A Song To David Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
O Thou that sit'st upon a throne	B
With harp of high majestic tone	B
To praise the King of kings	C
And voice of heav'n ascending swell	D
Which while its deeper notes excell	D
Clear as a clarion rings	C
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II	A
To bless each valley grove and coast	E
And charm the cherubs to the post	E
Of gratitude in throngs	F
To keep the days on Zion's mount	G
And send the year to his account	G
With dances and with songs	F
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III	A
O Servant of God's holiest charge	H
The minister of praise at large	H
Which thou may'st now receive	I
From thy blest mansion hail and hear	J
From topmost eminence appear	K
To this the wreath I weave	I
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IV	I
Great valiant pious good and clean	L
Sublime contemplative serene	L
Strong constant pleasant wise	M
Bright effluence of exceeding grace	N
Best man the swiftest and the race	N
The peril and the prize	M
	-
V	I
Great from the lustre of his crown	O
From Samuel's horn and God's renown	O
Which is the people's voice	P
For all the host from rear to van	Q
Applauded and embrac'd the man	Q
The man of God's own choice	P
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VI	I
Valiant the word and up he rose	R
The fight he triumph'd o'er the foes	R
Whom God's just laws abhor	S
And arm'd in gallant faith he took	T
Against the boaster from the brook	T
The weapons of the war	S
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VII	I
Pious magnificent and grand	U
'Twas he the famous temple plann'd	U
The seraph in his soul	D
Foremost to give his Lord His dues	V
Foremost to bless the welcome news	V
And foremost to condole	D
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VIII	I
Good from Jehudah's genuine vein	W
From God's best nature good in grain	W
His aspect and his heart	X
To pity to forgive to save	I
Witness En gedi's conscious cave	I
And Shimei's blunted dart	X
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IX	V
Clean if perpetual prayer be pure	Y
And love which could itself inure	Y
To fasting and to fear	K
Clean in his gestures hands and feet	Z
To smite the lyre the dance complete	Z
To play the sword and spear	K
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X	V
Sublime invention ever young	A2
Of vast conception tow'ring tongue	A2
To God th'eternal theme	B2
Notes from yon exaltations caught	C2
Unrival'd royalty of thought	D2
O'er meaner strains supreme	B2
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XI	V
Contemplative on God to fix	V
His musings and above the six	V
The Sabbath day he blest	E2
'Twas then his thoughts self conquest prun'd	F2
And heav'nly melancholy tun'd	F2
To bless and bear the rest	E2
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XII	V
Serene to sow the seeds of peace	V
Rememb'ring when he watch'd the fleece	V
How sweetly Kidron purl'd	E2
To further knowledge silence vice	V
And plant plant perpetual paradise	V
When God had calm'd the world	E2
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XIII	V
Strong in the Lord Who could defy	I
Satan and all his pow'rs that lie	I
In sempiternal night	E2
And hell and horror and despair	G2
Were as the lion and the bear	G2
To his undaunted might	E2
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XIV	I
Constant in love to God THE TRUTH	H2
Age manhood infancy and youth	H2
To Jonathan his friend	E2
Constant beyond the verge of death	I2
And Zilba and Mephibosheth	I2
His endless fame attend	E2
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XV	I
Pleasant various as the year	K
Man soul and angel without peer	K
Priest champion sage and boy	J2
In armor or in ephod clad	E2
His pomp his piety was glad	E2
Majestic was his joy	J2
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XVI	I
Wise in recovery from his fall	D
Whence rose his eminence o'er all	D
Of all the most revil'd	E2
The light of Israel in his ways	V
Wise are his precepts prayer and praise	V
And counsel to his child	E2
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XVII	I
His muse bright angel of his verse	V
Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce	V
For all the pangs that rage	K2
Blest light still gaining on the gloom	L2
The more than Michal of his bloom	L2
Th'Abishag of his age	K2
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XVIII	I
He sung of God the mighty source	V
Of all things the stupendous force	V
On which all strength depends	V
From Whose right arm beneath Whose eyes	V
All period pow'r and enterprise	V
Commences reigns and ends	V
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XIX	V
Angels their ministry and meed	E2
Which to and fro with blessings speed	E2
Or with their citherns wait	E2
Where Michael with his millions bows	V
Where dwells the seraph and his spouse	V
The cherub and her mate	E2
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XX	V
O David scholar of the Lord	E2
Of God and Love the Saint elect	E2
For infinite applause	V
To rule the land and briny broad	E2
To be laborious in His laud	E2
And heroes in His cause	V
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XXI	V
The world the clust'ring spheres He made	E2
The glorious light the soothing shade	E2
Dale champaign grove and hill	D
The multitudinous abyss	V
Where secrecy remains in bliss	V
And wisdom hides her skill	D
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XXII	V
Trees plants and flow'rs of virtuous root	E2
Gem yielding blossom yielding fruit	E2
Choice gums and precious balm	M2
Bless ye the nosegay in the vale	D
And with the sweetness of the gale	D
Enrich the thankful psalm	N2
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XXIII	V
Of fowl e'en ev'ry beak and wing	O2
Which cheer the winter hail the spring	O2
That live in peace or prey	P2
They that make music or that mock	Q2
The quail the brave domestic cock	Q2
The raven swan and jay	P2
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XXIV	I
Of fishes ev'ry size and shape	R2
Which nature frames of light escape	R2
Devouring man to shun	S2
The shells are in the wealthy deep	T2
The shoals upon the surface leap	T2
And love the glancing sun	S2
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XXV	I
Of beasts the beaver plods his task	U2
While the sleek tigers roll and bask	U2
Nor yet the shades arouse	V
Her cave the mining coney scoops	V
Where o'er the mead the mountain stoops	V
The kids exult and browse	V
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XXVI	I
Of gems their virtue and their price	V
Which hid in earth from man's device	V
Their darts of lustre sheathe	I2
The jasper of the master's stamp	V2
The topaz blazing like a lamp	V2
Among the mines beneath	I2
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XXVII	I
Blest was the tenderness he felt	E2
When to his graceful harp he knelt	E2
And did for audience call	D
When Satan with his hand he quell'd	E2
And in serene suspense he held	E2
The frantic throes of Saul	D
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XXVIII	I
His furious foes no more malign'd	E2
As he such melody divin'd	E2
And sense and soul detain'd	E2
Now striking strong now soothing soft	E2
He sent the godly sounds aloft	E2
Or in delight refrain'd	E2
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XXIX	V
When up to heav'n his thoughts he pil'd	E2
From fervent lips fair Michal smil'd	E2
As blush to blush she stood	E2
And chose herself the queen and gave	I
Her utmost from her heart so brave	I
And plays his hymns so good	E2
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XXX	V
The pillars of the Lord are seven	S2
Which stand from earth to topmost heav'n	S2
His wisdom drew the plan	S2
His WORD accomplish'd the design	S2
From brightest gem to deepest mine	S2
From CHRIST enthron'd to man	S2
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XXXI	V
Alpha the cause of causes first	E2
In station fountain whence the burst	E2
Of light and blaze of day	E2
Whence bold attempt and brave advance	V
Have motion life and ordinance	V
And heav'n itself its stay	E2
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XXXII	V
Gamma supports the glorious arch	W2
On which angelic legions march	W2
And is with sapphires pav'd	E2
Thence the fleet clouds are sent adrift	E2
And thence the painted folds that lift	E2
The crimson veil are wav'd	E2
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XXXIII	V
Eta with living sculpture breathes	V
With verdant carvings flow'ry wreathes	V
Of never wasting bloom	L2
In strong relief his goodly base	V
All instruments of labor grace	V
The trowel spade and loom	L2
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XXXIV	I
Next Theta stands to the Supreme	B2
Who form'd in number sign and scheme	B2
Th'illustrious lights that are	X2
And one address'd his saffrom robe	Y2
And one clad in a silver globe	Y2
Held rule with ev'ry star	X2
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XXXV	I
Iota's tun'd to choral hymns	V
Of those that fly while he that swims	V
In thankful safety lurks	V
And foot and chapitre and niche	Z2
The various histories enrich	Z2
Of God's record'd works	V
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XXXVI	I
Sigma presents the social droves	V
With him that solitary roves	V
And man of all the chief	I
Fair on whose face and stately frame	A3
Did God impress His hallow'd name	A3
For ocular belief	I
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XXXVII	I
OMEGA GREATEST and the BEST	E2
Stands sacred to the day of rest	E2
For gratitude and thought	E2
Which bless'd the world upon his pole	D
And gave the universe his goal	D
And clos'd th'infernal draught	E2
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XXXVIII	I
O DAVID scholar of the Lord	E2
Such is thy science whence reward	E2
And infinite degree	V
O strength O sweetness lasting ripe	B3
God's harp thy symbol and thy type	B3
The lion and the bee	V
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XXXIX	V
There is but One who ne'er rebell'd	E2
But One by passion unimpell'd	E2
By pleasures unentic'd	E2
He from Himself His semblance sent	E2
Grand object of His own content	E2
And saw the God in CHRIST	E2
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XL	D
Tell them I am JEHOVAH said	E2
To MOSES while earth heard in dread	E2
And smitten to the heart	E2
At once above beneath around	E2
All Nature without voice or sound	E2
Repli'd O Lord THOU ART	E2
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XLI	D
Thou art to give and to confirm	C3
For each his talent and his term	C3
All flesh thy bounties share	G2
Thou shalt not call thy brother fool	D
The porches of the Christian school	D
Are meekness peace and pray'r	X2
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XLII	D
Open and naked of offence	V
Man's made of mercy soul and sense	V
God arm'd the snail and wilk	D3
Be good to him that pulls thy plough	I
Due food and care due rest allow	I
For her that yields thee milk	D3
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XLIII	I
Rise up before the hoary head	E2
And God's benign commandment dread	E2
Which says thou shalt not die	E2
Not as I will but as Thou wilt	E2
Pray'd He Whose conscience knew no guilt	E2
With Whose bless'd pattern vie	E2
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XLIV	E2
Use all thy passions love is thine	S2
And joy and jealousy divine	S2
Thine hope's eternal fort	E2
And care thy leisure to disturb	E3
With fear concupiscence to curb	E3
And rapture to transport	E2
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XLV	E2
Act simply as occasion asks	V
Put mellow wine in season'd casks	V
Till not with ass and bull	I
Remember thy baptismal bond	E2
Keep from commixtures foul and fond	E2
Nor work thy flax with wool	I
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XLVI	E2
Distribute pay the Lord His tithe	I2
And make the widow's heart strings blythe	I2
Resort with those that weep	T2
As you from all and each expect	E2
For all and each thy love direct	E2
And render as you reap	T2
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XLVII	E2
The slander and its bearer spurn	S2
And propagating praise sojourn	S2
To make thy welcome last	E2
Turn from Old Adam to the New	S2
By hope futurity pursue	S2
Look upwards to the past	E2
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XLVIII	E2
Control thine eye salute success	V
Honor the wiser happier bless	V
And for thy neighbor feel	I
Grutch not of Mammon and his leav'n	S2
Work emulation up to heav'n	S2
By knowledge and by zeal	I
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XLIX	V
O DAVID highest in the list	E2
Of worthies on God's ways insist	E2
The genuine word repeat	E2
Vain are the documents of men	S2
And vain the flourish of the pen	S2
That keeps the fool's conceit	E2
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L	I
PRAISE above all for praise prevails	V
Heap up the measure load the scales	V
And good to goodness add	E2
The gen'rous soul her Saviour aids	V
But peevish obloquy degrades	V
The Lord is great and glad	E2
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LI	I
For ADORATION all the ranks	V
Of angels yield eternal thanks	V
And DAVID in the midst	E2
With God's good poor which last and least	E2
In man's esteem thou to thy feast	E2
O blessed bridegroom bidst	E2
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LII	I
For ADORATION seasons change	F3
And order truth and beauty range	F3
Adjust attract and fill	I
The grass the polyanthus checks	V
And polish'd porphyry reflects	V
By the descending rill	I
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LIII	I
Rich almonds color to the prime	G3
For ADORATION tendrils climb	G3
And fruit trees pledge their gems	V
And Ivis with her gorgeous vest	E2
Builds for her eggs her cunning nest	E2
And bell flowers bow their stems	V
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LIV	E2
With vinous syrup cedars spout	E2
From rocks pure honey gushing out	E2
For ADORATION springs	V
All scenes of painting crowd the map	H3
Of nature to the mermaid's pap	H3
The scaled infant clings	V
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LV	E2
The spotted ounce and playsome cubs	V
Run rustling 'mongst the flow'ring shrubs	V
And lizards feed the moss	V
For ADORATION beasts embark	I3
While waves upholding halcyon's ark	I3
No longer roar and toss	V
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LVI	E2
While Israel sits beneath his fig	J3
With coral root and amber sprig	J3
The wean'd advent'rer sports	V
Where to the palm the jasmine cleaves	V
For ADORATION 'mongst the leaves	V
The gale his peace reports	V
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LVII	E2
Increasing days their reign exalt	E2
Nor in the pink and mottled vault	E2
The opposing spirits tilt	E2
And by the coasting reader spi'd	E2
The silverlings and crusions glide	E2
For ADORATION gilt	E2
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LVIII	E2
For ADORATION rip'ning canes	V
And cocoa's purest milk detains	V
The western pilgrim's staff	E2
Where rain in clasping boughs enclos'd	E2
And vines with oranges dispos'd	E2
Embow'r the social laugh	E2
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LIX	V
Now labor his reward receives	V
For ADORATION counts his sheaves	V
To peace her bounteous prince	V
The nect'rine his strong tint imbibes	V
And apples of ten thousand tribes	V
And quick peculiar quince	V
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LX	V
The wealthy crops of whit'ning rice	V
'Mongst thyme woods and groves of spice	V
For ADORATION grow	K3
And marshall'd in the fenced land	E2
The peaches and pom'granates stand	E2
Where wild carnations blow	K3
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LXI	V
The laurels with the winter strive	E2
The crocus burnishes alive	E2
Upon the snow clad earth	I2
For ADORATION myrtles stay	E2
To keep the garden from dismay	E2
And bless the sight from dearth	I2
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LXII	V
The pheasant shows his pompous neck	J3
The ermine jealous of a speck	J3
With fear eldues offence	V
The sable with his glossy pride	E2
For ADORATION is describ'd	E2
Where frosts the waves condense	V
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LXIII	V
The cheerful holly pensive yew	S2
And holy thorn their trim renew	S2
The squirrel hoards his nuts	V
All creatures batten o'er their stores	V
And careful nature all her doors	V
For ADORATION shuts	V
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LXIV	E2
For ADORATION DAVID's psalms	V
Life up the heart to deeds of alms	V
And he who kneels and chants	V
Prevails his passions to control	I
Finds meat and med'cine to the soul	I
Which for translation pants	V
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LXV	E2
For ADORATION beyond match	L3
The scholar bullfinch aims to catch	L3
The soft flute's iv'ry touch	M3
And careless on the hazel spray	E2
The daring redbreast keeps at bay	E2
The damsel's greedy clutch	M3
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LXVI	E2
For ADORATION in the skies	V
The Lord's philosopher espies	V
The Dog the Ram and Rose	V
The planet's ring Orion's sword	E2
Nor is his greatness less ador'd	E2
In the vile worm that glows	V
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LXVII	E2
For ADORATION on the strings	V
The western breezes work their wings	V
The captive ear to sooth	I2
Hark 'Tis a voice how still and small	I
That makes the cataracts to fall	I
Or bids the sea be smooth	I2
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LXVIII	E2
For ADORATION incense comes	V
From bezoar and Arabian gums	V
And from the civet's fur	N3
But as for prayer or e'er it faints	V
Far better is the breath of saints	V
Than galbanum and myrrh	N3
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LXIX	V
For ADORATION from the down	S2
Of dam'sins to th'anana's crown	S2
God sends to tempt the taste	E2
And while the luscious zest invites	V
The sense that in the scene delights	V
Commands desire be chaste	E2
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LXX	V
For ADORATION all the paths	V
Of grace are open all the baths	V
Of purity refresh	O3
And all the rays of glory beam	B2
To deck the man of God's esteem	B2
Who triumphs o'er the flesh	O3
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LXXI	V
For ADORATION in the dome	P3
Of Christ the sparrows find a home	P3
And on His olives perch	Q3
The swallow also dwells with thee	I2
O man of God's humility	I2
Within his Saviour CHURCH	Q3
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LXXII	V
Sweet is the dew that falls betimes	V
And drops upon the leafy limes	V
Sweet Hermon's fragrant air	G2
Sweet is the lily's silver bell	I
And sweet the wakeful tapers smell	I
That watch for early pray'r	X2
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LXXIII	V
Sweet the young nurse with love intense	V
Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence	V
Sweet when the lost arrive	E2
Sweet the musician's ardour beats	V
While his vague mind's in quest of sweets	V
The choicest flow'rs to hive	E2
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LXXIV	E2
Sweeter in all the strains of love	E2
The language of thy turtle dove	E2
Pair'd to thy swelling chord	E2
Sweeter with ev'ry grace endu'd	E2
The glory of thy gratitude	E2
Respir'd unto the Lord	E2
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LXXV	E2
Strong is the horse upon his speed	E2
Strong in pursuit the rapid glede	E2
Which makes at once his game	A3
Strong the tall ostrich on the ground	E2
Strong through the turbulent profound	E2
Shoots xiphias to his aim	A3
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LXXVI	E2
Strong is the lion like a coal	I
His eyeball like a bastion's mole	I
His chest against his foes	V
Strong the gier eagle on his sail	I
Strong against tide th'enormous whale	I
Emerges as he goes	V
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LXXVII	E2
But stronger still in earth and air	G2
And in the sea the man of pray'r	X2
And far beneath the tide	E2
And in the seat to faith assign'd	E2
Where ask is have where seek is find	E2
Where knock is open wide	E2
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LXXVIII	E2
Beauteous the fleet before the gale	I
Beauteous the multitudes in mail	I
Rank'd arms and crested heads	V
Beauteous the garden's umbrage mild	E2
Walk water meditated wild	E2
And all the bloomy beds	V
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LXXIX	V
Beauteous the moon full on the lawn	S2
And beauteous when the veil's withdrawn	S2
The virgin to her spouse	V
Beauteous the temple deck'd and fill'd	E2
When to the heav'n of heav'ns they build	E2
Their heart directed vows	V
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LXXX	V
Beauteous yea beauteous more than these	V
The shepherd king upon his knees	V
For his momentous trust	E2
With wish of infinite conceit	E2
For man beast mute the small and great	E2
And prostrate dust to dust	E2
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LXXXI	V
Precious the bounteous widow's mite	E2
And precious for extreme delight	E2
The largess from the churl	I
Precious the ruby's blushing blaze	V
And alba's blest imperial rays	V
And pure cerulean pearl	I
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LXXXII	V
Precious the penitential tear	G2
And precious is the sigh sincere	K
Acceptable to God	E2
And precious are the winning flow'rs	V
In gladsome Israel's feast of bow'rs	V
Bound on the hallow'd sod	E2
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LXXXIII	V
More precious that diviner part	E2
Of David ev'n the Lord's own heart	E2
Great beautiful and new	S2
In all things where it was intent	E2
In all extremes in each event	E2
Proof answ'ring true to true	S2
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LXXXIV	E2
Glorious the sun in mid career	K
Glorious th'assembled fires appear	K
Glorious the comet's train	S2
Glorious the trumpet and alarm	R3
Glorious th'almighty stretch'd out arm	R3
Glorious th'enraptur'd main	S2
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LXXXV	E2
Glorious the northern lights a stream	B2
Glorious the song when God's the theme	B2
Glorious the thunder's roar	S
Glorious hosanna from the den	S2
Glorious the catholic amen	S2
Glorious the martyr's gore	S
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LXXXVI	E2
Glorious more glorious is the crown	S2
Of Him that brought salvation down	S2
By meekness call'd thy Son	S2
Thou at stupendous truth believ'd	E2
And now the matchless deed's achiev'd	E2
Determin'd Dar'd and Done	S2

Christopher Smart

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7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)