
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Servants of God | J |
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We love God for He loves us we are free | D |
In serving Him who serve Him willingly | D |
As kings we reign and praise His Majesty | D |
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Holy and Humble Persons | Q |
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All humble souls he calls and sanctifies | Q |
All holy souls He calls to make them wise | Q |
Accepting all His free will sacrifice | Q |
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Babes | Q |
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He maketh me | D |
And me | D |
And me | D |
To be | D |
His blessed little ones around His knee | D |
Who praise Him by mere love confidingly | D |
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Women | N |
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God makes our service love and makes our wage | F2 |
Love so we wend on patient pilgrimage | G2 |
Extolling Him by love from age to age | F2 |
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Men | E2 |
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God gives us power to rule He gives us power | G |
To rule ourselves and prune the exuberant flower | G |
Of youth and worship Him hour after hour | G |
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Spirits and Souls | Q |
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Lo in the hidden world we chant our chant | J |
To Him Who fills us that we nothing want | J |
To Him Whose bounty leaves our craving scant | J |
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of Babes | Q |
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With milky mouths we praise God from the breast | J |
Called home betimes to rest the perfect rest | J |
By love and joy fufilling His behest | J |
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of Women | N |
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We praise His Will which made us what He would | J |
His Will which fashioned us and called us good | J |
His Will our plenary beatitude | J |
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of Men | E2 |
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We praise His Will Who bore with us so long | M |
Who out of weakness wrought us swift and strong | M |
Champions of right and putters down of wrong | M |
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All | D |
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Let everything that hath or hath not breath | H2 |
Let days and endless days let life and death | H2 |
Praise God praise God praise God His creature saith | H2 |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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