The Nativity Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG HIHJ KLKL BMBM FNFN OPOP| Where is this stupendous stranger | A |
| Swains of Solyma advise | B |
| Lead me to my Master's manger | A |
| Show me where my Saviour lies | B |
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| O Most Mighty O MOST HOLY | C |
| Far beyond the seraph's thought | D |
| Art thou then so mean and lowly | C |
| As unheeded prophets taught | D |
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| O the magnitude of meekness | B |
| Worth from worth immortal sprung | E |
| O the strength of infant weakness | B |
| If eternal is so young | E |
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| If so young and thus eternal | F |
| Michael tune the shepherd's reed | G |
| Where the scenes are ever vernal | F |
| And the loves be Love indeed | G |
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| See the God blasphem'd and doubted | H |
| In the schools of Greece and Rome | I |
| See the pow'rs of darkness routed | H |
| Taken at their utmost gloom | J |
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| Nature's decorations glisten | K |
| Far above their usual trim | L |
| Birds on box and laurels listen | K |
| As so near the cherubs hymn | L |
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| Boreas now no longer winters | B |
| On the desolated coast | M |
| Oaks no more are riv'n in splinters | B |
| By the whirlwind and his host | M |
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| Spinks and ouzels sing sublimely | F |
| We too have a Saviour born | N |
| Whiter blossoms burst untimely | F |
| On the blest Mosaic thorn | N |
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| God all bounteous all creative | O |
| Whom no ills from good dissuade | P |
| Is incarnate and a native | O |
| Of the very world He made | P |
Christopher Smart
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