If Thou Sayest, Behold, We Knew It Not Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEDFEF GEEHEIIEJKLMLK NOONNOOPQRSQSR| Proverbs xxiv | A |
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| I have done I know not what what have I done | B |
| My brother's blood my brother's soul doth cry | C |
| And I find no defence find no reply | C |
| No courage more to run this race I run | B |
| Not knowing what I have done have left undone | B |
| Ah me these awful unknown hours that fly | C |
| Fruitless it may be fleeting fruitless by | C |
| Rank with death savor underneath the sun | B |
| For what avails it that I did not know | D |
| The deed I did what profits me the plea | E |
| That had I known I had not wronged him so | D |
| Lord Jesus Christ my God him pity Thou | F |
| Lord if it may be pity also me | E |
| In judgment pity and in death and now | F |
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| Thou Who hast borne all burdens bear our load | G |
| Bear Thou our load whatever load it be | E |
| Our guilt our shame our helpless misery | E |
| Bear Thou Who only canst O God my God | H |
| Seek us and find us for we cannot Thee | E |
| Or seek or find or hold or cleave unto | I |
| We cannot do or undo Lord undo | I |
| Our self undoing for Thine is the key | E |
| Of all we are not though we might have been | J |
| Dear Lord if ever mercy moved Thy mind | K |
| If so be love of us can move Thee yet | L |
| If still the nail prints in Thy Hands are seen | M |
| Remember us yea how shouldst Thou forget | L |
| Remember us for good and seek and find | K |
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| Each soul I might have succored may have slain | N |
| All souls shall face me at the last Appeal | O |
| That great last moment poised for woe or weal | O |
| That final moment for man's bliss or bane | N |
| Vanity of vanities yea all is vain | N |
| Which then will not avail or help or heal | O |
| Disfeatured faces worn out knees that kneel | O |
| Will more avail than strength or beauty then | P |
| Lord by Thy Passion when Thy Face was marred | Q |
| In sight of earth and hell tumultuous | R |
| And Thy heart failed in Thee like melting wax | S |
| And Thy Blood dropped more precious than the nard | Q |
| Lord for Thy sake not ours supply our lacks | S |
| For Thine own sake not ours Christ pity us | R |
Christina Rossetti
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