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 H2H2H2| All | 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 Nebulae | 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 Rossetti
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